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Whose tenure came to an unexpected and premature end on Friday?
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Rosie O'Donnell as host of The View
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Paula Abdul as judge on American Idol
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Tom Cruise as head of United Artists
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Matt Damon as star of future Jason Bourne films
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The average joe may or may not have heard of Dario Franchitti, the driver who won the Indianapolis 500 over Memorial day. Dario's actress wife, though, is much more recognizable. She is:
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Ellen Barkin
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Naomi Watts
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Ashley Judd
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Nicole Kidman
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A new Miss Universe was crowned on Monday night, so we now have a new representative in all galactic and inter-galactic matters. Which is the correct combination of the nation that hosted the planet, and the country which the winner represents?
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England-France
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Argentina-Poland
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Italy-Italy
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Mexico-Japan
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Miss USA finished fifth in the pageant. While that would normally be respectable, viewers know that she shouldn't have made it into the top five, as during the evening gown competition she:
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Tripped
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Accidentally flashed a gang sign
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Mis-translated a Spanish phrase, resulting in an obscenity
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Had a wardrobe malfunction, exposing her 'amber waves of grain,' if you know what we mean
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Which was the main event with pop culture significance that occurred in beautiful Vancouver, Canada on May 28th?
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Paris Hilton was arrested after fleeing the US
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The Police began their reunion tour
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Tupac Shakur was sighted
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The film version of The Hobbit began filming
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Never shy about filming staged train wrecks, MTV this week reunited the cast of which season of The Real World?
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San Francisco
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New York (original season)
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New York (Back to New York)
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Las Vegas
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The ABC Television Network now wants you to get advice on your love life from D-List celebrity divorcees. Which of the following is not one of the hosts of The Ex-Wives Club?
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Marla Maples
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Angie Everhart
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Kate Hudson
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Shar Jackson
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Its pre-launch saturation bombing ad campaign now mercifully complete, USA began its series The Starter Wife this week. Unless you successfully lined the inside of your skull with tin, you know that its star is the actress previously associated with which program?
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Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
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Will and Grace
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Grey's Anatomy
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Frasier
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A woman ponied up a cool $350,000 at an AIDS charity auction. The item she bid on? A kiss from this member of the upcoming Ocean's 13:
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Don Cheadle
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Brad Pitt
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Elliot Gould
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George Clooney
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Meanwhile, doing promotional work for Ocean's 13, Clooney jokingly referred to this woman as a "horrible, ugly" person:
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Angelina Jolie
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Julia Roberts
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Laura Bush
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Paula Abdul
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E! reunited best friends-turned blood enemies-turned best friends Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton again for another edition of The Simple Life. This season finds the two working as (God help us):
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Legal secretaries
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Camp counselors
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911 call center operators
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Movie theatre ushers
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The TV Guide sitting in my mailbox this week exclaims "Brenda's Back!" The star of which series, returning this summer, graces the cover accompanying this phrase?
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Rescue Me
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Eureka
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The Closer
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The 4400
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One of the great American competitions was held this week, culminating by crowning its champion on Thursday. What was the contest?
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The Betty Crocker Cook-Off
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The Bassmaster Classic
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The US Scrabble Championship
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The National Spelling Bee
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Natalie Portman - smart, beautiful, talented. But even she has woes. We learned this week that which of the following upset her?
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She was turned down for the role of Kate on Lost
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She was not invited to the 30th anniversary Star Wars festivities
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A man accused of stalking her was found not guilty of harassment in court
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Both Jake Lloyd and Hayden Christensen were named to the cast of her new film
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"I wasn't comfortable at all," confided this actress during a press conference, referring to her first on-screen sex scene with Joaquin Phoenix, noting that proceedings went more smoothly once she had a vodka & OJ:
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Charlize Theron
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Thora Birch
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Jessica Biel
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Eva Mendes
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This week in Lohan! Which of the following was not true about the past seven days in the troubled life of young Lindsay:
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Her father claimed she was addicted to painkillers
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She checked into rehab
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She lost $100,000 gambling in Vegas
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Vodka company Svedka pulled out as a sponsor of her 21st birthday party
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The words "I'm here to shoot a pilot" got a certain director in hot water this week, when an official at LAX misunderstood the meaning. Whose intent was not to harm an airline employee, but rather to film a TV show?
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Roman Polanski
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Mike Figgis
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Steven Soderbergh
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Ang Lee
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He was an accomplished stage actor and director, yet he'll always be remembered as one of the preeminent game show figures in TV history. He died this week. RIP:
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Gene Rayburn
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Charles Nelson Reilly
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Wink Martindale
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John Davidson
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Universal Orlando this week announced plans to open a theme park based on which book/film franchise?
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The Chronicles of Narnia
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Harry Potter
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The Lord of the Rings
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His Dark Materials
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Finally this week: Arnold is governing and Kristanna is painkilling, so we need someone to fill the shoes of a cyborg for the fourth Terminator movie. This week a male model was named the new terminator. That means 1) crap, we have to think of the names of 4 male models, and 2) the role went to:
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Tyson Beckford
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Marcus Schenkenberg
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James King - he's a dude, right?
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ummm... Fabio?
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