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EVENING NIGHTCAP: 1980's "Star Search" Is Baaack. The Exorcist...With ScarJo.

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     ► "Star Search", the original "America's Got Talent", is being dusted off from whatever Hollywood crypt it's been languishing in. The original aired from 1983-1985 and was hosted by Ed McMahon. It featured 8 talent categories including female and male singers, comedian, group vocal, and spokesmodel. Over the years, attempts have been made to make FETCH happen again including a 2003-2004 reboot with Arsenio Hall. It lasted one year.  In the original version, contestants competed for $100k prize. The losers were sent home with a year's supply of Rice-A-Roni and a big "womp-womp". Some of losers ended up becoming household names. The list of losers include Aaliyah (RIP), Alanis Morissette, LeAnn Rimes, Britney Spears, Christine Aguilera, Rosie O'Donnell, Usher, Justina Timberlake (Govt Name:  Justin Randall), Drew Carey, and Beyonce (who performed as part of a group, Girls Tyme). I'm willing to bet a case of beer that Tina Knowles cam...

OPEN POST: Popular Songs You Hate: Name At Least 5 up to 10 WITH The Video Or We Won't Believe You!

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I could fill Tower Records-RIP-with the songs I hate. I hate so many songs that I could play music nonstop for a week and never repeat them. My friend played a joke on me and sent me a playlist of songs that made me want to hurt people the first time I heard them; by the third, I contemplated a prolific career as a serial murderer. This topic may appear in many forms again, so if you can't think of 10 now, don't worry your pretty little head because I'll be back. Does anyone else remember Tower Records? SF? LA on Sunset and NYC.  Not in any particular order: Shut the fuck up, Sisqo. I have seen you in person, and it ain't no ladies thongs you are interested in. Boys in thongs, sure, girls? GTFOH. Bootleg Eddie Vedder and generic 90s watered down quasi post-grunge. I wish I could kick their asses for being so nothing and a waste of sound.  Everyone goes on and on about Christina A's singing, but she hollers and  over-sings on most of her songs and does far too many r...