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Happy Birthday, Mike Myers!

Posted 05.25.2012

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Party on! Comedian Mike Myers turns 49 today. Born in Scarborough, Ontario, Myers got his start on Saturday Night Live in 1988. On the show, Myers ...

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Are Harry And Sally Still Married?

Jane L. Rosen | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Shrek, Meet Cute Story, Divorce, Gone With the Wind, Romantic Comedies, When Harry Met Sally, Dirty Dancing, While You Were Sleeping, Classic Love Stories, How We Met, Reasons for Divorce, Grease, Pretty Woman, Meg Ryan, Boy Meets Girl, Sleepless in Seattle, Divorce News
Jane L. Rosen

Perhaps that pair that we yearn to emulate are not even together by the time their movie is available on Netflix.

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Smash, Shrek Star Brian d'Arcy James on The Interview Show

Mark Bazer | Posted 01.17.2012

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Mark Bazer

Few people know more about both the making of a Broadway musical and making it as an actor on Broadway than Brian d'Arcy James.

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Movie Review: Puss in Boots 3D

Marshall Fine | Posted 12.26.2011

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Marshall Fine

Puss in Boots 3D is about what you'd expect -- a two-dimensional comedy shown with technology to make you believe you're seeing something you're not. And one of the things you're not seeing -- or, rather, hearing -- is witty dialogue.

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¡ASK A MEXICAN!: Shrek Mascots and Redistricting

Gustavo Arellano | Posted 11.30.2011

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Gustavo Arellano

Why do Mexican business owners hire people dressed as Shrek to advertise their business?And why do Mexicans want to redistrict political boundaries in their favor?

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First Nighter: Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Turns Nothing On

David Finkle | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: The Lion King, Reeve Carney, Eiko Ishioka, Shrek, Christopher W. Tierney, Glen Berger, Daniel Ezralow, Philip Wm. McKinley, The Edge, Kyle Cooper, Bono, Isabel Keating, George Tyspin, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Foxwoods Theatre, T. v. Carpio, Patrick Page, Michael Mulheren, Chase Brock, Julie Taymor, Laura Beth Wells, Jennifer Damiano, Ken Marks, Entertainment News
David Finkle

It's as if a huge state-of-the-art factory has been built to produce one small bells-and-whistles toy that awes children of some ages for a few minutes before they lose interest.

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HuffPost Review: Rango

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Isla Fisher, Bill Nighy, Stephen Root, Shrek, Toy Story, Gore Verbinski, Ned Beatty, David St. Hubbins, Kermit the Frog, Rango Movie Review, Chuck Jones, Sergio Leone, Movies, Movie Reviews, Marshall Fine, Clint Eastwood, Pirates of the Caribbean, High Noon, Alfred Molina, Chinatown, Rango, Johnny Depp, Marshall Fine Movie Reviews, Jim Henson, Mouse Hunt, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Visually, Gore Verbinski's Rango is so stunning and clever that you can almost forgive it for the fact that, really, it's just not very funny. Almost.

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HuffPost Interview: Director Kelly Asbury of Gnomeo and Juliet

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Lion King, The Graduate, Computer Animation, Kelly Asbury Interview, Shrek, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, The Wizard of Oz, Marshall Fine Interview, Kelly Asbury, West Side Story, Marshall Fine, Black Forest, Mamma Mia, Gnomeo and Juliet, The Bitch Is Back, Elton John, Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Why gnomes? Why not gnomes?, says Kelly Asbury? The result is a computer-animated comedy aimed at children and adults, using Shakespeare's romantic tragedy as the jumping-off point for a more family-friendly fairy tale.

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Whoops: 12 Million Recalled McDonald's Glasses Were OK

AP | JUSTIN PRITCHARD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shrek, Shrek Recall, Shrek Glasses, McDonald's, McDonald's Recall, Cadmium, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Cpsc, Food News

LOS ANGELES — The 12 million "Shrek" glasses pulled by McDonald's last spring amid federal concerns about cadmium did not have unsafe levels of ...

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Heart Breaker at the International Film Center

Melody Breyer-Grell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Monte Carlo, Green Card, Shrek, Morocco, French Film, IFC Center, NY Events, NY Culture, Arts News
Melody Breyer-Grell

This French film is very light, in the tradition of a superior American comedy, The Wedding Crashers.

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'Shrek Forever After' Leads Another Slow Hollywood Weekend

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Get HIm to the Greek, Shrek Forever After, Shrek, Los Angeles News

LOS ANGELES — Hollywood is in a June swoon as a rush of new movies fails to grab audiences. DreamWorks Animation's "Shrek Forever After" remain...

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'Shrek' Beats 'Sex' AND 'Persia'

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sex and the City 2, Sex and the City, Shrek Forever After, Shrek, Film, Prince of Persia, Box Office, Entertainment News

LOS ANGELES — Movie audiences are showing more appetite for Shrek than for sex over Memorial Day weekend. DreamWorks Animation's sequel "Shrek ...

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DreamWorks Shares Sink After Weak 'Shrek' Debut

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Shares of DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. sank Monday as the latest "Shrek" film turned in a lackluster opening performance. Though "S...

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Jane Lynch Talks 'Glee,' 'Shrek' And Her Life In Chicago

Chicago Sun-Times | Fan Fare | Posted 05.25.2011

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"I'm a Chicago girl," says Jane Lynch. "Born here. Raised here. Lived in Chicago for years. Take me to the Pump Room!" While growing up in Dolton, ...

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Con Games: Third Dimension @ Aspen Ideas Fest

Michael Conniff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 3-D Television, Dreamworks, Videogames, Avatar, Shrek, Nintendo, 3-D, Denver News
Michael Conniff

Years ago, I traveled to RCA Labs in Princeton to spend a day living in the future. It was then that I learned one of life's great truisms: Americans buy new television sets like clockwork every seven years.

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Shrek: Promoting Healthy, or Mindless, Eating?

Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dr. Susan Albers

In the very same way Shrek can make eating onions attractive to kids, he also makes eating unhealthy snacks enticing to little ones

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Weekend Box Office in Review

Scott Mendelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Forrest Gump, Jerry Macguire, Weekend Box Office, Shrek, Passion of the Christ, Robin Hood, Monsters vs. Aliens, Entertainment News
Scott Mendelson

If at first you don't succeed... After narrowly missing a return to first place last weekend, Dreamworks' How to Train Your Dragon easily took the top spot in its fifth frame.

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11 Bestselling Book Apps For Adults And Kids

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt and Amy Hertz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ereaders, Twitter, Bible, Ibooks, Android, Alice, Facebook, Shrek, App Store, Ipad, The Elements, Video Games, Slidepollajax, Ebooks, Bestsellers, Books News

When you go to the app store, look for the best books. Yes, instead of searching for Twitter, Facebook, a navigational or weather app for your iPad, i...

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We've Only Just Begun... to Live: Explaining the Slow Box Office Start to the Summer 2010 Movie Season

Scott Mendelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shrek, The Karate Kid, Summer Movies, Summer Movies 2010, Entertainment News
Scott Mendelson

Listen people, we are not in a summer box office slump. In other words, come this Friday, to quote the last true mid-June giant, "Now... the real game begins now."

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Weekend Box Office: Shrek 4 Wins Again, While Four New Openers Fail to Break Out

Scott Mendelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shrek 4, Imax, Shrek Forever After, Prince of Persia, Sex and the City, Get HIm to the Greek, Splice, Shrek, Killers, Mila Kunis, Entertainment News
Scott Mendelson

The film may have opened with 58% of the third film's $121 million opening weekend grosses, but Shrek: The Final Chapter is proving to be more resilient than many, including myself, predicted.

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Jeffrey Katzenberg Eroded Animation with Celebrities

James Sims | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Lion King, Walt Disney, Aladdin, Cartoons, Shrek, Steven Spielberg, Mickey Mouse, Waking Sleeping Beauty, Dreamworks SKG, Michael Eisner, Disney, David Geffen, Hollywood, The Little Mermaid, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Movies, Animation, Entertainment News
James Sims

Katzenberg opted to "go Hollywood" with animation, relying on celebrities and flashy technology to sell his movies. He has sadly damaged the value of an art form he once championed.

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How Can We Expect Our Kids to Make Healthy Choices?

Christina Pirello | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Dinner at Home, Healthy Eating, McDonald's, Childhood Nutrition, Shrek, Happy Meals, Childhood Obesity, Health, Unplug and Recharge, Healthy Living News
Christina Pirello

McDonald's has successfully ripped dinner off the table and stuffed it in a greasy paper bag. And our health has never been worse.

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Movie Review: How To Train Your Dragon

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shrek, Kung Fu Panda, Jonah Hill, Gerard Butler, T.J. Miller, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Cars, Dreamworks, Kristen Wiig, Craig Ferguson, 3d, Madagascar, Jay Baruchel, How to Train Your Dragon Movie Review, Lilo & Stitch, Pixar, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Like the least of the Dreamworks films, Dragon suffers from a shortage of jokes. But it has a strong enough story and animation to keep kids fascinated and even adults occupied.

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Cinefantastique Podcast: Shrek Forever After and Survival of the Dead

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mike Myers, Violence, Action-Adventure, Dreamworks, Justice, Zombies, Horror, Drama, Indie, Death, Franchise, Shrek, George Romero, Animation, Comedy, Gore, Survival of the Dead, Eddie Murphy, Fantasy, Satire, Science Fiction, Shrek Forever After, Night of the Living Dead, Gritty, Cartoon, Love, Cinefantastique, Cinefantastique Podcast, Cfq, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

This week, the Cinefantastique Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction Podcast scrutinizes a pair of sequels that seem to have nothing in common: Shrek Fore...

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ReelzChannel: Top 10 "Wow, You've Really Let Yourself Go" Movies

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Top Ten List, Film, Ben Stiller, Japanimation, Martin Scorsese, Terry Gilliam, Beetle Juice, Aaron Eckhart, Humor, Shrek, Movies, Comedy, Christian Bale, Shrek Forever After, Anime, Jeff Goldblum, The Lord of the Rings, Leonardo Dicaprio, Robert De Niro, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

In the brand new Shrek Forever After, an ill-advised pact with a conniving Rumpelstiltskin (Walt Dohrn) turns reality upside-down for everyone's favor...

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