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Scott Mendelson

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In Defense Of Nicole Kidman...

Scott Mendelson | Posted January 7, 2009 | Entertainment


No star has faced more wrongheaded attacks over the last few years than Nicole Kidman. For years, she's been chased by the label of 'box office...

Michael Russnow

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Che The Movie, Exquisitely Detailed: It's Not Just One Film, It's Two, Though a Little Bit Overdone

Michael Russnow | Posted January 7, 2009 | Entertainment


It's not quite out yet and when it is you'll have to pay two admissions to see the four and a half hour extravaganza of Che Guevara's revolutionary struggles, which I sat through last night with a preview audience.


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Jonathan Handel

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SAG Contract Graveyard

Jonathan Handel | Posted January 7, 2009 | Entertainment


Where do SAG contracts go when they expire? Who knows, but wherever it is, it's getting more crowded by the day. The Guild's got a lot of unfinished business, it turns out. Here's the tally of contracts that have expired or will do so...

Jonathan Handel

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SAG: What Might Happen at Next Week's Board Meeting

Jonathan Handel | Posted January 6, 2009 | Entertainment


The SAG National Board is meeting next Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 12-13, and speculation is rampant over whether SAG will send out the postponed strike authorization ballot (as well as whether the negotiating team will be replaced). But what if, rather than send out the authorization...

E. Jean Carroll

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The Dope Astrology Predictions For 2010 (2009 Is Already Shot)

E. Jean Carroll | Posted January 6, 2009 | Entertainment


The dingbats who write the newspaper horoscopes have once again ruined everything by publishing their nincompoop predictions for 2009. I ask you, dear Huffington Post readers, should old ladies who believe in astrology be allowed to forecast anything?

The ominously beautiful Dope Astrologers -- Jilly Gagnon, Adrianne Frost and...

Danny Groner

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Taking the Stage for Improvisational Comedy

Danny Groner | Posted January 6, 2009 | Entertainment


There's a common saying that dictates you shouldn't judge a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. What this adage may account for is how uncomfortable that person's shoes can feel on your feet.

We've too often seen videos of comedians lashing out at crowds for berating them...

Giulia Rozzi

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ABC's True Beauty is Not So Cute

Giulia Rozzi | Posted January 6, 2009 | Entertainment


My mind is mush this morning. Why, you ask? Nope, it's not the lack of sleep and over indulgence of party-times from last week. It's that I forced myself to watch ABC's new reality show True Beauty last night.

Now I'm a smart gal right? So I should have...

Jeff Price

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From MTV to YouTube: When the Net Pays Everyone But the Musician

Jeff Price | Posted January 6, 2009 | Media


In 1996, taped to the wall of my now defunct record label spinART Records' 800 square-foot, four-Ikea-desk-loaded-with-unsold-CD-and-vinyl office was a $1 check from MTV. I fought hard for that stupid check. MTV wanted to use a song called "Supermerica" by a band called Poole that I released. Usually TV shows...

Steve Pristin

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The Awesome-ization of Wesleyan University

Steve Pristin | Posted January 6, 2009 | Entertainment


President-elect Barack Obama was the key note speaker at the 2008 Wesleyan Commencement - passing on valuable advice...

...and blessing a new crop of Brooklyn bands! 2008 brought MGMT and Santogold to the pop culture limelight and 2009 has the chance to be an...

Jesse Kornbluth

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Grandma's Dead: Breaking Bad News with Baby Animals Is a Seriously Sick, Funny Book

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted January 6, 2009 | Entertainment


"Afraid to tell your girlfriend her ass looks fat?"

"Need to let your neighbors know you're a registered sex offender?"

Questions like these haunt many of us --- but they obsess Amanda McCall and Ben Schwartz.

After long reflection, they came up with a way to deliver harsh messages to...

Mark Bazer

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Robbie Fulks on "The Interview Show"

Mark Bazer | Posted January 6, 2009 | Chicago


I host a talk show in Chicago at the Hideout called "The Interview Show." Below is video from an interview I did with country musician Robbie Fulks, whose forthcoming release is "50-Voice Doberman." The video also includes a performance by Robbie.

Jann Karam

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A Superficial Take on Politically Historical Events as Perceived While Watching CNN and MSNBC

Jann Karam | Posted January 6, 2009 | Entertainment


Just to let you know, I'm not a person anybody would necessarily describe as politically astute. I usually withhold opinion, leaving all discussion and analysis to those who pay closer attention. Nevertheless, over this past summer, while I watched the drama of the Democratic National Convention unfold on cable T.V.,...
Daniel Sweren-Becker

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Gossip Girl Live Diary: Vacation's Over

Daniel Sweren-Becker | Posted January 6, 2009 | Entertainment


French orphans. Thai hookers. Billion dollar wills. Thank goodness those age-old High School problems are back to take up our time. Here's another minute-by-minute account for you fellow devotees.

8:01 -- Serena's vacation photos -- who took them, why is she dancing with all those old men, and how...

Tanya Schurr

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Host Your Own Farewell to W.

Tanya Schurr | Posted January 5, 2009 | Entertainment


Read More: Crawford, Crawford Texas

What's in the works for inauguration parties? A celebration is long overdue.

For 8 years, the Bush White House shaped Crawford into their own story of the Western White House -- now the people of Crawford are telling their own story. After screening at over 30 film festivals around the...

Dennis Palumbo

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The Male Therapist, Hollywood-Style

Dennis Palumbo | Posted January 5, 2009 | Entertainment


Two iconic images, from two classic films: in Now, Voyager, kindly therapist Claude Rains walks in the garden with troubled patient Bette Davis. He's paternal, insightful and obviously knows what's good for her.

In The Three Faces of Eve, Lee J. Cobb helps Joanne Woodward parse out the three distinct...

Brad Balfour

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The Strange Case of Claus Von Stauffenberg and Valkyrie

Brad Balfour | Posted January 5, 2009 | Entertainment


Valkyrie, starring Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Terence Stamp, Tom Wilkinson, Jamie Parker, and Eddie Izzard, Thomas Kretschmann, Carice van Houten, Christian Berkel directed by Bryan Singer, co-written by Christopher McQuarrie and Nathan Alexander.

Both director Bryan Singer and star Tom Cruise have described Valkyrie as an adventure thriller....

Brad Balfour

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Talkin' With Doc Director John Walter About Meryl Streep, a Mother Courage, and Bertolt Brecht

Brad Balfour | Posted January 5, 2009 | Entertainment


While Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep garners attention for her role as the authoritarian nun in Doubt, another film -- the doc Theater of War out now -- offers insight into who Steep is as an actress, and it grapples with the nature of war as viewed through the life and...

Jon Chattman

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Analyzing the Best Films of 2008 and "the Urinefactor"

Jon Chattman | Posted January 5, 2009 | Entertainment


I remember one-and-a-half hours into 2008's biggest hit and best film The Dark Knight, I had to go to the bathroom. After holding it for another 30 minutes, I pounded my fist on the stadium-seated armrest, and literally ran out of the IMAX screening. I wasn't alone.

Right behind...

Scott Mendelson

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Best/Favorite Films 0f 2008

Scott Mendelson | Posted January 5, 2009 | Entertainment


Now that I've seen pretty much every piece of end of the year Oscar-bait, I realize that I could have written this list over Thanksgiving and been pretty on the mark. Many of the awards bait films were good, but none of them were truly great. So, with...

Marshall Fine

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Bashir's Ari Folman: 'They need to establish a Palestine'

Marshall Fine | Posted January 5, 2009 | Entertainment


Ari Folman, looking both exhausted and still a little amazed, sits back in a hotel room chair and spreads his arms in a shrug.

"I think I would not be sitting here if this film had not been animated," he says of his animated documentary, Waltz with Bashir, which just...


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