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Left: Secret agent man Tom Cruise holds on for dear life in a tunnel while kicking ass; 1996 Mission Impossible

Right:  Secret agent man Tom Cruise holds on for dear life in a tunnel while kicking ass; 2010 Knight and Day

Remember, just a year ago, when the Hipster Grifter was the hottest thing on the web and people were taking about the lucrative book deal and TV show offers she was going to get out of the whole brouhaha

Now she’s posing naked, for free, and nobody seems to care.

Ah, fame.

When you come from a small town in Wisconsin and move to New York TO ACT! and then land a role in a Fabreze Commercial, the below is what your hometown paper reports about you.

From the Ripon Press.

There are no words….

Here is The New York Times, muscling in on The New Yorker’s Shouts & Murmurs section, with an imagined McChrystal Twitter feed.

Gail Collins will be here all week ladies and gentlemen. Tip your waitresses.

Win a BP stock at The Awl.

Here’s The Root‘s new politics correspondent (?) Cord Jefferson displaying the kind of journalistic curiosity and nuanced understanding that’s going to land him a 60 Minutes gig (and not just because, like Lara Logan,  he’s a “stone cold fox”).

Remember the Wii Fit hottie video (9.6 million pageviews and counting)?

Well, after the jump, Naked Rock Band girl is the new hotness.

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Here is Deadspin, liberally and sincerely using the term “fagbait.”

Discuss.

Knight and Day, a Tom Cruise movie is opening this week; it must be time to talk about how Crusie does his own stunts:

“It’s something that’s challenging to do, fun for me and so I enjoyed doing that,” Tom said of amazing stuntwork.“

“Tom revealed that he gets such a buzz out of doing his own stunts….”

“Tom Cruise has revealed his wife Katie Holmes is fine with his death-defying stunts in films…”

“...he fearlessly performs many of his own stunts…”

Below, a set photo of Tom performing his own stunts (with Cameron) for Knight and Day.