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So yesterday's big news was that California’s Proposition 8—the thing that made gay marriage illegal—has been overturned. As with all major political events, it's enlightening—or at least entertaining—to see what celebs have to say about the hot-button issue, so I spent some time trolling Twitter for reactions. Unfortunately, most celebs were too busy self-promoting or making inscrutable inside jokes to weigh in on this monumental occasion, but here’s the best of what I found:

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Christina Ricci at the Whitney Art Party: I like Da Umberto and Il Buco for pasta, the Peking Duck House for duck. ● Leigh Lezark of Misshapes: Kenmare, they make really good gnocchi. I do like the brunch at the Tribeca Grand. ● Eva Amurri: Jumbo's Clown Room in L.A. is super fun. I also love to have a drink and get something to eat at Gjelina, which has amazing tuna crudo and really good vegetable sides and pizza.

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For many actors, the decision to go nude for a role is a tough one to make. They grapple with the idea that millions of strangers will see their butt cleavage, that Great Aunt Barb might have a heart attack when she's sees a nip slip, and what will Mom think? Nothing but a flashback to her own youthful nude scenes, if your mother happens to be Susan Sarandon. Sarandon's daughter Eva Amurri will star in nine episodes of Californication, in which she plays a creative writing stripper -- a student of professor Hank Moody by day, pole dancer by night. I know a gaggle of girls who would rather streak down Park Avenue then dance and crawl around in the nude in front of their mother, but that's how Eva's clan does it. Sarandon herself has experience with nudity, playing a seductress in 1978's Pretty Baby, as a lesbian lover to Catherine Deneuve in 1983's The Hunger, and she has a nude sex scene with James Spader in 1990's White Palace. Amurri's role has the majority ruling 'like mother, like daughter,' and though the pictures prove the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, it's their fun and empowering position on nudity that makes the mother/daughter naked team more interesting.

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Talk about being thrown under the bus -- and by your own flesh and blood. Susan Sarandon's daughter Eva Amurri said her mom has no style. Speaking to press at Tuesday night's Max Azria show, the 23-year-old actress said her mom has no interest in fashion whatsoever. "She doesn't care. She wears her gym clothes from when she comes back from the gym until night. Sometimes she puts a jacket over it if I really beg her to, but she doesn't really care very much." But Amurri, the spawn of Sarandon and Italian filmmaker Franco Amurri, has friends in fashion. "I don't know, maybe seeing what they do and kind of learning about how artistic it is. The whole process has given me an appreciation I think."

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A devastating virus brought the whole moment to a tragic, unforgettable end. But the legacy that is Robert Mapplethorpe extends far beyond the censorship, headlines—and S&M. As a new generation views his subversive, formalistic Polaroid portraits in an ongoing exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Nick Haramis catches up with some of the late icon’s equally illustrious subjects, supporters, chroniclers and partners in crime in an oral history submitted to set the record (mostly) straight.

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Eva Amurri is Susan Sarandon's daughter. It's a big deal, to be sure. Even bigger, however, is her jaw-dropping performance as virginal Maureen in director Vadim Perelman's latest drama. Below, the second generation proves she's got what it takes to be a first-rate actress.

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