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| 1. | Let's start this week with an RIP. Passing on at age 75, like tears in rain, was actor Rutger Hauer - perhaps best known as Roy Batty in this sci-fi classic: | ||
| The Day the Earth Stood Still | |||
| The Fly | |||
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | |||
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Blade Runner | ||
| 2. | Marshmallows everywhere delighted in the release of Veronica Mars, Season 4, which was released by this outlet: | ||
| YouTube | |||
| Amazon Prime | |||
| Netflix | |||
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Hulu | ||
| 3. | Did this week have some notable music news? You betcha. Old Town Road continues unabated, tying a record with its 16th week at #1 on the Billboard chart. OTR matches the feat accomplished by Despacito, and earlier by a duet featuring this female singer: | ||
| Whitney Houston | |||
| Kelly Clarkson | |||
| Gloria Estafan | |||
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Mariah Carey | ||
| 4. | Meanwhile, MTV's VMAs - which are, in an upset, still a thing - announced nominations this week. At the top of the pack are Taylor Swift and this other woman, each with 10 noms: | ||
| Camila Cabello | |||
| Halsey | |||
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Ariana Grande | ||
| Cardi B | |||
| 5. | Now for some questions from downtown MovieTriviaLand. Please estimate the North American opening weekend box office for Disney's The Lion King: | ||
| Just under $250 million | |||
| Just over $200 million | |||
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Just under $200 million | ||
| Just over $150 million | |||
| 6. | This horror movie franchise announced two more follow-ups, scarefests with "Kills" in its 2020 release, and "Ends" in 2021: | ||
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Halloween | ||
| Child's Play | |||
| The Purge | |||
| A Nightmare on Elm Street | |||
| 7. | And much, much, much more heartwarming than a horror movie is the trailer for A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, an Oscar-winning-actor-starring film about this TV personality of old: | ||
| Walter Cronkite | |||
| Phil Donahue | |||
| Bob Ross | |||
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Fred Rogers | ||
| 8. | Marvel continued its 2019 victory lap during SDCC, at which it announced this recent Oscar winner will star in a version of one of its comic-to-screen properties: | ||
| Rami Malek | |||
| Eddie Redmayne | |||
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Mahershala Ali | ||
| Jared Leto | |||
| 9. | MCU mastermind Kevin Feige laid out the films to start Phase 4 of the franchise, noting that the next title in the _______ series will be "the first scary MCU film": | ||
| Black Panther | |||
| Guardians of the Galaxy | |||
| Captain Marvel | |||
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Doctor Strange | ||
| 10. | And we'll close with news of the Kennedy Center Honors, which announced this week that this children's show will be the first TV program to receive the award: | ||
| Reading Rainbow | |||
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Sesame Street | ||
| The Muppet Show | |||
| Electric Company | |||
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