Breakout Brainiac
DAVID PLOUFFE Barack Obama would never have become the Man if David Plouffe, his 41-year-old campaign manager, hadn’t built the Machine. With a swarming ground game, staggering online fundraising skills, and a gift for working those Excel sheets, Plouffe changed the equation for how to get elected. And for his next act, many believe he should replace Howard Dean as chairman of the DNC.

Breakout Actors Who Can Actually Act
JON HAMM and ROSEMARIE DEWITT AMC’s Mad Men began airing in the summer of 2007, but this year it became absolutely unacceptable not to be obsessed with all things Don Draper and the man behind him, Jon Hamm. The debonair actor has been working steadily for years, but suddenly came out of nowhere to land a GQ cover and the heart of every woman in America whose heart formerly belonged to George Clooney. Meanwhile, Hamm’s onetime Mad Men co-starlet, Rosemarie DeWitt, went on to have her own stellar year. She stood out in Rachel Getting Married in the title role, and landed a main part in Diablo Cody’s new Showtime series, The United States of Tara. See her in two starring roles in 2009, and on just about every “hot list” of magazines that can still afford to print.

Breakout Heartbreaker
ROBERT PATTINSON Not two months ago, Twilight had yet to hit theaters and actor Robert Pattinson was only known to some very devoted Harry Potter movie fans who knew him as Quidditch champ and (spoiler alert!) killed-off Hogwarts student Cedric Diggory. But in November, after starring as the celibate vampiric hunk Edward Cullen—he can never kiss the one he loves lest he suck her blood—Pattinson became the most-wanted and least-touchable tween idol to send young women reeling since the Jonas Brothers and their chastity rings. Case in point—when Robert cut his hair, his new ‘do was a top five search term in Google for days. Days.

Breakout Chartbreaker
TAYLOR SWIFT This was a year of several new music phenoms—Lil Wayne, Leona Lewis, and (sigh) David Archuleta—but no star received as much honeyed praise as Taylor Swift, the bubbly blond 19-year-old country singer/second coming of Faith. The New Yorker and The New York Times wrote her gushing love letters in the same week, the former calling her a “prodigy” for her twangy hits about love and wild horses. Kids grow up so fast these days, they have all the essentials for good country songs by senior year.

Breakout Pundit
RACHEL MADDOW We may have lost Tim Russert in 2008, but we gained Rachel Maddow. After years of being a permaguest on MSNBC, the network finally gave Maddow her own show in August, and her ratings have already topped those of her patron Keith Olbermann and Larry King. With self-deprecating wit wrapped around intellectual steel, Maddow has succeeded in redefining a few L-words—a liberal people like.

Breakout Swami
NATE SILVER In 2007, Nate Silver was mainly known as a world-class seamhead, a Baseball Prospectus geek who could do sexy things with ERAs. Then he started applying his statfreak principles to presidential politics under the pseudonym Poblano. When he finally outed himself in June 2008, it was clear that Silver and his website www.FiveThirtyEight.com had everyone’s number—his primary projections became gospel. In the end, though, Silver only correctly predicted how 49 of the 50 states would vote. Better luck in 2012.

Breakout Accessory
KAZUO KAWASAKI 704 GLASSES One thing that wasn’t on Sarah Palin’s shopping list this year was a fashionable pair of eyeglasses. Her titanium Kazuo Kawasaki frames run about 5 (without lenses), but you won’t be able to see Russia from your house without them.

Breakout Breakup
MIKE AND THE MAD DOG Forget about Guy and Madonna, or Anne Hathaway and Rafaello Follieri, or even Peter Cook and Christie Brinkley—those splits were just a matter of time. But the professional divorce of WFAN’s Mike Francesa and Chris “Mad Dog” Russo was a true shocker. Sure, they fought nearly every day for 20 years, but what couple doesn’t?

Breakout Breakdown
BIKINI CORRIE Corrie Loftin was just a simple Playboy model and Hawaiian Tropic finalist before she hit it really big with a phenomenal meltdown as a contestant on the reality series Paris Hilton is My BFF. As she was getting kicked off the show, Corrie made one final plea to be Hilton’s made-for-TV soulmate status—they were both born so beautiful that they have suffered…terribly. “Heavy is the head that wears the crown,” Loftin said, lamenting the majesty of her beauty. She then added that people call her “Bikini Corrie” back home because “I have earned it.” If only it hadn’t gone to her heavy head.

Breakout Maritime Enemy
THE SOMALI PIRATES Okay, so Michael Phelps had a pretty good year in the water. But these guys would steal all that gold before his Speedo had time to dry.

Breakout Word
SEXTING Sending nude or suggestive photos from a cell phone is hardly a new concept, but the phenomenon got a name in 2008—sexting. And according to one survey, 22 percent of teen girls and 18 percent of teen boys say they have sent or posted sexy photos of themselves. The other 80 r not v. hot. But u r.

Breakout Psychopath
JOSEF FRITZL The Austrian dungeon dad had quite the year. In April, news emerged that he had locked his daughter (and the children he fathered with her) in a soundproof cellar for 24 years. It’s stomach-turning, vile, and hell-worthy, but in total creepy psychotic terms, the bar is now set very, very high for 2009.

Breakout Meme
RICK ROLLING It was hard to choose just one big Internet trend this year, but popular viral sites like barackobamaisyournewbicycle.com couldn’t compare to the always funny bait and switch that was the Rick Roll. The idea is very simple—send someone a link that promises to be interesting, and when they click through, their screen is suddenly irreparably dominated by a video of ’80s white soulster Rick Astley singing “Never Gonna Give You Up.” It may sound goofy, but thanks to this gimmick, Rick’s career is actually rolling again — he performed at this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. By the way, here are the first pictures of the Obamas’ new puppy.

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I know this could qualify as _p-material, but I thought it had enough celeb-related categories to be posted here.
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The 26-year-old actress insists she is not worried if she appears on worst dressed lists because she likes dressing the way she wants to dress.

She said: “I don’t have the energy to care if people criticise the way I look. I’m over getting dressed up, although it’s fun sometimes - like when my younger brother Christian and I got ready together to go to the Oscars.

“But other than that, though, I couldn’t care less. Being fun is way better than being beautiful. I would rather entertain people.”

Kirsten - who has been romantically linked to Johnny Borrell and Jake Gyllenhaal - also revealed she hopes to become a mother soon.

When asked what she hopes to do next in her career, Kirsten replied: “I don’t have career goals - it’s not the most important thing. I do have life goals though. I’d love to start a family one day. That would be the honour of my life.”

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the street fighter poster. opens 2-27-09.

and of course, if you haven’t seen the trailer yet,

http://www.kristinkreukweb.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1cuEy82PeQ

all i see is lana. sorry kk.
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Barkley: All I Really Wanted Was Oral Sex

This may be the very best police report of 2008. When Charles Barkley was busted in Arizona early this morning for DUI, he told cops he ran a stop sign because he was in a hurry to get some oral sex.

The cops stopped Barkley after he allegedly ran a stop sign. According to the officer who wrote the report, “He told me that he ran the stop sign because he was in a hurry to pick up the girl I saw get in the passenger seat.”

The officer continues: “He asked me to admit that she was ‘hot.’ He asked me, ‘You want the truth?’ When I told him I did he said, ‘I was gonna drive around the corner and get a b**w job. He then explained that she had given him a ‘b**w job’ one week earlier and said it was the best one he had ever had in his life.”

The report says when Barkley was taken to the station, he told one of the employees, “I’ll tattoo my name on your ass” if he helped “get him out of the DUI.” According to the report, “He laughed and then quickly corrected himself and said, ‘I’ll tattoo your name on my ass’ and then laughed again.”

http://www.tmz.com/2008/12/31/barkley-all-i-really-wanted-was-oral-sex/

This Barkley is unamused.

NO this is not ffaf.

Maybe one later.
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Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck could soon be welcoming either the last celebrity baby of 2008 or the very first one of 2009.

E! News reports the pair were seen arriving at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles Wednesday morning.

So far, there’s been no word from either of their reps about a possible delivery. But judging by the photos of her belly snapped this morning before she went to the hospital, we’d expect a baby brother or sister for Violet pretty soon!
Do you think Jen will have a boy or a girl?

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Proud parents to be Jenna Jameson and Tito Ortiz posed for a picture at Blush inside the Wynn Las Vegas last night, and we gotta say - motherhood is looking pretty darn good on the former porn star!

Also spotted at the club were pro athletes Robert Orie and Jason Giambi, as well as poker pro Antonio Esfandiari and BMX rider Kevin Robinson. Oh what fun!

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It’s been a relatively calmer year than 2007 was, with Britney’s comeback, Lindsay’s rehabilitation and Paris, ya know, doing all that charity work she talked about post-prison!

Whaddya think Hollywood’s hottest will be doing this New Year’s Eve? Last year, Paris partied in Vegas while Lilo partied in Italy…but can we expect the same sort of thing (and crazy party pictures!) this year?

Either way, can’t wait for ‘09!
Think we’ll get a Lindsay/Samantha kiss on NYE? Here’s hoping!

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Halloween is a long way away, so we’re not exactly sure what Pink was doing at a costume shop in Studio City on Tuesday.

Maybe something for an upcoming tour? Could be, but Pink wasn’t giving up any deets.

What ever she was up to, she was in a good mood. She stopped to pose for a picture with a fan and even wished the paps a happy new year!

What kind of costume would you like to see Pink wear?

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Miley Cyrus had some explaining to do after posing for some very un-Disney like shots in Vanity Fair magazine earlier this year.

Miley apologized to fans for appearing in photos for the upcoming issue of Vanity Fair in which she appears to be topless.

The then 15 year-old Disney star told Entertainment Tonight she was “embarrassed” by the pix: “I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be ‘artistic’ and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed.”

The photos were shot by Annie Leibovitz, of course, and they show Miley with a white blanket wrapped around her torso.

As ET reported, when Bruce Handy interviewed the singer/actress in May, she thought the spread was “perfectly fine.” But a Disney spokesperson said, “Unfortunately, as the article suggests, a situation was created to deliberately manipulate a 15-year-old in order to sell magazines.”
Do you think Miley is really sorry for posing for the pics?

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A very bloated Kevin Federline and his new lady love, pro volleyball player Victoria Prince had a lunch date in Los Angeles yesterday afternoon, and we’re really hoping Brit’s ex hubby ordered a salad!

We don’t know what’s more shocking - the fact that K-Fed still has the ability to snag hotties, or that he’s growing his very own baby bump (and triple chins)!

The future contestant of Celebrity Fit Club chatted with X17 photogs about his New Year’s plans, and added that he didn’t have any resolutions. Um, when was the last time he looked in a mirror? He might want to get a gym membership! Or perhaps Victoria can take him to the beach to hit some balls? That would be a good workout - and a good photo op!

Think she’s hot?

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