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APhoto of the Day — 2/6/07

This file photo originally supplied by Warner Bros., shows Tyra Banks, addressing the unflattering bathing suit photos that were recently plastered in every tabloid and gossip websites, as she talks about the media’s obsession with weight and weighs in on the skinny model controversy during taping of her ‘Tyra Banks Show,’ in Los Angeles on Jan. 9. With Fashion Week currently in full swing in New York, the industry is engrossed in a ‘skinny model’ debate that stretches across the globe. You write the cutline/Chris Polk, AP/Warner Brothers photo.

Top Cutlines

1. Talk show host and paparazzi critic, Tyra Banks, unveils the new “Celeb-a-coy” celebrity photo decoy. The custom made decoys, deployed to trick annoying photo takers, are under scrutiny after callers inundated Los Angeles’ 911 system mistakenly identifying a Rosie O’Donnell decoy as Sasquatch in an Old Country Buffet Monday evening — SSands.

2. “Call me fat again, sweetie, and I’ll hit you over the head with my wallet” — A Token D.

3. Another victim falls prey to the George photoshop scam-o-rama. When will the madness end? — Lesley Presley.

HM: Cis

Originally posted at 10:48 a.m.

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