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Bad stuff out of the way first. Our rockandroll-loving hearts were crushed at the sudden death Wednesday night of the powerhouse lead singer of this band:
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Garbage
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Soundgarden
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Pearl Jam
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The Rolling Sones
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Also RIP to actor Powers Boothe, who had playing the bad guy down to a T. Boothe won over fans with his take on snarling Cy Tolliver on this HBO series:
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The Sopranos
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True Blood
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The Wire
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Deadwood
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Something lighter? Yeah, let's do that. The weekend saw Melissa McCarthy, preparing to resume her role as Sean Spicer on SNL, riding the streets of New York on a motorized:
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Flag pole
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Bush
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Podium
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Church pew
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TV, coming: Answering the fervent hopes of perhaps dozens of people CBS will air a summer game show, hosted by Mario Lopez, based on this familiar title:
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Angry Birds
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Farmville
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Words with Friends
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Candy Crush
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TV, going: Network execs had to deny this show's cancellation had anything to do with its star's conservative politics:
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Sleepy Hollow
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Designated Survivor
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Last Man Standing
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The Odd Couple
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~She's beauty and she's grace, she's Miss United States....~ Wait, wrong pageant. This year's winner of the Miss USA pageant is from this non-state:
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Puerto Rico
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Washington, DC
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Guam
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US Virgin Islands
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Speaking of geography and such, this country, which you may have heard of, walked away with this year's Eurovision Song Contest:
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Germany
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Iceland
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Portugal
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Greece
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In advance of the June release of her Witness album, Katy Perry released a new single. The song, whose bizarre video turned a bunch of heads, has this food-related title
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Bon Appetit
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Chow Down
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Hors d'oeuvre
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Dessert
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Who'd you have at *your* graduation? Recent USC alums will be able to recount how they had Will Ferrell belt out this pop culture staple at their commencement:
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Journey's Don't Stop Believing
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Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You
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Queen's We Will Rock You
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Michael Jackson's Man in the Mirror
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And finally, cheers to this late-night host, who's had himself a busy couple of weeks. Shortly after inducting an act into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he found out that he is the recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor:
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David Letterman
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Stephen Colbert
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Conan O'Brien
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Jay Leno
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