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Praised for getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Justin Bieber

Mocked after Swedish police found drugs and a stun gun on his tour bus

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The Rio Rattle

Vuvuzelas are so 2010. As the 2014 World Cup approaches, Brazil is trumpeting a nouveau noisemaker: the caxirola. The palm-size instrument won't be as annoying as its predecessor, though: it's meant to sound like maracas. Shake on, soccer fans.

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Anton Corbijn took his first photographs of singer-songwriter Tom Waits in Holland in 1977. Thirty-six years later, the duo--who've been collaborating ever...

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