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Putin Fails to Teach Pussy Riot to "Love the Motherland" at the Sochi Olympics
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'About A Boy,' 'Mixology' And 'Growing Up Fisher' Reviews: One Possible...
David Walton should be a TV star. This is a truth the TV industry has recognized, and, to its credit, it keeps trying to engineer a successful vehicle for him. Walton specializes in playing raffish,...
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Victoria Beckham Says She's a Team Player
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Frozen's Secret Villains
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Jill Soloway's Transparent, the Blue Meth of Amazon's Pilot Season
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DVDs: Hill Street Blues, Wonder Years... What Show Should Be Next?
The greatest TV show of all time is coming to DVD in a complete boxed set this April. I'm talking of course about Hill Street Blues -- the Beatles, the Bob Dylan of primetime dramas. Very few TV dramas...
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Come on, haters! How could some hockey fans take their eyes off the puck long enough to notice and mean-tweet that female hockey players shouldn't wear makeup during the Olympics?! The U.S. and...
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Cubans Flock to New Film That Exposes the Myth
Miguel has earned a lot of money this week. He managed to sell almost one hundred pirated copies of the Cuban movie Conduct. Although the film is showing in several of the country's theaters, many...
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Interview With Paul W. S. Anderson, Pompeii Director, on the Film's...
For the new movie Pompeii, which opens today, Feb. 21, the filmmakers did their best to accurately portray what producer and director Paul W. S. Anderson calls "probably the most spectacular disaster...
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How is it possible: two incredibly good productions of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night in the same season? One of the bard's bawdiest, the comedy inspired the recent Broadway hit featuring Mark Rylance as...
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