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Extra, Extra: Sundance 2012 Lineup, States that Love Weed, And Another Kardashian Marriage

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  • 51-year-old Doug Hutchison, who's married to 17-year-old Courtney Stodden, pulled out of a movie where he would have played a creepy older man who seduces a teenage girl.
  • UC researchers may have discovered a less expensive method of treatment for HIV.
  • Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick are planning to get married any minute now.
  • Several state governors are asking the feds to reclassify marijuana and acknowledge that it has medicinal properties.
  • A woman was arrested after trying to bring a stun gun through LAX.
  • Gird your loins: Anne Hathaway and Adam Shulman might have a nontraditional wedding.
  • The lineup for Sundance 2012 has been announced.
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