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FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 6, 1989 file photo, musician George Michael holds his trophy after winning the 1989 Video "Vanguard Award" for his "Father Figure" video during the MTV Music Awards at the Universal Ampitheatre in Universal City, Calf. Michael, who rocketed to stardom with WHAM! and went on to enjoy a long and celebrated solo career lined with controversies, has died, his publicist said Sunday, Dec. 25, 2016. He was 53. (AP Photo/Alan Greth)
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FILE - In this Friday, July 10, 2015 file photo, from left, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford attend a panel at Comic-Con International in San Diego, Calif. On Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2016, a family publicist said Fisher died at the age of 60. With the loss of several icons of Generation X’s youth, the year 2016 has left the generation born between the early 1960s and the early 1980s, wallowing in memories and contemplating its own mortality. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
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FILE - In this April 22, 2016 file photo, flowers lie on a T-shirt signed by fans at a makeshift memorial for musician Prince outside the Apollo Theater in New York. The singer died April 21, 2016, at the age of 57. With the loss of several icons of Generation X’s youth, the year 2016 has left the generation born between the early 1960s and the early 1980s, wallowing in memories and contemplating its own mortality. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, File)
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"Star Wars: Episode VIII" is Fandango.com's "most anticipated" film of the coming year, Variety reported on Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016. (Image credit: the Internet Movie Database)
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Traffic is seen on main street in front of the local grain elevator, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016, in Renwick, Iowa. Once-bustling Renwick has lost many businesses as its population declined, but when the town's sole bar closed this year, a group of friends pooled their money to repair and reopen the place as the Blue Moose Saloon. They said without a meeting place, Renwick wouldn't be much of a town. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
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FILE - In a Friday, Nov. 4, 2016 file photo, Chicago Cubs' Anthony Rizzo holds up the World Series final out ball during a rally in Grant Park honoring the World Series baseball champions, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)
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FILE- In this June 8, 2016, file photo, a portrait of Muhammad Ali is displayed next to a pair of boxing gloves at the "I Am Ali Festival" at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts in Louisville, Ky. Ali died on June 3, 2016. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, May 31, 2016 file photo, U.S. Senate candidate Catherine Cortez Masto, center, speaks to supporters during an event at a restaurant in Las Vegas. In the November 2016 election, the former Nevada state attorney general became the first Latina in the U.S. Senate when she was elected to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Harry Reid. (AP Photo/John Locher)
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FILE - In this Saturday, July 9, 2016 file photo, Black Lives Matter supporters march after a gathering in Loring Park in Minneapolis, Minn. The movement denounces the shootings of unarmed black men by police officers. (Isaac Hale/Star Tribune via AP)
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FILE - In this Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016 file photo, President Barack Obama points upward during the dedication ceremony for the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington. “It is a monument, no less than the others on this Mall, to the deep and abiding love for this country, and the ideals upon which it is founded. For we, too, are America," he said. At left is first lady Michelle Obama. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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FILE - In this April 28, 2016, file photo, Mississippi's Laremy Tunsil is interviewed after by ESPN reporter Suzy Kolber after being selected by the Miami Dolphins as the 13th pick in the first round of the 2016 NFL football draft, in Chicago. Tunsil cost himself a boatload of money, plummeting in the NFL draft after a video of him smoking from a bong was posted minutes before the selections began. (AP Photo/Jeff Hayes, File)
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Flowers, candles and portraits are placed at a pier in honour of the victims of the military plane crash, in Sochi, Russia, in Sochi, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016. All 84 passengers and eight crew members on the Russian military's Tu-154 plane are believed to have died Sunday morning when it crashed two minutes after taking off from the southern Russian city of Sochi. (AP Photo/Viktor Klyushin)
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Amber Clisura poses for a picture next to the meat smoker she donated to the new Museum of Broken Relationships Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016, in Los Angeles. After her husband asked for a divorce, Clisura gave back her engagement ring, kicked him out of the house and tossed everything that reminded her of the ruined marriage. Except for one item: a polished steel barbecue smoker that her future ex-husband had fashioned for her from an old oil drum. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
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Amber Clisura poses for a picture next to the meat smoker she donated to the new Museum of Broken Relationships Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016, in Los Angeles. After her husband asked for a divorce, Clisura gave back her engagement ring, kicked him out of the house and tossed everything that reminded her of the ruined marriage. Except for one item: a polished steel barbecue smoker that her future ex-husband had fashioned for her from an old oil drum. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
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A visitor tours the new Museum of Broken Relationships Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016, in Los Angeles. The museum displays artifacts from failed unions, most of them mundane under ordinary circumstances. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
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A meat smoker is displayed at the Museum of Broken Relationships Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016, in Los Angeles. After her husband asked for a divorce, Amber Clisura gave back her engagement ring, kicked him out of the house and tossed everything that reminded her of the ruined marriage. Except for one item: a polished steel barbecue smoker that her future ex-husband had fashioned for her from an old oil drum. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
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A jar of pickles purchased for a first love is displayed at the new Museum of Broken Relationships Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016 in Los Angeles. The Museum of Broken Relationships displays artifacts from failed unions, most of them mundane under ordinary circumstances. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
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An envelope of leaves mailed from Canada to San Diego so a long-distance paramour could experience changing seasons in Southern California is displayed at the Los Angeles branch of the Museum of Broken Relationships Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016 in Los Angeles. The Museum of Broken Relationships displays artifacts from failed unions, most of them mundane under ordinary circumstances. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
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Amber Clisura poses for a picture next to the meat smoker she donated to the new Museum of Broken Relationships Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016, in Los Angeles. The Museum of Broken Relationships displays artifacts from failed unions, most of them mundane under ordinary circumstances. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
