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The year was 1983, the song, Sunglasses at Night. It was impossible to turn on a radio and avoid hearing it. The infectious tune had an unforgettable hook and the man behind the shades, then-21-year-old Corey Hart, had pouty, pensive good looks tailor-made for MTV stardom.

So the TV heavyweight championship of the summer is set. Kelly Clarkson, 20, and Justin Guarini, 23, will do battle next Tuesday in a two-hour prime time fight to see who will be voted the American Idol.

So the TV heavyweight championship of the summer is set. Kelly Clarkson, 20, and Justin Guarini, 23, will do battle next Tuesday in a two-hour prime time fight to see who will be voted the American Idol.

Something is rotten in the state of Hollywood. How gullible do the producers of ''American Idol'' think we really are?

When Burt Bacharach turned up on ''American Idol'' last week, all of my vague, unexamined instincts against this series suddenly came into focus: Aside from the string of hits he had with singer Dionne Warwick and lyricist Hal David, I've never had much use for Bacharach's overwrought, all-chorus, no verse tunesmithing (yep, I listened to the Elvis Costello collaboration, too).

Okay, do I need a new contact prescription or was that Justin up there with the other bottom three contestants?

It is one of the ironies of the television business: In an industry where name recognition is everything, the highest form of a success is when people stop using the name of your show.

Take girls on surf boards, big Hawaiian waves and cutting-edge cinematography and you have the ingredients for a different kind of teen movie -- Blue Crush, opening Friday.

The event: Opening night and the after-party of the new Broadway musical Hairspray, based on John Waters's 1988 cult movie.

It was the decade of pastels and parachute pants, of MTV and Miami Vice, of Morning in America and Where's the beef?

M. Night Shyamalan still has tricks up his sleeve as he continues his artistic love affair with the supernatural, the paranormal, and the just plain inexplicable with his latest film, Signs.

The event: The premiere and post-party of The Good Girl, starring Jennifer Aniston. The famous friend plays Justine, an unhappily married woman who discovers her soul mate in a mysterious younger man, played by Jake Gyllenhaal.

The main event: The MTV Video Music Awards, hosted by SNL's Jimmy Fallon, descended upon Radio City Music Hall and literally took New York City by storm on Thursday. But the rain didn't wash out any of the week's celebrity-saturated soirées.

''You're so outrageous!'' trill the voices in the theme song to ''The Anna Nicole Show,'' but based on Sunday night's premiere episode, the lyric should be changed to ''You're so sad!''

If you're hoping to read an article about an author's uplifting stories of cute little children, loving families and cuddly animals, read no more. This is not that piece, and you should click over to the nearest Chicken Soup for the Soul Web site to assuage your disappointment.

When people think of Elvis Presley, they think of many things.

What was supposed to be a quick chat ended up changing Ann Jillian's life. The sultry blonde actress and singer, who had recently been through breast cancer surgery, was asked to give a five-minute speech at a women's event in New Orleans in 1985.

Adam Duritz is getting used to being famous. More or less.

Lighten up? Just because it's summertime? Not likely.

It's now official. Vin Diesel, otherwise known to his mom and dad as Mark Vincent, is a bona fide movie action star. That's what happens when your first major leading role makes more than $40 million in its opening weekend.

What do you do when you get hit hard? If you're Sara Moore (Elizabeth Hurley), a wealthy cattle ranch owner who is about to be served divorce papers by her philandering husband, you hit back harder.

Before there was Madonna, before there was Eminem, before there was Flea or Cher or Bono or Sade or Moby or Sisqo, there was Elvis.

August 16th marks the 25th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death -- a fact that legions of Presley fans no doubt view as highly significant, an excuse for everything from memorial barbecues to day-long blocks of Elvis music. Me, I couldn't care less. As Public Enemy's Chuck D once remarked, ''Elvis was a hero to most, but he never meant s--- to me.''

After leading a life that could have been spun from the pen of a daytime-TV scribe, somehow it makes sense that Todd Bridges, the former child star who charmed audiences on the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, won a role on the soap opera The Young and the Restless.

I spent much of last night packing, and I'm ready to renounce my American citizenship and move to Canada where the citizens would never have voted off Tamyra Gray, the most talented of the entire ''American Idol'' bunch.

Many people in Western cultures associate feng shui (pronounced fung shway) with the arrangement of furniture in homes and offices, but some beauty professionals want beauty and fashion to become a well-known application of the ancient practice.

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He went from a humble birth in a shotgun shack in Tupelo, Mississippi, to rhinestone-studded super stardom, but during his roller coaster-like ascension and eventual fall, Elvis Presley never stopped humming gospel songs.

I first heard one of Joe Bonamassa's songs in Austin, Texas, while visiting family and hitting the city's music scene. I was in my grandmother's Buick station wagon when If Heartaches Were Nickels, came on the radio. I almost caused a pile-up, pulling to the side of the road searching for something to write down the name of the band.

In The Good Girl, Jennifer Aniston strays from her trendy It Girl image to play dowdy discount store cashier Justine.

Single mom Jennifer (Jennifer Esposito) is looking for love and a way to earn a paycheck. Pistachio Disguisey (Dana Carvey) is looking for an assistant and a way to thwart his family's archenemy.

For a time in the late '60s and early '70s, Laura Nyro was probably the most successful songwriter in the world.

The Scoop recently talked with Miguel Arteta about directing Friends star Jennifer Aniston in the new indie film The Good Girl.

Remember the '80s outburst of country-club chic -- polo shirts, khakis, straw bags?

Collective sigh of relief, please? Okay. Thank you, America!

Decades before Rosie O'Donnell earned the title the Queen of Nice, Alison Arngrim, who played nasty Nellie Oleson on Little House on the Prairie, could have been crowned the Princess of Mean.