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Mad Men: "The Gypsy and the Hobo" -- HuffPost Review

William Bradley | Posted 10.27.2009 | Entertainment

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William Bradley

"The Gypsy and the Hobo" has significantly stepped up the pace of this season of Mad Men. And it contains the big confrontation we've all been waiting for from the beginning.

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The Adventues of Rocky and Gatewinkel (or When Gatemouth Met Hackshaw)

Room Eight | Room Eight | Posted 11.13.2009 | Home

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It did not start out well between me and with Rock. Rock had introduced himself to the New York blogocracy in fall 05 with an incredibly pompous post ...

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The Bush Administration -- a Casablanca Ending (a Short Script)

Ben Berkon | Posted 11.09.2009 | Comedy

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Ben Berkon

GEORGE:But ever since we separated at that state carnival last year, I said I would never leave you. DICK:And you never will. But I've got a job to do. Where I'm going you can't follow.

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And the Oscar for Best Voting System Goes to ... Instant Runoff Voting

Rob Richie | Posted 09.02.2009 | Entertainment

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Rob Richie

Before 1945, the Academy picked classics like Casablanca and Gone with the Wind. But it switched to plurality voting because it can encourage Oscar upsets.

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Global Beat Fusion: The Romance of Tinariwen

Derek Beres | Posted 09.21.2009 | Entertainment

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Derek Beres

I wonder if people in India that watch American Idol understand all the lyrics, or if medina dwellers in Fes, where I saw 2Pac and Biggie t-shirts constantly, comprehend the hooks they're singing.

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NASA refurbishes video copies of moon landing

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 08.16.2009 | Home

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With the help of Hollywood, those historic, grainy images of the first men on the moon never looked better. NASA unveiled refurbished video Thursday of the July 20, 1969, moonwalk restored by the same company that sharpened up the movie "Casablanca." NASA lost its original moon landing videotapes and after a three-year search, officials have concluded they were probably erased. That original live video was ghostlike and grainy.

NASA and a Hollywood film restoration company took television video copies of what Apollo 11 beamed to Earth 40 years ago and made the pictures look sharper.

NASA emphasized the video isn't "new" – just better quality.

"There's nothing being created; there's nothing being manufactured," said NASA senior engineer Dick Nafzger, who's in charge of the project.

But some details seem new because of their sharpness. Originally, Armstrong's face visor was too fuzzy to be seen clearly. The refurbished video shows his visor and a reflection in it.

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Tips On Finding And Dating French Folks In New York City

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 08.01.2009 | New York

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Andrea Chalupa

It turns out New York and Paris are sister cities, or rather, in a long, hot love affair-- the stuff of Aries and Aphrodite.

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"'Oscars' Post-Mortem Rant"

Earl Pomerantz | Posted 03.27.2009 | Entertainment

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Earl Pomerantz

The Oscars don't mean anything to me. My favorite movie that I saw last year? The Wizard of Oz. I saw it on television.

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"Abu" Obama's Muslim Stimulus Package

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 02.27.2009 | World

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Amb. Marc Ginsberg

The true test of Obama's presidency will not only be the innovative statecraft of its regional diplomacy, but also his ability to mobilize a comprehensive initiative to lift the Arab world out of its economic and social poverty.

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The Best Bogart Movies By Farr

John Farr | Posted 01.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: George Raft, Warner Brothers, Gloria Grahame, Casablanca, James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, Christmas Birthdays, Hollywood's Golden Age., Classic Film, Movies About Hollywood, Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Gangster Movies, Jose Ferrer, Lauren Bacall, Fed MacMurray, War Movies, Humphrey Bogart, Entertainment News
John Farr

What follows are my favorite under-exposed Bogie picks. I'm consciously omitting what are arguably his most famous "landmark" films.

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Final Close Ups on Faces Framed in Classic Films: Gone With the Wind, Casablanca

Penelope Andrew | Posted 01.26.2009 | Entertainment

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Penelope Andrew

Two actors from Gone With the Wind--Evelyn Keyes who played Suellen O'Hara and Fred Crane who played Stuart Tarleton one of Scarlett's many beaus passed away in 2008.

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Friday Talking Points [51] -- Some Positivity

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

While we're all waiting for someone to leak the Palin Troopergate Report (which is reminiscent of waiting for "Fitzmas" during the whole Scooter Libby...

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