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Source: Variety Another TV-to-movie adaptation has been announced, with reports that a film version of T.J. Hooker is in the works.

Concert Review: Def Leppard Def Leppard's frontman Joe Elliott. "Don't need nothin' but a good time," goes that old rock chesnut by '80s glam-metal outfit Poison.

Nick Van Eede and his band Cutting Crew will perform at The Depot. On July 8, The Depot audience will get the all-too-rare experience to Wang Chung that night.

An approaching warm front and low will bring rain to the Tri-Atate late this morning to Indiana and then spread eastward this afternoon.

I'm not old enough to remember the 70's SNL. I vote 90's by default. Some credit is due to the 84-85 season with rent-a-stars Martin Short, Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer.

The annual fireworks market on the Tulalip Indian Reservation is well-known as the place to buy explosives that experts say aren't fireworks but are small bombs.

Instead, we're moving on in the Keyboard Kimura UFC 100 , our countdown of the Greatest Fighters in UFC History, and we kick off this round with another Ultimate Fighter winner.

Elvin Lim is Assistant Professor of Government at Wesleyan University and author of The Anti-intellectual Presidency , which draws on interviews with more than 40 presidential speechwriters to investigate this relentless qualitative decline, over the course of 200 years, in our presidentsa ability to communicate with the public.

As I sit here and write this today I can't help but feel my own mortality. The world has lost two of its greatest '80s icons and I can't help but think about how bittersweet life is, and how quickly our days seem to fly by.

Born in New York City, Dres was raised in North Carolina where he met fellow NYC native Mista Lawnge.

Please Don't Hate On 7.01.09: Michael Jackson Posted by Jay Carroll on 07.01.2009 This week, I'll examine and defend Michael Jackson's persona against the public perception of The Man In The Mirror.

With so many 80's icons giving up the ghost this past week, there has also been crazy rumors floating around the interwebs.

Personally, I couldn't give a flying proverbial about the passing of one Mr. Jackson. He wrote some kickin' tunes in the early 80's but, from the time of 'Bad' onwards, discharged great blobs of sonic bilge into the ether which have infected our radio and telly waves ever since.

Rick Astley, an 80's pop star, fell victim to an internet death hoax this week. His 'death' was reported in a fake Associated Press release, which claimed the singer was found dead in a Berlin hotel room today.

Accessories are a great option for picking up on current trends because therea s not as much worry about fit, and often just a small touch of a oetrendya can update an entire look.

If the latest 'Transformers' movie has you reminiscing about the 80's cartoon -- you're in luck.

Now: Sunday starts off on a sunny note in Philadelphia as we are wedged between a departing low pressure system in New England and an approaching one in the Great Lakes.

Another warm, sunny and beautiful day. Highs this afternoon will reach 90 degrees as high pressure sits across the Ohio Valley dominating our weather.

Thanks Michael for all those great music videos in the 80's. You were a leader, an innovator, doing completely new and great things back then.

Three iconic entertainment figures have died in the past few days. Ed McMahon, best known as Johnny Carson's sidekick, died Tuesday morning at the age of 86.