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Sacha Cohen's gay Bruno gets top billing in GQ, film

Jun. 16, 2009
Sacha Baron Cohen strips down as his naked alter ego - the flamboyantly gay Austrian fashionista Bruno - for the July cover of GQ magazine. He sports a tanned glow and a shaggy head of highlighted hair, and is artfully posed. The actor-comedian's 2006 movie, "...
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler