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'The Vow' leads strong pre-Valentine's weekend at box office

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - Feb. 14 - 'The Vow,' starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum, took in $41.7 million at U.S. and Canadian theaters from Friday through Sunday in the biggest domestic opening so far this year, according to studio estimates compiled by Reuters on Sunday. ...

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Shocker: Video of live woolly mammoth not entirely authentic (+video)

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - Feb. 14 - Footage from a Russian filmmaker's personal history project was altered to create a widely discussed – and now thoroughly debunked – sighting of a woolly mammoth. ...

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Bosnian Serb Film Distributor Won't Screen New Jolie Film

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:44:00 -0800

Radio Free Europe - Feb. 13 - The sole film distributor in the Serb-run part of Bosnia-Herzegovina is refusing to screen a new movie written and directed by Angelina Jolie and set during the Bosnian war of the 1990s. Film distributor Vladimir Ljevak said he did not think Jolie's film

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KO Computer

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Show - By Jon Stewart - Jan. 19 (Comedy News) - Wikipedia goes dark for 24 hours in protest of SOPA, raising the question: do they expect us to go to the library like a common masturbator? ... If SOPA passes, people who stream copyrighted content could go to jail for five years.

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End of the line for fancy Steuben crystal

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - Oct. 24 - In "Risky Business," a 1983 comedy drama starring Tom Cruise, a mother's prized Steuben (stew-'BEN) glass egg goes missing from the mantelpiece only to reappear - imperceptibly nicked - in the nick of time.

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Cannes kicks off with hommage to Bertolucci

Thu, 12 May 2011 11:48:00 -0700

Dawn - By Afp - May. 12 - Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci (L), is awarded with the Honorary Palme d'Or for his career from the president of the Cannes Film Festival Gilles Jacob (C) as President of the Jury Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun,

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The one and only Liz

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Editorial Staff - Mar. 24 (Editorial) - There's no doubt that Elizabeth Taylor defined 'celebrity' for the modern age.

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Dana Goodyear: Barry Michels, the therapist for blocked screenwriters.

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:30:43 -0700

New Yorker - By Dana Goodyear - Mar. 13 - The writer was in despair. For a year and a half, he had been trying to write a script that he owed to a studio, and had been unable to produce anything. Finally, he started seeing a therapist. The therapist, Barry Michels, told him to close his eyes and

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Avatar story was so true to life | Jonathan Glennie

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Jonathan Glennie - Dec. 24 (Opinion) - Avatar was the biggest cinematic event over the last year. Set in 2154, it tells the story of the violent displacement of indigenous people from their jungle homes on a planet called Pandora, as a ruthless company searches for a precious mineral. But I w

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James Cameron on 'Avatar,' 'Titanic,' and the Future of 3-D

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Dave Itzkoff - Oct. 19 (Interview) - Mr. Cameron spoke recently to ArtsBeat about “Avatar”s past and present, as well as his future plans. These are excerpts from that conversation.

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Why Mark Zuckerberg Should Like The Social Network

Sat, 09 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Fred Vogelstein - Oct. 09 (Opinion) - It’s hard to go anywhere and not see, hear and read about Mark Zuckerberg right now. Last week and the week before, the Facebook founder and CEO was getting attention for giving away $100 million. This week he’s talking about two long-awaited Facebook features — a way to easily get your data out of Facebook and a better way to parse friends into subgroups. On Tuesday night, satirist Andy Borowitz wondered on the radio — only half in jest — if he should win a Nobel Prize in economics.

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Hollywood must win back its audience

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Jeremy Kay - Sep. 07 - Alternative media and innovative multi-platform storytelling are set to challenge a complacent film industry And so the four-day Labor Day holiday is over and summer comes to an end in Hollywoodland. As the shadows stretch across the manicured lawns of the studio grounds, there will be plenty to think about. The blockbuster season that started in May with the enjoyable hit Iron Man 2 will most likely creep past summer 2009 for a new record. But even if the predictions of Hollywood.com and similar box office analysts are correct and the combined revenues reach $4.4bn (£2.9bn) or thereabouts – beating summer 2009 by around 2.4% – the victory, for that is what it is to the numerically selective advocates of theatrical distribution, will be a ...

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Facebook dismisses latest ownership claim as 'absurd'

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

San Jose Mercury News - By editor@mercurynews.com (By Scott Duke Harrissdharris@mercurynews.com) - Jul. 24 - Who knew? Just when it seemed that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was poised to conquer the Web, endure an unflattering Hollywood portrayal and make an animated cameo in "The Simpsons" comes a claim that somebody else is the rightful owner of 84 percent of Facebook.

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Should Jon Stewart change his name back to Jon Leibowitz?

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Slate - By Ron Rosenbaum - Jul. 25 (Opinion) - I want you to change your name. Back to Leibowitz. Stewart is just so 20th-century, a relic of that dark age when Jews in show biz changed their names because they feared "real Americans" wouldn't accept the originals.

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Tyler Perry: Hollywood's new commander in chief?

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Patrick Goldstein - Feb. 25 (Opinion) - Last night, I was asked to speak at an evening program at a local temple. Since the topic was "Jews in Hollywood," I brought along a true Hollywood Jew, Sony Pictures' Amy Pascal, who spoke quite eloquently and insightfully about her faith and how it's sometimes tested by her job. Being my usual contrarian self, at one point I suddenly veered off topic, asking Pascal why -- if America had managed to elect an African American president -- was Hollywood was still light years away from the day when there could be a black studio chief.

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Rock Is Back. Give Him a Cookie.

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Kelefa Sanneh - Jan. 02 (Review) - That's right, New Year's Eve," Chris Rock said. "I'm a little nervous. I haven't done this in a while." These were just about the first words he spoke all night, and this was definitely the last time he sounded hesitant.

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