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Extra, Extra: Creepy Jim Carrey Stopped By Arlene's Grocery
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Extra, Extra: Creepy Jim Carrey Stopped By Arlene's Grocery


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Ben Yakas

Published Sep 10, 2011

Modified Sep 10, 2011


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  • Mel Gibson really is trying to make a movie about Jewish hero Judah Maccabee.
  • The Situation says that Abercrombie & Fitch is ripping off his essence.
  • Cops seized 14 guns in Brooklyn on Labor Day, including an AK-47 loaded with 27 hollow-point bullets.
  • A disabled Iraqi war vet who was tossed from the Times Square McDonald's because he brought in his service dog is suing.
  • Pregnant Beyonce is craving some Oreo cookies, gherkins, ice cream with hot chilli sauce, and she "loves dipping bananas in ketchup."
  • Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott got a Fudgie the Whale cake for his birthday at a Staten Island school.
  • Police discovered an unresponsive 14-year-old boy in a 1,100-square foot Illinois home, filled with more than 200 animals.
  • Sex therapists are increasingly encouraging female patients to have sex with "surrogate partners."
  • Jim Carrey popped by Arlene's Grocery in the LES to perform Radiohead's "Creep" during his continuing quest to seem totally crazy.
  • And finally, for some reason, Kathy Griffin stripped down to her skivvies for a window worker.

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