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Jessica Alba to play HUP victim?

Nick Barr

The surgery-suspense genre has been thriving lately, as Jessica Alba will attest. Just look at her two most recent films — Awake and The Eye. The first has something to do with a heart transplant murder scheme. The second is an Asian horror remake about the spooky history of a pair of donated eyes.

These films are popular because they exploit the natural fear of going under the knife. But sometimes fact is freakier than fiction. As the DP reports, the details of a developing lawsuit against the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania rival anything Hollywood could come up with.

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SPEC makes another Ludacris decision

Nick Barr

Irresponsible science

Nick Barr

Farewell, FebClub

Nick Barr

Killer hawk beautifies campus, is Amy Gutmann

Nick Barr

Darth Aveda, or, my trip to the hair salon

Nick Barr

On witnessing my first girlfight

Nick Barr

Hasbro says “Scramulous, Scrabulous”

Nick Barr

FebClub: Week in review

Nick Barr

Welcome to Philly. Duck, motherducker.

Nick Barr