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Politics and pop culture continue to collide like a truck full of waffles barreling into a tankertruck full of maple syrup.
Sorry, we're just hungry for breakfast food. Anyway, while most celebs lean to the left and many have been outspoken against Donald Trump, this renowned actor took things a step further by posting a video in which he said he'd like to "punch [Trump] in the face:" |
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| Ben Affleck | |||
| Cuba Gooding, Jr. | |||
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Robert DeNiro | ||
| Robert Redford | |||
| 2. | And the bizarre and outrageous hot mic video of Trump speaking brashly about his treatment of women appears to have cost Billy Bush, the other celeb on the tape, his job with this show: | ||
| Tonight Show | |||
| Good Morning, America | |||
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Today Show | ||
| Jimmy Kimmel Live | |||
| 3. | Meanwhile, at Monday's presidential debate, a new public favorite was born, in the form of mild-mannered, question-asking midwesterner Ken Bone, who became instantly recognizable by his red: | ||
| Hat | |||
| Bow tie | |||
| Scarf | |||
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Sweater | ||
| 4. | Meanwhile, if you are something called Mia Goth, then you went and got yourself wed this week to this Hollywood weirdo: | ||
| James Franco | |||
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Shia LaBeouf | ||
| Michael Cera | |||
| Andy Dick | |||
| 5. | And if you're this actor's leg, you and the movie-set crushing of you resulted in a $2 million judgement against a production company this week: | ||
| Tom Selleck | |||
| Joaquin Phoenix | |||
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Harrison Ford | ||
| Leonardo DiCaprio | |||
| 6. | The animated-to-live-action pendulum keeps on swinging, as Disney announced Guy Ritchie as a rather odd choice to direct a live-action version of this Mouse House favorite: | ||
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Aladdin | ||
| The Sword in the Stone | |||
| Frozen | |||
| Pinocchio | |||
| 7. | In news we just. didn't. see. coming., you can now add Nobel Prize winner to the long list of accomplishments for Bob Dylan. Dylan's rather unexpected win came in this Nobel category: | ||
| Peace | |||
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Literature | ||
| Economics | |||
| Chemistry | |||
| 8. | Break out your AMA countin' fingers and go allllll the way up to 17, and you'll have reached the number of American Music Award nominations given to this artist: | ||
| Pitbull | |||
| Kendrick Lamar | |||
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Drake | ||
| Calvin Harris | |||
| 9. | And speaking of numbers, add two to three and you'll get five, and that's the number of films - beyond the planned trilogy - that will be based on works from this author, who we're pretty sure you've heard of: | ||
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JK Rowling | ||
| Suzanne Collins | |||
| James Patterson | |||
| Norman Bridwell | |||
| 10. | While the book-to-film project The Girl on the Train debuted at #1 at the box office, the controversy surrounding this man, director of Birth of a Nation, seems to have torpedoed its appeal to viewers, as it managed just a 6th place finish in its opening weekend: | ||
| Malcolm Lee | |||
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Nate Parker | ||
| Albert Hughes | |||
| Antoine Fuqua | |||
| 11. | Over in SNL land, Saturday Night Live turned in a 12-year high water mark for viewership, as lots and lots of people tuned in to see the show hosted by a man most closely associated with: | ||
| Professional football | |||
| Sitcoms | |||
| Marvel comic book movies | |||
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Musicals | ||
| 12. | And Divergent Star Shailene Woodley was arrested, but probably won't spend any time in the Big House, at a protest this week. What was Shailene and others protesting? | ||
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A pipeline | ||
| A highway | |||
| A wind farm | |||
| A space program | |||
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