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Populist: Items of interest this week

George Clooney's batsuit
George Clooney’s batsuit

Making a clean breast of it

Batman & Robin director Joel Schumacher has lamented that film’s notorious inclusion of nipples on George Clooney’s batsuit. “That will be on my gravestone,” he wailed.

Maca-wrong

In “pretentious man behaving pretentiously” news, Pharrell Williams has designed a macaron box for French pâtissier Ladurée.

Browned off

Chris Brown thinks the Ebola epidemic might be a form of “population control”. We think Chris Brown might have watched a bit too much Utopia.

Shia force

Shia LaBeouf has explained the circumstances behind his arrest at a performance of Cabaret, blaming whisky, Alan Cumming’s leather trousers and a World Cup match between South Korea and Lithuania (the latter of whom weren’t even at the World Cup), obviously.

Cover up

Props to rapper Bobby Shmurda, whose new EP Schmrda She Wrote features not only a solid pun, but also the most terrifying cover art this side of an Aphex Twin album.

Ray monde

It seems that everybody really does love Raymond, with the Czech Republic (Everybody Loves Rudy) the sixth country to remake the show, after the Netherlands’ Everybody Is Crazy About Jack and Israel’s subtext-heavy You Can’t Choose Your Family.

Biggie on smalls

Text-and-textiles installation Every Curve features Biggie and Tupac lyrics embroided on to vintage lingerie. Because, art.

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