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1. We frankly lost track of whether or not a certain celeb was ultimately banned from the Hope for Haiti Telethon. Which star was rumored to be persona non grata at the event?
Brett Michaels
Boy George
Adam Lambert
Kanye West
 
2. It was announced this week that in addition to making lame jokes on the Tonight Show again, Jay Leno has been tapped to make equally lame jokes as the host of ________.
White House Correspondents Dinner
The Tony Awards
The ESPYs
Conan O'Brien's Roast
 
3. Tori Spelling does it. So does Heidi Klum. Apparently it's all the rage these days to decorate celebrity bathrooms with:
Ice sculptures
Maps of the world labeled with various current ecological crises
Naked pictures of themselves
Wallpaper made from shredded dollar bills
 
4. This oft-requested classic rock staple played a key role in Conan O'Brien's final Tonight Show appearance:
Free Bird
Stairway to Heaven
Honkey Tonk Woman
Layla
 
5. Which you star turned heads with this eye-catching green number on the red carpet of the Screen Actors Guild Awards?
Lea Michele
Evangeline Lily
Ellen Page
AnnaLynne McCord
 
6. We approve of the Screen Actors Guild bestowing upon the large cast of this film the Best Ensemble award:
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Up in the Air
Precious
 
7. Of the four acting awards handed out by SAG and the Golden Globes the week before, which of these is true?
Mo'nique was upset by Anna Kendrick
Christoph Waltz was the only person to win both a SAG and Globe
Meryl Streep won the award over Sandra Bullock
All four Globe winners won the SAG award
 
8. Another guild, another award. Just like the Academy Awards, the Producers Guild also nominated 10 films for its top prize. While Avatar may have a Golden Globe and nearly enough money to buy the actual globe we call Earth, it lost the PGA for best film to:
Up in the Air
Inglorious Basterds
The Hurt Locker
Star Trek
 
9.
Which blonde actress has been seen trying out some indefinable shade of red, which we hope she realizes, really doesn't work for her?
Kristen Bell
Reese Witherspoon
Hayden Panettiere
Kirsten Dunst
 
10. In a move that we're almost 100% sure will backfire, the cast of which hit show turned down the network's contract renegotiation, as they hold out for more money?
Glee
Jersey Shore
Ghost Whisperer
Melrose Place
 
11. Men Behaving Badly, Part I: This troubled and troubling comedian was arrested on two counts of sexual abuse in West Virginia:
Andy Dick
Michael Richards
Carrot Top
Lewis Black
 
12. Men Behaving Badly, Part II: Which former child star was was arrested on domestic violence in Utah on Saturday?
Emmanuel Lewis
Brian Bonsall
Rick Schroder
Gary Coleman
 
13. Sticking it further to fans of the Sherman Antitrust Act, which two entertainment-related giants merged this week?
Sony and Paramount
NBC and Comcast
Disney and Fox
Ticketmaster and Live Nation
 
14. "[She] sees herself as the new Marilyn Monroe; she sees the need for a new blonde starlet in Hollywood and she wants to fill that void." These words come from Dr. Frank Ryan, the plastic surgeon behind the current version of which celeb?
Courtney Love
Lisa Kudrow
Heidi Montag
Tara Reid
 
15. You know your film is in trouble when its star walks out of a screening. Which actress couldn't sit through the presentation of her brutally violent flick The Killer Inside Me at Sundance?
Jessica Alba
Liv Tyler
Elisha Cuthbert
Jeri Ryan
 
16. Her show won a notable honor at the SAG awards, and she announced plans to marry her girlfriend come May. All in all a pretty darned good week for this prime-time actress:
Mad Men's January Jones
30 Rock's Jane Krakowski
Glee's Jane Lynch
United States of Tara's Toni Collette
 
17. Sigh. Another week, another celebrity duped in a scam involving cattle. Which prime-time star was taken in a cow-related scheme?
Gary Sinise
Christian Slater
Kiefer Sutherland
Hugh Laurie
 
18. Which music star made news during her guest judge appearance on American Idol, verbally sparring with fellow panelist Kara DioGuardi for being too nice, then threatening to throw a drink in her face?
Britney Spears
Katy Perry
Ke$sha
Michelle Branch
 
19. Heroes' Adrian Pasdar was arrested this week for DUI, while driving his Ford F150 doing 94 mph. This could be the basis for a country song, so it's a good thing Pasdar is married to a member of which country act?
Sugarland
Dixie Chicks
Lady Antebellum
The Judds
 
20. In between reality show hosting gigs, this person brought you the CBS inspirational special Live For The Moment on Thursday night:
Julie Chen
Jeff Probst
Padma Lakshmi
Gordon Ramsay
 
21. It's curtains for this ABC show. The Alphabet served noticed that it was trimming the season order for this show, and that the program won't continue past the current season:
The Forgotten
Ugly Betty
V
Private Practice
 
22. RIP Zelda Rubinstein, dead at age 76. While the diminutive actress wasn't a household name, she felt an indelible impression on fans of this horror movie of the 1980s:
Friday the 13th
The Fog
When a Stranger Calls
Poltergeist
 
23. The sad end to Brittany Murphy's life gets sadder, as we learned this week that Simon Monjack, Murphy's husband, is filing a wrongful death suit. What is peculiar is that he is suing:
Her estranged parents
A movie studio
A tabloid
A cable TV entertainment news show
 
24. For a cool $71 grand, you could have procured a marriage certificate between these two famous people this week:
Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe
Warren Beatty and Annette Bening
Liza Minelli and David Gest
Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley
 
25. The week ended with news that the man who had written this classic of modern American fiction had died:
A Separate Peace
The Catcher in the Rye
Ironweed
Slaughterhouse-Five
 




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