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Obviously Joyce Carol Oates novels and Ryan Adams albums -- but what else? »

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With that in mind, we started thinking about some other sports we wish they played in the Olympics. Cricket, sure, and it's pretty crazy the Olympics don't include golf. But why limit our discussion to sports that actually exist? What about Quidditch? It's the wizarding world's favorite sport, appearing in some of the most popular books ever written. We'd watch world-class Quidditch players in action. Wouldn't you? With that in mind, here are ten fictional sports we wish we could see played in Beijing.

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We've ranked each of the serious contenders using Vulture's patented Summerability Formula™, which quantitatively adds up a track's radio airplay, iTunes sales, and magnitude of pop-cultural penetration, then multiplies that number by how awesome we find the song's chorus. After the jump, you'll find Vulture's Top Five Songs of the Summer.

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Well, soon it'll be 2009 Academy Award winner Wall-E, but which of Pixar's eight previous wonders of the movie world will this week's apparent masterpiece be supplanting atop the list? Every Pixar movie has its proponents: Foodies love Ratatouille; sentimentalists love Toy Story; dads love Finding Nemo; cars love Cars. But which is actually the best? And which is the worst? And what does "worst" mean when you're talking about Pixar? Vulture breaks it down, after the jump.

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Celebrity Family Feud! A new Gong Show! Something called Hurl! »

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It is a dearly held belief among many young, city-dwelling adults that the threshold to adolescence is paved with gangsta rap, slasher flicks, and hard-core pornography. Like most adults, these people have no clue what’s happening with kids today. The great tradition of clean-cut teenage entertainment — long elbowed to the pop-culture margins by the likes of James Dean, Cheech and Chong, and Kurt Cobain — has roared back to life in the digital age, fueled by tweens with disposable allowances and high-speed Internet connections. And fascinatingly, it has spawned a new breed of young stars: the Goody-Goodies. This slideshow presents the top ten churchgoing, non-drinking, promise-ring-wearing singer-actors from inside and outside the Disney universe — along with their great shames and potential for corruption. You probably know Miley Cyrus, the 15-year-old Hannah Montana star with so wholesome an image that Vanity Fair created an uproar merely by publishing a picture of her (um) bare back. Before you start pooh-poohing the goody-goody lifestyle, just remember: You’re old, and no one cares what you think anyhow. —Nick Catucci

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Well, why stop with What Happens in Vegas…? Here are ten other sayings we hope Hollywood adapts into movies soon. Feel free to borrow our pitches, after the jump!