This week on "I Like To Watch," MCC takes a look at some unlikely romances, from Kiera "Fatass" Knightley's rocky romance in "Atonement," Amy Adams' Prozac-assisted trip into real-world New York in "Enchanted," and Will Smith's mannequin pickup lines in "I Am Legend." The romance between Will Smith's dog and vegetables, however, was truly never meant to be...
The MTV Movies Blog gagged us with this little taste of what the poster for Jared Leto vanity project Chapter 27 is going to look like. Guys, Jared gained, like, a lot of weight to unnecessarily portray the man who murdered John Lennon, so, you know, the movie's clearly going to be good. Remember, Highly Publicized Weight-Gain = Quality Movie Entertainment. I just wish he could find more violent sociopaths whose stories are crying out to be given the Hollywood treatment.
So as you might have heard, right after David Paterson took office in the aftermath of the Eliot Spitzer Sex Scandal, his first gubernatorial order of business was hopping right into his own sex scandal by admitting that he'd cheated on his wife, who in turn admitted to also having cheated on him. Seriously, is there any person in this state who hasn't f*cked someone they weren't supposed to!?! Luckily, Paul F. Tompkins and Jessica St. Clair were able to help us make sense of all this (if that's actually even possible). Here's a sneak peek at their piece in tonight's brand new episode of Best Week Ever, which you'd do well to watch on Vh1 at 9 and 11pm ET.
Recap of Lost Season 4, Episode 8, "Meet Kevin Johnson" from March 20, 2008 -- so many damn spoilers in here, you shouldn't read it while dairy products are in the room:I'VE ABANDONED MY BOY! ER, WELL... MY BOY HAS ABANDONED ME!In a bizarre present-flashback-present sandwich, last night's "Lost" revealed Michael's path from island treachery to suicidal mainlandness to nautical treachery. Michael has been alienated from HIS SON! after HIS SON! found out what his father had to do to get him off the island, prompting Michael to drive really fast into a wall, but uh oh! Turns out the island won't let you kill yourself, even if you put a loaded gun to your head and fire. This latest ridiculous island rule comes to Michael through Big Tom, who has followed Michael back to the mainland in order to recruit the grief-stricken 815er for the espionage mission, as well as to hang out in a luxury penthouse with his gay mainland booty call.
I took some flack after Episode Two when I declared that I thought Miles' ghost whispering ability was pretty stupid, given that the show also involves a magical teleporting cabin and constantly changing smoke monster and time shifting rules, but last night, I just wasn't buying the idea that anyone who leaves the island can't even put a loaded gun to their head and fire without the gun jamming or the bullet physically bouncing off their skull. Nonetheless, Michael, still in grief over the estrangement from HIS SON!, agrees to the dangerous mission and ends up on the boat as a deckhand with surprising (re: suspicious) ease. Since when did Michael care about his kid so much?? I'm not sure the earlier seasons did a sufficient job of making this connection clear.
THIS WEEK ON LOST: SOMEONE. DID. DIE.I had my money on Michael biting it in last night's semi-finale, but the lucky winners were Karl and Rousseau, who were both shot by faceless cohorts seconds before the final LOST thud, though I doubt Rousseau is actually dead -- ever since Eyepatch dude came back to life four times, I'll believe nothing until they invent a tv that I can reach into and feel pulses, and even then I'll probably assume they just got bit by that super paralyzing spider. This proposes two obvious questions for us to spend the next four weeks mulling over at the water cooler (people still do that, right?) -- who shot them, and did Ben know it was going to happen?
The answer to the second part is a resounding, obvious yes, if we recall how far out of his way Ben went to kill Juliet's f*ck buddy, but as for who physically shot Karl and Rousseau, it would have to be either the surviving Others, Daniel and Charlotte if they somehow snuck away, or other secret members off the S.S. Widmore. The surviving Others would make the most sense, as they were likely aiming for those two specifically and could have known from Ben where they'd be located, plus Rousseau was shot the instant she stood up, whereas the shooters held off on shooting Alex before she even declared that she was Ben's daughter.
TEAM BEN VS TEAM WIDMORETom also informs Michael that, contrary to what the boat captain told Sayid and Desmond last week, Charles Widmore actually staged the 815 wreckage, not Ben, and shows Michael records of Widmore's plane purchase and photos of the graves in Thailand that he dug up to get the bodies (does that mean all the people on the ship were Thai? Or were they too decomposed for it to matter?) We've got four weeks to draw up some t-shirts, but in the meantime, who ya believing, Ben or Widmore?
I'm leaning towards believing Ben, because him being "right" would explain Sayid (and possibly Jin) agreeing to work for him in the future, though it may be a personal bias affected by Ben's lovable crypticness and Widmore just being a total meanie pants to Desmond (apologies for the language). We could also throw out the theory just for the eff of it that Ben and Widmore are actually working together, which would be really shocking, if only because it would make no sense and appear to be in complete opposition with everything that's happened on the show for the last two years. Regardless, no matter who Jim Halpert ends up with, he'll be financially set for life.
OCEANIC SIX: BABIES ARE PEOPLE TOO
If we're to believe the ABC promo right after the episode, Aaron does, in fact, count as one of the Oceanic Six, thus dispelling the Michael / Locke / Secret Jin theories from last week -- congrats to the National Orginization For Counting Babies As People When We're Counting Survivors, who truly stuck to their guns in the comments last week. This episode did not provide any indication about what deal, exactly, ends up being struck between the islanders and Ben (or Widmore) that results in those six leaving the island and Claire and Jin allowing their respective devastating separations to occur.
PREDICTIONS FOR LOST'S RETURNWe got four weeks, might as well throw some ridiculous sh*t out there to keep ourselves warm:
The surviving Others have got to return relatively soon, they can't stay in that Temple forever (at least move to the Complex or the Library, am I right, Goldeneye fans?) -- will they finally make peace with Locke's tribe? It seems unlikely that Ben would use them to escape and go off on his own, especially if he can successfully unite the islanders against the boat people.
How about a Widmore flashback episode? He's gotten an awfully disproportionate amount of attention given that he's barely appeared in the show, and never in the present.
How do Ben and his people jump back and forth to the mainland so easily? Are they stuck there now that the submarine is destroyed, or is there still some information he's withholding? Maybe a Lear Jet in the Temple?
What happens when the boat people find out about Miles' attempted dissent? Will Miles side with the islanders, or get killed, or succeed in getting paid? I vote for option A.
How will the boat people treat Sayid's tattle-tale on Michael? I know Sayid is pretty cold-blooded, but he wouldn't just stand there while the crew exacts revenge on Michael, especially given his need for the biggest number advantage he can get should the sh*t go down on the boat next half-season.
Will Claire do anything, ever?
We got four weeks, people -- leave your super-sized observations and theories in the comments!
Jeez, Internet mash-up people, what took you so long? After literally months of waiting and watching other There Will Be Blood parodies and mash-ups with varying degrees of cleverness, we finally get There Will Be Vader, the inevitable story of an oil man in a galaxy far, far away that we've been hoping for, and is our birthright as readers of the Internet. Until a pop culture entity has been put into the context of Star Wars, it doesn't really matter. So congrats, There Will Be Blood - you're the real deal now. Daniel Plainview as Darth Vader will be fine.
See the video after the jump!
Forget the cinematic stereotype of some cutthroat Bobby Knight-esque, Cobra Kai, Jon Voight from "Varsity Blues" patriarch terrifying his team into action with a bombastic, swear-filled pregame motivational speech about breaking peoples' legs and the glory of merciless victory -- George Mason men's basketball coach Jim Larranaga prefers to get his team fired up by telling them to use their magical magician powers to make boxing leprechauns disappear:
[Apologies for the low audio - just turn the volume up, if you think you can handle the motiviation]
A thought which often crosses my mind is why television was so much better 20 years ago. Sure, today we have Lost and The Office and Celebrity Apprentice, but back in the 80s there was some psychotic creative sh*t happening: Out Of This World, Small Wonder, ALF, Misfits of Science... "What's that last one?" you ask? Why, Misfits of Science... the brilliant and unintentionally hilarious NBC sci-fi show that managed to last an entire season before network execs put down their coke-20 long enough to realize it was one of the worst shows ever.
But Ben over at the B-Side Blog noticed something strange about a short Misfits of Science clip he found on Youtube... specifically, that one line from the clip was oddly similar to the Heroes catchphrase "Save the Cheerleader, Save the World." Stranger, Heroes writer Tim Kringapparently wrote an episode of Misfits of Science. Hmmm...
Coincidence or lack-of-ideas-ery? Either way, the following clip is worth your time. It's kind of like Garth Marenghi's Darkplace... but, you know, real. (The Wiki page is also worth a glance...)
From CELE|BITCHY -- One could imagine after a high-profile, Hollywood break-up, the gossip rags would have a few things to say about a person. In efforts to avoid reading any criticism on himself, Ryan Phillippe has stopped googling himself, and more. Check out the full story, after the jump!
Ryan Phillippe says he stopped Googling himself because it's depressing
Ryan Phillippe was on Jay Leno last night, and his interview was pretty entertaining. Leno opened up with the statement that he’d Googled Ryan. Ryan said that he stopped doing that because it’s depressing and people say hateful things online since they’re anonymous.
On “hateful comments” online
“I’ve stopped Googling myself. Some of the stuff that you see when you are someone who is known is so depressing. Just the comments. People make really hateful comments sometimes, because there’s anonymity and you can get away with it.”
On his first role, a gay teenager on a soap opera
Ryan didn’t elaborate and then Leno told him that he found out that Ryan played the first gay teenager in a soap opera on “One Life to Life.” Ryan said he was 17 and came from Delaware and it was his first paying job as an actor. He said that the local Baptist church “had a little bit of a reaction to it.”
Ryan said his character’s name was “Billy Douglas,” and Leno asked him to give the camera his gayest look and he laughed and said he wouldn’t do it. Ryan fidgeted in his seat and said “are you just going to embarrass me tonight?” and then got up jokingly like he was going to leave but sat down again.
On his “naked commercial”
Leno said “You also made a naked commercial” and Ryan countered “I am not kidding, I am going to walk off this stage right now.”
Ryan then said “I feel kind of cheap actually… it was for Armani jeans. I was probably only 19, and David Lachapelle who is a like real serious photographer… it was a commercial that he was doing and he saw me at a restaurant and put me in it, and I didn’t know that I would end up being naked in skid row at 2:00 in the morning with rats crawling around.”
Then Leno showed this commercial:
After the break Leno asked Ryan how he spent his money when he first started making it and he said that he bought a lot of CDs and music and that his first big purchase was a house for his parents.
On his kids
Then Leno brought up the fact that Ryan is a Frank Sinatra fan and he said he has a 12 year-old bulldog named Frank and that his daughter, Ava, was named after Sinatra’s second wife Ava Gardner. Leno said he used to open for Sinatra and that they did North Carolina once and the crowd wasn’t receptive to Sinatra’s jokes.
Ryan called Ava “amazing, beautiful,” and said “I can’t believe I have an eight year-old daughter.” He also mentioned his son, Deacon.
He was promoting his new film Stop Loss which is about a soldier called back to war in Iraq after his tour of duty ends. It is out in the US on March 28.
Here’s his full interview on Leno last night, thanks to clipper monkeyboy on Redlasso.
Ryan Phillippe on Leno part 1
Ryan Phillippe on Leno part 2
Ryan is shown at the Stop Loss premiere on 3/17/08, thanks to PRPhotos.
Yesterday, we revealed to you the face behind all of those anonymous peen pics featuring beloved Sex and the City star Kristin Davis. The photos, taken before Kristin hit it big as Charlotte on HBO, feature the sweet starlet practicing decidedly un-Charlotte-like behavior, were snapped by ex-boyfriend Eric Stapleman, who supposedly gave the photos to a friend, from whom they were then stolen and -- you guessed it -- plastered all over the internet. We wondered what kind of guy would give away such intimate photos of a girl, famous or not, and found out that Stapleman is the execute chef and owner of a Santa Fe restaurant Trattoria Nostrani, an Italian restaurant famous for its "fragrance free" policy. We came upon one review that relayed how the owner of the restaurant (Stapleman) chased a 75-year-old couple off of the premises for wearing "fragrance." We left it at a funny/psychotic anecdote and moved on with our lives.
But a commenter on that post had us back on the Stapleman beat. Jane Doe wrote (comment edited by us):
I know Eric personally, we live in the same town. Everyone here knows of him as pretty much the biggest douche in history... He is universally regarded as a total pig and vindictive asshole by everyone who lives in Santa Fe. Many people refuse to go to his restaurant because they hate him so much...
PS It's very funny how if a girl wearing perfume at his restaurant is hot and young and scantily clad she is magically always allowed to stay. So strange.
So this fragrance free thing... he's serious about that? Now we were fascinated. This man, this man who has taken it upon himself to embarass one of America's most beloved pay cable sitcom stars... he's truly an a**hole? Well, in that case, we need to learn more.
And did we ever. Reviews for his restaurant over at Trip Advisor contain some of the most hilarious restaurant tales we have ever read, painting a picture of Stapleman as a man with SERIOUS anger issues, a man who throws people out of his restaurant for wearing unscented hair spray and hand lotion, a man who served mediocre food for exorbitant prices, who follows patrons into other restaurants to yell at them. We may not be "psychiatrists" or "pill schillers", but by all accounts, it looks like this fella has some serious emotional issues. After the jump, we highlight some of our favorite, most hilarious reviews of Eric Stapleman, Santa Fe's "Fragrance Nazi" and by all accounts, it's "Biggest A-Hole" (an honor, of sorts). The following reviews would be hilarious, if they weren't actually true. So Kristin Davis... this one's for you!
Where Stapleman Curses at a Woman Following a $500 Meal...
"Beware All Ye Who Enter"
JoAnnePeinado
My husband and I took our cousins who were visiting us in Albuquerque to Santa Fe for the day. I made a reservation for 4 at 7:15 p.m. at Trattoria Nostrani. As we were walking to our table in a small back room, we passed a very lively dining room. I asked the hostess if we could be seated there. She replied "This is the only table we have available for you this evening". I sat there quietly, but gave her and the owner who stopped by our table a glaring look. Well, little did I know that was enough to set off the owner! He waited until we had eaten, paid our bill ($480 BEFORE tip) and were on the way out. He stopped me and told me off in no uncertain terms, including profanity. As he talked, his voice got louder and louder. He told me that only nice people were allowed in his restaurant. I tried to shake his hand to make peace and he left my hand dangling in mid-air. My cousin (who had also paid the bill) had to take him to an open table and talk to him to quiet him down. After talking to several people in Santa Fe, I've discovered there are other women he has done this to. Not only does he use his restaurant for his own agenda, but his food is most certainly not worth that kind of money. What an embarrasing, sad experience for us and our cousins who had never been to Santa Fe before.
Where Stapleman Follows Customers To A Hotel Lobby To Yell At Them...
"So if the owner treats his local clientele like this, what can you expect?"
CostaDiva
We live here. I have been a full time manager of my own department at The Santa Fe Opera for 6 years and she is a Ralph Lauren model and a well known local jeweler; Not exactly the sort of customer that should be treated as 'trailer trash'. But that is the exact treatment we received by the owner, Eric, who refused us service. When we pressed a bit for service he finally asked one of his waiters to prepare us a simple shot of espresso. We drank our coffee and paid the $12.00 tab and left a $2.00 tip! We left. We went to La Posada for our second espresso...
As we were sitting by the fireplace at La Posada enjoying our conversation, we were very surprised to see Eric, the owner of Trattoria Nostrani walk in. When we saw him, we acknowledged him simply with eye contact and a nod. He stopped and stared at us. In a lobby with hotel patrons walking around within hearing distance from about fifteen feet away he yelled, (I quote with no exaggeration), "If you two ever want an espresso do not come to my restaurant, go someplace else!!"
We were stunned. So stunned if fact I asked him to repeat what he just said. He did repeat this with even more emphasis that we were not welcome to visit his restaurant if we wanted to sit at the bar and order a ($12.00) shot of espresso. Since the management of La Posada witnessed this we were offered their apologies for Eric's unbelievably rude, insulting behavior.
I do not care about Eric's opinion of his restaurant, the accolades from food or wine magazines or anything else. I will never visit this restaurant again. He is unacceptable in every way, and I find it amazing that he is still in business.
Where Stapleman Throws An Elderly Couple Out On Their Ass...
"Prejudice restaurant"
operawife
My husband and I made reservations to this restaurant days ahead and planned on a romantic evening out. As an opera singer my husband and I have eaten all over the world in many wonderful and awful restaurants. I have never experienced anywhere what happened to us at this restaurant.
We were seated and given menus as another couple walked in to be seated. The hostess began to seat the couple when the manager/owner angrily pulled her into a kitchen area. I watched him yell at her (very upsetting for us). She came out and said this elderly couple had to leave because the woman was wearing perfume. This is a fragrance free restaurant. Watch out! She said she knew this and was not wearing perfume but she had put a little lotion on before she came. She went to the restroom to wash the lotion off. The owner/manager ranted and raved in the kitchen at the poor hostess saying he could smell this woman all the way into the kitchen. What an exaggeration! I was right next to her and couldn't smell anything. When the woman came out of the restroom they were asked to leave. This poor old lady was very upset. We were so upset about witnessing this situation we left the restaurant and had a wonderful meal at the The Old House in the El Dorado Hotel.
Where He Refuses To Speak to Unhappy Diners, Because "They Aren't Worth It"...
"Worst Experience Ever"
A TripAdvisor Member
We made the reservations well in advanced to celebrate our anniversary and asked for a special table. We arrived and were greeted by the most pompous man who I am guessing was the owner. They proceeded to seat us in a table in the bar. Then when we asked to move they sat us at an even worse table with full view of the bathroom. The owner keep speaking in a loud voice smearing President Bush and being very obnoxious. The waiter asked the owner to speak to us on several occasions because he knew we were upset and he said they aren't worth it. I have traveled all over world and eaten at the some of the best restaurants and never have I been treated so badly.
Where The Restaurant Discriminates Based On "Fragrance"...
"Fragrance Free Restaurant = license to discriminate"
advisor50
My husband made reservations at Trattoria Nostrani and was told that it was a fragrance free restaurant. So after showering to get ready for dinner, I did not put on any perfume or even hairspray.
We entered the restaurant and were seated immediately. The waiter asked us if we preferred still or sparkling water. He returned to our table and said that they could not serve us because I was wearing perfume. I explained that we were aware of their policy and that I was not wearing any fragrance. He insisted that he smelled some fragrance on me and that we would have to leave. At that point I would not have stayed there if the meal were free!!
We went back to the Eldorado and had a fabulous meal at The Old House. We spoke to several people at the hotel and restaurant about our experience and they were familiar with Eric, the owner of Tratorria, and admitted that he was a very strange character. Seems to me that his "fragrance free" policy allows him to discriminate against anyone that he does not want in his restaurant for whatever reason.
Where Eric Stapleman Is Dubbed a "Fragrance Nazi"...
Awful experience. Rude, Overpriced & Undercooked. Mediocre food. Presented as a 'fragrance free' restaurant. Owner acts as the 'Fragrance Nazi.' Decides on entrance if you are wearing ANY fragrance. Refuses service if 'he' imagines any fragrance of any kind. We went prepared, fragrance free, with reservations and were give a table outside where other patrons sat with dogs suspected of wearing fragrance.
Major waiter attitude. Beneath them to serve you. Would not recommend this restaurant to anyone ever. ALL Concierges feel the same in Santa Fe. Just ask. Many other great establishments.
They need to get over themselves.
SL & RV
Colorado
There are many other accounts of his behavior over at Trip Advisor.
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In a bizarre present-flashback-present sandwich, last night's "Lost" revealed Michael's path from island treachery to suicidal mainlandness to nautical treachery. Michael has been alienated from HIS SON! after HIS SON! found out what his father had to do to get him off the island, prompting Michael to drive really fast into a wall, but uh oh! Turns out the island won't let you kill yourself, even if you put a loaded gun to your head and fire. This latest ridiculous island rule comes to Michael through Big Tom, who has followed Michael back to the mainland in order to recruit the grief-stricken 815er for the espionage mission, as well as to hang out in a luxury penthouse with his gay mainland booty call.
I took some flack after Episode Two when I declared that I thought Miles' ghost whispering ability was pretty stupid, given that the show also involves a magical teleporting cabin and constantly changing smoke monster and time shifting rules, but last night, I just wasn't buying the idea that anyone who leaves the island can't even put a loaded gun to their head and fire without the gun jamming or the bullet physically bouncing off their skull. Nonetheless, Michael, still in grief over the estrangement from HIS SON!, agrees to the dangerous mission and ends up on the boat as a deckhand with surprising (re: suspicious) ease. Since when did Michael care about his kid so much?? I'm not sure the earlier seasons did a sufficient job of making this connection clear.
I had my money on Michael biting it in last night's semi-finale, but the lucky winners were Karl and Rousseau, who were both shot by faceless cohorts seconds before the final LOST thud, though I doubt Rousseau is actually dead -- ever since Eyepatch dude came back to life four times, I'll believe nothing until they invent a tv that I can reach into and feel pulses, and even then I'll probably assume they just got bit by that super paralyzing spider. This proposes two obvious questions for us to spend the next four weeks mulling over at the water cooler (people still do that, right?) -- who shot them, and did Ben know it was going to happen?
The answer to the second part is a resounding, obvious yes, if we recall how far out of his way Ben went to kill Juliet's f*ck buddy, but as for who physically shot Karl and Rousseau, it would have to be either the surviving Others, Daniel and Charlotte if they somehow snuck away, or other secret members off the S.S. Widmore. The surviving Others would make the most sense, as they were likely aiming for those two specifically and could have known from Ben where they'd be located, plus Rousseau was shot the instant she stood up, whereas the shooters held off on shooting Alex before she even declared that she was Ben's daughter.
TEAM BEN VS TEAM WIDMORE
Tom also informs Michael that, contrary to what the boat captain told Sayid and Desmond last week, Charles Widmore actually staged the 815 wreckage, not Ben, and shows Michael records of Widmore's plane purchase and photos of the graves in Thailand that he dug up to get the bodies (does that mean all the people on the ship were Thai? Or were they too decomposed for it to matter?) We've got four weeks to draw up some t-shirts, but in the meantime, who ya believing, Ben or Widmore?
I'm leaning towards believing Ben, because him being "right" would explain Sayid (and possibly Jin) agreeing to work for him in the future, though it may be a personal bias affected by Ben's lovable crypticness and Widmore just being a total meanie pants to Desmond (apologies for the language). We could also throw out the theory just for the eff of it that Ben and Widmore are actually working together, which would be really shocking, if only because it would make no sense and appear to be in complete opposition with everything that's happened on the show for the last two years. Regardless, no matter who Jim Halpert ends up with, he'll be financially set for life.
OCEANIC SIX: BABIES ARE PEOPLE TOO
If we're to believe the ABC promo right after the episode, Aaron does, in fact, count as one of the Oceanic Six, thus dispelling the Michael / Locke / Secret Jin theories from last week -- congrats to the National Orginization For Counting Babies As People When We're Counting Survivors, who truly stuck to their guns in the comments last week. This episode did not provide any indication about what deal, exactly, ends up being struck between the islanders and Ben (or Widmore) that results in those six leaving the island and Claire and Jin allowing their respective devastating separations to occur.
PREDICTIONS FOR LOST'S RETURN
We got four weeks, might as well throw some ridiculous sh*t out there to keep ourselves warm:
The surviving Others have got to return relatively soon, they can't stay in that Temple forever (at least move to the Complex or the Library, am I right, Goldeneye fans?) -- will they finally make peace with Locke's tribe? It seems unlikely that Ben would use them to escape and go off on his own, especially if he can successfully unite the islanders against the boat people.
How about a Widmore flashback episode? He's gotten an awfully disproportionate amount of attention given that he's barely appeared in the show, and never in the present.
How do Ben and his people jump back and forth to the mainland so easily? Are they stuck there now that the submarine is destroyed, or is there still some information he's withholding? Maybe a Lear Jet in the Temple?
What happens when the boat people find out about Miles' attempted dissent? Will Miles side with the islanders, or get killed, or succeed in getting paid? I vote for option A.
How will the boat people treat Sayid's tattle-tale on Michael? I know Sayid is pretty cold-blooded, but he wouldn't just stand there while the crew exacts revenge on Michael, especially given his need for the biggest number advantage he can get should the sh*t go down on the boat next half-season.
Will Claire do anything, ever?
We got four weeks, people -- leave your super-sized observations and theories in the comments! 
A thought which often crosses my mind is why television was so much better 20 years ago. Sure, today we have Lost and The Office and Celebrity Apprentice, but back in the 80s there was some psychotic creative sh*t happening: Out Of This World, Small Wonder, ALF, Misfits of Science... "What's that last one?" you ask? Why, 
Yesterday, we revealed to you the face behind all of those anonymous peen pics featuring beloved Sex and the City star Kristin Davis. The photos, taken before Kristin hit it big as Charlotte on HBO, feature the sweet starlet practicing decidedly un-Charlotte-like behavior, were snapped by ex-boyfriend Eric Stapleman, who supposedly gave the photos to a friend, from whom they were then stolen and -- you guessed it -- plastered all over the internet. We wondered what kind of guy would give away such intimate photos of a girl, famous or not, and found out that Stapleman is the execute chef and owner of a Santa Fe restaurant Trattoria Nostrani, an Italian restaurant famous for its "fragrance free" policy. We came upon one review that relayed how the owner of the restaurant (Stapleman) chased a 75-year-old couple off of the premises for wearing "fragrance." We left it at a funny/psychotic anecdote and moved on with our lives.
But a commenter on that post had us back on the Stapleman beat. Jane Doe wrote (comment edited by us):
And did we ever. 
Where The Restaurant Discriminates Based On "Fragrance"...
