Articles Written By Kevin Fanning
Kevin Fanning has been a TMN Contributing Writer since 2002. He writes about celebrities and relationships and internet culture and can be found online at @kfan.
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Exploring the Language of the Stars
How Amanda Bynes and the Teens Saved the Human Race
We were still used to who Amanda had been. We did not understand who she was becoming. We expected her to be that skinny little girl with the impossibly loud...
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Exploring the Language of the Stars
Cultural Literacy for Old People
Good! Phew. Awesome! But frankly, who cares about any of those people anymore? What about the new stars, the ones kids/teens/babies actually CARE about right now— do...
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Exploring the Language of the Stars
How We Break Up
It makes sense, narratively. The part of the relationship where you like someone and hope they like you back, where you obsess over various interpretations of their texts and late-night...
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Exploring the Language of the Stars
Behind the Scenes: Jennifer Love Hewitt’s Breast Insurance Policy
Cynthia Pekoria (manager, State Farm Insurance, Sherman Oaks branch): OK which one of you dick-fucks approved this. Dalton Leonard (customer service representative): If this is about Kanye’s cat...
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Exploring the Language of the Stars
Worst Job Ever: Suri Cruise’s Doppelganger
Here are the facts: Last week, Katie picked Suri up from school and stuffed her in a black minivan. The paparazzi then followed the van to a police station, where...
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Exploring the Language of the Stars
How to Spend Valentine’s Day With the Celebrity of Your Dreams
Not that a fake Ryan Reynolds doesn’t provide SOME comfort and pleasure on this, the most romantic day of the year, but don’t you think it...
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Exploring the Language of the Stars
The Perpetual Need for TV Characters to Make Out
The only hour of the week you can even stand to be alive, the only time you can focus on something other than the terrible skin covering your ungainly blob...
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Exploring the Language of the Stars
The Beautiful Dark Magic of Lip-Syncing
The year was 1989. The place: Lake Compounce amusement park in Bristol, Conn. Two young warlocks named Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan were performing a complicated lip-sync with their coven, Milli...
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Exploring the Language of the Stars
Three Shades of Celebrity Desire
It was nice, for a while, imagining that love is real. Remember when we knew they were together but they were playing coy? Selena telling Ellen that Justin was like...
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Exploring the Language of the Stars
The Impossible Expectations for Kim & Kanye’s Baby
For every baby in your life, you had to endure nine months of updates. We’re pregnant! We’re getting the room ready! It’s a boy,...
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Personal Essays
How the Dead Live
There’s a peculiar odor to burning hope—it’s the smell of exhaust fumes, human sweat, and a fast-food container interred under a seat cushion.
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Gallery
Baby’s First Internet
Not sure how to explain the internet to your young ones? Presenting a series of nursery rhymes to teach children how to comport themselves on the online.