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Sep 24 2008 8:47am EDT

Idle Chatter: A Million Bucks Buys a Lot of Doritos

-PepsiCo is holding a contest for user-generated Doritos ads to air at the Super Bowl. If one of them hits No. 1 on USA Today's Ad Meter, the creator will win $1 million. [WSJ]

-New York Times columnist Joe Nocera and Vanity Fair's Bethany McLean are writing a book about the Wall Street implosion -- and it's going to be "a book for the ages," says Nocera. [NYO]

-Hugh Hefner's No. 1 girlfriend (shudder) is breaking up with him. [P6]

-Vibe magazine is off the hook for running sexy pictures of a guest at Sean "P. Diddy" Combs's birthday party without her permission. [NYP]

-Harper's Bazaar is accused of, denies performing Photoshop orthodontics on actress Kirsten Dunst. Scandale! [WWD]


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