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WEDNESDAY, January 19, 2011

Regis Philbin has announced that this will be his last season on “Regis & Kelly.”  He’s keeping busy, though -- next season he’ll co-star with Andy Rooney on ABC’s remake of “Miami Vice.”

During Sunday’s Golden Globes,  host Rickey Gervais told a joke that implied Tom Cruise and John Travolta are gay.  The boys took it like sports, but Oprah was spotted in Valet Parking deflating the tires on Ricky’s stretch limo.

After a year of research, Starbucks has introduced the 31-ounce “Trenta,” a super-sized cup for iced coffee, tea or lemonade.   A company spokesman described the new size as “a Slurpee with a college education.”

Seven -Eleven has debuted their own house brand wine and it appears to be a success -- customers are already hosting their own wine, mac-and-cheese tasting parties.

Playboy is running its first-ever centerfold model photographed in 3-D.  As if men  didn’t already have enough trouble hiding the magazine, now they’ll have to stash the 3-D glasses, too.

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