Nothing personal, but Gadhafi, dead or alive, is more fascinating than Eric Stonestreet.

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Was she so completely smitten by the side-splitting antics of the fast-rising TV stars Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet that she overlooked the foibles of the irrepressibly zany Herman Cain?

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Eric Stonestreet, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Julie Bowen were visiting Stonestreet's hometown of Kansas City, Missouri, when their crowded hotel elevator stopped short of the third floor, according to CNN affiliate KCTV.

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