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One way to avoid hacked nude shots? Keep your clothes on

Also in Tattle: "Maze Runner" brings out fans, Angelina Jolie takes on elphants, Emma Watson battles gender in equality.

FOR THOSE of you scouring the Internet for those leaked photos of Tattle naked, stop wasting your time.

There aren't any.

Unless you count one bare-assed shot of Baby Tattle taken when film still had to be developed, we can't recall one time we ever stood in front of a mirror and took a selfie of our stuff.

Heck, we don't even want to see it.

One of the most bizarre and fascinating things we find about the latest hacker scandal of female celebrity nude shots is that so many celebrities take nude shots.

Like everything that happens in public after 2 a.m., nothing good can come of this.

Yes, this is a terrible invasion of privacy and the hacker(s) should be prosecuted, but why is there so much material to hack? Is this a generational thing, applying mostly to stars under a certain age (where are the nude self-portraits of Audrey Hepburn, Rita Hayworth and Ann-Margret?) or a technology thing (if those old stars had camera-phones and Twitter, who knows how many nipple shots of Barbara Stanwyck might have made it into Life magazine).

The latest hack of photos, this time including Rihanna, is causing a surprising amount of commotion since she's basically naked in most of the pictures she does release.

Kim Kardashian? She had a sex tape.

Vanessa Hudgens? A nude pic she reportedly shot for then-boyfriend Zac Efron was all over the Internet years ago.

It's not as if there's anything new here, so just move along, people. There's nothing to see.

There is, however, a crime being committed, and if hackers can breach the cloud or the phone or your laptop to steal topless shots of a star, they can certainly steal the 16 digits of your credit card or the nine digits of your Social Security number.

So be careful.

And if you're famous, certainly don't have any confidential information tattooed on your breasts, because then it is sure to get out.

And stop taking so many darn selfies. We see too much of you as it is.

Anyway, the cat is out of the bag now and no one should be surprised that the hackers are ahead of the safeguards. They always are. So, if nude photos of Hillary Clinton or Chris Christie (or, Tattle forbid, Hillary Clinton and Chris Christie) end up on Reddit during campaign season, they have no one but themselves to blame.

A-'Maze'-ing

Young adults were able to find "The Maze Runner" this weekend, helping it race to the top of the box office with $32.5 million.

The 20th Century Fox release easily outpaced the $13.1 million debut of Liam Neeson's latest "Taken"-style thriller, "A Walk Among the Tombstones," and the $11.9 million opening for the ensemble-cast dramedy "This Is Where I Leave You," according to studio estimates yesterday.

The strong opening for "The Maze Runner," adapted from James Dashner's science-fiction YA novel, is a big success for a movie that cost $34 million to make and was released in the normally quiet month of September.

"Our little $34 million-budgeted film is pretty darn strong," said Chris Aronson, head of distribution for Fox. "No one had launched a YA title in September. We took a risk, but it paid off."

Now "The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials," will bow Sept. 18 next year.

TATTBITS

USA Today reports that Colin Farrell is the first named cast member of the second season of "True Detective."

Colin confirmed the news to Ireland's Sunday World, and said that he's "so excited" to star in the miniseries.

* Film director Angelina Jolie will follow up "By the Sea," the follow-up to her upcoming "Unbroken," with "Africa," a biopic about Richard Leakey and his campaign against elephant-ivory poachers.

No one can accuse Jolie of taking the easy way out as a director. She's using her clout to make serious movies for adults.

* New U.N. Women's Global Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson spoke Saturday at the United Nations, launching the HeForShe campaign against gender inequality.

"I was appointed as Goodwill Ambassador for U.N. Women six months ago," she said, "and the more I've spoken about feminism, the more I have realized that fighting for women's rights has too often become synonymous with man-hating. If there is one thing I know for certain, it is that this has to stop. For the record, feminism, by definition, is the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the theory of the political, economic and social equality of the sexes."

She went on: "I think it is right that I am paid the same as my male counterparts. I think it is right that I should be able to make decisions about my own body. I think it is right that women be involved on my behalf in the policies and the decisions that affect my life. I think it is right that, socially, I am afforded the same respect as men."

How cool would it have been to see a Harry Potter movie with that Hermione.

- Daily News wire services

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