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Musician Moby plays a DJ set at the Dance Tent during the Virgin Mobile Festival on August 10, 2008. (John Tully/The Washington Times)

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Isaac Hayes is shown performing at the Michigan State Fair in Detroit in 2002. Mr. Hayes, who had a compelling visual image, died in 2008. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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Dave Grohl, lead singer and guitarist of the Foo Fighters plays on the south stage. (Allison Shelley/The Washington Times)

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In this undated photo provided by the Discovery Channel, Brian Greer sorts Alaskan crabs in an episode of "Deadliest Catch," the network's hit reality series.

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Alan Rickman's diverse acting career has landed him roles in such films as "Sense and Sensibility."

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Former "At the Movies" co-host Richard Roeper (left) and founder Roger Ebert are seen in Los Angeles in 2005, when Mr. Ebert was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. (Associated Press)

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A giant portrait of Chairman Mao is removed from the Museum of Chinese History on Tiananmen Square in 1981, signaling the end of the so-called cult of personality sustained by Mao's widow and the rest of the Gang of Four. (Photo from the book CHINA, edited by Liu Heung Shing)

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SPEAKING UP: Conservative singer Pat Boone says that "word is getting out that there's many of us in this business." Watch: www.washingtontimes.com/media/video.(PETER LOCKLEY/THE WASHINGTON TIMES)

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** FILE ** Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura appears on Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" in April 2008. (Fox News Channel)

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JonBenet Ramsey performs during a beauty pageant in an undated photo taken from a family video. (Associated Press)

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Members of international relief group Oxfam, dressed as G-8 leaders, hold balloons representing the amount of carbon the countries emit per capita, near the summit in Japan on Tuesday. (Associated Press)

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Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney play America's founding couple John and Abigail Adams in the well-received miniseries "John Adams," which will be rebroadcast Friday by HBO.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Ted Haigh, curator of the Museum of the American Cocktail, displays parts of the antique liquor collection in New Orleans. The museum, which opens July 21, will feature Prohibition-era literature and rare memorabilia.

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**FILE** Silk flowers and wedding-planning guides are among the items available at St. Anthony's Bridal in Bethesda, a one-stop lending shop for engaged couples. (The Washington Times)

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Associated Press President Bush presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Annette Lantos, wife of the late Rep. Tom Lantos of California, during a ceremony honoring Mr. Lantos and five others with the nation's highest civilian award.

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Writer-artist Rick Remender

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Sewell "Winterhawk" Fitzhugh, leader of the Nause-Waiwash Band of Indians, stands by the headstone of his great-grandparents at a chapel in Wesley at Elliott's Island, Md. Mr. Fitzhugh presides over birth, marriage and death rites for the tribe.

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** FILE ** Seen here two days before the 1992 presidential election, Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton dance on stage at a rally at the Brendan Byrne Arena in East Rutherford, N.J. Fleetwood Mac's "Don't Stop" was that year's campaign theme song. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Madonna talks to children during the launch of her fourth book, ’The Adventures of Abdi,’ in a London department store on Nov. 11, 2004. Sri Lankan musicians are trying to rally stars such as Elton John, Madonna and Ricky Martin to record an album to raise relief funds for countries hit by the Dec. 26 tsunami. (Associated Press)