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The Pride of Precious Jones

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York

Read More: Whites, Harlem, Poverty, Gabourey Sidibe, Real Estate, Race, Hollywood, Barack Obama, New York, Rodney King, South Africa, Unemployed, Precious, Oprah Winfrey, Lenny Kravitz, Blacks, Paula Patton, Lee Daniels, Michael Mccollom, Brooklyn, Sapphire, Push, Mo'Nique, Armand White, A. O. Scott, Divas, The Color Purple, New York Press, Mariah Carey, New York Times, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

Almost every African-American knows, is related to, or is acquainted with a Precious Jones or her mother, Mary.

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Actor Matthew Marsden Hides Right-Wing Political Views

Jackson Williams | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Black Hawk Down, Jerry Falwell, Council for National Policy, Pat Boone, Ronald Reagan, Bruce Willis, Media, Michelle Bachman, Austin American Statesman, Rambo, Dixie Chicks, Forum on the Family, Nra, Phyllis Schlafly, Matthew Marsden, Susan Sarandon, Gary Sinise, James Dobson, Eagle Forum, Moral Majority, Austin, Barry Levinson, Transformers Revenge of the Fallen, Discovery Institute, Poliwood, Ed Meese, Creative Coalition, Barbra Streisand, Texas, Edwin Meese, Hollywood, Left Behind Books, Tim LaHay, Barack Obama, Clint Eastwood, Left Behind, George Gilder, Miranda Ruling, Mel Gibson, Entertainment, Chuck Norris, Charlton Heston, New York Times, Tim Pawlenty, Tony Perkins, Politics News
Jackson Williams

If Matthew Marsden is really honored to hang out with anti-gay, religious-right hate mongers -- and that's who he flew halfway across the country to be with in private -- then he should do it in the light of day.

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Antichrist Might Be God-Awful, But That Doesn't Make It Misogynistic

Melissa Lafsky | Posted 10.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Misogyny, Antichrist, Lars Von Trier, Cannes Film Festival, Movies, Hollywood, Entertainment News
Melissa Lafsky

I don't have to tell you that Antichrist sucks. But if this audience-chafing, Cannes-enraging glob of rubbish is so irredeemable, why the hell is every publication still in existence racing to write about it?

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Surviving the Media Circus, Without Becoming the Clown

Barry Levinson | Posted 10.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Television, Barry Levinson, Joe Wilson, Poliwood, Wag the Dog, Communications, Jfk, Hollywood, You Lie, Barack Obama, Democratic National Convention, Media News
Barry Levinson

Communication -- the ability to connect and manipulate -- is perhaps the most interesting part of politics we can observe, and the most frightening.

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Huh? Conservatives Get Compassionate on White House, Dog Poop and Pot-Smoking

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 10.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Twitter, Motivational Speaker, Blaise Nutter, Marijuana, Money, Wilshire and Washington, Ted Johnson, 140 Conf, Fox News, Obama Administration, George Will, GET MOTIVATED! Seminar, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein, President Bush, Hollywood, Entertainment News
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein

Fortunately for us uneasy many, President Bush is back. It's interesting to remember the guy's charmingly folksy side once again, without the worry that he's about to bomb Kazakhstan.

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Is Scientology A Cult? Is Paul Haggis The Next Martin Luther?

Politics Daily | David Gibson | Posted 10.28.2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: Xenu, Tommy Davis, Greta Van Susteren, Paul Haggis, John Travolta, Anti-Scientology, Fbi, Paul Haggis Scientology Letter, Paul Haggis Letter, Film, L. Ron Hubbard, Same-Sex Marriage, Religion, Paul Haggis Scientology, Gay Rights, Kirstie Alley, Marty Rathbun, Prop 8, Tom Cruise, San Diego, Gay Marriage, Hollywood, Los Angeles News

It's been a tough stretch for Scientology. The church founded by the late science fiction writer (and great prophet/odd duck/complete kook -- take you...

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The Future of Cinema!

Chris Miller | Posted 10.27.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Indie Films, Film Industry, Avatar, Indie Film, Hollywood, Entertainment News
Chris Miller

People often ask us where we think the film industry is headed, next. And since we have made one whole movie before, we are definitely experts. Now we're finally ready to unleash our wisdom.

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A Visit With Writer/Producer Brian Bird

Mark Joseph | Posted 10.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Landon Jr., Fantasy Island, Step by Step, Touched by an Angel, Screenwriter, Saving Sarah Cain, Evening Shade, Hollywood, Producer, Bully! Pulpit, Brian Bird, Entertainment News
Mark Joseph

Brian Bird has been working in Hollywood for two decades now as a writer and producer. For many years he wrote and produced the CBS show Touched By An...

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L.A. Times: Testimony Of Roman Polanski's Victim Turned "Almost Benign"

Los Angeles Times | Joe Mozingo | Posted 10.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: La, Switzerland, Crime, Case, Extradition, Quaaludes, Film, Rape, Sodomy, History, Testimony, Details, Samantha Gailey, Polanski Testimony, Polanski Trial, Roman Polanski, Hollywood, Entertainment News

An extensive review of several thousand court documents, as well as numerous interviews, shows a basic dynamic defining the entire saga -- one force t...

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Rosie and Kelli Split and Remind Us About the Fight For Gay Divorce

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Montana, Toronto, Divorce, Kelli O'Donnell, Doma, Rosie O'Donnell, Same Sex Couples, Gay, Same-Sex Marriage, Marriage Equality, Marriage, Gay Rights, Gossip, Gays, Gay Issues, Gay Marriage, Hollywood, Politics News
Emma Ruby-Sachs

Rosie and Kelli are in the midst of what should be a pretty normal problem. But the legal protections for divorce, like for so many other issues, leave LGBT people out.

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Roman Polanski Arrest Sparked By Tip From Swiss, According To New Documents

AP | THOMAS WATKINS and BRADLEY S. KLAPPER | Posted 10.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Switzerland, Case, Extradition, Tip, Los Angeles, Film, Austria, Warrant, Polanski, Sex, Roman Polanski, Bail, Us, Gstaad, Quaalude, Hollywood, Entertainment News

LOS ANGELES — The arrest of Roman Polanski in his decades-old child sex case was set in motion last month by Swiss authorities, who informed fed...

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Mayim Bialik's Latest Role: Green Mom

Avital Binshtock | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: L.A., Holistic, Disposable, Children, Green Parenting, Babysitter, Waldorf Education, Diapers, Neuroscience, Strollers, Mothering, Eastern Europe, Actress, Medicine, Sitcom, Trend, Family, Research Professor, Materialism, Replacement Level, Nanny, Home-Schooling, Body, Nbc, Caregiver, Planet, Husband, Los Angeles, Sierra Magazine, Sustainable, Ucla, Reform Judaism, Health, Judaism, Population, Vegetarian, Homemade Hygiene Products, Bedsharing, Discipline, Earth, Liberal, Potty-Training, Cleaning Products, Cloth, Tolerance, Holistic Moms Network, Cats, Acting, Southern California, Kids, Celebrity, Stay-at-Home Mom, Mayim Bialik, Hollywood, Elimination Communication, Jewish, Tikkun Olam, Religion, Water, Fast Food, Slings, Environment, Mom, Shtetl, Blossom, Green News
Avital Binshtock

We know her as Blossom, that spunky adolescent on that eponymous sitcom. But since the series ended in 1995, Mayim Bialik, now 33, has truly blossomed.

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Vince Vaughn Appears On 'Tonight Show' To Deceive Country About Latest Film

The Onion | The Onion | Posted 10.16.2009 | Home

Read More: Hollywood, Home News

HOLLYWOOD, CA—"It's a really funny movie, and I think people are going to enjoy it," lied the 39-year-old performer, knowing full well that he w...

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Our Ambivalence With the Arts Makes Bad Education and Economic Policy

Dylan Kendall | Posted 10.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Education, Poverty, Economy, Arts Education, Creative Technologies, No Child Left Behind, Army, Hollywood, Usc, Living News
Dylan Kendall

No Child Left Behind, which bases educational success on reading and math testing, leaves little time for arts education, first in California and now in the nation at large.

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Rio De Janeiro Courts Woody Allen; City Wants To Be Setting For Director's Next Movie

Los Angeles Times | Chris Kraul | Posted 10.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Film, Brazil, Woody Allen, Hollywood, Location, Movie, Olympics, Rio De Janeiro, Woody Allen Movie, Vicky Christina Barcelona, Tourism, Barcelona, Spain, Rio, Oviedo, Entertainment News

Vicky Cristina . . . Rio de Janeiro? The Brazilian city has formed a new film commission, hired a longtime movie industry pro to head it and set an a...

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Phenomenal Photography: Vanity Fair, Steichen and Leibovitz

Marissa Bronfman | Posted 10.09.2009 | Style

Read More: Photography, Fashion-Photography, Joan Crawford, Edward Steichen, Conde Nast, Annie Leibovitz Photographs 1970-1990, Frank Gehry, Vanity Fair, Vogue Magazine, Vanity Fair Magazine, Katharine Hepburn, Julianne Moore, Royal Ontario Museum, Celebrity-Photos, Nicole Kidman, Conde Nast Magazines, William Butler Yeats, Art Gallery of Ontario, Portraits, Hollywood, Annie Leibovitz, Magazines, Style News
Marissa Bronfman

"Vanity Fair Portraits" is the first major exhibition to unite the magazine's historic archive of rare vintage prints with its contemporary photographs.

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A Child Rapist Is Not a Political Prisoner

Ariel Gonzalez | Posted 10.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Roman Polanski Arrest, O.J. Simpson, Ayn Rand, Woody Allen, Hollywood, Salman Rushdie, Whoopi Goldberg, Bernardo Bertolucci, Entertainment News
Ariel Gonzalez

A middle-aged man who treats a 13-year-old girl like an inflatable sex doll, and who then flees justice, is a degenerate and a coward. This is Humbert Humbert, not Nelson Mandela.

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Dumb Things Celebrites Say: Ashton Kutcher

Mark Joseph | Posted 10.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Love Scene, Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt, To Have & Have Not, Angelina Jolie, Sex, Lauren Bacall, Stupid, Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, Hollywood, Entertainment News
Mark Joseph

Kutcher lives in a reality-free zone wherein human beings are unemotional creatures who can perform sex scenes without any emotional attachment.

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'Entertainment Weekly' Critic Lets Director Redo 'Sorority Row' For Better Grade

The Onion | The Onion | Posted 10.06.2009 | Home

Read More: Hollywood, Home News

HOLLYWOOD, CA—Critic Kate Ward told reporters Monday that she has given director Stewart Hendler a chance to reshoot his horror-thriller......

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When 'Mad Men' Types -- and Hollywood-- First Played a Key Role in Politics

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Political Campaigns, Elections, Hollywood Politics, Actresses, Hollywood, Dirty Tricks, Actors, Newspapers, New Deal, The Jungle, Pbs, Mgm, Upton Sinclair, Barack Obama, Fdr, Mad Men, Harry Chandlers, Campaign of the Century, Socialist, President Roosevelt, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Will Rogers, HL Mencken, Politics News
Greg Mitchell

When pundits labeled last year's presidential campaign "divisive" and "dirty," I had to laugh. The champion of all dirty races in this century, in fact, was the 1934 contest between Upton Sinclair and Frank Merriam.

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Who's Afraid of Harvey Weinstein?

Jennifer Delaney | Posted 10.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Rape, Harvey Weinstein, Roman Polanski, Hollywood, Entertainment News
Jennifer Delaney

The sad fact is that many people in Hollywood probably think that what Polanski did is reprehensible but lack the real courage to go against Harvey Weinstein, Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen.

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Jason Linkins

Hollywood And Washington, D.C. Are Very Much Alike

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Media Criticism, Roman Polanski, Washington DC, Hollywood, Torture, Media News

In yesterday's Los Angeles Times, John Horn and Tina Daunt wrote about the extent to which the Hollywood community is terribly out of touch with the ...

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Is It Time to Move Your Agency to Hollywood?

DJ Edgerton | Posted 10.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Tim Armstrong, Ad Network, Click NY, Iphone, Transmedia, New Media, Hollywood, DJ Edgerton, Zemoga, Clickny, Media News
DJ Edgerton

Traditional interruption-based marketing is dead (or at least in severe decline) and anything an agency creates on behalf of a brand must give the consumer real value.

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Every Little Bit Hurts -- Figuring Out Trashy Behavior

Mark Olmsted | Posted 10.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Greening Hollywood, Immigrants, Trash, Green Living, Social Class, Litter, Hollywood, Littering, Green News
Mark Olmsted

Some of the worst offenders were the middle-aged men who smoked mountains of Capri cigarettes; if I had $5 for every one I eventually picked up, I would now be living in a villa inCapri.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: The Script That Kills: Austin Peck on The Blue Tooth Virgin

Dan Persons | Posted 10.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: La, Film Industry, Emotion, Trilogy of Terror, Script Doctor, Drama, Jealousy, Controversy, Hollywood, Days of Our Lives, Austin Peck, Los Angeles, Indie, Karen Black, Success, Comedy, Creativity, Roma Maffia, Acting Legend, Off Beat, Satire, Soap Operas, Writing, Tom Gilroy, As the World Turns, Daytime Television, Art, Amber Benson, Therapy, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

A TV writer tries his hand at a feature film. His friend reads the script, thinks it's an ungodly mess of muddled symbolism and Freud 101 anxieties. "Be honest," the writer says.

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