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The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
1. Thanks to the success of Duets II, 85-year-old singer Tony Bennett is now the oldest living person to top the Billboard 200. The previous record holder? Bob Dylan. [via NME] 2. Lady Gaga is suing a...
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The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
1. Cory Smoot aka Flattus Maximus, the lead guitarist for the heavy metal band GWAR, was found dead on their tour bus yesterday following a concert in Minneapolis. The cause of death is currently...
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Tony Bennett’s Nude Drawings of Lady Gaga Forthcoming in Vanity Fair
Lady Gaga’s much talked about Thanksgiving special, A Very Gaga Thanksgiving, was actually a pretty traditional, family-friendly affair, if the truth be told. In fact, probably the only remotely...
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The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
1. Remember the nude sketch that Tony Bennett did of Lady Gaga for Vanity Fair per Annie Leibovitz’s suggestion? Well, it’s now up for auction on eBay, with the proceeds going to Gaga’s Born This Way...
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The Year in Film: The 25 Best Movies of 2012
Let’s begin by just saying it, in plain and simple terms: It was a remarkable year for movies. After a rather dry period where we had to chase down the corridors of our memories to summon up even a...
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A Song for Every New York Times Hipster Trend Piece
The ongoing New York Times obsession with “hipsters” continued this week with yet another lifestyle article about Williamsburg, a place that the NYT apparently thinks is still home to the Brooklyn cool...
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Sophie Tucker: Rediscovering a Plus-Size, Sex-Positive Pop Provocateur
Sophie Tucker was known as the “Last of the Red Hot Mamas,” but in reality, the vaudeville, theater, and recording star was one of contemporary pop music’s earliest foremothers. She was a direct...
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Lady Gaga Is Thoroughly Excited to Show People “What It Can Mean to Be a...
Billboard recently named Lady Gaga Woman of the Year (while at the same time polarizing critics — as they surely predicted — by naming Lana Del Rey “Trailblazer of the Year”). Yesterday, they featured...
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Hear an Excerpt of Amy Winehouse’s Final Recording
With all the endless publicity, speculation and tedious moralizing that has surrounded the tragic, premature death of Amy Winehouse, it’s easy to forget that she was first and foremost a pretty great...
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Amy Winehouse Looks Wonderful in "Body and Soul" Video
The first thing you’re bound to notice about the video for Amy Winehouse and Tony Bennett’s duet, “Body and Soul,” is how healthy and strong Winehouse looks in it. She and Bennett seem to be having a...
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