This Week's Tabloids 10 Years Ago (May 6, 2013)
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boasted to in touch magazine that she's as rich as the olsen twins, allergic to alcohol, only has "hot friends," and is absolutely "not crazy":
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finally, this week in bynes, amanda continued to call people ugly.
this week's targets - the staff of complex magazine, former us weekly editor janice min, and kid cudi.
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amanda palmer penned a poem for boston marathon bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev.
"you don't know how it felt to be in the womb but it must have been at least a little warmer than this."
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and michael shannon performed a reading:
youtube.com/watch?v=dngOH9
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a crazy sorority email went viral.
"are you people fucking retarded?," wrote the delta gamma member, who subsequently resigned. "that's not a rhetorical question, i literally want you to email me back telling me if you're mentally slow."
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tom brokaw said lindsay lohan ruined the white house correspondents' dinner:
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armie hammer defended his "lone ranger" co-star johnny depp's getup.
"the white people are the one who have the problem, but the indians - the native americans - are like, 'this is great. we love it."
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also this week in 2013, a ryan lochte interview sent two news anchors into hysterics:
youtube.com/watch?v=UnceMo
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and in one final act of penance, witherspoon would step out in an atlanta PD cap days later.
when reached for comment, the department denied ever giving the actress a hat and suggested she made it herself:
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and in the end, the couple would accept their punishments without complaint.
while toth pleaded guilty to drunk driving, his more vocal wife would enter a plea of no contest to her disorderly charge and pay a $213 fine:
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but a contrite witherspoon would accept some of the blame during an interview with good morning america, attributing her arrest rant to "panic" and admitting the pregnancy claim was a lie.
"i've played a lawyer in a movie so many times, i think i am a lawyer," she joked.
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meanwhile, the actress' PR went into overdrive, framing witherspoon as a fun-loving girl who just likes to "let loose every now and then" and toth as a budding alcoholic.
"no one would be surprised if jim goes to rehab," said a people magazine source.
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and fulfilling the actress' promise that the story would make "national news," within a couple of days word of the arrest hit the press.
in a statement, witherspoon apologized for her "embarrassing" conduct during the incident.
"i have nothing but respect for the police."
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speaking to another officer, witherspoon maintained she was "pregnant… early pregnant" and asked him to keep her secret.
when it came time for her mugshot, she was so wobbly that one of the attempted photos only captured the top of her head, according to people magazine.
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inside the cop car, witherspoon continued to impart her legal expertise. "i'm an american citizen and i can say whatever i want to," she told her husband. "[the officer] does not have jurisdiction over the ground that he speaks on."
"you turned it really bad," toth explained.
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after his wife was placed back in the car, toth apologized to the officer. "i'm sorry, i had nothing to do with that."
but the actress was undeterred. speaking to the officer alone, she vowed, "my name is reese witherspoon… this will be national news."
"that's fine," he said.
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and when the actress was cuffed, she lost it.
"you better not arrest me! are you kidding me? i'm an american citizen," she told the officer, before exclaiming, "this is beyond!"
as her husband tried to calm her, witherspoon snapped at the officer, "do you know my name, sir?"
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warned again to stay in the car, an angry witherspoon stepped out instead, reminding the officer of her rights as a "u.s. citizen."
"i'm allowed to stand on american ground and ask any question i want to ask!"
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at this point, witherspoon intervened. despite being told to remain in the car, the actress stuck her head out the window, telling the cop she didn't believe he was a "real police officer" and that she was "pregnant" and needed to use a bathroom:
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the arrest happened in atlanta, where the actress was filming her movie "the good lie." after a night on the town, the couple's car was stopped by a cop who noticed it weaving between lanes.
toth blew a .139 BAC.
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this week ten years ago, reese witherspoon and husband jim toth were arrested - toth for DUI and witherspoon for disorderly conduct:
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happy birthday shirley! (got scared for a second that I lost this story for good since the original datalounge thread is gone, but thankfully I saved a screenshot)
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Good morning and happy birthday to the brilliant fabulously talented Shirley MacLaine!
Here she is alongside Peter Sellers in BEING THERE (1979), Hal Ashby's deeply melancholy and hilarious satire.
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