Linda Sharps

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I live in the Seattle area with my husband and our sons Riley (6) and Dylan (3). Prior to August 2010 I spent many years as a software marketer, these days I work from home as a freelance writer. I enjoy photography, comic books, R-rated movies, and things that smell like coconut.

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Well-Loved Actor From 'Spinal Tap' & 'Best in Show' Hit by Car in NYC

Posted by Linda Sharps
on May 23, 2012 at 1:09 PM

Michael McKeanMichael McKeanYou know how break a leg is considered a good-luck term in theatre? I think maybe we should temporarily put that one on moratorium in favor of something specific for beloved comic actor Michael McKean. You know, like break a medical record in getting better.

McKean, who you may know from Laverne & Shirley, This Is Spinal Tap, or my personal favorite, Best in Show, is currently in a NYC hospital after being struck by a car on Tuesday. Apparently he was walking in the Upper West Side around 3 p.m. when a car hit him on a sidewalk, and judging by the disturbing photos from the scene of the accident, McKean got seriously banged up.

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Entertainment GossipMonger

Ray J's Hospitalization Is More Bad News for Whitney Houston's Memory

Posted by Linda Sharps
on May 22, 2012 at 3:14 PM

You know how everyone always blames Bobby Brown for Whitney Houston's downfall? Personally, I think Houston was an adult who made her own choices, but if people ARE going to play the blame game, I wonder why more fingers aren't pointed in Ray J's direction.

After all, Ray J was the guy who was dating Houston for the months preceding her death, and things have been mighty weird with him during the last couple days. First he allegedly got in a brawl with Houston's family at the Billboard Awards, to the point where Whitney's sister-in-law Pat Houston reportedly called security on him, and now he's been hospitalized.

For—say it with me—exhaustion.

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Entertainment Eye Roll

Howard Stern Makes a Kid Cry on 'America's Got Talent' & It's Worse Than You Think (VIDEO)

Posted by Linda Sharps
on May 22, 2012 at 12:32 PM

After all the hoopla over whether Howard Stern would inexorably change America's Got Talent to America's Got No Moral Compass, it turns out the controversial shock jock is a big old softie after all.

In the show's third episode of the season, Stern was faced with criticizing a pint-sized aspiring rapper named Mir Money, and the little boy began weeping inconsolably. Money's tears not only melted Stern's heart, the moment was so dramatic Stern announced that he was reconsidering his role on the show, saying, "I can't do it, man. I can't do it."

At least, that's what the producers would like you to think. As for me, I CALL BULLSHIT.

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Love & Sex LOL

'50 Shades of Grey' Isn't 'Mommy Porn' (But THIS Is!)

Posted by Linda Sharps
on May 22, 2012 at 7:52 AM

I don't really understand why Fifty Shades of Grey is known as "mommy porn." I mean, we don't call adult content that men enjoy "daddy porn," right? (Ew.) So why is this particular book labeled as being for mommies, when it's erotica, plain and simple?

Setting aside the worrying question of whether the term "mommy porn" is meant to degrade women's sexuality by diminishing our valid, normal, and non-mommyish erotic needs, I've decided that given the runaway bestseller response to this book, what the world needs now is some REAL mommy porn.

After all, if it's sold this well without technically even OFFERING any content that's specifically aimed at mothers, I think a Fifty Shades for Moms will be a guaranteed hit!

Please enjoy some of the steamiest scenes from my first 3 chapters:

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Entertainment Flicks

Joaquin Phoenix Makes a 'Crazy' Comeback in 'The Master' (VIDEO)

Posted by Linda Sharps
on May 21, 2012 at 4:39 PM

Hey, remember when Joaquin Phoenix randomly announced that he was quitting acting in order to become a rapper and he showed up to David Letterman looking like a drugged-out hobo and it turned out his whole bizarro appearance was all part of a Borat-style stunt for his mockumentary I'm Still Here and it was like OMG DUDE QUIT EATING CRAZY FOR BREAKFAST?

That whole mess really wasn't looking good for Phoenix's once red-hot career, which sucked because I've been a big fan ever since I saw him in To Die For. And how great was he in Walk the Line?

Thankfully, Joaquin Phoenix is finally back, and he's ditched the scraggly beard and stupid late-show tricks. In fact, he looks like he might be bringing the acting performance of his career to date in The Master.

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