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Ben Stiller Gets His Wish Fulfillment: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

A trailer for Ben Stiller's upcoming movie, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, has arrived and it looks great. Great enough, at least, to forgive it for being one of too many trailers to feature a folk band enthusiastically shouting "hey!"

Why Did Police Shoot This Teenager 9 Times Inside an Empty Streetcar?

It was just another Friday night in the young life of 18-year-old Sammy Yatim — until he was shot nine times by a police officer for brandishing a small knife inside an empty streetcar.

The Chicago Tribune Has Made the Best Internet Mistake of the Day

It looks as though they've fixed it, but for a glorious 16 minutes this was the Chicago Tribune homepage. It is self-evidently wonderful, but let's still talk about just how wonderful it is.

Oprah Winfrey's once-derided channel OWN is pulling itself out of the financial hole. It's a good thing, because OWN has a commitment to insane programming.

WorldStarHipHop fight videos are infamously formulaic: Scenes of senseless violence gratingly scored by a din of champagne bottles being popped, cellphone selfies being snapped, and, of course, the chorus of "World Star" chants that passes for branding on the popular shock site.

A Housing Crisis Solution Sure to Panic Wall Street

There is no better illustration of the disconnect between our economy's winners and losers than the California real estate market. The winners are bidding up Silicon Valley home prices and resurrecting the house-flipping craze. The losers are just trying to hold their cities together under a wave of mortgage defaults. Is there a solution?

Devastating Photos of the 13,200 Gallon Oil Spill in Thailand

On Saturday, an oil pipeline leaked 13,200 gallons of crude oil (the equivalent of one and a half tanker trucks) into the Gulf of Thailand. The oil slick is continuing to spread, blackening the beaches and water of a tourist island in the country's eastern sea.

Teresa Giudice Out on $500K Bail; Juicy Joe Could Be Deported

The dramatic feud between Teresa Giudice and the government of the United States of America is exploding faster than a fight at a child's christening after some guests find out they weren't invited to help pick out baby-themed charms for the Pandora bracelets in the christening gift bags like Jacqueline was, even though Jacqueline's not even family, SHE'S NOT FAMB-IL-Y.

This man is extraordinary. His defining white beard. His joie de vivre. His pet raccoon.

Typo Turns Traffic Sign Into Dangerous Distraction

A traffic sign installed outside a private preschool in Auburn, California, urging drivers to slow down is certainly getting noticed, but, ironically, is making the street less safe for kids.

One of the many reasons you will never, ever be able to own a brownstone in gentrifying Brooklyn: European, Israeli, and Australian firms are methodically buying up all the inventory.

Hugh Jackman Taunts His Twitter Followers: Do You Even Lift?

You don't walk around with a name like Hugh Jackman without being perpetually huge and jacked.

Chris Matthews to Christine Quinn: "I want to ask you about being a woman."
— Brett LoGiurato (@BrettLoGiurato) July 30, 2013

Best. Supercut. Ever: Every Movie Reference The Simpsons Ever Made

Well, technically, these two supercuts from NextMovie encompass every movie reference The Simpsons dropped in seasons 1 through 10, but it might as well be every movie reference The Simpsons ever made since the show has been inarguably over since season 11.

Reggie Watts Just Ruined Everyone's Summer in One Line of an Interview

That's it everybody. We can all just pack it up and go home now, because summer is officially cancelled.

Hanging Vegetable Basket

The San Diego City Council will file a lawsuit against San Diego Mayor Bob Filner to recover any money the city has to pay as a result of the sexual harassment lawsuit filed by one of the mayor's former top aides. Filner announced last Friday that he's taking two weeks off to enter an "intensive therapy" program.