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Hot Sheet: Basterds and Old Broads
What more could you want than Comic Book Guy adorning the latest installment of The Simpsons and Brad Pitt out to collect the scalps of Nazis?
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          Aug 13, 2009
          
        
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- Inglourious Basterds: Bring Brad Pitt several Nazi scalps and he will give you that special reward you've always longed for. OK, that's just a lifetime of Tom of Finland fantasies coming to a boil, but apparently the guys in this World War II movie really take Brad at his word and start hand-delivering the severed heads. Quentin Tarantino directs, so there will be blood.

        
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"So many things feel so insane, so not-normal, and it feels like no one is addressing it," drag queen Lauren Banall told PRIDE.

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