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Everyone’s favorite Scranton-based fictional paper company just got a little less fictional. The Wall Street Journal reports that Staples-owned Quill.com has struck a licensing agreement with NBCUniversal to sell paper products with The Office’s Dunder Mifflin brand name. Zany office managers everywhere just bought a couple boxes to liven up the copy room, ignoring the fact that this novelty paper is “priced largely above private-label copy paper.”

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A couple of days ago, TV news guru Michael Ausiello posted a story on his website touting a big spoiler alert regarding Steve Carell's final episode on The Office, set for late next month. The website, TV Line, had previously speculated that Amy Ryan, who plays Carell's love interest, Holly Flax, might not appear on the April 28th episode. Ausiello thought otherwise.

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"Same problems, higher stakes."

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● Kim Kardashian revealed to Piers Morgan that she helps fund a church set up by her mother, Kris Jenner. It was only a matter of time before a Church of Kardashian found it's place on earth: Idol worship, meet idle worship. [DailyMail] ● Wait, actually, Jennifer Aniston is not adopting a child from Mexico. Star Magazine must be so embarrassed for getting that one wrong. [People] ● Will Ferrell is off to Dunder-Mifflin to help ease the loss of Office boss-man Steve Carell. His character, a visiting branch manager, will be around for four episodes, including one after Carell's exit from the show. [EW]

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The Office (Las Cañitas) - Business casual boozing and summer movie screenings. ● A Orillas del Maldonado (Palermo Hollywood) - Laid-back parilla is the anti-Cabrera.

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Ten things 'The Office' star hates about Hollywood

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Steve Carell is definitely leaving The Office, but his replacement is still yet to be determined. This has induced no end of hand-wringing and speculation over possible candidates, chief among them Rainn Wilson, Ricky Gervais, Danny McBride, and Rhys Darby. Now E! maintains that another name is in the mix, one that sounds so ill-advised that it verges on sabotage and/or genius: Harvey Keitel. Can you picture the original Bad Lieutenant yukking it up with Dwight?

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Yesterday NBC confirmed what we already knew: the next season of The Office will be Steve Carell's last. In their first official comments on the situation, NBC's president of prime-time entertainment Angela Bromstad told the AP that,"These things happen when you have such a major movie star in a show.” You have to wonder then—how long before that other major movie star currently starring in NBC's other hit comedy series leaves her show? And no, we're not talking about Amy Poehler.

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As far as restaurant eats go, Scranton PA must be the pits. I've never been, but come on. So it's a good thing that only the character Oscar Nunez plays on NBC's hit show The Office lives in Scranton, and that real Oscar gets to enjoy the finest culinary treasures that New York has to offer. "There’s a place in the Village called Home, really cozy and romantic. Another place is Quality Meats, around the corner from the Ritz-Carlton.It’s a great steakhouse, beautiful atmosphere, really dark and woody -- modern but eclectic, and the food is amazing. They have wonderful vegetables, but you go there for the steak."

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It turns out Gwyneth Paltrow isn’t the only actress as of late to take to writing about fashion on the web. According to College Candy, Mindy Kaling (a.k.a. Kelly from The Office) is likewise showcasing her sartorial savvy in the form of a blog entitled "things I bought that I love." While one might expect the platform to be chock-full of ditzy anecdotes à la Kaling’s television persona, it’s quite the opposite.

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