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Sideshow: Prez works web on behalf of health care

Need to get your message heard? You have to go to where the peeps are. In that light, there's nothing funny about President Obama's decision to talk health-care reform on satirical website Funny or Die (www.funnyordie.com).

Politics, 'Funny' style

Need to get your message heard? You have to go to where the peeps are.

In that light, there's nothing funny about President Obama's decision to talk health-care reform on satirical website Funny or Die (www.funnyordie.com).

A vid posted on Hangover star Zach Galifianakis' Funny or Die series Between Two Ferns shows the president entering a jocular interchange with the comic.

ZG wanted to engage the world leader about our nation's plans for dealing with aggressor North Ikea, but Obama was eager to get his message out.

"What'd you come here to plug?" the actor said.

ZG rolled his eyes as Obama explained how young folks can get health-care coverage "for what it costs you to pay your cellphone bill."

Not missing a beat, ZG cut in with, "Is this what they mean by drones?"

A new 'Bachelorette'

Yet another fine, brave American woman has stepped forward to enter the illin' gladiatorial arena known as The Bachelorette. Atlanta assistant district attorney Andi Dorfman, 26, who became a series fave when she had a tempestuous (and in the end disastrous) romance with Juan Pablo Galavis on The Bachelor, will be prodded and poked by a sty of single men on the next installment of ABC's Bachelorette, premiering May 19.

"I'm looking to find that great love. I have a great life. I just don't have anyone to spend it with," Andi says. "I love my job, but at the end of the day my job is not my priority. I'm ready to find my husband."

J-Lo: Love, life, age

Jennifer Lopez is 44, and she's doing just fine in that bastion of ageism, Tinseltown, thank you very much. J-Lo tells InStyle mag she's heartened that attitudes to age have changed in the industry.

"The turning point was a couple years ago, when the September issue of women's magazines had cover girls that were all over 40 - Jennifer Aniston, Halle Berry, Sandra Bullock, Julia Roberts, me. It was hard not to be happy," J-Lo says. "People who used to believe their life - or at least their life as a performer - was over at 28 or some ungodly age!"

Celebs: Nix bossy!

There's this word, bossy, almost exclusively applied to women, that denotes, in a derogatory manner, women who are capable, commanding, on top of the situation. Call girls bossy and they'll shy away from seeking leadership roles. So let's not.

So argues the Ban Bossy campaign (http://banbossy.com), which encourages teaching girls from a young age to embrace self-determination, leadership.

Created by the Girl Scouts of the USA and LeanIn.Org, the campaign already has attracted support from a few boldfacers, including Beyoncé, Jennifer Garner, designer and singer Victoria Beckham, former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, and CNN foreign correspondent Christiane Amanpour.

"I'm not bossy," Beyoncé says in a vid for the campaign. "I'm the boss."

Glee's Jane Lynch says, "I think the word bossy is just a squasher."

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