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Question: Looking at the Best Drama shortlist from last year as an example, do you think many of the usual suspects like Mad Men and Breaking Bad may have their best days behind them (maybe not so much objectively as much as in short-attentioned minds of many voters), along with Homeland seeming to have edged ever-so-slightly into ludicrousness (get pacemaker serial number and induce heart attack, all without Chloe opening a socket), Downton Abbey now having a "perennial obligatory nominee" vibe, and Boardwalk Empire maybe not even deserving to make the final cut anymore, could this be the year that Game of Thrones finally breaks out of the fantasy ghetto and gets enough votes to have its name called when the big envelope is opened?
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This week, Jimmy Kimmel interviewed fans at the Coachella Music Festival about some hot new bands — the only problem is, the bands don't actually exist. But that didn't stop festival-goers from gushing about them. Elsewhere, Saturday Night Live's Kate McKinnon did her best Ellen DeGeneres impersonation in front of Ellen herself, and Boardwalk Empire's Steve Buscemi discovered a family connection with the band Vampire Weekend. Also, in random celebrity strokes of genius, Tilda Swinton led the audience at Ebertfest in a dance to Barry White in remembrance of Roger Ebert, and Buscemi's Boardwalk castmate Michael Shannon did a dramatic (and NSFW!) reading of a nasty letter from a sorority president. Check out those clips and more in our weekly roundup of Top Videos:
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"C--- punt" never sounded so awesome.
Ever since the infamous, profanity-laced Delta Gamma sorority letter was released last week, everyone has been clamoring for a celebrity to do a dramatic reading of the e-mail that featured one of the best expletives of the year. It seems only fitting that Michael Shannon, the Boardwalk Empire star who will next play psychotic villain General Zod in Man of Steel, is the lucky actor!
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Patricia Arquette has joined the cast of Boardwalk Empire for Season 4, TVGuide.com has confirmed.
The former Medium star will play...
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Boardwalk Empire's Jack Huston and his girlfriend Shannan Click have welcomed their first child, People reports.
The craziest celebrity baby names
Sage Lavinia Huston was born April 6 in...
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