When he ran short of celebrities to act as models, he hit upon a new idea: he turned models into celebrities, creating a new creature called the supermodel.

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One officer tackled the older brother after he ran out of bullets walking down the street -- as if in Hollywood showdown -- firing upon police about 10 feet away.

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Armstrong himself ran U.S. ad sales for Google before joining AOL. One of his first moves upon arrival was to push out Coleman--the same Greg Coleman who then went to HuffPo--and replace him with Jeff Levick, another Google veteran, who brought in his own team.

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