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Kelsey Grammer

The Frasier star’s new series, Boss, was renewed before its first episode even aired.

Roseanne Barr

Roseanne’s Nuts, a reality show about her Hawaiian nut farm, was canceled.

NOSTALGIA WATCH

MOVIES

Dogs and Cats, Living Together

Who cares about all those Ghostbusters 3 rumors? The original will be screened each Thursday this October in about 500 movie theaters nationwide. Which means that you’ll be hearing nonstop Bill Murray quotes (“so, she’s a dog”) starting about …

BOX OFFICE

He Is Simba. Hear Him Roar

Look upon The Lion King, new movies, and despair. Disney’s 3-D rerelease of its mid-’90s hit has been this fall’s surprise, taking the No. 1 spot for two weeks in a row and bounding by Finding Nemo in all-time animated-movie box office. The strategy is not a new one for the studio, which used to rerelease its major films every seven years or so.

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Shrek the Third $322 million

Finding Nemo $339 million

The Lion King $391 million

The Lion King 3D grossed $62 million after being absent from the big screen for 17 years

Toy Story 3 $415 million

Shrek 2 $441 million

Numbers represent total domestic gross since release

SOURCE: BOX OFFICE MOJO

OINK, OINK AND AWAY

To celebrate its reissue of Pink Floyd’s 14 studio albums, EMI Music re-created the cover of the band’s 1977 LP Animals by flying an inflatable pig over London’s Battersea Power Station. During the original shoot, the pig reportedly floated away and landed in a field.

$84,000,000

First-week gross of the nine-disc Blu-ray box set of the Star Wars saga. How many copies of Empire does the average person need?

MUSIC

Sly Stone, No Home

Years of drug abuse, poor management and financial extravagance have left funk legend Sly Stone homeless. The musician, who along with his band the Family Stone is famous for the songs “Dance to the Music” and “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin),” lives in a van parked on Crenshaw Boulevard in Los Angeles.

BOOKS

Mystery Solved

More than 125 years after its composition, The Narrative of John Smith, the first novel by Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, was published in the U.K. on Sept. 26. The story, the manuscript of which was lost in the mail and later rewritten by Conan Doyle from memory, is about a middle-aged man confined to his room after a gout attack. How 19th century!

VERBATIM

‘The protagonist of the book, her name is Tookie De La Crème.’

TYRA BANKS, revealing the name of her debut novel’s lead character, who surprisingly is not a drag queen. Modelland, the first in a three-book young-adult series, will follow a teen who attends an elite modeling academy

MANIPULATING THE NEWS

A new exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington investigates Andy Warhol’s fascination with tabloid culture. “Warhol: Headlines,” on view through Jan. 2, features dozens of paintings, photos and videos composed of low-rent news stories doctored by the Pop artist (displayed alongside the original sources). Some works, such as A Boy for Meg [2], above, are painted replicas of newspaper pages, while others, like Daily News, left, are emblazoned with bright colors that are distinctly Warholian. It’s enough to warrant at least 15 minutes of your time.

MUSIC

And the Nominees Are …

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will choose from this group of artists to fill its class of 2012:

Hall of Fame Ballot

Guns N’ Roses

Freddie King

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

The Small Faces

Eric B. and Rakim

The Cure

Heart

Rufus with Chaka Khan

The Spinners

AGRICULTURE

She’s Too Sexy for This Farm

A farmer in Northern Ireland halted a video shoot for Rihanna’s “We Found Love,” which was being filmed in his barley field, because the singer was too scantily dressed. He then recommended that she “and her friends … acquaint themselves with a greater God.” Or clothing.

4 THINGS YOU DON’T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THIS WEEK

1. Figuring out how to console your newly unemployed friends.

Hallmark has started selling sympathy cards for the jobless.

2. Ever having to see another Nancy Grace wardrobe malfunction.

The merciful laws of the universe dictate that one shall suffice.

3. Wondering why Andy Rooney still has a job.

The grizzled, grumpy 60 Minutes commentator is stepping down from his decades-long gig. Someone should send him a Hallmark card.

4. The killing of bulls for sport.

In Barcelona, at least–bullfighting is now banned in Catalonia.