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  • Who among us hasn't botched the words to the national anthem at some point? Especially if you're going it solo, it's easy to panic mid-lyric: Is it a perilous fight, or night? Are the stripes broad, or bright? Did we watch or hail those ramparts?

    Still, most of us don't blow it in front of an audience of more than 100 million people, which was Christina Aguilera's fate at Super Bowl XLV. This was definitely not the kickoff to 2011 the singer was looking for after her annus horribilis last year. 

    Heads cocked in puzzlement around the nation as Aguilera began singing the wrong words four lines into the song. Instead of "O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming," she sang, "What so proudly we watched at the twilight's last gleaming"—basically, repeating the second line of the tune, except for "watched," the one word of the fourth line she did nail down.

    As she went on to the fifth line, the audience broke into a huge cheer, which Aguilera may have taken to be the crowd's

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  • LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon are having a boy and a girl, a source close to the couple confirmed to Access Hollywood. The singer broke the gender news to Life & Style, telling the mag, "Even before we announced it was twins, I was trying to keep everything gender-neutral because I didn't want to impose an identity on them too soon. There were fan contests on Twitter about what gender they are and rumors about them being two boys or two girls - but nobody guessed this!"

    The couple first revealed their pregnancy to Access Hollywood's Billy Bush in October 2010 and Nick came by Access Hollywood Live on Tuesday where he shared news about how Mariah is doing in the run up to the birth of the couple's twins.

    "She's been cooking up a storm," Nick said when Billy and Kit Hoover asked about whether Mariah was "nesting."

    "I didn't know what it was," Nick continued. "I thought this was the way she dealt with her cravings. She doesn't eat. She cooks all this food and her

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  • MIAMI, Fla. -- Britney Spears took a trip down the aisle this weekend - as a bridesmaid! The pop superstar served as maid of honor for her friend and assistant, Brett Miller, during Brett's wedding to Frank Lionetti at The Spanish Monastery in Miami, Fla., on Saturday.

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    Brit was escorted down the aisle by an unnamed gentleman, with the star rocking long blond locks, a flowing, halter-topped aqua-colored floor-length gown with rhinestone embellishments, while carrying a bouquet of fresh flowers.

    According to People, Britney and her boyfriend, Jason Trawick, arrived in Florida on Thursday and stayed in an oceanfront room at the Newport Beachside Hotel.

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    Britney reportedly ditched the party following Thursday's rehearsal dinner, opting to stay in and order room service for herself, Jason and her bodyguard, according to a source for the mag.

    The

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  • An Indiana school district that told a black teenager to perform "The Star-Spangled Banner" in a "traditional way" after receiving complaints about her performance is drawing questions now about whether the complaints and directive were racially motivated.

    Shai Warfield-Cross, 16, has performed the national anthem at sports events at Bloomington High School North over the last year without incident. But school officials said they received complaints about her performance during a game in Martinsville.

     

    Principal Jeff Henderson told The Herald-Times in a statement that people had complained that while the words to the anthem were the same, the tune was unrecognizable. He declined to comment to The Associated Press.

    Some who complained after the game in Martinsville - a predominantly white community about 30 miles southwest of Indianapolis - also said they felt the rendition was disrespectful to current and former members of the military, Henderson said.

    Warfield-Cross' family says

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