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    Crush of the Week

    Lance Armstrong celebrated his seventh consecutive victory in the Tour de France on Sunday with girlfriend Sheryl Crow. But ladies in Salt Lake City have discovered another Lance . . . Lance Archibald. Lance's "friends" at Logoworks developed a website — and a highway billboard — to find him the perfect mate. Lance's qualifications (which his friends have denoted on the homepage with checked boxes) are apparently endless: former missionary, Harvard MBA, college basketball star, and Mormon. Is Lance desperate? The FAQ says no. And for that, he is our crush of the week. — Sarah Crichton

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    Quotes of the Week

    "I have kids and my own life to live . . . bitch." — Our office manager, Gwynne, discovered that Sadie Frost's words of 'sympathy' to Sienna Miller are even funnier if you add the word "bitch" to the end of every sentence. 

    "When a Man Dies in a Sex Act with a Horse — What's a Reporter to Do?" — Best headline ever?

    Photos of the Week

    Another ex-child-star sluts herself up for the men's mags.

    Heath Ledger does the full-frontal in Brokeback Mountain. Shockingly, some screen caps leaked onto the internet.

    Hooksexup buddy Warren
    St. John wins Gawker's "Men of the Times" award in the "love
    him for his body" category.

    Alan Cumming promotes his fragrance, called Cumming.


    We feel like this guy who's mugshot is up on the Smoking
    Gun is the same guy who was screaming into his cell phone next
    to us when we were on jury duty last week. We're so glad he
    or
    his
    doppelganger
    got picked up for drunk driving wearing this shirt.


    We're not sure who turns us on more — Mr. Midget Porn or the men on the website Hobosexual.com.

    A live billboard was unveiled in Times Square. The Calvin Klein models "have been instructed to create an illusion of a big party twenty-four hours a day" but not to "drink on the billboard or perform risque behavior." A party without sex or drinking? Until they relax this rule, the models will continue to wander back and forth in the billboard, looking confused.

    This artwork funded by the Colorodo Council on the Arts was rejected by the governor and removed from the state's website because of its original title: "Twelve Dildos on Hooks."

    Nothing says scanner like a 28,000-year-old Germanic
    phallus.

    Scanner Interactive!

    This week you have not one but two opportunities to share your secrets for mass consumption!

    1) Our super-journalist friend Steve Fishman over at New York
    Magazine
    sent over this request for interviewees: "I'm trying
    to find people who stay friends with their exes — especially
    those who maintain close, almost familial relationships with a
    large circle of ex-boyfriends or girlfriends. Participants can
    be single, dating, or married, and I'm interested in talking to
    both people for whom these friendships are a happy and satisfying
    part of their life, and also people who have a conflict with their
    significant other over how many exes they stay in touch with." You
    can talk on or off the record. Email .


    2) A random Scanner reader sent this request: "I'm developing a non-commercial graduate school project about female self-image. My hope is that by collecting a diverse group of stories, a realistic/non-filtered picture of the pressures to look and feel 'beautiful' will be created, showing just how much of an impact this has on everyday life." The anonymous form is located at: okaysamurai.com.

    Or you could just screw the greater good and apply for a job as a nude sportscaster.

    In the News

    Learn more than you ever wanted to know about Colin Farrell's sex tape lawsuit here.

    China is sending pig sperm into space! Don't say Communism never accomplished anything worthwhile.

    Product Placement
    The 2006 firefighters' calendar comes out this week. We're waiting for the new Priests of the Vatican.

    And the award for most perverse commercial ever made — in which a toothy puppet of Tony Blair blows George Bush, who comes oil in a motel room — goes to . . . Greenpeace!

    Tabloid Fodder

    People

    Cover story: Sandra Bullock married Jesse James.

    Relevant anecdote: One year at the Austin Music Awards when Sandra was dating musician Bob Schneider, a friend of mine handed out certified documents that read "I've been balled by Bob Schneider."

    Us Weekly

    Cover story: Jude Law was caught screwing the nanny.

    Relvant anecdote: Our best friend called to say she thinks Jude, Sadie, and Sienna are all "despicable" and not worthy of Crush of the Week.

    In Touch

    Cover story: Katie wants a quiet wedding, but Tom doesn't!

    Relevant anecdote: We once had to kill a Scientology feature because our lawyer said if we ran it it'd be the last thing we ever did.

    Star

    Cover story: Nicole Richie is WAY too thin.

    Relevant anecdote: The Barnes & Noble employee who sold us this magazine agrees with Star. "I used to be totally into her!" he said. "But now there's not enough there — you know what I mean?" We knew what he meant.



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    Gwynne Watkins, Sarah Harrison, Sarah Crichton,
    David Diehl, Skye Tyler and Andy Duncan.

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