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Gina Carano calls press to complain about fame

She doesn't want the label, she only wants to be known as a fighter. She definitely doesn't want to be famous. I have just one thing to say to that: HONEY, PLEASE. First off, being the face of women's MMA has made you a wealthy woman. Do you think that your sponsorships, magazine profiles and job on American Gladiator would be around if you weren't the face of women's MMA? You didn't even make weight for your last fight, yet media and the public are still writing about you, searching your name online, and looking forward to your fight on October 4. That translates into sponsorship dollars for you. Secondly, if you didn't want all of this attention, then why did you invite press to your workout? If you truly don't want people writing about you, then don't invite people who write for a living to your gym. It's not rocket science. If you are just a fighter, then just fight. Don't be an American Gladiator, don't pose for Maxim and don't a...

Britney, How Can We Miss You If You Won’t Go Away?

There’s a lot of talk about how Britney Spears’ upcoming album, Circus, is going to mark the former pop wreck’s rebound from a near-fatal career death spiral. Comeback? Doesn’t the second part of that word imply that you, like, went away for a while? (And we don’t mean those couple of short trips to the hospital.) To be sure, Spears is coming back from something. Her recent appearance at the MTV Video Music Awards represented her reintroduction to an audience who probably best remembers her for stumbling through a notoriously shambolic “performance” at last year’s VMAs that nearly derailed her pop gravy train for good, not to mention several years of tabloid tawdriness that collectively feels like a Girls Gone Zany greatest hits DVD with too many hours of bonus outtakes. See, if you’re constantly in the news and are proactively calling the paparazzi to chronicle your barefoot bathroom exploits, it doesn’t count as “going away” just because you’re not actually doing the job we thought w...