| 1. | New at the box office this weekend was a new adaptation of a film based on a work by this author of yore: | ||
| Charles Dickens | |||
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Agatha Christie | ||
| H.G. Wells | |||
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | |||
| 2. | Electronic Arts pissed off everyone who bought its Star Wars Battlefront II, as the company was making gamers pay extra to play this character: | ||
| Luke Skywalker | |||
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Darth Vader | ||
| Leia | |||
| Han Solo | |||
| 3. | Major franchise continuation, Part 1: A brand new film trilogy was announced, so look forward to even more titles with the name: | ||
| Lord of the Rings | |||
| Star Trek | |||
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Star Wars | ||
| X-Men | |||
| 4. | Major franchise continuation, Part 2: Meanwhile, Amazon reportedly ponied up somewhere north of $200 million just for the rights to produce a new series around which of the aforementioned titles? | ||
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Lord of the Rings | ||
| Star Trek | |||
| Star Wars | |||
| X-men | |||
| 5. | And speaking of big, big bucks, the SLW staff pooled our money but came up a few hundred million short of the record $450 million paid at auction for a lost work by this artist: | ||
| Picasso | |||
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Da Vinci | ||
| Warhol | |||
| Bob Ross | |||
| 6. | And while we're talking about art, the new Deadpool teaser features everyone's favorite wiseass antihero doing a painting in the styling of which artist that we just mentioned? new deadpool teaser | ||
| Picasso | |||
| Da Vinci | |||
| Warhol | |||
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Bob Ross | ||
| 7. | People's Sexiest Man Alive drew from NBC's The Voice, right? | ||
| Right, the title went to Adam Levine | |||
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Yup, Blake Shelton is your new Sexiest Man Alive | ||
| Uh huh, the honor was given to both jointly | |||
| Wrong...neither were named SMA, so forget we said anything | |||
| 8. | Hulu aired the series finale of her Project this week: | ||
| Martha Stewart | |||
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Mindy Kaling | ||
| Kristin Bell | |||
| Amy Schumer | |||
| 9. | Headlining Saturday Night Live on Saturday was Tiffany Haddish, who became, hard as it is to believe, the first time that a _________ female has hosted SNL: | ||
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African American | ||
| Latin American | |||
| British | |||
| Arab American | |||
| 10. | Celebrated old-school columnist Liz Smith passed this week at age 94. Smith made a name for herself writing this type of column: | ||
| Fashion | |||
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Gossip | ||
| Movie reviews | |||
| Music reviews | |||
| 11. | The increasingly Gal Gadot stated this week that she will not continue in her signature Wonder Woman role unless this producer was removed from the project - which he subsequently was: | ||
| Brian Grazer | |||
| Bryan Singer | |||
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Brett Ratner | ||
| Jerry Bruckheimer | |||
| 12. | Put your thinking caps on and pick out the anagram of Taylor Swift's new album, which was finally released this week and sold a million copies in a matter of days | ||
| Caution Sac | |||
| Relax Potion | |||
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Utopia Rent | ||
| Cabinet Role | |||
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By way of explanation.....
Swift can more than rent utopia after the success of her album Reputation |
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