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 | |||
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 | |||
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 | |||
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? | ||
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 | |||
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 | |||
Bob Ross | |||
7. | People's Sexiest Man Alive drew from NBC's The Voice, right? | ||
Right, the title went to Adam Levine | |||
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 | |||
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: | ||
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 | |||
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 | |||
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 | |||
Utopia Rent | |||
Cabinet Role | |||
By way of explanation.....
Swift can more than rent utopia after the success of her album Reputation |
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