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| 1. | Also heading out to the Great Wide Open is Monty Hall, who died this week at age 96. Hall was the host of this classic gameshow, the logic of which is still discussed today: | ||
| To Tell the Truth | |||
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Let's Make a Deal | ||
| Truth or Consequences | |||
| The Gong Show | |||
| 2. | Aw, dammit, we lost Tom Petty this week. Petty was not only a rock-and-roll mainstay with his own group The Heartbreakers, but also lent his considerable talents to this supergroup: | ||
| Temple of the Dog | |||
| Velvet Revolver | |||
| The Highwaymen | |||
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Traveling Wilburys | ||
| 3. | But all that is foregone is not necessarily bad. When this star refused to sign on the dotted line, she effectively doomed Sex in the City 3 from happening: | ||
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Kim Catrall | ||
| Cynthia Nixon | |||
| Sarah Jessica Parker | |||
| Kristin Davis | |||
| 4. | Meanwhile, at the box office, the Flatliners took a critical and popular drubbing. The film, which took in only $6 million and has a 2% fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes, is a remake of the original that starred this on-the-verge-of-fame star: | ||
| Nicole Kidman | |||
| Jennifer Aniston | |||
| Sharon Stone | |||
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Julia Roberts | ||
| 5. | This kiddie-lit's works made news in an usual way this week, after a library rejected Melania Trump's donation of the books, on the basis that they were "racist." | ||
| Roald Dahl | |||
| Charles Schulz | |||
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Dr. Seuss | ||
| Beatrix Potter | |||
| 6. | This late-night host, hoping to raise funds for the Hurricane Maria relief effort in Puerto Rico, asked celebrities to tweet their awkward childhood photos. And did they ever. | ||
| Conan O'Brien | |||
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Stephen Colbert | ||
| Jimmy Kimmel | |||
| Jimmy Fallon | |||
| 7. | Font Rage took over Saturday Night Live, as host Ryan Gosling railed against the much-reviled Papyrus font - and its use in the marketing of this film, in particular | ||
| The Exorcist | |||
| The Hangover | |||
| Inception | |||
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Avatar | ||
| 8. | Joining the fray that is the new fall TV season is The Gifted, which is part of this existing entertainment property: | ||
| Justice League | |||
| The Big Bang Theory | |||
| Law and Order | |||
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X-Men | ||
| 9. | In a project that we're having a hard time envisioning, this recent Oscar winner has been cast to play the recently-departed Hugh Hefner in an upcoming biopic: | ||
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Jared Leto | ||
| Casey Affleck | |||
| Leonardo DiCaprio | |||
| Eddie Redmayne | |||
| 10. | And highlighting the nominations for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is this rapper, who you may have heard of: | ||
| Eminem | |||
| Ice Cube | |||
| Ice-T | |||
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LL Cool J | ||
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