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A Los Angeles jury Wednesday has found "That '70s Show" actor Danny Masterson guilty of two counts of forcible rape. Jurors resumed deliberations Wednesday after a four-day break in the retrial of Masterson, who was charged with raping three women at his Hollywood Hills home between 2001 and 2003. The jury spent about 6 1/2 days deliberating since being handed the case on May 17 after just over a day of closing arguments from attorneys. Jurors said they were deadlocked on the third rape charge against Masterson.

Danny Masterson has been found guilty of rape. The jury found the Scientologist actor guilty on two of three rape counts on Wednesday. The jurors were deadlocked on the third count. Masterson - who played smart-mouthed Steven Hyde on That '70s Show - was accused of raping three women at his Hollywood Hills home between 2001 and 2003. He pleaded not guilty to all the charges and he was looking at a sentence of 45 years to life in prison if he was convicted on all three, plus plus forced registration as a sex offender. Throughout both trials he had...

In tonight's episode of Fox's "That '70s Show," almost everybody gets stoned. Again. That's how you can tell "That '70s Show" is still stuck in the spirit of the "Me Decade." If the characters were to live it up '80s-style, they'd all be snorting coke and wearing yellow Izods. You can't really blame the writers of the show (7 p.m., WFLD-Channel 32) for holding off the "Decade of Greed." If you had to pick between living forever in the late '70s or the early '80s, the Carter years would be your winner. Politicians living in a state of red-baiting moneyism...

Already sick of '80s nostalgia? Too soon for '90s nostalgia? Don't get ahead of yourself, my groovy children. Tune in "MTV's the '70s House," plug a cord into your phone and get your polyester on. Several concerts looming in Chicago make it look as if this were really the summer of '78. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers He once danced sheepishly in the background of Dwight Twilley's band -- all skinny and hollow-eyed and insanely cool -- and now he's an elder statesman of the '70s guitar rock era. (Hey, kids, ask your dad what AOR means!) His hits, from...