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12:40 PM ET, February 27, 2015

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Adam Rogers / Wired:
The Science of Why No One Agrees on the Color of This Dress  —  The original image is in the middle.  At left, white-balanced as if the dress is white-gold.  At right, white-balanced to blue-black. swiked  —  Not since Monica Lewinsky was a White House intern has one blue dress been the source of so much consternation.
Claudia Koerner / BuzzFeed:
The Dress Is Blue And Black, Says The Girl Who Saw It In Person  —  Caitlin McNeill's band performed at a wedding where the mother of the bride wore the now infamous dress.  “We all saw the dress in all its glory and realized it was of course blue and black,” she told BuzzFeed News.
Discussion: Dlisted, Us Weekly, TMZ.com and Just Jared
Hunter Walker / Business Insider:
2 women are behind the viral dress that has everyone confused — Here's what they told us  —  See Also  —  The internet is losing its composure over this dress that might be white and gold or black and blue  —  Two women are behind the viral dress that has everyone confused.  Here's what they told us.
Hudson Hongo / Gawker:
What Color Is This Goddamn Dress?  —  Since it hit Tumblr yesterday, the image below has started an internet schism that may never be healed.  Some maniacs, it seems, see the dress as gold and white, while other completely reasonable people see it as blue and black.  —  This is not a joke.
Discussion: BuzzFeed and Dlisted
Virginia Heffernan / New York Times:
Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83  —  Leonard Nimoy, the sonorous, gaunt-faced actor who won a worshipful global following as Mr. Spock, the resolutely logical human-alien first officer of the Starship Enterprise in the television and movie juggernaut “Star Trek,” …
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Lupita Nyong'o's $150K Oscar dress stolen  —  Oscar night didn't have any stunning upsets, but someone still got robbed.  —  Lupita Nyong'o's $150,000 pearl-studded awards-show gown was stolen from her Beverly Hills hotel room, authorities told The Post.  —  Cops believe the one-of-a-kind …
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TMZ.com:
Lupita Nyong'o's $150K Pearl Oscar Dress — STOLEN!!!  —  $150K PEARL OSCAR DRESS ... STOLEN!!!!  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Lupita Nyong'o's now-famous Oscar dress — adorned in pearls — was stolen right out of her hotel room ... TMZ has learned.  —  Law enforcement sources tell TMZ …
Raakhee Mirchandani / NY Daily News:
Lupita Nyong'o's $150K Oscar dress stolen from Academy Award-winner's Hollywood hotel room
Discussion: Sandra Rose
Britt AboutalebManaging / Yahoo Style:   Someone Stole Lupita Nyong'o's $150K Oscar Gown
Michael K / Dlisted:   Paging Detective La Toya! Lupita Nyong'o's Oscar Dress Has Been Stolen!
Yahoo:
Johansson: Nothing ‘creepy or inappropriate’ about Travolta  —  FILE - In this Feb. 22, 2015 file photo, actress Scarlett Johansson arrives at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.  Johansson is defending John Travolta and calls the image of him kissing her on the Academy Awards red carpet …
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Sierra Marquina / Us Weekly:
Scarlett Johansson Says There Was Nothing “Strange, Creepy, Or Inappropriate” About John Travolta's Oscars Kiss
Discussion: Gawker
Tim Nudd / People.com:
Madonna Describes ‘Horrible Nightmare’ of Stage Fall, and Admits She Was Hurt  —  Turns out she was hurt worse than she let on.  —  Madonna, who told her Instagram followers she was “fine” after falling from the stage at the Brit Awards on Wednesday, was actually hurting - and had to be watched closely all that night.
Discussion: Cele|bitchy and POPSUGAR Celebrity
Variety:
Harrison Ford to Return for ‘Blade Runner’ Sequel Directed by Denis Villeneuve  —  “Prisoners” director Denis Villeneuve is in negotiations to direct Harrison Ford in the “Blade Runner” sequel for Alcon Entertainment.  —  The announcement was made on Thursday.
Esther Lee / Us Weekly:
Jada Pinkett Smith Likes Watching Will Smith's Love Scenes With Margot Robbie  —  Whatever makes the marriage... sexier?  Jada Pinkett Smith revealed that she has no problem watching her husband Will Smith's steamy love scenes with Margot Robbie in his latest movie.  In fact, she likes it.
Discussion: Starpulse, Oh No They Didn't! and Extra
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Arrow/Flash Superhero Team-Up Spinoff In Works At CW; Brandon Routh, Victor Garber, Wentworth Miller, Caity Lotz Star  —  EXCLUSIVE: DC Comics superheroes are uniting in a potential new drama series at the CW, a spinoff from hits Arrow and The Flash that will feature several fan-favorite recurring actors/characters from both shows.
Borys Kit / Hollywood Reporter:
Richard Linklater in Talks to Direct 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' (Exclusive)  —  Richard Linklater might be moving from one unconventional family narrative to another.  After spending 12 years shooting the Oscar best picture nominee Boyhood, the director is in talks to helm Where'd You Go, Bernadette for Annapurna Pictures.
Discussion: I Watch Stuff
Alyssa Toomey / E! Online:
NEWS/ Mark McGrath Is Alive and Well: Sugar Ray Singer Apologizes After Death Hoax  —  Let's all breathe a sigh of relief: Mark McGrath is alive and well.  —  The 46-year-old Sugar Ray frontman became the latest celeb to fall victim to a death hoax today after a press release was sent …
Discussion: PerezHilton and Just Jared
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Tara Fowler / People.com:
Mark McGrath on Death Hoax: ‘I Knew Nothing About It’
Discussion: Stereogum and The Huffington Post
 
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