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Not so long ago, hip-hop was the first musical genre since jazz whose nomenclature could plausibly be followed by the word "culture". People talked about hip-hop cinema and fashion, politics and argot; even hip-hop literature.

NBCs latest single-camera comedy purchase isThen Came Elvis, an eighties-set project fromUp All Nightexecutive producer DJ Nash andJason Bateman. The show details a family coming together after the parents go through a divorce, and it kinda sounds like The Wonder Yearsfast-forwarded a couple decades: An adult narrator reflects on his teenage years as seen onscreen.Its

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides took the top spot at the box office this weekend, earning $90.1 million during its debut. Wed take that stack home pretty happily, but previous Pirates movies managed to debut to even more, without higher ticket prices and 3-D screenings. While the number was, somehow, a bit disappointing,

Farrah Abraham is a porn hypocrite ...she CLAIMS she's not a porn star and is fighting the release of a sequel to her first flick but she's privately hounding porn producers to ante up a fortune in XXX royalties.

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