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Julia Louis-Dreyfus, “Seinfeld” veteran and veep in the HBO series “Veep,” appears mostly naked on the cover of an upcoming issue of Rolling Stone magazine, with something that’s supposed to look like the Constitution tattooed on her back.

On Twitter, Louis-Dreyfus blamed alcohol. “In my defense, “I was in a drunken stupor” [sic] #crackexcuse,” she wrote.

The media — Slate, The Huffington Post, Jezebel, et. al. - zeroed in on a fact-checking error in the photo. Though John Hancock’s signature appears on Louis-Dreyfus’s lower back in the image, the president of the Second Continental Congress didn’t sign the Constitution, but the Declaration of Independence.

The last time an HBO star courted controversy with a magazine cover, the conversation was much different.

When “Girls” creator Lena Dunham appeared on the cover of Vogue in February, she became a target of feminist criticism. Jezebel paid $10,000 for allegedly unaltered images from the shoot and published them.

“It’s clearer than ever what kind of woman Vogue finds Vogue-worthy: The taller, longer-limbed, svelter version of reality,” Jezebel wrote.

Dunham, in turn, criticized Jezebel.

“They made such a monumental error in their approach to feminism,” she told Grantland. “It felt gross.”

No word on whether the Louis-Dreyfus cover was altered — or whether she, like Dunham, will be pilloried for her choice.

“There is sexism – I’m not denying its existence,” she told Rolling Stone. “But I’m saying that I will deny its effort against me. I just pay it no nevermind and say, ‘Get out of my way.’”

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No investigation needed. It's true, Matthew McConaughey will not return for Season Two of "True Detective."

"No, no, we won't be back for season two," he told reporters backstage at the Academy Awards Sunday night. "Season one was finite."

Fresh off his Best Actor Oscars win, the "Dallas Buyers Club" star, whose character in the HBO series is investigator Rustin Cohle, joked about the dark and dreary detective drama airing during the end of the awards show.

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"I think there's an episode probably airing right now," he said. "Has anyone seen it? I made the thing, read the script, knew it upside and down. I'm  not sure what happens in tonight's episode."

HBO has yet to make an official announcement about the highly successful show's second season or whether co-star Woody Harrelson, who plays detective Martin Hart, will return. The show's premiere attracted 2.3 million viewers, the network's biggest debut since 2010, according to E! News.

However, the show's creator, Nic Pizzolatto, previously hinted at a "True Detective" return in 2015, which could include an ever-changing cast and storyline similar to "American Horror Story."

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"There could be a season that's much more of a widespread conspiracy thriller, a season that's a small town murder mystery, a season where nobody is murdered and it's a master criminal versus a rogue detective or something," he explained during a recent Television Critics Association press tour.

"Even the title, 'True Detective,' is meant to be, of course, purposefully somewhat generic," he continued. "The word 'true' can also mean honorable and authentic and things like that. So as long as there is some crime in there, I think the series format can approach it."

Despite McConaughey's departure, the film actor anticipated his return to cable television after years on the big screen.

"It's a different time in television," he said in a previous interview. "All I knew is I read the first two episodes and I was in. And I was just, at the time, looking for quality."