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Madonna performs at Rome concert.

She's not sorry, indeed! In Rome on Tuesday, during the latest stop for her MDNA tour, Madonna gave concertgoers a glimpse of something special -- nearly mooning the audience in barely-there skivvies.

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Days after exposing her nipple to fans in Istanbul -- outraging some -- during her song "Human Nature," the 53-year-old pop legend and mother of four pulled a similar stunt during the same number in Italy.

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Clad in a sexy lace bra and trousers, with her blonde locks swept up in a dramatic retro 'do, the Grammy winner yanked down her black pants, revealing her posterior in a lacy, G-string bottom. (Appropriately enough, the 1995 song "Human Nature" is all about Madonna's unapologetic stance for her explicit, edgy Erotica album and Sex book of the early '90s.)

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The icon was criticized in some corners for showing her breast in Istanbul last week during the striptease routine. "What works for a 22-year-old woman or a man is not appropriate, very often, for a 53-year-old," Donny Deutsch complained on TODAY recently. At his, Dr. Nancy Snyderman sniffed. "Not special," she said. "Not a special breast, not worth doing."

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Actress Chloe Grace Moretz poses at the Women In Film Crystal + Lucy Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., on June 12.

Although she couldn’t take part in the champagne and cocktails, 15-year-old Chloë Grace Moretz was fêted at a cocktail soirée at the Sunset Tower Hotel in West Hollywood on Monday. The actress, who will play the title role in MGM’s upcoming “Carrie” remake, was awarded the 2012 Women in Film, Max Mara Face of the Future Award, which has been given to Zoe Saldana, Elizabeth Banks, Ginnifer Goodwin, Emily Blunt and Maria Bello in past years.

Moretz, who routinely sports Chanel, Pucci and Dolce & Gabbana, is a fashion icon and an immensely successful actress having starred in “Hugo,” “(500) Days of Summer,” “Let Me In” and “Dark Shadows.” As with all the previous winners, Moretz is sure to continue her bright career for years to come.

In honor of Moretz, we’ve come up with a few of our favorite actors and actresses who have seized the potential so clearly seen in their youth. Not all are so fortunate though. From Lindsay Lohan to Haley Joel Osment, glittering futures have also been extinguished through drugs, alcohol, family problems, a lack of true talent, change in appearance, and general laziness. We’ve included these, too.

Child actors with successful careers

Drew Barrymore
She had her breakout role in Spielberg’s “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” and, at 7, was the youngest host of “SNL.” She had a troubled adolescence, however, snorting cocaine and going to rehab at age 13. She was able to rebound and has put in some of her best work to date, which includes “Scream,” “Batman Forever,” “Never Been Kissed,” “Grey Gardens,” and being the face of CoverGirl.

Jodie Foster
At just 3 years old, Foster began acting in TV commercials going on to make nearly 50 TV and film appearances before attending college. Her first big success was in Martin Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver,” where, at 13, she starred opposite Robert De Niro and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. While at Yale, she was stalked relentlessly by John Hinckley, Jr., and was even the target of an unrelated assassination attempt. She didn’t waver in her career though, going on to win two Academy Awards for Best Actress for her roles as a rape victim in “The Accused” and as FBI trainee Clarice Starling in “The Silence of the Lambs.”

Ron Howard
One of the greatest examples of how to maintain and diversify a promising career in film, Ron Howard starred in “The Andy Griffith Show” and “Happy Days” as a young child later appearing in “American Graffiti” at age 19. Howard successfully used his Hollywood ties to transition into the realm of directing, pulling in Academy Awards for “Apollo 13,” “Cocoon,” “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” and “A Beautiful Mind.” He is co-chairman of a film and TV production company, Imagine Entertainment, with Brian Grazer and is still directing and producing films.

Honorable Mentions: Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, Kirsten Dunst, Jason Bateman, Elijah Wood, Anna Paquin, and Elizabeth Taylor. 

Child actors who spoiled their potential

Lindsay Lohan
Once a child fashion model who, at 11, convincingly acted two parts with disparate accents in Disney’s remake of “The Parent Trap,” LiLo continued her success with cute and witty roles in “Freaky Friday,” “Mean Girls” and “Herbie: Fully Loaded.” After two DUIs and three trips to rehab in 2007 alone, Lohan lost numerous roles and  -- even with a recent stint on “SNL” and in Lifetime’s upcoming “Liz & Dick" -- it seems unlikely she’ll ever recover any of her former stardom.

Haley Joel Osment
M. Night Shyamalan’s successful “The Sixth Sense” afforded Osment a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and helped land him roles in Steven Spielberg’s “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” and Mimi Leder’s “Pay It Forward.” For “A.I.” he earned his second Saturn Award for Best Younger Actor and seemed to be a Hollywood favorite starring in 2003’s “Secondhand Lions.” Osment’s popularity in Hollywood came to a stop in 2003 and it was only three years later that he was arrested for DUI and sentenced to three years probation and twenty-six Alcoholics Anonymous classes, signaling the end of his career.

Honorable Mentions: The Olsen Twins starred in “Full House” and own a production company, Dualstar, but have essentially no draw as actresses anymore. Their sister, Elizabeth, star of “Martha Marcy May Marlene” and “Silent House,” however, has begun to craft herself a respectable acting career. "Diff'rent Strokes'" Gary Coleman “Home Alone’s” Macaulay Culkin, “The Lost Boy’s” Corey Haim, and “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’s” Denise Nickerson.

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Rocker Andrew W.K. will speak at a My Little Pony convention in September.

It's hard to imagine rocker Andrew W.K., he of the 2001 hit "Party Hard," as a fan of the soft and sweet cartoon "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic," but it's true.

The rocker will host a panel called "In the Flesh: What Would Pinkie Pie Do?" at a My Little Pony convention, Canterlot Gardens, to be held in Ohio in September, Spin reports, and the rocker has confirmed via Twitter.

"My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" has completed two seasons now, has earned positive reviews, and has developed a surprisingly large contingent of adult male fans, known as "bronies."

The description of the rocker's panel on the convention's website reads, "Party party party, she wants to have a party! Pinkie Pie is certainly a party animal, but what happens when you can't be a candy-colored pony in an Equestrian world? We break the fourth wall to present Andrew W.K., the artist behind hits 'She Is Beautiful' and 'Party Hard,' to answer the dire question: What Would Pinkie Pie Do? Join us for a look into how to make your job as fun as your party, and your party as important as your job."

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The rocker himself simplified it with his Twitter post: "I'm doing a PINKIE PIE + PARTYING speech at the My Little Pony convention," he wrote to fans.

Fellow bronies sound excited. Fan site Equestria Daily writes, "We cannot even express how excited we are for his seminar. It will surely rock!"

Joked another on the site, "I don't think Canterlot Gardens knows what they're getting into. My bet: 2 hours. 2 hours before everything gets set on fire."

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When news broke that former mobster-turned-FBI informant Henry Hill had died, my thoughts quickly turned to the movie that made him famous among the masses: "Goodfellas." For me, "Goodfellas" ranks among those rare films that stops me in my tracks and beckons me to watch, even if it's already halfway over by the time I stumble upon it on TV.

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"Goodfellas" cast members Paul Sorvino, left, Ray Liotta, center, and the real mob informant Henry Hill, whose gangland experiences inspired the story, eat baked ziti, swap stories and recall director Martin Scorsese's acclaimed mob movie during a reunion dinner in Los Angeles on Aug. 16, 2004.

Ray Liotta's portrayal of the despicable, yet strangely sympathetic Hill is the best performance of the actor's career. Lorraine Bracco, who played Henry's wife Karen, carried just about every scene she was in. And the rest of the cast: Joe Pesci, Robert De Niro, Frank Sivero, Paul Sorvino ... the IMDB page reads like a who's who of mob films. Does it get any better? Fuhgetaboutit!

The acting, storytelling and directing are simply incomparable, which leads me to declare that "Goodfellas" is, quite simply, the best mob movie of all time. (At the 63rd Academy Awards, somehow it lost out to "Dances With Wolves" for best picture.)

Certainly there are "Godfather" devotees who will take issue with this, and that's fine, because we want to hear from you! Take the discussion over to Facebook and weigh in on what you think is the best mob movie you've ever seen.

If you need a little inspiration, you can glance at this list of Top Mob Movies from AMC. They happen to put "Godfather" parts I and II at the top, and "Road to Perdition" lands in the No. 3 spot with "Goodfellas" falling into fourth place. Someone might need to get whacked for that!

See you on Facebook, or you can tweet me at @courtneyatmsnbc.

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Joanne Froggatt out of her maid costume in London on May 27.

Late last year, something happened to Joanne Froggatt for the first time: She was recognized. In America.

“I was in a deli in New York, and it was really weird for me!” remembered the woman who plays maid Anna on "Downton Abbey," one of the biggest cult sensations to leap across the pond in years. It happened during a break in the press junket for “Downton’s” second season last December, and she recalled, “I raced back to the hotel and told everyone!”

Froggatt’s Anna is, of course, half of the dynamic, romantic duo that also includes Mr. Bates. As viewers may remember, the valet has been incarcerated for allegedly killing his first wife – Anna is now his second. It’s one of the most popular stories on the PBS series, and part of that attraction comes from Anna's sweet disposition. 

“She’s just a really nice person, and she’s not wishy-washy, either,” said Froggatt, who has been acting for 15 years in various British films and TV shows. “I’ve tried hard not to make her too angelic, though.”

So can Anna and Mr. Bates ever be truly happy together? He's still behind bars as season three begins, Froggatt revealed. “She’s still charged with trying to get him free, and that’s probably all I can tell you,” she said. “That, and that we have the lovely Shirley MacLaine.”

MacLaine is joining the cast as Lady Grantham’s mother, who is visiting from America. According to Froggatt, “(MacLaine) was incredible! Watching her on set was one of the most magical days. At one point her character sings -- she’s accompanied by the piano -- and I remember thinking how amazing she is.”

Even better, it looks like MacLaine’s character, Martha Levinson, is going to butt heads with the show’s beloved Maggie Smith, who plays the Dowager Countess. “She and Maggie get to have some spiky conversations between them, and the chemistry is amazing,” said Froggatt. “We called them ‘our dames.’ ”

Sharp-tongued Oscar-winning actresses! Who wouldn’t love that? But what about Anna? Does Froggatt ever wish she could break Anna out of her nice-girl demeanor and clock footman/valet Thomas in the head with a wine bottle? Surprisingly, no.

“Some people say playing a nice person is boring, but it’s a departure for me," Froggatt explained. "I’ve played a lot of traumatic and emotional roles before, so Anna has been a nice change. I love that she’s a well-grounded person.”

Still, Anna could blow her top one day. Froggatt teased, “Maybe she will go after Thomas after all. She can only be nice for so long!”

"Downton Abbey" will premiere its third season in the U.S. next year.

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Jim Morrison in 1970.

The estates of Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix may stage future holographic live performances, Billboard reports.

"We're trying to get to a point where 3-D characters will walk around," Jeff Jampol, who manages both artists' estates, told Billboard. "Hopefully, 'Jim Morrison' will be able to walk right up to you, look you in the eye, sing right at you and then turn around and walk away."

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Jampol -- who also handles the estates of Otis Redding, Janis Joplin, Peter Tosh and Rick James -- suggested that a 3-D hologram would only be part of this proposed new multimedia concert experience. The show could also include walls pixelated like giant TV screens, along with the use of lasers, lights, high-quality audio and synchronized sound vibrations. 

Similarly, Janie Hendrix, the sister of the late guitar god and President/CEO of Experience Hendrix, revealed that she has been working for a year with the London-based Musion Systems to develop a virtual Jimi Hendrix. "For us, of course, it's about keeping Jimi authentically correct," she said. "There are no absolutes at this point."

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Some rock holograms are already in motion. Last week, Core Media Group announced that they'd struck an exclusive deal with Digital Domain Media Group -- the company that kickstarted everything with the Tupac hologram at this year's Coachella -- to develop an Elvis hologram.

"This is not repurposing old footage that the world has already seen," Digital Domain chief creative officer Ed Ulbrich told Billboard of the King of Rock's hologram, which is in the early stages of development and expected to cost millions. "We're making totally original and exclusive performances so that fans can have new experiences."

Holograms are extending to silver screen icons, too. Plans are reportedly underway for a virtual Marilyn Monroe concert to celebrate the 50th anniversary of her death; however, the group responsible, Digicon Media, told the Hollywood Reporter that they are not working with the Monroe estate. As they explained, Digicon already owns certain copyrights to Monroe's image, including her computer-generated persona. The Monroe estate, as Billboard.biz points out, is threatening legal action.

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Yvonne De Carlo originated the role of Lily Munster.

She's one of the classic matriarchs of 1960s TV: Monster mom Lily Munster, played elegantly and humorously by Yvonne De Carlo.

And according to The Hollywood Reporter, Portia de Rossi will play the vamping vampire in a new NBC reboot of the sitcom.

Jerry O'Connell will take on Fred Gwynne's role as Herman, the stumbling Frankenstein's monster-like dad, and comic Eddie Izzard will play Lily's dad, Grandpa, who was played by Al Lewis in the original show. Mason Cook, a young actor from "Spy Kids in 4D," will play Lily and Herman's son Eddie, played originally by Butch Patrick.

The drama is being written by Bryan Fuller, the creator of "Pushing Daisies." It's scheduled to air in 2013.

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Director Marc Webb (left) poses with cast members Rhys Ifans, Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone and producer Avi Arad at the world premiere of "The Amazing Spider-Man."

Andrew Garfield and the stars of "The Amazing Spider-Man" swung into Tokyo on Wednesday, bringing the comic book crime-fighter back to the big screen in the world premiere of one of the summer's most anticipated movies.

Fans swarmed around the red carpet in Tokyo's posh Roppongi Hills area for a glimpse of Garfield, co-star Emma Stone and other cast members as a stuntman dressed as Spider-Man swung over the crowd, then scaled a wall into a large "web."

Garfield, who plays Peter Parker said the role had appealed for many reasons.

"Spider-Man has always been the only teenage superhero, and the most human one in my humble opinion, and that's just one of the things that sets him apart," he told Reuters.

"He's all too human, that's what's wonderful about him."

"The Amazing Spider-Man," which opens on limited release in Japan on June 23 and hits North American theaters on July 3, reboots the franchise that started in 2002 with Tobey Maguire in the lead role.

Now it is Garfield, 28, who dons Spider-Man's famous red-and-blue suit in a story that explores the origins of teenager Peter Parker and how he became a superhero.

Stone, who portrays Gwen Stacy, Parker's first love interest and has been linked romantically with Garfield off-screen, said the change offered fresh perspective on the tale.

"New love interest, the story of Peter's life, there's a lot of stuff to learn about Peter Parker," said Stone, 23, who wore a burgundy dress. "He's a real underdog, and he's bullied, and I think everyone can relate ... He's an incredibly inspirational character."

Among the changes was the use of 3D, made possible due to recent advances in technology, said producer Matt Tolmach at a news conference earlier in the day.

"In so many ways, what's magical about Spider-Man is that we all identify with this character - he's all of us, he's everyman. So what would it feel like if you could experience flight, and sailing through the city, what it feels like to swing on a web through New York?" he said.

"It was very, very clear to all of us that this is a movie that was meant to be told in 3D. 3D is a form of storytelling, not just a way to sell the movie to audiences."

Japan has proved to be a strong draw for the Spider-Man movies. It was the top overseas market for the first two movies, according to Box Office Mojo, and Spider-Man 3 premiered in Tokyo in 2007.

"I came to see Emma, she's gorgeous," said Keita Fukushima, 23, who said he was interested in seeing the new Gwen Stacy role. Mary Jane Watson had been Parker's girlfriend in the other movies.

But eight-year-old Yu Suguro, who wore a red Spider-Man costume, was there for his hero. "I love Spider-Man," he said.

Though Garfield said at the news conference that being named Spider-Man gave him "the purest joy you could ever feel," he added that the role was not without difficulties.

"When I put on the suit, I got very itchy and uncomfortable, and it took me a long time to go to the restroom."

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Tom Cruise as Stacee Jaxx in "Rock of Ages."

REVIEW: When club owner Dennis (Alec Baldwin) gives busboy Drew (Diego Boneta) the big break of opening for rock legend Stacee Jaxx (Tom Cruise), he tells the newbie, "Three songs. No covers." By the end of "Rock of Ages" -- at which the point the audience has been subjected to two hours of Reagan-era pop hits recorded in a way that makes Kidz Bop sound like "Glee" and "Glee" sound like GWAR -- the idea of a mere trio of original tunes sounds like a slice of heaven.

In its transition from an intimate and partially tongue-in-cheek L.A. theater piece to Broadway show to bloated all-star cinematic extravaganza, "Rock of Ages" has traded in whatever sense of humor it might have once had about itself and its roster of melodramatic power ballads (they might as well have called it "Stadium Rock of Ages") for an overblown aimlessness.

By the time Debbie Gibson and Skid Row's Sebastian Bach are standing shoulder to shoulder and belting out Starship's "We Built This City" without a smidge of irony, one begins to wonder if "Rock of Ages" even gets its own joke.

The plot, which feels cobbled together from stray bits of "Burlesque" and "The Apple," revolves around Oklahoma gal Sherrie Christian (Julianne Hough), who comes to Los Angeles in 1987 to pursue her rock-and-roll dreams. Within her first hour in town, she gets mugged, and she meets Drew, who gets her a job at Sunset Strip rock palace the Bourbon Room, run by Dennis and manager Lonny (Russell Brand).

Despite the club's legendary status, the place is on the verge of bankruptcy, a situation that can be avoided with an appearance by the legendary, Axl Rose-like Stacee, who's so out of it that he arrives on time only when his oily manager Paul (Paul Giamatti) tells him the gig was actually set for the night before. But Patricia Whitmore (Catherine Zeta-Jones), the wife of L.A.'s new mayor (Bryan Cranston), has focused on Stacee as part of her campaign to save the Sunset Strip from the devil's music once and for all.

Oh, that something Satanic might actually have crawled into "Rock of Ages" at some point. When Tipper Gore formed the Parents Music Resource Center, she wasn't gunning for Quarterflash and REO Speedwagon, just two of the whitebread bands whose songs are featured here. It's akin to making a movie about people trying to suppress gangsta rap, and then filling the soundtrack with cuts by PM Dawn and DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince.

Whether you have fond memories of songs like "I Want to Know What Love Is" and "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" or you're inclined to change stations when they pop up on the radio, the karaoke versions offered up by "Rock of Ages" are ear-punishers.

The film's thudding literalism doesn't help, either; when someone sings about standing on a corner in the rain, you can just bet that they'll be singing that line on a corner. In the rain.

Even when the movie unleashes a real singer like Mary J. Blige, her powerhouse voice gets mostly swallowed up by the bland back-up chorus and the stultifying orchestrations that bludgeon everything into a patina of silky-smooth nothing.

"Rock of Ages" takes place in the final days when bands like Foreigner and Def Leppard could still dominate the charts. (Apart from one passing reference to rap, the ascendance of hip-hop is invisible here.) It's a movie that passes off mainstream pop as being somehow dangerous, reaching its crescendo at the end when, after rejecting a New Kids-ish boy band, "Rock of Ages" delivers its thunderous climax with Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'," a song that's been so castrated by pop culture that it's a grade-school sing-along.

As for the acting, it's a very mixed bag that mostly disappoints. Hough's charms were enough to get her through the "Footloose" remake, even if she was no challenge to Lori Singer, but here she's just vapid and unengaging, as is her co-star Boneta. Baldwin and Zeta-Jones overplay with the gusto of Royal Shakespeare actors doing Christmastime panto, while Malin Akerman (as a Rolling Stone reporter) and Giamatti find some of the film's few comic notes. Brand, naturally, gets the dissipation and the head-banging just right.

Tom Cruise -- who, to his credit, is probably one of the few people on earth who can imagine first-hand what it was like to be Axl Rose in 1987 -- plays it unapologetically weird and eccentric, but he plays the same note of weird and eccentric throughout. Once his Stacee Jaxx gets onstage, though, Cruise's charisma bleeds over into the music world, making the actor look completely believable as a Dionysus with a Marshall stack.

The only jolts of actual rock-and-roll danger in "Rock of Ages" come from Cruise, and from Mickey, the primate who steals his scenes as Stacee's mandrill sidekick. The rest of it is a dreary costume party packed with people you wish would just stop singing already.

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Jeff Goldblum.

Hopefully this will give Jeff Goldblum a little peace of mind. The actor was granted a three-year restraining order on Tuesday morning against a woman who has allegedly been stalking him.

The woman, 49-year-old Linda Ransom, proceeded to erupt in front of Los Angeles Judge Carol Boas Goodson.

Following the tirade, Ransom was told by the judge to stay 100 yards away from Goldblum until June 12, 2015.

"Mr. Goldblum wants nothing to do with you," Judge Goodson told a shouting Ransom. "This harassment has got to stop!"

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"Mr. Goldblum is being harassed because the legal system is negligently violating my rights," Ransom responded back to the judge.

Ransom claimed she went onto Goldblum's property recently because one of his employees allegedly attacked her. Judge Goodson reprimanded Ransom and told her that she needed to file a lawsuit against Goldblum's employee instead of going on the actor's property.

It is also alleged by Goldblum's attorneys that in addition to going on his property, Ransom misrepresented herself to gain access backstage to one of Goldblum's events.

Goldblum was granted a temporary restraining order last month against Ransom, who has allegedly been stalking the actor since 2001. Per the restraining order, Ransom is also a former mental patient.

Goldblum was not in attendance today and his attorney, Blair Berk, never uttered a word during the hearing.

After Judge Goodson granted the restraining order, Ransom continued to argue in front of her until the bailiff told her to go back and sit down.

Outside the courtroom, Ransom demanded business cards from Goldblum's attorneys and told the bailiff that she planned on representing herself. She then stormed down the hallway in a huff.

Ransom met Goldblum 11 years ago while attending one of his acting classes.

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To Luke Skywalker, it wasn't exactly home sweet home. As fans of "Star Wars" know well, young Skywalker longed to fly away from his home planet of Tatooine, where he worked with Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru Lars on the family moisture farm.

A group of movie fans restored the Tunisian set that was used as Luke Skywalker's childhood home in "Star Wars."

It wasn't exactly a beloved worldwide landmark, either. The striking domed home known as the Lars Homestead had been left to decay in the broiling temperatures of the Tunisian desert since filming of the original "Star Wars" ended in 1976.

But a small group of "Star Wars" fans felt more kindly about the site -- so much so that they recently collected more than $11,000 through a Facebook page and spent four days working with locals in broiling temperatures to repair it.

One member of the group, Mark Cox, and his wife Sarah actually held his wedding outside the Lars Homestead in 2010. Another, Mark Dermul, has written four books on "Star Wars" tourism.

It was during a Tunisia trip led by Dermul that the idea of fixing the Lars Homestead came up.

"While drinking a few Boga (Tunisian lemonade) in a local Cantina, (we) started joking about one day returning to restore the Lars Homestead to its full movie look-alike glory," the group wrote on its website. "What started as an off-the-cuff remark soon turned into a solid idea."

The six-man group came to Tunisia from five countries and worked with Tunisian locals in temperatures topping 120 degrees. They chronicled the repairs on the website Save the Lars Homestead.

When the group arrived on May 27, the domed home remembered by many from the film looked battered and crumbling, but by the time the group took photos on June 1, it was repaired, replastered, and painted a shining white. The team photographed their work putting in a new foundation, digging out the steps to the building, and restoring the steps with original pieces.

They even installed an entry coder with red and white buttons to mimic the one seen in "Star Wars," and deposited a mix of sand from all the different "Star Wars" Tunisian filming locations into the cement of the final step into the domed home. They also installed a commemorative plaque marking the site.

"Luke's home is back!" the team wrote on their photo page.

The website also features photos taken at such memorable movie settings as Jawa Rock, Artoo's Hideout, the city of Mos Espa, Ben Kenobi's Hermitage and the Mos Eisley Cantina, as well as settings from "Raiders of the Lost Ark," which also filmed in the area. The crew also visited the hotel which provided the courtyard and interior of the Lars Homestead.

The group plans a video documentary and a book about their repair work.

"Who in their right mind would travel out into the Tunisian desert to restore a plaster construction that was featured in some sci-fi flick?" the group wrote on their site. "Yep, that's us..."

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The "Mr. Peabody & Sherman" movie will hit theaters in 2013.

Stephen Colbert and Allison Janney have signed up for DreamWorks Animation's "Mr. Peabody & Sherman," based on the iconic cartoon series.

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Also joining the project are Ellie Kemper ("Bridesmaids," "The Office"), Ariel Winter ("Modern Family") and Stephen Tobolowsky ("Dr. Seuss' The Lorax," "Californication").

DreamWorks Animation is so high on "Mr. Peabody" it is pushing up the release of the film from March 14, 2014 to Nov. 8, 2013. The movie swaps places with the studio's "Me & My Shadow," another high-profile project that is a combination of CGI and hand-drawn animation.

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Based on Jay Ward's classic cartoon, Mr. Peabody is the world's smartest person -- only he's a dog. When he and his "pet" boy Sherman use their WABAC time-traveling machine without permission, events in history spiral out of control and it is up to the duo to put things back on track.

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Modern Family's Ty Burrell will voice the role of Mr. Peabody, while Max Charles, who stars as a young Peter Parker in "The Amazing Spider-Man," voices the role of Sherman (both castings were previously announced).

Colbert will play Paul Peterson, Mr. Peabody's nemesis. Janney plays his wife, Paula Peterson, and Winter, their daughter Penny Peterson (the lovable bully who gives Sherman grief).

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Mr. Peabody marks Colbert's second animated feature after "Monsters vs. Aliens," also from DreamWorks Animation. He's made guest appearances on several animated television series, including "The Simpsons" and "American Dad."

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DreamWorks Animation chief creative officer Bill Damaschke said Mr. Peabody is "coming together beautifully" in the hands of director Rob Minkoff (The Lion King, Stuart Little) and has multi-generational appeal, making it ideal for the year-end holiday period.

"These incredible casting additions have elevated Mr. Peabody & Sherman to a new level of excitement and we are truly fortunate to work with so many talented actors," Damaschke said. "I'm certain that their collective passion and enthusiasm for the film will bring the classic characters to new life and thrill audiences of all ages when we open in November of next year."

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Damaschke also said that "Me & My Shadow" will likely take longer to finish.

Minkoff is directing "Mr. Peabody" from a script by Craig Wright ("United States of Tara," "Six Feet Under"), with revisions by Michael McCullers (Baby Mama, Austin Powers in Goldmember).

Alex Schwartz and Denise Cascino are producing, while Bullwinkle Studios' Tiffany Ward and Classic Media's Eric Ellenbogen are executive producing with Jason Clark.

The news comes on the heels of the successful opening of DreamWorks Animation's "Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted," which topped the worldwide box office this past weekend with a $136.7 million debut.

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Ann Rutherford in 1939's "Gone With the Wind."

Actress Ann Rutherford, who played Carreen O'Hara in "Gone With the Wind" and Mickey Rooney's girlfriend Polly in the series of Andy Hardy movies, has died, the Los Angeles Times reports. The Times says she was 94, other sources say she was 91.

Her role as Scarlett's youngest sister, the godly, optimistic Carreen (Caroline Irene), was a small one, but the movie became a classic and Rutherford one of the longest surviving cast members. She regularly attended festivals celebrating the film, the Times reports, once saying, "That 'nothing part' turned my golden years into platinum."

Before "Gone With the Wind," she appeared in westerns and as Polly Benedict in the popular Andy Hardy film series, which ran from 1937 to 1958.

Television viewers may remember her as the mother of Emily (Suzanne Pleshette) on "The Bob Newhart Show."

Her first husband, David May II, was from the May Company department store family; her second, William Dozier, produced the Adam West 1960s "Batman" series.

She is survived by a daughter and two grandsons.

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Lady Gaga arrives at Brisbane Airport ahead of her Australian tour on Monday, June 11.

Even a head injury ain't gonna be a drag for this queen. Lady Gaga took to Twitter Monday night to assure her Little Monsters that she's doing all right after getting seriously clocked in the noodle onstage with a pole and suffering a concussion.

And she's willing to offer up photographic proof, vanity be damned.

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The "Edge of Glory" songstress tweeted a disheveled pic of her waking up in full makeup and looking pretty disoriented.

"Thank you so much for all the thoughtful messages," she wrote. "I feel a bit woozy but a little better everyday. Very happy to be in beautiful Australia."

Yes, Little Monsters: You can breathe easy; Mama's on the mend.

She also poked fun at herself, adding: "Emerging from hours of sleep. Still remiss if I should go outside, with this clonker I may be of questionable styling."

Gaga was struck with a pole onstage Sunday during the New Zealand leg of her tour. But after vowing to "finish this show," she soldiered forth and sang another 16 songs.

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Poor Gaga, who seems to be under siege these days.

When she's not avoiding swipes from wayward poles or weathering protests from outraged conservative groups, she's taking hits from Madonna, who recently dissed Gaga by performing a mash-up of "Born This Way" and "Express Yourself" in concert.

Has Gaga finally had enough? During her New Zealand show last week, she addressed her detractors, in what observers pegged as a thinly veiled dig at Madge.

"It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves [to], you know, put other people down or make fun of them or maybe make mockery of their work," she said in between songs. "And that doesn't make me feel good at all, that just makes me feel like I'm not being a good human being ... I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what."

She also added, "I don't even want to fight back, because it's more important to me to keep writing music."

The most revealing tidbit, though, was this: "Things are really different than they were 25 years ago"--"Express Yourself" debuted in 1988 -- "and that's what makes 'Born This Way' so relevant for me," she said. "We're just socially in a different place and it's OK -- we don't have to all slice and hate each other anymore."

You go tell 'em, girl.

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Glenn Beck will remain a force in radio for at least five more years. The conservative firebrand has inked a new five-year, $100 million deal with Clear Channel's Premiere Networks. The pact, roughly double the size of the previous five-year deal he signed in 2007, is a vote of confidence for the syndicated "Glenn Beck Program," which regularly lures 10 million listeners a week.

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The morning show, behind only to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity's radio programs in typical audience size, is carried by more than 400 stations. Since "The Glenn Beck Program's" official launch in early 2002, Beck has used the mutliple-hour format to peddle all part of the Beck brand, from books to Web shows to comedy events.

The news, first reported by The New York Times, comes about a year after Beck signed off on his popular if ever-controversial Fox News show. In the months since, he has continued to grow his subscription-based Internet-only network, GBTV, which a recent Wall Street Journal article estimated would bring in at least $40 million in revenue this year.

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Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves kept their wedding low-key.

When Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves married on Saturday, almost immediately I found myself thinking, "I love this wedding!" This is an odd thing for me to say, not only because I'm not one of those "wedding people," but because I'm not even a fan of McConaughey's. As an actor, he's never done a thing for me, I don't find him to be particularly attractive or even interesting.

But I could not get enough of the couple's Texas-size, yet subtle, declaration of love. He pitched tents for his guests! The nuptials were kept secret! The couple looked handsome/beautiful! Each detail was better than the last; I can't wait to see the photos, and pretend for a moment that I might have been a guest.

As much fun as it is to gawk at the nuptials of the famous and fame-hungry, the fact is so, so many of them are awful. Which is why McConaughey's -- which was relatively low-key, seemed personal and un-fussy -- is such a standout. If you're a celebrity and want the public to actually like your wedding, take some notes about what he and Alves did right. There are a few things to avoid. Here they are in five simple steps.

Don't be a teenager
There is a clear message for Miley Cyrus here -- wait until you're out of your teens to wed. From Drew Barrymore to Courtney Stodden, there are plenty of examples of how teen love does not a marriage make. No one is hating on young love here, but COME ON, KIDS. It's difficult enough to navigate a Hollywood marriage when you're a bona fide adult. Let's be realistic, what's the rush?

Don't rent a castle
If you're trying to prove that your wedding budget exponentially exceeds that of a non-famous person's, then go ahead, rent that castle in Italy! Yes, we're talking about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, who wed Nov. 18, 2006 at Odescalchi Castle in Lake Bracciano, Italy. TomKat's love was already a divisive issue going in to the wedding, and the ultra-extravagant wedding locale did not help endear them to the public. If you insist on a castle, then there are some options for bringing it down closer to Earth. Try a castle-turned-hotel, like Ashford Castle Hotel in Ireland, where Pierce Brosnan and Keely Shay married. Or, there's Baltimore's finest castle at The Cloisters, where Will Smith and Jada Pinkett married nearly 15 years ago.

Don't do it twice
Where weddings are concerned, once is generally enough, especially to the same person. The vow-renewal craze among celebrities has gotten a little out of hand, with serial offenders Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon performing the ritual every year (just this April, the couple said "I do" yet again in Paris). Heidi Klum and Seal also had a penchant for over-the-top vow renewals, and well, that didn't work out so well. Less than a year after donning Mardi Gras-styled costumes for their annual renewal in 2011, the couple filed for divorce.

Don't wear swimwear
A white bikini will cost you far less than a traditional dress, but that doesn't make it appropriate wedding attire. Even if you're marrying on the beach, we want to see you wearing a little more than two swatches of fabric. And leave the "jaunty sailor's cap" at home. Pam Anderson, this post was for you.

Don't immediately file for divorce
That celebrity wedding elephants in the room -- Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries -- certainly loom large here. Their divorce announcement after just 72 days didn't come as much of a shock, but it still soured an already cynical public on celebrity betrothals. To be fair, Sinead O'Connor deserves a slap on the wrist, too. Marrying, splitting 18 days later, reconciling after "a beautiful evening of lovemaking," only to split again (for real)? To say this union was doomed would be an understatement.

The bottom line seems to be this: When celebrities exhibit some modicum of down-to-earthness it can be fun to share in their happy day. Reese Witherspoon got this right in her recent wedding to Jim Toth, as did Drew Barrymore. Lovely, but low-key, is the winning combination. For a culture that loves to observe the lifestyles of the famous, our breaking point appears to be when marriage becomes something of a mockery.

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Peter Dinklage

George R.R. Martin created one of modern literature's great characters when he invented Tyrion Lannister. Tyrion is a dwarf in a world where strength and size mean survival, and in a family where power and appearance is everything.

HBO's "Game of Thrones" TV series had to rise and fall on whether Tyrion onscreen could be the witty, intelligent charmer he is in the book series, all while managing to remind viewers that he's someone who's had to struggle from birth against a condition he has no control over.

The show succeeded because of the great talents of Peter Dinklage, who turns 43 today.

You may know Dinklage from "The Station Agent," "Elf," or other appearances, but it was as Tyrion that he became known to a wider audience.

Dinklage was born with achondroplasia, a common cause of dwarfism. He stands 4 feet 5 inches tall, and naturally, he had trouble dealing with his size growing up, he told the New York Times. But thanks to a strong family (all are regular height), he persevered in a field that's difficult for anyone, but especially for someone Hollywood wanted to cast as a leprechaun wearing curled-up shoes and a long beard.

The Times profile notes that Dinklage was wary even of the Tyrion role, but soon realized that his character was by far the fans' favorite, and not because he is in any way a cute mascot or stereotype. Tyrion is, the Times notes, "the only modern man in a muddy, violent, primal world."

He's also a lone American in a world of British actors, and he stands toe-to-toe with them, his proper diction and accent never letting you know he was born in New Jersey, not Nottingham.

Tyrion gets all the best lines, and Dinklage knows how to deliver them. "I chopped wood once," he says, then rethinks. "No, I watched my brother chopping wood."

And he and he alone gets to stand in for the viewer and deliver a smackdown to horrendous child king Joffrey Baratheon, storming, "We've had vicious kings, and we've had idiot kings, but I don't know if we've ever been cursed with a vicious idiot for a king!"

Dinklage doesn't dwell on his size, he doesn't need to -- it can't ever be changed. But he chooses his moments to address it carefully. After winning a Golden Globe, he delivered a brief but touching mention of Martin Henderson, a British man who was injured by a bar idiot who thought he'd do some dwarf-tossing.

It's the perfect melding of role and actor, and both are outstanding. Peter Dinklage and Tyrion Lannister both fight against those who judge them on their looks every day. If the land of Westeros is a tough place for those who look different, perhaps only Hollywood could be seen as tougher.

Happy birthday, Peter Dinklage!

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Madonna took a page out of Janet Jackson's book when she decided to flash her right nipple to a crowd in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday night.

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Madonna performs during a concert at Turk Telekom Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, on June 7.

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The queen of pop is known for crossing lines on and off stage. But she won't be claiming this slip of the nipple was a wardrobe malfunction: Madonna made it perfectly clear (see for yourself in the not-safe-for-work video) that she was deliberately flashing the crowd of roughly 55,000 people in Turkey's largest city. 

The singer, 53, was performing a rendition of her 1995 hit, "Human Nature," when her dance routine turned into a strip tease. Her fans cheered for her as she began taking off her shirt and undoing her pants. The dance culminated in Madonna pulling down her bra to briefly expose her right breast. The singer is in the middle of her world tour, promoting her new album, "MDNA."

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This is obviously not the first stunt the singer has made to get people talking, and we're betting it won't be the last. Last week, Madonna also courted controversy on the road after placing an image of a swastika on a picture of French National Front leader Marine Le Pen during a show in Tel Aviv.

Le Pen has since threatened with the prospect of legal action. The politician has said that if the incident is repeated when Madonna's tour arrives in France in July, she will sue.

"We understand how old singers who need to get people talking about them go to such extremes," Le Pen told The Daily Mail. When she was asked if she would sue Madonna, Le Pen replied: "If she does that in France, we'll be waiting."

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Robin Roberts

By Lisa Flam

“Good Morning America” anchor Robin Roberts made some news of her own today: She’s been diagnosed with a rare blood and bone marrow disease called myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), a condition once known as pre-leukemia.  Roberts, a breast cancer survivor, said she received the diagnosis several months ago and will receive a bone marrow transplant from her older sister later this year. “My doctors tell me I’m going to beat this – and I know it’s true,” she wrote when she announced her diagnosis.
                                                                                               
MDS is a pre-cancerous disorder half way between benign and malignant, said Dr. Martin Tallman, chief of the leukemia service at New York’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. It occurs when the bone marrow produces blood cells that break apart and disintegrate when they enter the blood stream.

 “When the marrow produces blood cells, they’re cracked, they’re fragile and faulty and they disappear, he said.  Those disappearing blood cells leave patients with a low blood count, Tallman told msnbc.com, which can leave patients feeling fatigued from anemia, susceptible to infections like pneumonia and suffering from internal bleeding. The condition is curable, though it can also lead to fatal complications, primarily through infection, and some MDS patients develop leukemia. 

MDS is more common in people over 60, and in most cases, doctors don’t know why they developed the disorder, though genetic changes that take place as people get older are thought to be the cause. A minority of MDS patients develop the disorder following chemotherapy for cancer treatment.

 “Sometimes treatment for cancer can lead to other serious medical issues and that’s what I’m facing right now,” Roberts said on the air this morning, noting that she beat breast cancer five years ago.  Tallman explains that as chemotherapy drugs are killing cancer cells, they can also cause genetic changes in healthy cells, which can lead to what’s called treatment-related MDS. “We are able to cure certain disease but we pay a price,” he said.

About 12,000 people a year are diagnosed with MDS in the U.S. each year, according to the American Cancer Society. The number of cases of MDS is rising, according to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering website, because there is a growing population of older people, and because patients are living longer after being treated for their first cancer.

For years, patients with MDS were treated with antibiotics and blood transfusions, but three new types of chemotherapy drugs to fight MDS became available starting in about 2004, said Tallman, a hematologist-oncologist. They are effective in about 30 percent to 40 percent of patients, he said. Some patients don’t require treatments at all and can live with the disease; others are cured with the chemotherapy drugs alone. The only proven cure for MDS is a stem cell transplant, Tallman said, describing what it also called a bone marrow transplant.

Roberts says she is beginning a pre-treatment regimen of chemotherapy today before undergoing the bone marrow transplant. Her doctors gave her a good outlook, she wrote.

“They say I’m younger and fitter than most people who confront this disease and will be cured.”

Tallman says that most patients are not cured of MDS but their prognosis depends mostly on the kinds of genetic changes taking place in their blood cells and the availability of a stem cell donor. While being younger and fitter than most patients should help a patient’s chances of a cure, he called those “soft” factors.

A transplant is a big undertaking, Tallman says, and patients can’t have the procedure if they are older or too sick. Patients who have the transplant spend about four weeks in the hospital, he said, to be monitored for infection and bleeding.

The biggest risk from such a transplant is graft vs. host disease, in which the stem cells reject their new home and attack the host body, Tallman says. Also, the disease can come back after a transplant.

In a transplant, patients receive chemotherapy, sometimes with radiation, to kill the bad cells, which are then replaced with an infusion of healthy stem cells, said Tallman.

“They go on to repopulate the bone marrow with healthy blood cells,” Tallman said. “It’s like replanting a garden with stem cells. You plant. You wait and then the flowers will start growing.”

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Tommy Chong has a not-so-funny announcement to make. The comedian and actor best known as one half of the pot-loving duo Cheech & Chong, has prostate cancer, he told CNN Saturday in an interview about his fight to help legalize marijuana.

Chong, 74, explained that he noticed symptoms about eight years ago, but was only diagnosed "about a month ago."

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"I've got prostate cancer, and I'm treating it with hemp oil, with cannabis," Chong revealed. "So [legalizing marijuana] means a lot more to me than just being able to smoke a joint without being arrested."

He assured CNN's Don Lemon that his cancer is a "slow stage one [that I've] had for a long time ... I know it had nothing to do with cannabis; cannabis is a cure."

The star said he quit smoking pot "for health reasons" about a year ago, but ingests hemp oil at night "so I won't be woozy all day ... I'm taking it as medicine."

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Jon Hamm as Don Draper in "Mad Men"

Life moves on after Lane Pryce's (Jared Harris) untimely demise last week. Ironically business at Sterling Cooper Draper -- minus the Pryce -- is booming, but Don Draper's (Jon Hamm) personal life is unraveling.

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Dream Maker: Poor Megan (Jessica Par) spends much of the episode wallowing in self-pity. She can't get a job and Don won't use his pull to help her land a national commercial. Although we must say we kind of love this backstabbing Megan who didn't recommend her friend for the job. We do feel badly for Megan when her mother is a royal witch to her. Squashing dreams should only happen when you are not a houseguest.

Love Shock: Remember when Rory Gilmore got naked in "Mad Men" a few weeks ago? Beth (Alexis Bledel) is back with some shocking news for Pete (Vincent Kartheiser) -- she's depressed and going in for electroshock treatment. Our guess is she's hoping to forget her terrible husband. Her last wish is to sleep with Pete -- frankly that wouldn't be our choice, but whatevs -- but she ends up forgetting their blissful afternoon. While Pete is heartbroken, we can't help but notice how many miserable, beautiful women there are in this show.

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Gin and Guilt: Don's guilt over Lane's death has turned into an abscessed tooth and hallucinations of his half-brother, Adam. He couldn't save Adam or Lane and is he destined to make the same mistakes for the rest of his life? Don makes some strides this week, he does indeed help Megan land the national commercial of her dreams.

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Watching Don watch Megan's screen test was one of the more beautiful shots of the season. He looked genuinely in love and she was the happiest we've seen her, but with the episode ending on him being propositioned by two beautiful women, is it only a matter of time before he slips into old habits? Ghost Adam did tell him that it's not his tooth that is rotten. 

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Less Than Subtle: "Mad Men" is usually subtle and nuanced, but tonight's finale hit us over the head with a few themes that showrunner Matthew Weiner clearly didn't want us to miss. One being Megan starring in a "Beauty and the Beast"-themed commercial. Another is Don's psychosomatic pain and guilt. We get to witness Pete getting forcibly kicked off the commuter train after finding a worse husband. And we're treated to Roger (John Slattery) in his birthday suit embracing the city and his new single life.

The list goes on and on. We just wish Weiner would trust us like he did a few seasons ago. While our hours of "Real Housewives" viewing has increased, we swear we can still understand subtext. 

ONE-LINERS 

 "It'll go away, it always does." -- Don

"Working? She did three days on 'Dark Shadows' and then they fired her and then cut her out." -- Megan

"I wanted to spend Easter with my daughter. My husband is an atheist." -- Marie

"Not every little girl gets to do what they want. The world could not support that many ballerinas." -- Marie 

"You had no right to fill a man like that with ambition." -- Mrs. Pryce 

"Stop being demure, you're already on the bed." -- Roger

"You're in bad shape, Dick." -- Adam

"Don't worry I'll hang around. Get it?" -- Adam

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Larry Hagman as J.R. Ewing in 1982.

It was the talk of summer 1980. We were soft-rockin' out to Christopher Cross' "Sailing," lining up to see "Airplane!" and "The Blues Brothers" (tickets cost a whopping $2.50) and watching Howard Cosell hosting "Battle of the Network Stars."

But the big question in entertainment was three simple words. Well, really, two words and two letters: Who shot J.R.?

J.R. Ewing, played dastardly by Texas-born actor Larry Hagman on the primetime soap "Dallas," was the oil baron we all loved to hate. And so did his own family. His competitors. Employees. Wife. "Half the people in Dallas," cracked his enemy Cliff Barnes.

And on a March episode, in a brilliant bit of spooky screenwriting, J.R. , drinking coffee in a darkened office, heard a noise.

 "Who's there?" he called. Two bullets were his only answer. He collapsed, the credits rolled, and from March to November, families and office pools put bets on who the shooter was. T-shirts boasted "I shot J.R.," a novelty song was written about the plot, and reportedly even England's Queen Mum was fascinated.

And, as Ultimate Dallas reports, fans had to wait an additional two months -- until November -- to learn the killer's identity. An Ctor's strike pushed the new TV season back, giving fans eight full months to gnaw on theories.

J.R.'s poor wife Sue Ellen, unsurprisingly drunk at the time, got the blame first, and was jailed, with father-in-law Jock (the sorely missed Jim Davis) turning on her with a vengeance.

But in the end, it was Kristin Shepard, Sue Ellen's sister and J.R.'s mistress, who did the deed, stealing J.R.'s gun from Sue Ellen by tempting the onetime beauty queen with liquor and later sneaking the weapon back into Sue Ellen's closet.

When she finally confessed to J.R. and Sue Ellen, the "Dallas" writers had another twist up their sleeves. You can't jail me, Kristin taunted, "Not unless you want YOUR CHILD born in prison."

Cue the DUH-DUH-DUH swelling music. Yes, pregnancy, the convenient wrench thrown into all soap-opera stories.

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The cast of the original "Dallas."

It didn't end well for Kristin, however. After hightailing it out of Dallas, she miscarries J.R.'s child, and delivers another with her husband before dramatically falling off a balcony and drowning in the Southfork pool. Her son, Christopher, would be adopted by J.R.'s brother Bobby and his wife Pam, and is now played by Jesse Metcalfe on the "Dallas" revival show, beginning June 13.

But "Who Shot J.R.?" had an influence that went beyond that November episode. The show was the highest-rated TV episode until the "M*A*S*H" finale beat it in 1983. "Dallas" was hugely popular worldwide, and it's estimated that 83 million people tuned in for the revelation.

It changed TV forever. Suddenly, Hollywood realized they could use cliffhangers to keep viewers buzzing about their shows even in the off-season. New 24-7 news network CNN got a boost from the attention given to the show, as it kept reporting on rumors and twists. And TIME critic Richard Corliss credits "Dallas" with paving the way for more addictive shows to come, including "Hill Street Blues" and "thirtysomething."

Larry Hagman would later call it the "shot heard round the world," and indeed, in the world of television, it was just that.

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• Men aged 18-to-25 had to register for the draft
• Terry Fox was on his inspiring run across Canada

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Get out your cowboy boots and 10-gallon hat, because "Dallas" is returning to the small screen on Wednesday. And once you've got that hat and boots on, you'll be in good company, because Larry Hagman -- who starred as the iconic J.R. Ewing in the original series that ran from 1978-1991 and is returning in the (pardon the pun) reboot -- apparently is never seen without his own.

"I keep them on all the time," he told TODAY's Ann Curry and Willie Geist on Monday.

Hagman, along with original cast members Linda Gray and Patrick Duffy, joined  fellow cast members Brenda Strong, Josh Henderson, Jesse Metcalfe, Jordana Brewster and Julie Gonzalo on the set to chat about the show's past and future.

Duffy said the show -- which picks up at Southfork exactly 20 years after the original ended -- is meant to be a continuation. "It's as if you just didn't tune in for 20 years, and you were on the wrong channel. And if you turn to the right channel, here we are.... We consider this year 14 of the show."

So why go back now? "Money," said Hagman, whose J.R. starts off in a nursing home ... but is quickly roaring back to rare form. "It doesn't last long, I tell you that," he said.

Hagman impressed the young actors around him, most particularly Henderson, who plays his son on the show (and is learning all of J.R.'s old nasty tricks): "When he steps on set it really kind of consumes the room," said Henderson. "My first scene with him, I remember just staring at him and it was my time to talk and I literally forgot my lines."

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And when Hagman "summoned" (Duffy's word) the cast to his home for a dinner, they got a chance to check out his extensive collection of photos and memorabilia. It turns out that the actor really does keep his costume consistent, no matter where he is, as Metcalfe pointed out: "He has photos of himself everywhere in the world, in his hat and boots. He's in a gondola in hat and boots!"

So the big question for long time fans is this: Will the new "Dallas" all turn out to be a dream? Duffy (whose character Bobby appeared to be dead for a full season and then turned up in the shower, changing the whole storyline) won't rule it out. "If we can get (ratings) out of it...." he chuckled.

"Dallas" premieres on June 13 at 9 p.m. ET on TNT.

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