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David Wild

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Step Brothers: Better Than Citizen Kane? You Bet Your Ball Sack!

David Wild | Posted July 26, 2008 | Entertainment


Yes Virginia, Step Brothers is better than Citizen Kane because Step Brothers is much funnier than Citizen Kane -- and shorter too.

For the record, cineastes, yes, I have seen both of films in question. I saw Step Brothers just last night at the ArcLight in Hollywood, and Citizen Kane...

N. E. Marsden

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Embedded TV Ads: Here Comes the Spin

N. E. Marsden | Posted July 25, 2008 | Entertainment


Product placement is finally on the FCC's radar, and pro-industry magpies are out in force trilling a consistent message: "Back off, Big Brother." We should not be surprised. Nor is it any wonder that a press release urging the FCC to take action, issued by 23 watchdog groups, including Campaign...

Michael Giltz

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DVDs: 21 -- The Latest Stealth Hit Movie

Michael Giltz | Posted July 25, 2008 | Entertainment


With The Dark Knight shredding one box office record after another and even casual fans talking about second weekend box office drops ("Hey, 60% for a front-loaded spectacle like Iron Man is not bad!"), it's easy to forget that some movies can still slip under the radar, pile up money...

Lauren Lascher

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Open Letter to A-Rod: Please Sign My Ball Already

Lauren Lascher | Posted July 25, 2008 | Entertainment


Dear Alex:

I know you have been very busy since you fractured my collarbone. There's your devotion to Kabbalah, the birth of your new little princess and the pending exit of her mother, C-Rod. You have another 80+ baseball games, and then the playoffs. November 30th, you'll also need to...

Paul Finkelman

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Bring Back Barry Bonds?

Paul Finkelman | Posted July 25, 2008 | Entertainment


Barry Bonds is a free agent. He wants some team to sign him, to play one more season. According to this week's Sports Illustrated, Bonds is willing to play for the MLB minimum, prorated for the rest of the season. That's about $150,000 for the rest of the season. What...

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin

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Dog Ears Music: Volume Thirty

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin | Posted July 25, 2008 | Entertainment


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Captain Beefheart
Captain Beefheart (a.k.a. Don Van Vliet) was born in Glendale, California, in 1941. He has a jaw-dropping vocal range. By the age of...



Ken Levine

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Stop Me Before I Play Again

Ken Levine | Posted July 25, 2008 | Entertainment


Read More: Free Cell

Hi, my name is Ken and I'm a Free Cell addict.

For years I blamed my assistant. She was the one who introduced me to the game. But over time I've come to realize I have to take responsibility for my own actions. I still should have fired her sorry...

Sal Nunziato

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A-Rod: The Numbers Do Lie...Sort Of.

Sal Nunziato | Posted July 25, 2008 | Entertainment


What is it that everyone sees in Alex Rodriguez that I don't? And please, don't say, "Just look at his numbers." I know A-Rod consistently puts up MVP numbers. He is the "greatest living ball player," right? But is it at all possible that a lot of those numbers are...

Hongmei Li

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Eager Olympic Sports Fans in China

Hongmei Li | Posted July 25, 2008 | Entertainment


When Western leaders are talking about the human rights issue in China and boycotting the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, China's response is always like "the Olympics are merely sport events. No politics should be involved." Such responses often encounter critical skepticism not just in the West and but...

Jamie Malanowski

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The Maddening Part of Mad Men

Jamie Malanowski | Posted July 25, 2008 | Entertainment


Sunday night marks the return of Mad Men, the AMC program that is now without dispute the best program on television. What's most interesting about this series is that even though each episode emphasizes different characters having different experiences and feeling different emotions, one prominent element of every episode is...

Tonya Plank

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So You Think You Can Dance Top 6

Tonya Plank | Posted July 25, 2008 | Entertainment


I am shocked. Will's Samba this week completely blew me away, as did his slow Hip Hop. As did his solo. He hasn't done a thing this season that hasn't been excellent. I really thought it was going to be Twitch to go, though I have to admit I got...

Ashley Van Buren

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It's a Hard Rock Life: On the Road With the School of Rock All-Stars

Ashley Van Buren | Posted July 24, 2008 | Entertainment


The life of a touring rock group isn't all glitz and glamour, especially a group that acts as their own roadies. "We sometimes do our own lighting and we unload the equipment, smoke machines, projector, and make sure everything works. Then we rehearse and do a sound check," says guitarist...

Marissa Moss

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Goodnight, CDs, Goodnight: the Return of Vinyl

Marissa Moss | Posted July 24, 2008 | Media


I think it was Hamlet that said "for murder, though it have no tongue, will speak with most miraculous organ: the record player."

Perhaps that wasn't the exact quote. But one thing is true: the CD is finally dying its much-awaited death, and it wasn't the MP3 that killed...

Mike Ragogna

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Did This Knight Have To Be So Dark?

Mike Ragogna | Posted July 24, 2008 | Entertainment


One summer day when my nephew was around the age of six, we rode from Brooklyn to Manhattan on the "C" train for his first Central Park Zoo adventure with his uncle. I fished around his (okay, my) Batman knapsack, where I had stashed a variety of snacky treats, child...

Jonathan Handel

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SAG Challenge Slate to Oppose Hardliners

Jonathan Handel | Posted July 24, 2008 | Entertainment


A slate called Unite for Strength has arisen to challenge the hard line Membership First faction of the SAG Board. Their goals: unseat Membership First, make a deal with the studios, and merge SAG and AFTRA. The move was first reported by the Los Angeles Times yesterday, and in...

Charlie Rose

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My Conversation with David Chang

Charlie Rose | Posted July 23, 2008 | Entertainment


David Chang is chef/owner of Momofuku Noodle Bar, Momofuku Ko and Momofuku Ssäm Bar in New York City. Chang has taken the food world by surprise, he has already won two James Beard awards and both Bon Appeitie and GQ named him chef of the year in 2007. Here is...

Peter Dreier

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Baseball's Biggest Scandal

Peter Dreier | Posted July 23, 2008 | Off The Bus


By Peter Dreier and Kelly Candaele
This article originally appeared in The Nation.


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When the Baseball Hall of Fame holds its induction ceremony in Cooperstown, New York, July 27, three pillars of baseball's corporate establishment will join the ranks. But the man who freed ballplayers...

Tony Newman

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NY Post Cover Story Unfairly Attacks Britney Over Smoking

Tony Newman | Posted July 23, 2008 | Entertainment


The New York Post hit a new low on Tuesday when they deemed Britney Spears having a cigarette in the company of her son worthy of front page news. Wars rage on in Iraq and Afghanistan while Americans face losing their jobs and houses at home but The Post...

Jack Donaldson

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This Week's Internet Diversions

Jack Donaldson | Posted July 23, 2008 | Entertainment


Another collection of the trivial, the inane, the entertaining, and the viral.

1. At this year's Glastonbury Music Festival, the campervan-centric crowd was treated to a star-studded, diverse lineup of rock n' roll acts. Everyone from Neil Diamond through Kings of Leon and Ben Folds -- all typical festival favorites....

Olivia Zaleski

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Miley Cyrus Says, "Wake Up America"

Olivia Zaleski | Posted July 23, 2008 | Green



Tween-pop phenom Miley Cyrus (non de plume Hannah Montana) is best known for jingle-jam ballads, bare-back photo shoots and banking an income of $18.2 million; but there's more to Miley than hair extensions and "haranguing life's cruelest inequities"

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