Celebrity Bathwater

We've worked overtime this week, and are psyched for a little 3 day RNR. Let's recap the excitement:

• We coined the "Reverse Savage", and hundreds of you point out that Ryan Reynolds was, in fact, a less than attractive kid.
• The Big Brother 8 contestants have a lengthy talk about Best Week Ever and, quite possibly, spinach.
• Millions of young boys start thinking about a career in science.
• Most Underrated Child Star Performance: Tori Spelling in Troop Beverly Hills.
• Miss South Carolina defended the herself, U.S. Americans, and the Iraq on The Today Show.
• We round-up the year so far with some BWE Halftime Reports, covering everything from big ladies, to TV, to sports, to human sex in leather pants.
• Aaaaaaaaand I met Brad Pitt.

Have a great three-day weekend, everyone, and we'll see you back here bright and early on Tuesday!

• Scientists are using the Pac Man video game in conjunction with electroshock therapy to figure out how fear works. Patients are now said to be deathly afraid of cherries, pretzels and brightly colored mumus.
• THEORY: When and if David Beckham goes bald (which, p.s., is already national news in England), he will look like one of the bad guys in Passenger 57. The good news? Him and Posh can totally exchange extensions!
• NBC is really pushing our buttons: They have just pulled out of their Itunes deal beginning this fall, meaning no $1.99 episodes of The Office! Guess we're gonna have to cancel our Thursday night Stoli Vanilla crawls this year.
• Somehow, even photographs of the largest spider web in the world are a million times more entertaining than Spiderman 3.
• Finally, last night we had the great pleasure of visiting the Hyt Me estate out in Water Mill, NY, for an exciting soiree. And while Guest of Honor Jason Bateman never materialized -- a serious blow to this Arrested Development devotee -- the house itself was sickkk. The kind of house that's so nice, you're convinced it's a set-up for some sort of drug-related murder, a la Tea Leoni in Bad Boys. And while we pretended to be much wealthier than we are, we're glad to report that Russell Simmons acted very friendly, and looked as harmless as Pinocchio in his little pink sweater vest. Anyway, the house is increds.

Ladies and gentlemen, the outtakes reel to end all outtakes reels. Here's a best of compilation, featuring Paul F. Tompkins, Sherrod Small, Frangela, Doug Benson and all your other favorite panelists cracking themselves and us up. The three of you still sitting at your desks right now are going to love it!

This video isn't new (judging by LaVar Arrington still wearing a Redskins uniform and seeming to be not completely useless), but stamp it into your brain as one of many eternal reminders of just how stomach-turning ESPN's attempts at innocuous, lighthearted Sports/Entertainment crossovers can be. Next week: Simon Asks "Who's NEXT?" (link via Kissing Suzy Kolber)

You can see the rest of the shots over at ONTD.

According to a story on Telegraph.co.uk, a team of Cambridge-based mathematicians conducted a study to determine which famous hottie had the sexiest womanly sway, mathematically speaking, and concluded that asstress Jessica Alba (like my TMZ impression?) sashays away with the title: The academics found that it is the ratio between hips and waist that puts the sway into a woman's walk - and the nearer that ratio is to 0.7, the better.

This ratio provides the body with the right torso strength to produce a more angular swing and bounce to the hips during the walking motion. The Jessica Alba sashay beat off competition from Kate Moss, Angelina Jolie and even Marilyn Monroe, whose walk along a railway platform in Some Like It Hot is one of the most famous in film history. While Monroe was a fraction off the target ratio with 0.69, the Cambridge team said that Alba had the perfect proportions.

Granted, this comes from a brief writeup online and not a scientific journal, but doesn't there seem to be a really glaring, kind of skeevy lack of detail in this story? As in, perhaps, the same gaping lack of detail that a report from scientists who spent two months staring at pictures of hot actresses and didn't actually do any research or conclude anything might also contain? How did they come up with the number "0.7"? It can't be from the golden ratio, right, it's only one frickin' decimal place? And by what mathematical means is it "better?" And how did they acquire the exact measurements of every one of these actresses? Was this report funded? Mathematically speaking, was this a complete waste of everyone's time? Or was it a mathematically brilliant prank on the University that employs and pays these individuals? Come to think of it, I might have to look into this entire situation some more... (link, pic via wwtdd)