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Oprah's 2012 India episode of Oprah's Next Chapter drew fierce backlash from Indian viewers over its 'still eat with their hands' moment and stereotyped gaze.

On July 20, 2012, a gunman opened fire during a midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 and wounding dozens.

In July 2012, Rotten Tomatoes suspended user comments on The Dark Knight Rises reviews after fans flooded critics with profane, threatening remarks — a first.

July 2012 tabloid reports claimed Demi Moore's three daughters were considering a restraining order over what was described as their mother's incessant contact.

After Jane Pitt's anti-Obama letter went national in July 2012, the vicious online backlash reportedly left Brad Pitt's mother shaken and fearful.

Katie Holmes filed for divorce from Tom Cruise in New York in June 2012, seeking sole custody of six-year-old Suri and ending five and a half years of marriage.

Hitchcock's 1960 Psycho was reborn as A&E's Bates Motel — a prequel drama starring Vera Farmiga and Freddie Highmore that ran five seasons.

For its 100th anniversary in 2012, Paramount gathered 116 of its greatest stars on the studio lot for a landmark group portrait — a century of Hollywood in

Lady Gaga's 2012 fragrance Fame — launched with pre-release talk of blood and semen notes — was commerce as performance art. It worked.

Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton hit Allison Melnick's birthday party in June 2012 — the formerly feuding pair's friendship, visibly back on.

Six months after giving birth, Aishwarya Rai walked Cannes 2012 in Roberto Cavalli — and the media's body-shaming fixation said more about them than about her.

Geena Davis, Sharon Stone, Asia Carrera — the high-IQ society's celebrity members complicate the lazy assumption that fame and intellect don't mix.

Two 2012 civil suits accused John Travolta of unwanted sexual advances during massages. Both were dismissed — a reminder that civil litigation is not

A jogger collapsed in a London park in 2012 and Dustin Hoffman helped save him. What the story really says about bystanders, CPR, and acting in an emergency.

A six-year-old suspended for singing an LMFAO song he didn't understand: what the 2012 case says about zero-tolerance discipline and young children.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie confirmed their engagement on April 13, 2012 — and Jolie's ring, designed with jeweler Robert Procop, stole the show.

Sharon Mathai, a Queens-born Malayali on The Voice season 2, charmed three coaches with Adele's 'Rumor Has It' — and chose Team Adam Levine.

Promoting Titanic 3D, Kate Winslet told ITV's Daybreak that Leo DiCaprio is fatter now — and she's thinner. It was a joke between friends, she said.

The Two and a Half Men star was cast as Steve Jobs in the indie biopic Jobs, announced in April 2012 — a year before it premiered at Sundance.

Speculation about Ashley Judd's appearance in 2012 turned into a landmark media-criticism moment. What actually happened — and what she said back.