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Sideshow: Drake drops new album on suspecting world

Drake is the latest music star to spring a surprise album on his fans in the middle of the night. Just before midnight on Thursday, all Beyoncé-style, he dropped the excellently titled If You're Reading This It's Too Late.

Drake pulls a Beyoncé

Drake is the latest music star to spring a surprise album on his fans in the middle of the night. Just before midnight on Thursday, all Beyoncé-style, he dropped the excellently titled If You're Reading This It's Too Late.

It was rumored that the Canadian rapper, last heard from with Nothing Was the Same in 2013, had new music on the way, but not a full-fledged 17-song album, which If You're Reading This is.

Earlier in the day, the busy Drake had released a 14-minute film, Jungle, produced by Karim Huu Do. Watch it on YouTube: bit.ly/1Cpw4NZ

- Dan DeLuca

Third time the chumps

Pamela Anderson (Baywatch) has filed for divorce from Rick Salomon (One Night in Paris) . . . for the third time. They were married in 2007; she filed for annulment after two months. They married again in January 2014, and this time, they made it all the way to June before she filed for divorce again. Then she unfiled. Now she's filing again again, and asking for spousal support. Guess you make more as a celebrity poker champ than as a professional babe.

'SNL 40' - and top 141

The world awaits the gala, three-hour-plus Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special set to air on NBC at 8 p.m. on, oddly, Sunday night. The network just added another 30 minutes to accommodate the crazy.

Rolling Stone ranked all 141 SNL cast members since 1975. Number one, of course, is the brilliant, tragic John Belushi. Numero dos is Eddie Murphy, who returns for the first time in 30 years. The rest of the top 10: (3) Upper Darby's Tina Fey; (4) Mike Meyers; (5) Dan Aykroyd; (6) Bill Murray; (7) Phil Hartman; (8) Amy Poehler; (9) Gilda Radner; and (10) Chevy Chase.

The worst? Number 141 is Robert Downey Jr., who stank up 1985-86 and trails the Muppets (140) and Jim Breuer (139) (but . . . he was Goat Boy!).