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Friday Live performer Diamond Rings showed us the mettle behind his sparkle * Friday Q guest Scott Thompson mentioned his irreverent podcast * Coming soon to Q: designer Gloria Vanderbilt. Find her boy, Anderson Cooper in this slide show * Diversionary entertainment as defined by the Burmese military * I-and-I wish TV's Coronation Street a happy 50th! * Several Canadian books get the year-end nod from The New Yorker * But you may want to reconsider your own literary aspirations * Mel Gibson's movie gets a release date. How soon is too soon? Is never too soon? * Really, it's enough to make the divine Tilda Swinton weep to the music of Owen Pallett * See you next week, all! The producers of Q