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Keeping Up With the Joneses in a Career: The Worst "Ism" Isn't What You Think

Michael Russnow | Posted 04.03.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Sexism, Racism, Art Buchwald, Richard Nixon, Michael Russnow, Writers Guild Strike, Writers Guild, Gosford Park, Julian Fellowes, Coming to America, Oscar, Robert Altman, Ageism, Isms, Agents, Perceptionism, Entertainment News
Michael Russnow

Perceptionism can happen to anyone, not only in the entertainment industry. We have seen careers in politics and business that appeared meteoric, only to have a misstep or loss shoot them down.

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DVDs: 1939 -- The Best Year For Movies...Ever!

Michael Giltz | Posted 02.15.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Cabaret, Academy Awards, Kiki and Herb, Jane Austen, Peter Greenaway, Casey Affleck, Gone With the Wind, Musicals, Oscar, Ben Affleck, Movies, Animation, Sitcoms, James McAvoy, 1939, Wrestling TV, Mysteries, Classics, Ernst Lubitsch, Charlie Chan, Amy Ryan, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

In 1939, the ten movies nominated for Best Picture include landmark classics in so many genres that it makes your head spin.

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Movies Are ??? Than Ever

Ben Rosen | Posted 01.26.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Oscar, Studio, Claudette Colbert, Elizabeth Taylor, There Will Be Blood, Cleopatra, Movies, Hollywood, Academy Award, Entertainment News
Ben Rosen

Are movies better than ever? Don't know. But I do know that movies are longer than ever.

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Why Al Gore is Not President

Rick Jacobs | Posted 01.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Generation Investment Management, Nobel Peace Prize, Oscar, Human Rights Campaign, Global Warming, Climate Change, Barack Obama, Homosexuals, Gay, Lesbian, Apple, Internet, Georgetown University, Iraq War, John Edwards, New York Times, Hillary Clinton, Current TV, Google, Emmy, Sustainable Investing, Al Gore Gay Marriage, Sustainability, Politics News
Rick Jacobs

The political system in this country, ruled as it is by a punditocracy and consultantocracy, would have been threatened by someone who owes them nothing.

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Why We Stopped Seeing Best Picture Nominees -- Part II

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 01.17.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Sequels, The Academy Awards, DVD Sales, Movie Distribution, Oscar, Breaking Entertainment News, Movies, Box Office, Entertainment News
Erik Lundegaard

(Read Part I here.) So why have best picture nominees gotten so unpopular in this particular decade? Is it the DVDs? In the past, the Academy and ...

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My "McLaughlin Awards" For 2007 [Part 1]

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.21.2007 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, President, Al Gore, Inconvenient Truth, Mitchell Report, 2007, Mccain, Iraq, Awards, China, Most Original Thinker, Lieberman, Turncoat of the Year, Bush, Iran, Bush Countdown Clock, Enough Already, Surge, Bummest Rap, Katie Couric, Most Stagnant Thinker, Turncoat, Current TV, Most Defining Political Moment, America Does Not Torture, Karl Rove, Petraeus, Barry Bonds, Communist China, Nobel, Biggest Loser, Person of the Year, McLaughlin Group, Most Boring, Edwards, Nobel Peace Prize, Congress, Oscar, Worst Lie, Roadblock Republicans, Capitalist of the Year, Democrats, Best Photo Op, Gonzales, Bomb Iran, Biggest Winner, Trent Lott, Best Comeback, Best Politician, Live Earth, Harry Reid, Republicans, Fairest Rap, Worst Politician, Maliki, Senate, Feinstein, Antarctica, Mclaughlin, Emmy, Politics News
Chris Weigant

For those of you who have been reading this column long enough, you may remember a fun set of columns (Part 1 and Part 2) I wrote last year, giving my...

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DVDs: Bigger Is Better

Michael Giltz | Posted 11.13.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: TV Shows, Sports, Steven Spielberg, Tennis, Football, Animated Films, Ray Romano, Dvds, Movies, Super Bowl, Charles Burnett, Edith Piaf, Wimbledon, Shrek, Hockey, Oscar, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

DVD libraries are bursting with massive boxed sets, the sort of thing people rarely pull out and watch (or read or listen to) but which they proudly display.

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