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The recent cover of Rolling Stone marks the 20th anniversary of which great album of the 1980s?
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Purple Rain
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Appetite for Destruction
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Slippery When Wet
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Electric Youth
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Which rapper has bet his entire career on besting rival Kanye West, stating he will no longer perform if his upcoming album does not sell better than West's, when the two are both released on September 11th?
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Jay Z
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TI
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Nas
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50 Cent
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Fire ravaged the sprawling sets of this HBO series, pretty much dousing any hopes for a revival of the series, already having announced its completion:
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Rome
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Deadwood
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The Sopranos
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Six Feet Under
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We bid farewell to the following long-time television maven who passed on this week:
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Ed McMahon
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Mike Douglas
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Merv Griffin
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Carson Daly
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Everyone may or may not love Raymond, but fewer people are enamored of this former co-star, who was seen in video this week slapping the camera of a paparazzi:
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Peter Boyle
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Brad Garrett
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Patricia Heaton
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Doris Roberts
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Desperately needing some double-sided tape to keep itself from slipping further into irrelevance, the Miss America Pageant this week saw its broadcast rights for the next three years go to which cable network?
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TLC
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ESPN
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GSN
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ABC Family
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Already a big hit in the States, Pixar's Ratatouille opened in this country, key to its setting, and set that country's fourth-highest opening ever:
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Spain
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France
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Italy
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Mexico
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The third season of MTV's popular The Hills debuted this week, but not all is well in LC-land. "I don't even know [her] anymore," Lauren stated this week following a feud with which former friend?
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Heidi Montag
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Audrina Patridge
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Whitney Port
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Kristin Cavallari
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The TV series which launched LC to fame, "The Real Orange County," began its new series this week. No longer set in Laguna Beach, the show now finds its home in:
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Newport Harbor
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Santa Ana
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Huntington Beach
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San Clemente
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Melanie "Scary Spice" Brown and her maternity issues have been in the news all too frequently recently. Yet another of the Spice Girls also gave birth this week. Which one was it?
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Baby
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Posh
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Ginger
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Sporty
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The next time you see Mary-Kate Olsen on film, she very well be making out in the upcoming film The Wackness with this co-star, an Oscar winner 40-some years her senior:
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Dustin Hoffman
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Jack Nicholson
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Robert Redford
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Ben Kingsley
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Sci Fi Network's debut of the reimagining of this classic work was roundly panned, both by those who have dates recently and those who have not:
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GI Joe
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
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War of the Worlds
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Flash Gordon
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Rumors circulate that which celebrity parents signed up their child to be the face of Baby Gap?
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Gwyneth Paltrow & Chris Martin
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Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt
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Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes
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Britney Spears & Kevin Federline
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If you turned on your telly and saw, on screen, Eliza Dushku, Kid Rock, Nelly Furtado, Dale Earnhardt Jr and Gene Simmons, you would most likely be viewing a video by:
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Fallout Boy
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Fatboy Slim
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Linkin Park
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Nickelback
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Following an announcement this week, Van Halen's on-again off-again reunion tour is now apparently back on. For the tour, which of the following will act as lead singer(s)?
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David Lee Roth
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Sammy Hagar
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DLR and Sammy will both sing
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Each of Diamond Dave, the Red Rocker and Gary Cherone will share the mike
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This rock group fumed at AT&T when the company edited out some politically charged comment's from the webcast of the group's performance:
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Pearl Jam
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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Black Eyed Peas
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Maroon 5
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Which Oscar winner is reportedly being courted by JJ Abrams to play the villain in the upcoming Star Trek film?
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Tom Hanks
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Sean Penn
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Russell Crowe
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Nicolas Cage
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SLW editors will resume our stance of not making light of STDs, right after this question: lovely Jessica Alba reportedly contracted herpes from which well-known sports star?
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Tom Brady
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Peyton Manning
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Derek Jeter
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Kobe Bryant
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Monday began a several-week long retrospective of this show's first season, as cast members hosted their favorite episodes:
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Jericho
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Ugly Betty
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Heroes
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Shark
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This week, all the rage has been the issue of whether or not this actress will appear nude on screen for the first time in her upcoming film Powder Blue:
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Jessica Biel
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Scarlett Johansson
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Natalie Portman
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Keira Knightley
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