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Kanye West should get poison ivy

Monday September 14, 2009 9:00 AM By Jessica Damiano

I was so touched watching the VMAs last night on MTV when Madonna took the stage with her heartfelt account of her brief friendship with Michael Jackson. The tribute that followed was tasteful and entertaining, and I felt for Janet Jackson when I saw the emotion on her face after she danced to his Scream video, in which she ordinarily appears but was cleverly erased from last night, making...

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