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As per the title's promise, Paradise Rot seeps with goo. There are "spit bubbles," "pearls of fat," "a pee soaked mattress," "warm white globs" and "sticky black crotches" frothing freely around; apple flesh "bubbles in between teeth," sweat forms "cold sweet sap," and velvety "honey funguses" sprout from space. Such freaky finery fills only a petri dish's worth of secretions from the sticky bildungsroman of Djåoanna, or Jo – a mousy, twenty-year-old Norwegian on semester abroad in the fictional seaside town of Aybourne, Australia – poised on the cusp of a fantastic sexual awakening.

Courtesy Jaime Pressly; Inset: PictureGroup Now that’s a haircut! After a drought of major celebrity hair changes, Jaime Pressly stepped it up and delivered a major tress trim. And the star had no hair regrets, according to her Twitter. “My Jonathan did it again!! We chopped it all off and I luv it!! Thank u Jonathan!” she wrote. Tell us: What do you think of Pressly’s new do? –Alex Apatoff

Designers aren't the only people to debut new looks during New York Fashion Week! Case in point: Taylor Momsen looked pretty unrecognizable at Alice + Olivia's runway show on Monday. Gone were her trademark kohl-rimmed eyes in favor of eye makeup that looked—gasp!—Gossip Girl glam! Instead, the 20-year-old went for a look that was just as fresh as the spring fashions designers sent down the runway. Momsen brought out her baby blues with neutral shadows, which she complemented with a glossy red lip.

Was Kai a victim of assault and abuse?Falling through the cracks at the time were comments Kai made—on camera—to Reisbeck and others about violent encounters, as well as disturbing Facebook posts (seen in the documentary) that seemed to indicate his personal knowledge of child abuse. "This one time I was in an orchard and this f--king guy started beating on a woman," Kai recalled in the original Fresno interview, and his response was to start "

Play video content HIT & RUN One dollar store employee appears to be taking security detail into her own hands ... taking down an alleged shoplifter with her own damn car! Check out the doorbell footage, taken earlier this month ... the guy riding a bike with a basket full of goodies gets absolutely NAILED by the employee's ride, sending him straight to the concrete -- and scattering the alleged stolen items all over someone's yard.

Play video content OVER THE TOP This is NOT what Larry the Cable Guy meant by "Git-R-Done" -- but he damn near broke his opponent's limb in half during an arm wrestling competition. The video is intense to say the least -- and it went down at the University of Nebraska football game last Saturday in Lincoln. Larry, a huge Huskers fan, and the guy -- an army vet named John -- were in a luxury suite, and we're told John challenged the comedian.

MRC has tapped NBCUniversal alum Adam Stotsky as president of the newly created MRC Live & Alternative, which will absorb the operations of Dick Clark Productions. MRC has slowly been phasing out the Dick Clark Prods.

For actor Paul Bettany, all roads lead back to the one he trudges down in A Knight’s Tale. The argument holds water when you consider how his American studio-feature-film debut planted the seeds for a robust screen-acting career that has put the BAFTA-nominated performer toe-to-toe with Tom Hanks (The Da Vinci Code) and Russell Crowe (A Beautiful Mind, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World), had him co-leading prestigious small-screen and indie dramas (Discovery’s Manhunt: Unabomber, Margin Call), and launched him into some of today’s largest entertainment franchises with Solo: A Star Wars Story and, of course, 13 years voicing J.

Philip Glass : NPR Accessibility links Philip Glass Philip Glass artist page: interviews, features and/or performances archived at NPR Music Faye Webster and Lil Yachty, both of Atlanta and friends since middle school, collaborate on the new song "Lego Ring," from Webster's upcoming album Underdressed at the Symphony. Courtesy of the artist hide caption toggle caption Courtesy of the artist The songs we can't stop playing this week Anne Akiko Meyers performs a Tiny Desk concert at NPR Music in Washington, D.