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Milli Vanilli's two frontmen in leather jackets giving a thumbs up beside another man in front of a row of red drums

Blame It on the Tape: How Milli Vanilli Lost Their Grammy in 1990

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The red-brick Home Alone house at 671 Lincoln Avenue in Winnetka, Illinois, seen from the street behind bare trees

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Neil Young in a dark hat sings into a microphone while playing a black Les Paul guitar in front of a giant Fender amplifier backdrop on stage in 2013

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Grace Kelly in a pink shirt and rolled-up jeans, sitting on the floor in a 1954 studio portrait

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Rick Astley in a dark suit singing into a microphone under blue stage lights at the Terramar Festival in Sitges, 2019. Alterna2, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Costumed Sesame Street characters, including Elmo, Cookie Monster and Grover, on stage as a crowd of young children reaches up to greet them

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Gordon Ramsay in a striped apron prepares fish at a steel counter while a TV crew films him in front of a crowd at a London food market

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Joni Mitchell in blue velvet sings with a line of performers at her 2023 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize concert, her painted self-portraits hanging above the stage. Photo: Shawn Miller/Library of Congress, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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A giant skeleton puppet reaches over a crowd in Mexico City's Zocalo during the Day of the Dead parade, with the Metropolitan Cathedral behind

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Henry Winkler, white-haired, in a pink sweater and checked shirt, speaking on stage with a headset microphone

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Director John Carpenter, with long white hair and a gray moustache, in a gray jacket against a dark wall in 2010

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Taylor Swift singing on a small stage platform during the 1989 World Tour, with her close-up projected on a giant screen beside a tree

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Owen Pryce · October 27, 2026

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A traditional Irish jack-o'-lantern carved from a turnip, with two hollow eyes and a wide open mouth full of uneven teeth, displayed in a museum case

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Owen Pryce · October 25, 2026

A man in a red shirt flinches as another man pours a white bucket of ice water over his head on a football field, with a marching band and tubas behind them

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Ryan Reynolds smiling on the red carpet at the Deadpool 2 premiere in Japan

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Jenna Holloway · October 23, 2026

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