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1.	The year is barely half over, and yet Judge Michael T. Sauer is close to having locked up the 2007 So Last Week Man of the Year title. What did His Honor do?
		Ruled against movie studios in a file-sharing case
		Remanded Paris Simpson back to jail, ruling that she couldn't serve her sentence under house arrest
		Ruled against the FCC in an censorship/broadcast indecency case
		Ruled for JK Rowling in a plagarism case

2.	Here's an equally strong entry for Celebrity Sentiment of the Year: "I think I'll have to turn lesbian. Every girl my age wants to be in a relationship. I haven't had one in two years and look how that ended. I only wish I had something to tell the gossip columnists." Which singer spoke thusly?
		Courtney Love
		Joss Stone
		Kelly Clarkson
		LeAnn Rimes

3.	Fans of ruthless violence and gratuitous profanity have had it hard lately. A few weeks ago, Gilmore Girls was cancelled. This weekend, HBO aired the final episode of this prominent series:
		The Sopranos
		Deadwood
		Curb Your Enthusiasm
		Entourage

4.	Much has been made of the fact that the final scene of the aforementioned HBO series contained this 1980s musical staple:
		Billy Idol's White Wedding
		Journey's Don't Sop Believin'
		Duran Duran's Hungry Like the Wolf
		Soft Cell's Tainted Love

5.	We have a feeling Katherine Heigl, star of knocked up, was none too unhappy to hear that this Grey's Anatomy co-star got the axe this week:





6.	Though the writing had been on the wall for quite some time, the fired Grey's Anatomy actor seemed to be caught off guard, and issued a very brief statement which strangely included a well-known quote from this 1970s film:
		Network
		Rocky
		Jaws
		Star Wars

7.	The play which won Best Musical at the Tony Awards features in its title this season:
		Winter
		Summer
		Spring
		Fall

8.	A sad RIP this week to Frankie Abernathy, shown here: . Passing on at the far-too-young age of 25, Frankie was featured on the reality show:
		The Real World
		Survivor
		Big Brother
		Joe Millionaire

9.	Also shuffling off this week is Don Herbert. Dead at age 89, Herbert was best known to generations as:
		Mr. Greenjeans
		Bill Nye the Science Guy
		Mr. Hooper
		Mr. Wizard

10.	We will soon be able to add to our collection of Unnecessary Sequel Theatre, as Samuel L. Jackson this week signed on for the sequel to this earlier film:
		Pulp Fiction
		The Long Kiss Goodnight
		Snakes on a Plane
		Sphere

11.	In other questionable sequel news, Steve Martin continues to dare us to love him no longer, signing a deal for a follow-up to this film:
		The Pink Panther
		Sgt. Bilko
		The Out-of-Towners
		Bringing Down the House

12.	Posing nude in the current version of Playboy is this US Olympic athlete:
		Kerri Walsh
		Natalie Coughlin
		Amanda Beard
		Carly Peterson

13.	Visit Disneyland in California, and you can ride a new submarine attraction based on which Disney film?
		Finding Nemo
		Pirates of the Caribbean
		20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
		Swiss Family Robinson

14.	Ocean's Thirteen was the number one draw at the box office over the weekend. Having appeared in the first two films, who was not in the third?
		Andy Garcia
		Matt Damon
		Don Cheadle
		Julia Roberts

15.	A did-they or didn't-they situation arouse this week about the secret wedding or lack thereof (apparently, the latter) of Naomi Watts. We'll apologize to the legion of Ms. Watts superfans who frequent BOP when we say that we totally didn't know she had been seeing:
		Liev Schreiber
		Joshua Jackson
		Rufus Sewell
		Peter Sarsgaard

16.	NBC had been planning an entire reality series featuring this star, but decided instead to truncate it to a hour-long special:
		Nicole Ritchie
		Madonna
		Bjork
		Victoria Beckham

17.	Bravo network's Top Chef began its third iteration this week, adding as a new judge a personality associated with this other television show:
		Iron Chef America
		Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
		Inside the Actor's Studio
		Live with Regis and Kelly

18.	In order to make its mildly funny contestants a bit more humorous by comparison, NBC brought in this C-lister as host for the new season of Last Comic Standing:
		Bill Bellamy
		Kevin James
		George Lopez
		Craig Kilborn

19.	A man convicted of attempting to kidnap this celeb's son was arrested this week, a few days after having escaped prison:
		David Letterman
		Bruce Willis
		Gwyneth Paltrow
		Will Smith

20.	Horseracing ran the Belmont Stakes over the weekend. I've tried in vain to explain to my bookie "Grandma" Moses that it's not as important how much coin I know owe him, as is the following unusual fact about the race:
		It was not carried on broadcast television for the first time in decades
		A black jockey won the race for the first time
		Two horses crossed the finish line simultaneously, so both were declared co-winners
		A filly won the race for the first time in more than 100 years