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It’s not often an artist comes along as strikingly talented, critically praised and with as much commercial viability as Beyonce. Let us not forget however, that despite today’s nearly universal acceptance of the woman born Beyonce Knowles as both a pop-music and overall cultural powerhouse, when the singer first struck out on her own, leaving  behind the comfort and global success of her Grammy-winning girl group, Destiny’s Child, it was far from certain as to how smoothly she’d transition to the solo game.
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It’s safe to say now, of course, Beyonce’s decision to go solo was, well, quite the wise one: in a decade’s time Queen B’s amassed five Number One singles, released several groundbreaking music videos and, alongside hubby Jay-Z, become one-half of music’s premier power couple. Naturally then, we were more than a bit psyched this week to learn that new Beyonce music — as well a brand-new Destiny’s Child track — is on the way. So what better time, we thought, to revisit Beyonce’s star-solidifying journey for this edition of Flashback Friday.

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The Twilight ending gets a proper rewrite. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler create their own drinking game for the Golden Globes. And poor Taylor Swift gets Kanye’d at an awards show…again. These are the funniest, craziest, and most WTF? videos we found surfing the Internet today.

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This morning, Seth MacFarlane and Emma Stone announced the nominees for the 85th annual Academy Awards. You can read the full list below. Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln led all films with 12 nominations, Ang Li’s Life of Pi received 11, while Silver Linings Playbook and Les Miserables garnered 8 each.
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A few observations: The Academy goes with Christoph Waltz over Leonardo DiCaprio for Best Supporting Actor (personally, I think they made the right choice). Jennifer Lawrence stars in both a teen blockbuster cashcow (The Hunger Games) AND a serious drama that nets her a Best Actress nomination (Silver Linings Playbook). And Adele releases only one song, and it just so happens to be nominated for an Oscar. Pretty good for a down year in which she was supposed to be recovering from surgery. The biggest snub? Probably Ben Afleck as Best Director for Argo. Nevertheless, 2012 was a pretty good year for Afleck as he’s just about completely shed the whole Bennifer punchline from the mid 00s and become one of the more respected actors/directors working in Hollywood today.

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The cast of Game of Thrones beatboxes. A killer Led Zeppelin/Beatles mashup. And the entire Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy in just three minutes. These are the funniest, craziest, and most WTF? videos we found surfing the Internet today.