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Earlier today Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen appeared at a Barnes & Noble book signing, only to be met by PETA's Trollsen Twins, a two-some against the Olsens' use of fur in their wardrobe.

Sure, Michelle Tanner was adorable, but now all grown up and split into the real-life duo of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, residents of one West Village block are calling the twins "intruders." The NY Post reports that West 13th St has all but turned into a military zone, with Olsen security guards posted outside their door at all hours and two GMC Denali trucks sitting in front of their $12K/month brownstone rental. One neighbor says, "They are disruptive, intrusive and totally disrespectful," and that the "two spoiled brats" are in-and-out day and night, sometimes even making residents of the same brownstone vacate the stoop so they can enter the building in privacy! Other A-list residents in the neighborhood include Liv Tyler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Gisele Bundchen...all of whom are a-okay with the non-famous locals.

The NY Post warns the women of New York that their bag habits may be bad for them. Some women sling up to 11 lbs over their shoulder on a daily basis, and doctors warn that "Any time there's an unequal weight distribution on the shoulders or upper back, it's going to affect alignment of the spine." While we think it's more about living in New York and carrying around what you need to get you through your waking (and walking) hours -- the Post also lays blame on celebs who have made the big-bag trend popular.

Designers and fashion-forward celebrities have turned oversized totes with massive metal hardware into must-have accessories. While many start at over $1,000, they also weigh an average of 4 pounds empty.

According to their poll, the average bag weighed in at 7 lbs -- most included water, makeup, wallet, cellphone/BlackBerry, sunglasses, keys and some of the harder core handbags even toted gym clothes. Always ahead of the curve, the Harvard Crimson wrote about this very same thing two years ago.

Pint-sized celebrities and models who do cocaine on the front page of the London Daily Mirror have taken to bragging about their protruding collar bone indirectly, by sporting an extremely large bag. Seemingly, the largeness of your bag is inversely related to your smallness, thus, the greater the possibility that you could dismember yourself and stuff all of your extremities into it. The trend probably started with the Olsen twins, the originators of all things hip and extremely outsized.

Didn't that trend die earlier that year when the NY Times wrote about it? One tip to the still weighed-down women out there: "Alternate sides every other day. That will at least help balance the weight distribution." And read more about the "killer handbag" here.

Should Bob Saget, John Stamos or … that other guy... decide to keep it real by riding the New York City subway, they’ll likely find themselves wondering whatever happened to predictability. That’s right; consider yourselves on notice Danny Tanner, Joey and Uncle Jesse. The Olsen twins are one thing, but our subways are full enough without you and your irreverent hi-jinks, thank you very much. Though we might consider an exception for Stamos if...

The New York Musical Theatre Festival is waltzing into its second week without flagging – there are at least as many intriguing offerings now as when we wrote last week. But first, take note that the festival has clearly learned from the Fringe’s example, at least in some ways, including the idea of scheduling events that aren’t simply staged musicals. For the last week, for example, there were screenings of movie musicals; starting Thursday you can see compilations of classic TV musicals. There are also reading-only events, singing-only events, and various panels and seminars – the full listing is in the program PDF. Or perhaps you do want to see a real show, but not one that’s pulling out all the stops in an effort to land financing for a more permanent run. The NYMF folks don’t seem to be the kind to view that as heresy, nor to take umbrage at having fun poked at them – at least, if they were, they probably wouldn’t have partnered with Dixon Place for the Warning: Not For Broadway series, or taken the improv group The Pearl Brunswick into their fold of performances. The Not for Broadway shows start Thursday at the Marquee; some cleave faithfully to the idea in the series’ title (can you imagine Olsen Terror, which is about an insomniac who realizes he’s turning into…um…the Olsen Twins…on Broadway? Not that it wouldn’t be sweet to see) while at least a couple others really could go big-time (we can’t wait to see how Gary Plotkin has adapted Roald Dahl’s wonderful children’s novel The BFG). Other shows fall in between, such as Tuesday, Brett Macias and Caroline Murphy’s musical about a day in the lives of 7 high school sophomores, and Janine McGuire and Emily Paul’s Wake Her Up, which brings some of the Greek gods into the 21st century club scene (hardly a stretch of the imagination, really).

There's voting for a Guilty Pleasure Movie to be screened at Pier 25 on Friday, May 7. Included are A Clockwork Orange, Evil Dead 2, Fletch, Re-Animator, Rushmore, The Jerk, and more. While Gothamist loves Rushmore, Dazed and Confused is our guilty pleasure movie of choice.

Bridgette Francis