Ryan Lochte Reveals Post-Olympics Famewhoring Plans [Ryan Lochte]

Break out the celebratory America grills, ladies: Ryan Lochte, American hero and shame fap of women everywhere, will follow up his golden Olympic performance with a stint on reality TV, America's dignity graveyard. What better way to follow up a performance that proves he's one of the fastest, most physically remarkable humans in the entire world by entering the realm of the extraordinarily untalented — the Kardashians and the Palins and the Real Housewives?

Lochte's desire to literally transform into a cartoon is no secret — yesterday, he said he'd love to do Dancing With the Stars, which sounds like a fantastic idea because remember that time they made Bristol Palin wear a gorilla costume and it was awesome??! I'd love to see Lochte dressed like a blinged-out dolphin.

What will become of the American swimmer's career out of the pool hasn't yet been determined, but as it stands right now, Lochte's slated to star in a Funny or Die video with Will Ferrell and has expressed an interest in "acting." He thinks he'd be pretty good at it.

This is going to be the acting equivalent of Farrah from Teen Mom's music career, isn't it? Or a America's Next Top Model acting challenge? Or like that time Heidi performed her single at the Miss Universe pageant? Oh, God.

According to his agent, vague acting plans aren't all Lochte has on his plate. The aspiring fashion designer (by "designer," I mean "ruiner") reportedly is in talks with two reality projects right now, with a third possibly on the table.

Love him, hate him, or hatelove him, America hasn't seen the last of Ryan Lochte. Let's just hope he hangs on to his C-list dreams for long enough to be cast as The Bachelor.

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Tippi Hedren Reveals "Evil, Deviant" Hitchcock's On-Set Sexual Harassment [Sexual Harassment]

Alfred Hitchcock has long been accused of putting his "cool blondes" through the ringer on movie sets; as a kid, I remember my mom telling me that Tippi Hedren had a real-life nervous breakdown on the set of The Birds after she filmed the famous attack scene, during which actual birds were hurled at her face for hours. But, as it turns out, the traumatic on-set incidents were the symptom, not the cause.

HBO's upcoming movie The Girl divulges the full range of abuse that Hitchcock put Hedren through on the set of The Birds and Marnie, which escalated to full-on blackmail: when she refused his sexual advances on-set, he guaranteed that she would never work again by holding her to a contract with him. Because of the studio system of the time, contract players were bound to their directors, and it effectively ruined her career. Hedren, now 82, spoke at a panel discussion for The Girl, starring Sienna Miller and Toby Jones and based on a book about Hitchcock and herself entitled Spellbound by Beauty.

Hedren said at the panel discussion:

I think he was an extremely sad character. We are dealing with a brain here that was an unusual genius, and evil, and deviant, almost to the point of dangerous, because of the effect that he could have on people that were totally unsuspecting.

She added that if this occurred in today's Hollywood, she would be "a very rich woman," and Sienna Miller confirmed that shit would never fly between an actress and a director now. (Mind you, just a few days ago, Russell Brand harassed a wardrobe girl to show him her tits. Yes, different situation, but still, worth noting in this context.)

Even Hedren's daughter Melanie Griffith (who appeared in The Birds as a child) had been unaware of what her mother had gone through, and, upon rewatching it, "jumped up and said, 'Now I have to go back into therapy," recalls Hedren. Finally, she says that she survived it beautifully. "He ruined my career," she said, "but not my life."

'Tippi Hedren recalls sexual harassment while working with Alfred Hitchcock' [Today/MSNBC]

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The Internet Reveals that Early Summer Is Definitely the Sexiest Time of Year [Sex]

It's take a new study to determine when Americans are the most sexed-up, but now we finally know thanks to the infinite record book that is our beloved Internet — Americans are most eager for sexy times in the early months of summer. Oh, and around the holidays. And once for the entire month of March back in 2008 because of Eliot Spitzer.

According to an analysis of keywords that people in the U.S. used in Google searches from 2006 through March 2011 showed a distinct uptick keywords relating to finding a date, porn, and prostitutes during June and July, and also during the holidays in December and January. "Whether it was searches for 'eHarmony,'" says study researcher Patrick Markey of Villanova University, "or for 'brothel' - there was this exact same pattern." For people seeking dates, "eHarmony" and "Match.com" were two of the big keywords; for people seeking an escort, "call girl" and "escort" were tactfully deployed; and for people browsing for porn, "porn" and "boobs" were the magic words of choice. Prostitution, mate-seeking, and porn-seeking searches jumped 2.78 percent, 5.67 percent, and 4.28, respectively.

How do researchers explain this jump? With shrugging, mostly, and then some guessing — though the data is pretty straightforward, there isn't a clear reason behind the across the board, triumviral jump in porn, prostitution and dating. Some researchers have linked the study's results back to a "natural tendency" to give birth in the late fall or early summer, but, according to Markey, this doesn't really account for the porn spike (which, I'm just realizing, is too gross-sounding to either say out loud or delete). Fluctuations in sperm quality or seasonal hormonal changes may help unravel the mystery, but it's impossible to know for sure.

Previous studies in STD diagnosis rates, births, and abortion rates have also suggested that sexual activity peaks during these two different times of year, but the most recent study of internet searches focused primarily on the activities people engaged in leading up to or in anticipation of a sexual encounter. Markey suggests that the increases in sex-related Google searches correspond to two times of year when social activity reaches its peak, and that simply being around other humans makes people really horny. That, he thinks, would best explain the link between the respective winter and summer surges.

So people aren't just seeing each other in more revealing summer clothes and deciding to do it, right there, in the lifeguard's rowboat — they're just getting to spend more time around more people, which, as we now know, leads to dirty Google searches. One phenomenon that researchers had to control for, however, was a 35 percent jump in prostitution searches in March of 2008 when the Eliot Spitzer scandal broke. Only time will tell what havoc Anthony Weiner's candid photos have wreaked on search engines everywhere.

Americans show more interest in sex during the summer, study says [MSNBC]

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