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Alan Thicke, who died Tuesday at the age of 69, was widely known for his starring role as Dr. Jason Seaver on Growing Pains. But the actor also had a successful side gig as a composer to some of television’s most memorable theme songs.

Here are 11 of his biggest hits:

Diff’rent Strokes

The NBC sitcom, about a rich white New York businessman who adopts two black boys from Harlem after their mother’s death, made stars out of Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges. The show premiered in Nov. 1978 and aired on the peacock network for seven seasons before moving...

If you’ve seen writer/director Erik Reese‘s debut Train to Stockholm—a personal, introspective drama—the thought of him helming a down and dirty Nevadan desert revenger doesn’t necessarily come to mind. But that’s exactly what he’s done with Dead Bullet, the successful genre jump as good a calling card as any for his talents. Starting closer to his adopted home of Finland, Reese reworked a Scandinavian-set script that didn’t quite come together as he’d like for the sweltering heat and casino bells of his hometown in the American Midwest. Rather than being about millions of dollars, uncut heroin, or illegal weapons sold to the highest bidder, this tale surrounds one hundred thousand dollars in poker chips. Chump change to Hollywood, but everything to Bill Holden (John T. Woods).

Unafraid to throw us into his world of tough guys without remorse, we don...

Louis Tomlinson is ready to give his little prince a castle. E! News has confirmed that the One Direction singer just bought a luxurious mansion in the Hollywood hills for himself and son Freddie Reign. The gorgeous property sits just off the famous Sunset strip, overlooking the iconic Hollywood sign and offering breathtaking panoramic views of Los Angeles. So how much does something like that cost, you ask? Just a mere $7.3 million. Chump change, right? Built in 1937, the 6,000-square-foot Spanish-inspired estate is a beautiful fusion of contemporary style and classic design. Including art deco influences, extraordinary windows, and curved balustrades, the property has absolutely everything that will make...

Author Dan Fante, who boozed, scrapped and wrote his way out of the considerable shadow cast by his father and fellow novelist John Fante, died Saturday. He was 71. Fante was born and died in Los Angeles, and he painted colorful prose portraits of life on the hustle in the city. Several of his books and plays, including the novel “Chump Change” and “Short Dog/Cab Driver Stories From the L.A. Streets,” drew on his experiences as a telemarketer, taxi driver, private investigator, salesman and Santa Monica Pier carnival barker. His famous father did the same thing in his books including “Ask the Dust,...

It’s the happiest time of the year! Goop’s holiday gift guide time! “This year, we decided to shake things up a little bit...” Gwyneth Paltrow explains alongside her holiday wish(es for you) list. Does that mean there won’t be thousands of dollars worth of linens like last year?!

“...and organize our annual gift guide by category.” Oh. Though she does say they “tried to keep as much as possible at the $100 mark, though there are some splurges on here for your nearest and dearest.” But how much would it cost to buy Gwyneth’s entire gift guide?

News: Take an inside look at all of Oprah’s favorite things for 2014!

If you want to say, “One of each, please!” it will cost you — scroll down for a sampling of the items from each category and scroll all the way to the bottom for the grand total (excluding “Price Upon Request” items).

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Feeling like your current home is a little too big for you? Tired of the drabness of high ceilings? Ever watched a hobbit walk out his front door and think to yourself, "Man, that guy's hobbit's got it made."?

Then do we have news for you! Per the gang over at Uproxx, a company in Maine called "Wooden Wonders" will build you your very own hobbit house for as little as $4,000. Chump change when you consider that Bilbo's home reportedly cost $3.4 million.

The hobbit houses can be used to store something as ordinary as a lawnmower, or, if you're feeling it, as precciiiooousss as, well, you. And if you want to just full-fledged go for it, it can even be embedded into the ground for an additional fee! If you're going to buy a hobbit house, you may as well make the experience as authentic as possible, right?

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(Update: Sources close to the singer say Timberlake's NYC pad is not up for sale.) This soon-to-be married Justin Timberlake is saying sayonara to his New York City bachelor pad. The 31-year-old celeb put his over 2,500 square feet posh Penthouse A in the Soho Mews building at 311 West Broadway on the market, according to Trulia, and if you're interested in getting your sexy back up in these digs, it will only cost you $7.65 million.  Chump change, right? Timberlake's place includes 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, a gas burning fireplace and a large, private terrace. A glass curtain wall offers a stunning views of Soho and the Empire State Building, and the place even has a...

Being Batman? Chump change compared to being Iron Man — not that that should surprise you considering the seven (soon to be eight) high-tech suits of armor Tony Stark has in his wardrobe.

Days after releasing The Cost of Being Batman, MoneySupermarket.com has released a new infographic detailing the hefty price tag that comes with assuming Iron Man's big-budget responsibilities. Click on to find out just how much money goes into Tony Stark's superhero hobby. Spoiler: it's a lot.

Once again, big thanks to Superhero Hype for bringing this to our attention!

Are you shocked by how much money it costs to be Iron Man, or did you thin k the price tag would be even higher? Let us know in the comments below or hit us up on Twitter!

Looking for a new home, are you? You're in luck! This beautiful house in Brentwood, Calif., was put on the market just yesterday, and it's only $4.1 million. (Chump change, right?) But wait, let us tell you about it. The property belongs to a celeb who is most famous for being on The O.C., and is described in the listing as a "Zen-like architectural retreat in the heart of Brentwood." So which small-screen star is movin' out? That would be Peter Gallagher! The actor purchased the home with wife Paula Harwood in 2007 for around $3 million. The six-bedroom, five-bath home was built in 1948 and is more than 5,000 square feet. It has an open floor plan,...

Not quite but it’s up there. Finally after years of development and labor problems and losing a director, the two part film version of the The Hobbit will soon begin production directed by Peter Jackson and sources are saying that it will be one of the most expensive films ever made with a total production cost approaching $500 million.

Thought that’s a staggering sum it, doesn’t make make it the most expensive film ever made. Both the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels, which were shot back-to- back, cost an estimated $450 million combined for both films and Spider Man 3 cost Sony Pictures a reported $500 million to make.

But the still the king of all expensive films still is the 8 hour long Russian film version of Tolstoy’s War and Peace directed by Sergei Bondarchuk (and which by the way is a really good film) which took 5 years to shoot released in the U.

I know…the title of some cheesy Sci-Fi/Horror flick…it was just me [Laurence] not posting this in time…sorry…I was out of it for a couple of days…that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.

Now on with Shaun’s “Monday Movie News”:

First, James Cameron has admitted that there will be a sequel (and possibly a third) to Avatar, which has grossed over $2 billion world-wide. He hasn’t said very much about the sequel. At the 25th anniversary of the Santa Barbara Film Festival he said “I definitely have a story arc in mind for the second film and even on a very vague base for a third film. That doesn’t mean we’ll do a third film – it doesn’t mean we’ll stop at a third film. We’ll just have to see where it goes.” So there you have it: absolutely nothing.