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Katherine Spillar

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New Moon, Same Old Sexist Story

Katherine Spillar | Posted November 23, 2009 | Entertainment


By Katherine Spillar and Carmen D. Siering

Sure, the film New Moon is breaking box office records, and both tween girls and their moms are swooning over pale-faced vampire Edward and hunky werewolf Jacob, who both vie for the attention of our ostensible hero, Bella. Isn't it romantic?

Well.... with...

Greg Archer

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Three Reasons Why 'Twilight' Bit Into the Box Office

Greg Archer | Posted November 23, 2009 | Entertainment


The Twilight Saga: New Moon took a healthy bite into the box office over the weekend -- no surprise there -- raking in a monstrous $140.7 million. The figure is above what most industry execs expected. Final numbers arrived Monday but it looks like the second film of the...

Esther Iverem

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Precious and Painful

Esther Iverem | Posted November 23, 2009 | Entertainment


In the films of Lee Daniels, horror is expressed through a claustrophobic Black pain that Hollywood finds absolutely compelling. In Precious, the fifth film that Daniels has either produced or directed, he returns to the formula that won him acclaim and won Halle Berry an Oscar for her role in...

Michael Sigman

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Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 1)

Michael Sigman | Posted November 23, 2009 | Entertainment


Ever since British New Wavers Ian Dury and the Blockheads scored with their 1979 single Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 3) -- which celebrated people like Elvis and the Marx Brothers and pleasures like Ploughman's sandwiches (cheddar cheese and a pickle) and "coming out of chokey" (solitary confinement)...

Joyce McFadden

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The Cultural Importance Of Oprah

Joyce McFadden | Posted November 23, 2009 | Entertainment


I can't think of another figure on television who's done more to encourage us as a culture to rise to the highest common denominator.

MacNeil and Lehrer come to mind, but they began as a team and their purview was and is limited to news, whereas Winfrey's platform is broader...

Michael Kaiser

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What I Am Giving Thanks For This Year

Michael Kaiser | Posted November 23, 2009 | Entertainment


The current economic downturn has indeed created a crisis for virtually every sector of the economy, especially those of us in the not-for-profit arena. Yet during this Thanksgiving week, I believe we in the arts have a great deal to be thankful for even in this troubled time.

First, we...

Mike Ragogna

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HuffPost Reviews: Beyonce, Rihanna, Buddy Holly, The Doors, Susan Boyle, and More

Mike Ragogna | Posted November 24, 2009 | Entertainment


Beyoncé - I Am...Yours

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"You had me at hello," sings Beyoncé Knowles as the soul-pop diva embraces scores of outreached hands while working her way to the stage through a crowd of 1500 at the Wynn Hotel's Encore Theater in Las Vegas. Thus begins...

Scott Mendelson

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Twilight Saga: New Moon Shatters Single-Day Record

Scott Mendelson | Posted November 23, 2009 | Entertainment


Twilight Saga: New Moon grossed $72.7 million on its first full day of release. This is the biggest single day of all time, besting...

Mara Reinstein

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Stop the Twilight Insanity!

Mara Reinstein | Posted November 22, 2009 | Entertainment


Here's a sentence I never thought I'd write: Miley Cyrus and I have something in common. Last week, the teen pop singer declared that not only does she refuse to see The Twilight Saga: New Moon, she's horrified by its pop-culture domination. ("I feel really lame because everyone's, like, so...

William Bradley

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Mad Men: Three Seasons On and Looking Forward

William Bradley | Posted November 22, 2009 | Entertainment


Mad Men's brilliant third season finale earlier this month is still echoing in the mind. And in the culture. January Jones was a game host of Saturday Night Live the following weekend. (Though she didn't make anyone forget Jon Hamm's great hosting gig last year. He is seriously funny.) Secretary...

Wes Anderson

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Behind The Filming Of One Of My Favorite Fantastic Mr. Fox Performances

Wes Anderson | Posted November 20, 2009 | Entertainment


When you're making an animated film, one of the big differences is that you can add scenes, change dialogue and re-write as you're going along because you only shoot a little bit of the movie each day.

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Mr. and Mrs. Fox "on set"...
David Wild

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"Bad Moon Rising": My Playlist For All You Suckers Waiting On Line To See The Twilight Saga: New Moon

David Wild | Posted November 20, 2009 | Entertainment


I will be rushing out to see The Twilight Saga: New Moon, just as soon as I finish seeing every other film ever made first -- and Zombieland twice.

Fortunately, as the father of two sons, absolutely no one is asking me to see New Moon, which I consider...

Una LaMarche

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Project Runway Finale Recap Part Two

Una LaMarche | Posted November 20, 2009 | Style


And so, my friends, it has come to this. As Boyz II Men sang so soulfully, we've come to the end of the road. Or, the runway, I guess. Which means we're about to fall off into the lap of the Malaysian Prime Minister, if Zoolander is to be believed....

Bob Saget

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Why I Love Thanksgiving

Bob Saget | Posted November 20, 2009 | Comedy


Thanksgiving is a time of family. A time of reflection. A time of giving. And a time of stuffing. It is a time when a man or woman, sometimes a slightly intoxicated man or woman, crams their butter-coated hand into a turkey's butt. If this act were to be done...

Jenna Busch

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Mya On Dancing With The Stars And What She's Doing To Step Up Her Game

Jenna Busch | Posted November 20, 2009 | Entertainment


Singer Mya has just entered the final three on Dancing with the Stars, along with Kelly Osbourne and Donny Osmund and she's thrilled to be a part of this group.  Mya was being honored at US Weekly's Hot Hollywood party as one of the “Hot Steppers of the Year”, along...

Tallulah Morehead

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Survivor: Samoa: Lord of the Gnats

Tallulah Morehead | Posted November 20, 2009 | Entertainment


We are right at the midway point of Survivor: Samoa. We began with twenty players; we now have ten. Our early villains, Evil Russell, and idiot Shambles, have grown into heroic (seeming) crusaders against a true villain, Evil Laura, the Sarah Palin wanna-be conservative lobbyist co-ordinator and Christer pastor, who...

Scott Mendelson

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The Super-Awesome, Astoundingly Mathematical Weekend Box Office Prediction for Twilight Saga: New Moon!

Scott Mendelson | Posted November 20, 2009 | Entertainment


Based on my top-secret, patented box office estimation formula, I hereby state that Twilight Saga: New Moon will gross $81 million over its first...

Kim Morgan

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Fight Club Ten Years Later

Kim Morgan | Posted November 21, 2009 | Entertainment


If any picture was the movie to usher in the new millennium, it was David Fincher's Fight Club. To me, it was the movie of the 1990s -- as prescient as Network was in the 1970s towards the future of "news," and as equally misunderstood. As Fight Club revealed and...

Meg Hemphill

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What to See: New Moon and Broken Embraces

Meg Hemphill | Posted November 19, 2009 | Entertainment



The Twilight Saga: New Moon comes out today. And it's a safe bet that it'll be number one at the box office. If you're unconvinced whether this flick is for you, here's an overview to help you along your way ... or not.

Naturally, you'll enjoy...

Michael Bialas

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No Grinch will ruin Carrie Underwood's Holiday

Michael Bialas | Posted November 20, 2009 | Entertainment


The Fox network is wishing you -- the home television viewer -- a very Carrie Christmas. And they're gift-wrapping two hours of entertainment in a special package titled Carrie Underwood: An All-Star Holiday Special that will air December 7 (8-10 p.m. ET/PT).

Of course, Fox, the network that...

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