The casting director of Shelter , a Julianne Moore/Jonathan Rhys Meyers horror movie about to start filming, was fired after putting out a call for inbred-looking people to play West Virginia hillbillies. West Virginians were not amused.

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Miss Teen South Carolina answers a beauty pageant question about American ignorance by showing off some of her own.

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