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RIP Hugh M. Hefner. The Playboy founder and pop culture icon died this week at age 91. Of the following famous female celebrities, which did not appear sans clothes in Hef's publication?
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Lindsay Lohan
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Christie Brinkley
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Marilyn Monroe
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Drew Barrymore
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Break out your Allowed Characters Counting Fingers. Twitter made news this week by announcing the bold step of increasing, on a trial user basis, the number of characters allowed in a tweet from the current 140 to:
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350
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200
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280
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141
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In the world of music, we saw a momentous development this week as, for the first time since 1998, the Billboard chart is topped by:
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A country act
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Madonna
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An Asian-language singer
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A female rap solo artist
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And it looks like this previous performer is going to headline February's Super Bowl halftime show:
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Justin Timberlake
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Beyonce
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U2
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Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuce
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We were up to our earlobes in television news this week. First, fans went nuts at the news Kit Harrington and Rose Leslie, who began dating in real life after playing a much talked-about couple on this show, are going to hitched:
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Veep
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Game of Thrones
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Supernatural
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Blue Bloods
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The new season of 60 Minutes - now in its ________ year - began with the addition of special correspondent Oprah Winfrey:
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50th
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25th
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40th
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75th
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Fresh off its recent Emmy, The Voice returned, welcoming to its army of chair-twirling judges a personality who came to America's attention on this other reality offering:
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The Bachelorette
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American Idol
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America's Got Talent
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The Real World
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Meanwhile, a broadcast network looked to mine an already popular franchise with a new series exploring the younger years of a character from this ratings winner:
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Grey's Anatomy
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Empire
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The Big Bang Theory
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NCIS
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We hope those of you without a subscription to CBS All-Access enjoyed your one-time-only broadcast viewing of the new Star Trek series. Do you even know what the subtitle of this most recent iteration is?
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Endeavor
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Discovery
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Prime
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Infinity
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And speaking of trying to slap a fresh coat of paint on an old property, the Law & Order brand ties to break into the true crime genre with a sorta-facts-based dramatization of the:
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The Jon-Benet Ramsey case
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Harding-Kerrigan affair
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Menendez murders
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Who Shot Mr. Burns case
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