Martin Scorsese’s 3-D epic, Hugo, out this month, centers on a broken automaton that a young boy in Paris hopes to repair. That takes place in the 1930s, but we’ve been tinkering with uncanny automatons for centuries. Here’s a look back. Read more

The comedian Louis C.K., star of FX’s Louie, is a big ol’ lumbering schlub with a perennial sweat sheen coating his patchy ginger scalp. He talks masturbating with religious fervor. He muses about anatomically problematic arrangements of genitalia. He called his bright-eyed five-year old daughter a “fucking idiot.” In the next few paragraphs I will ask you to consider that this man—this pasty ogre—is a raging feminist, subversively recasting notions of men who celebrate women.
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It was love at first knee to the groin. Nikki Baker, 22, and John Dahl, 25, met in high school; he got her attention by shaking a can of beer in front of her, then cracking it open so a geyser of foam blasted into her face.


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