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...like a smaller, more delicately featured Hugh Grant - but simply because Becky seems more interested in mannequins than in men. There's nothing womanly about any of her getups; they're more like costumes put on by a little girl playing dress-up. She's not looking for a boyfriend; she's looking for a $120 scarf that, as she says in voiceover, can help define your psyche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confessions of a Shopaholic: Relic of an Economy Past | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...Britain, is a hummable single about vapid consumerism ("I want to be rich and I want lots of money/ I don't care about clever I don't care about funny") that honors both "Lost in the Supermarket" and "Material Girl." "Not Fair" laments that her otherwise excellent boyfriend is lousy in bed ("I look into your eyes, I want to get to know yer/ And then you make this noise and it's apparent it's all over") but advances from slagging wit to real disappointment in the chorus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pictures of Lily | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

Straightforward as it is, Harvey's book reads like Jacques Derrida compared with Whitney Casey's The Man Plan. A former host of Great Day Houston, Casey is blond, divorced and telegenic enough to get a blurb for her book from Lance Armstrong, the champion bad boyfriend. She polled 250 men to come up with such insights as, Men get confused by shiny jewelry and big handbags, don't like it when hair smells of fajita and are impressed by TV sets hung on the wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advice for the New Dating Game | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...funny, they aren't insightful, and they share way too much. Facebook is a loose social network; a "friend" on Facebook might translate to someone you'd barely recognize in real life. I don't care that my college roommate's sister is anemic or that my stepcousin's boyfriend gets nervous around old people (apparently he's afraid they're going to die). (See the best social-networking applications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 25 Things I Didn't Want to Know About You | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...honestly, what should be expected from a movie that had its genesis with a single line on Sex and the City? When Carrie's boyfriend Berger said those six words to Miranda, he liberated her from the expectation that her prospective lover would ever call again. Sex and the City writers Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo then huffed and puffed them into a book-length instructional manual for women. After it became a best seller, there was really no choice but to make it into a movie. It was either that, a line of beauty products or a new religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He's Just Not That Into You, and Neither Are We | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

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