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Another day, another celebushoplifter. But this time it's Britney, y'all! She was spotted on Saturday leaving Fred Segal's in Beverly Hills wearing a $200 black long-sleeved shirt she hadn't paid for. But just when when we were about to accept her into the Winona Ryder School of Hard Knocks (as opposed to the more pedestrian Bai Ling School of Batteries), we read the article a second time and came across this disheartening detail: "She has previously been accused of swiping a disposable lighter from a garage last December and a wig from a sex shop last year." This got us thinking. While we know that we already made a Hedy Lamarr joke last week in reference to Bai Ling's arrest, we think it's high time to to compare and contrast Britney's falling and Hedy's fallen stars.

Lamarr, who's since passed away, couldn't handle her fame disintegrating the older she got. So she became fond of shoplifting things like laxatives at drugstores, it seemed, solely for the attention. She was in her 50s, her career not going anywhere fast, and the only way to get her name in the paper was to pull stunts like these. Enter Britney, who has no fear of being mentioned in the papers, but like Lamar, has seen her once-bright star turn black. But here's where the good news comes in! Lamar took her scarlet S and turned it into "art," making a movie with Andy Warhol called Hedy, aka The Shoplifter. If only we could find a director willing to work with Britney on some variation of Crossroads 2: Still Not a Woman (and maybe work in a cameo from a screeching Bai Ling reprising "Like a Virgin"), then the circle would be complete.

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