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G-Force: Disney's Loveable Rodent Gets an AK-47

Tom Gregory | Posted 08.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Violence, Safety, Walt Disney, G-Force, War in Afghanistan, Alcohol. Tobacco, Right Wing, Militias, Hollywood, Tsa, Gang Violence, Mickey Mouse, Iraq War, Firearms, Disney, Video Games, Summer Blockbuster, Entertainment News

This week Disney launched its D-Day assault. With the advertisements for G-Force gracing every highway across America, big artillery has reached the "cute" stage.

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A Wistful Champagne Toast to William Powell

John Farr | Posted 08.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Carole Lombard, Screwball Comedy, James Cagney, William Powell, Jack Lemmon, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, Best Movies by Farr, Irene Dunne, Nostalgia, Classic Movies, Hollywood, Henry Fonda, Entertainment News

One of the finest actors and leading men from Hollywood's Golden Age, William Powell was born towards the end of this month way back in 1892. It's unlikely most people under 30 would even recognize his name, which is sad, but also easily remedied.

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Reality TV Kills California's Budget

James Sims | Posted 08.10.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Reality TV, NBC Universal, Tax Incentives, Ryan Seacrest, Film Industry, Survivor, Budget, Abc, Fox, American Idol, California Budget Crisis, Hollywood, Entertainment News

FilmL.A., the office behind film permits for the city, reported last month that the number of prime-time TV pilots shot in Los Angeles is down nearly 42 percent.

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Movies, TV Take Backseat At Sun Valley

deadlinehollywooddaily.com | Posted 08.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Movie Industry, Television, Sun Valley 2009, Hollywood, Sun Valley, Media News

Congratulations, Hollywood: you're officially irrelevant at the annual Allen & Co investment conference in Sun Valley this week. I've just been read t...

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Harlem Memorializes Michael Jackson at Apollo Theater

Lauri Lyons | Posted 08.06.2009 | New York

Read More: Harlem, Michael Jackson, We Are the World, Al Sharpton, Baptize, Dr. 90210, Off the Wall, Mourners, African-Americans, Janet Jackson, Usher, Race, Bleach, Britain, President, Prescriptions, Joe Jackson, England, 125th Street, Tanning Salon, Thriller, Army, B.E. T, Collagen, Transformer, American Idol, Pharmaceuticals, Hallelujah, Bad, Heaven, The Wiz, California, Hate, Guilt, Tunisia, Broadway, Surrealism, Suntan, Los Angeles, The Staples Center, Barack Obama, Sunbathing, Elvis Presley, Las Vegas, Anti-Depressants, Gender, Skin, Dancing, Pharmaceutical Companies, 50, Art, John Lennon, Bible, Motown 25, The Beatles, Genetics, Singing, Paul Mc Cartney, Justin Timberlake, Jackson 5, Rain, Apollo Theater, LaToya Jackson, Australia, Cartoons, Britney Spears, Prescription Drugs, Reality Shows, Jamie Foxx, Black Fedora, Spike Lee, Drugs, King of Pop, Musicals, Jacksons, Tummy Tuck, Child Molestation, Fans, Russia, Americans, Cosmetic Surgery, Performers, Gary, Encino, Mtv, Quincy Jones, Amateur Night, Mardi Gras, Tabloids, Associated Press, Suicide, Trials, Music Videos, Billie Jean, Moonwalk, Hollywood, Tanning Booth, Nose Job, Berry Gordy, Dermatologist, Plastic Surgery, Diana Ross, Impersonators, Beat It, Moscow, Jordan Chandler, Chris Brown, Suntan Lotion, Katherine Jackson, Memorial, Botox, Indiana, Mowtown, Rx, New York, Paris Jackson, Lisa Marie Presley, Deborah Rowe, Aeg Live, Martin Bashir, Brooke Sheilds, Lauri Lyons, White-Glove, Judith Hill, Marlon Jackson, Manhattan, Cnn, Jermaine Jackson, Youtube, New Orleans, New York News

The Apollo Theater's memorial tribute to Michael Jackson might as well have been Mardi Gras in Harlem.

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Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

David Dean Bottrell | Posted 08.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Smoking; David Dean Bottrell, Entertainment, Boston Legal, Hollywood, Living News

I had fallen for the biggest joke addicts ever play on themselves: That somehow, they can have "just one."

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Michael Jackson and 4th of July Priorities of Concern

Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater | Posted 08.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Michael Jackson, Shabbat, 4th of July, Leonardo Da Vinci, Cable Television, Clean Energy, Michael Jackson Death, Iran Protests, Musical America, Iraq Troop Withdrawal, Shakespeare, Healthcare, South Carolina Governor, S.C. Governor Mark Sanford, Hollywood, Politics News

In the same week that hundreds of thousands of Iranians took to the streets to protest a travesty of democratic values, Americans took to the streets for the death of a superstar entertainer.

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Best of Palm Springs Short Film Fest '09

Brad Schreiber | Posted 08.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Film, Palm Springs, Hollywood, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Short Film, Christopher Eccleston, Entertainment News

The largest short film festival in North America has just concluded. We look at some of the standouts.

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Four Steps to Save Publishing, by the Unpublished

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 07.31.2009 | Media

Read More: New Orleans, Ben Hecht, Chicago, Media, New York Times, Washington Post, Publishers, Huffington Post, Journalism, Newspapers, Molly Ivins, Twitter, Hollywood, James Thurber, Dorothy Dix, Ernest Hemingway, Advertising, Economy, Media News

The collective naval-gazing of reporters and publishers far exceeds the outcry when free downloads upended the music industry and streaming video tanked television ratings, because when a crisis hits the writers it's what we write about.

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The Mainstream Media's Schizophrenic Coverage of Michael Jackson's Death

Earnest Harris | Posted 07.31.2009 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson Dies, Earnest Harris, Tmz, Cnn, Hollywood, Media News

Even after all these years of doing what it does, the mainstream media still can't decide if it wants to be a source of facts, a go-to place for what's happening, a tabloid, a gossip source, a place to go for all things negative or maybe even something else.

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Celebrity "Roadkill": A Black Box Warning for Physicians

Gary Cohan | Posted 07.31.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Medical Ethics, Michael Jackson, Dangerous Controlled Substance, Drug Addiction, Roadkill, Physicians, Celebrity Culture, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Doctor Shopping, Beverly Hills, Self-Esteem, Justice Department, Prescription Painkillers, Judy Garland, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Just Say No, Fame, Opiates, Drug Enforcement Administration, Deepak Chopra, Drug Abuse, Heath Ledger, Narcotics, Pain Medications, Hippocratic Oath, Celebrities, Hollywood, Black Box Warning, Entertainment News

How can a vulnerable physician resist the temptation to "bend the rules" for these "tabloid elites?"

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Summer Reading on a Sunny (Doris) Day: David Kaufman's The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door Part I

Penelope Andrew | Posted 07.31.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: James Garner, Louis Jordan, James Cagney, Terry Melcher, Clark Gable, Norman Jewison, Love Me or Leave Me, David Kaufman, Rock Hudson, Hollywood, Martin Melcher, Pillow Talk, Judy Garland, Ethel Barrymore, Alfred Hitchcock, David Niven, Doris Day, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Jack Lemmon, Films, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Jimmy Stewart, Patrick O'Neal, Biographies, Michael Curtiz Ethel Barrymore, Thelma Ritter, Charles Ludlam, Storm Warning, Anita O'Day, Ella Fitzgerald, Spring Byington, Calamity Jance, Animal Rights, Kitty Foyle, Paul McCartney, Helen Forrest, Ginger Rogers, Janis Paige, Peggy Lee, The Great American Songbook, Oprah Winfrey, A Streetcar Named Desire, Linda Eastman McCartney, Table, Entertainment News

There are certain actors we encounter as children having grown up on classic film who have a profound impact on us, and no one knows this better than David Kaufman, author of Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door.

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Leap of Faith

David Dean Bottrell | Posted 07.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Religion, Parts and Labor, Entertainment, David Dean Bottrell, Spirituality, Hollywood, Boston Legal, Show Business, Living News

Creativity is by definition an act of faith. I frankly don't know where I get the balls to sit down at this computer and attempt to write.

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Hollywood Rich Kids Stage Their Own Backyard Concerts

New York Times | Jennifer Bleyer | Posted 07.23.2009 | Style

Read More: Rich Kids, Concerts, Music, Hollywood, Style News

THE teenagers streamed in by the dozen past the electric gate, the 12-foot-high manicured hedges and the gleaming Lexus sedans in the driveway. They m...

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What Hollywood is Not Letting You See

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 07.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Ageism, Filmmaking, Hollywood Ageism, Hollywood, Entertainment News

Your favorite movie could likely be written by someone over 40. If today's Hollywood executives had their way, your favorite movie wouldn't exist.

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Hollywood Meets Bollywood

Indepepal | Posted 07.18.2009 | World

Read More: Rocky, Former Bond Girl, Rocky Actor, Sly Stallone, Bond Girl, Hollywood and Bollywood, Denise Richards, Bollywood, Hollywood, Hollywood Goes Bollywood, Hollywood Meets Bollywood, Akshay Kumar, Hollywood Stars, Snoop Dogg, India, Bollywood Movies, Bollywood News, World News

With big ticket stars like Sly Stallone and Denise Richards appearing in Bollywood movies, Hollywood seems to be looking east. First, there was cu...

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Fame Fatale

Brooks Peters | Posted 07.17.2009 | Style

Read More: Femme Fatales, Paris Hilton, Michael Jackson, Celebutante, Fame, Hollywood, Follies, Style News

You see their boldface names and bald numb faces in the tabloids, and on all the glitzy infotainment shows (if you can bear to watch them). They are the nouveaux reachers, the celebutantes, the Cling-ons.

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Having a Secret Policeman's Ball

Brad Schreiber | Posted 07.13.2009 | Entertainment

Martin Lewis is a multi-headed entertainment serpent no longer interested in being a mere producer but is bent on some plan for world domination.

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"Women Don't Go to Movies" -- Huh?

Nia Vardalos | Posted 07.09.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Movie Business, My Life in Ruins, Nia Vardalos, Hollywood, Entertainment News

A little-known fact: some studios recently decided to no longer make female-lead movies.

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Hollywood: Like Detroit, But Stupider

Daniel Holloway | Posted 07.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Jonas Brothers, Box Office, New York Times, Faye Dunaway, Los Angeles, Movies, Recession, Hollywood, Entertainment News

Where are all the moviegoers going? Nowhere. They're at home, downloading illegal bootlegs and laughing (out loud!) about it.

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Dear Hollywood: Meet Four Industry Guys Who Left Los Angeles And Found Their Heartstrings In The Middle Of A Homeless Camp In Denver

Stacie Krajchir | Posted 06.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Television, The Trevor Project, Homelessness, Real World, Reality, Living, Media, Film, Love, Hollywood, Entertainment News

There are people in the world I call connectors. They eat, sleep live and breathe with other people in mind. And the king of connectors is my friend Richard Ayoub.

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Copyright Needs Limits, As It Restricts Innovation

Gary Shapiro | Posted 06.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Supreme Court, Movie Industry, Consumer-Electronics-Association, Copyright, Riaa, Content Creation, Innovation, Creative Commons, Dvr, Apple, Dell, Qualcomm, Jfk, Cea, Ebay, Sony Betamax, Amazon, Vcr, Fair Use, Google, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Gary Shapiro, mp3s, Congress, Hollywood, Facebook, Tivo, Mark Helprin, Cisco, Piracy, Music Industry, Texas Instruments, Zillow, Hp, Patents, Business News

Defenders of expanded copyright restrictions imply that content owners have been on a losing streak and have few tools at their disposal. Wrong.

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Get Rich Cheating

Jeff Kreisler | Posted 06.25.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Embezzlement, Msnbc, Blagojevich, Paris Hilton, Too True, Deceit, Video, Madoff, Satire, Washington, Cheating, Wall Street, Comedy, Funny, Get Rich Cheating, Daily Show, Humor, Cnbc, Tricks, Scams, Colbert, Fraud, Bill Maher, Infomercial, Maddow, Hilarious, Parody, Rachel Maddow, Ceo, Book, Auctions for Income, Reading, Dave Espino, Hollywood, Monty Python, Comedy News

Everyone's doing it--from sleazy CEOs to 'roided-up home run kings, silicone-enhanced starlets, and backroom-dealing congressmen--so why not you?

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Just When Did The Quality Of Hollywood Films Start To Drop?

John Farr | Posted 06.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Harrison Ford, Jim Carrey, Shia La Beouf, Richard Dreyfuss, William Holden, James Stewart, Clark Gable, Classic Film, Angelina Jolie, Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Peter Sellers, Spencer Tracy, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert Downey Jr, Cary Grant, Robin Williams, Christian Bale, Ingrid Bergman, Foreign Films, Jack Lemmon, Paul Hogan, Bette Midler, Dancing With the Stars, Cameron Diaz, Leonardo Dicaprio, Technology, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Humphrey Bogart, Elizabeth Taylor, Tyrone Power, John Travolta, Lee Marvin, Paul Newman, George Clooney, Barbra Streisand, Danny Devito, John Wayne, Tom Hanks, Clint Eastwood, Woody Allen, Eddie Murphy, Tom Cruise, Mel Gibson, Warren Beatty, Reese Witherspoon, Julia Roberts, Dustin Hoffman, Myrna Loy, Will Smith, Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Adam Sandler, Steve McQueen, Daniel Craig, Meg Ryan, Tom Selleck, Hollywood, The Quigley Poll, Sidney Poitier, Entertainment News

While Hollywood continues to dominate the global film market, the most original, intelligent, and enduring movies today are being made outside this country.

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SAG Executive Director: TV/Theatrical Deal Will Pass

Jonathan Handel | Posted 06.20.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Sag, Breaking Entertainment News, Labor, Screen Actors Guild Strike, Hollywood Strike, Screen Actors Guild, Hollywood, Labor Unions, Entertainment News

David White heralded the proposed agreement between SAG and the studios as "a good deal with solid gains," and added that "Within the context of negotiations [lasting] over a year and an economy changed radically since 2008, it's a fantastic deal."

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