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Here's what's being talked about in pop culture:
• NBC has picked its 2017 holiday live musical: "Bye Bye Birdie," with Jennifer Lopez starring as Rosie, the long-suffering girlfriend of music agent Albert. (Lopez' role was originated on Broadway by Chita Rivera, and played in the 1963 movie by Janet Leigh.) [The Hollywood Reporter]
• The pioneering rap group A Tribe Called Quest will drop what they call their "final" album in November, following the "blueprint" of the band's deceased co-founder Phife Dawg. [Vulture]
• Samantha Bee will be the first female late-night host to interview a president, when she has President Barack Obama on her TBS show "Full Frontal" on Halloween. [The Huffington Post]