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Facebook Friendships and Social Influence: Guest Blog

Giles Slade | Posted 10.01.2009 | Media

Read More: James Fowler, J.D. Salinger, Harvard University, Social Networks, Pulp Fiction, The Killers, The Beatles, Good Will Hunting, Love Actually, Facebook, Nicholas Christakis, Blogging, William Shakespeare, Connected, Media News
Giles Slade

We followed 1,700 interconnected college students on Facebook. Their profiles listed favorite bands, movies, and authors. But we wondered how their tastes might spread.

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'Pulp Fiction' Oscar-Winner Roger Avary Sentenced For Fatal DUI

AP | Posted 09.30.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Roger Avary, Roger Avary DUI, Pulp Fiction, Entertainment News

VENTURA, Calif. — An Oscar-winning screenwriter of "Pulp Fiction" has been sentenced to a year in jail for causing a fatal traffic crash in Sout...

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The 10 Best Bobs: From Anna Wintour To Miyuki Hatoyama

Refinery 29 | Michelle Christina Larsen | Posted 11.10.2009 | Style

Read More: Natalie Portman, Edna Mode, Bob Hairdo, Bob Hairstyle, Pulp Fiction, Bob Haircut, Lottie Wilkins, Anna Wintour Bob, Leigh Lezark, Mathilda Lando, Miyuki Hatoyama, Louise Brooks, The Professional, Anja Rubik, Mia Wallace, Enchanted April, Top Ten Bobs, Bob, Anna Wintour, Suri Cruise Bob, Suri Cruise, Style News

Since the flappers took over in the '20s, getting a drastic haircut has been a fool-proof way to grab stares. And now, the bold, elegant bob is bewitc...

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Quentin Tarantino and Morally Responsible Cinema

Mike Miley | Posted 10.23.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Quentin Tarantino, Clockwork Orange, Inglourious Basterds, Stanley Kubrick, Pulp Fiction, Entertainment News
Mike Miley

Tarantino gets singled out as being morally vacant because he makes violence funny, and he's successful because he's really good at it.

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Inglourious Indeed

Michael Jones | Posted 10.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Movie Review, Brad Pitt, Film Review, Inglorious Bastards, Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill, Jackie Brown, Entertainment News
Michael Jones

There are a number of reasons why Inglorius Basterds is so disappointing. Self-indulgence and tongue-in-cheek hipness does not a movie make.

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Tarantino & Inglourious Basterds: An Uncomfortable Laugh

Tom Matlack | Posted 09.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Quentin Tarantino, Brad Pitt, Inglourious Basterds, Adolf Hitler, Pulp Fiction, Entertainment News
Tom Matlack

There is no doubt that Tarantino is the master at forcing us to get inside our own reactions to violence through uncomfortable laughter.

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'Pulp Fiction' Writer Pleads Guilty To Drunk Driving In Fatal Crash

AP | Posted 09.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Roger Avary Drunk Driving, Roger Avary Crash, Roger-Avary, Pulp Fiction, Entertainment News

VENTURA, Calif. — An Oscar-winning screenwriter of "Pulp Fiction" has pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter and drunken driving for a crash t...

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The Best Original Movie Scores By Farr

John Farr | Posted 04.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Dr. Zhivago, Goldfinger, The Bad and the Ugly, Henry Mancini, Pulp Fiction, Movie, Moviemaking, Breakfast at Tiffany's, John Barry, A Man and a Woman, Miklos Rozsa, Maurice Jarre, Bernard Herrmann, Son of a Preacher Man, David Raksin, The Good, Burt Bacharach, Movie Music, Nino Rota, Michel Legrand, Lawrence of Arabia, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Stuck in the Middle With You, The Magnificent Seven, Best Original Score, The Pink Panther, Elmer Bernstein, Gone With the Wind, The Thomas Crown Affair, Francis Lai, Ennio Morricone, Bob Dylan, Film Scores, Reservoir Dogs, American Graffiti, Max Steiner, Eric Wolfgang Korngold, James Bond, The Godfather, Movie Soundtracks, Dusty Springfield, Quentin Tarantino, The Godfather Part 2, Laura, Entertainment News
John Farr

Surveying the historical span of filmmaking, the use of original music appears more prevalent from the dawn of sound through the 1970s -- or perhaps it's just that the scores themselves were more memorable over this period.

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A Word To Hollywood: In Recessionary Times, Smaller, Better Films, Please -- And More Of Them!

John Farr | Posted 03.31.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Jim Carrey, Cleopatra Digitally Recreated, King Kong, Media-and-the-Recession, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Superman Returns, Titanic, The Lives of Others, Pulp Fiction, Little Miss Sunshine, Lord of the Rings, Terminator, Classic Stars, American Beauty, Star Compensation, Tom Hanks, Waterworld, Studio System, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Harry Potter, Hollywood Budgets, Harvey Milk Movie, Entertainment News
John Farr

This year's gimmicky Benjamin Button cost $150 million, the superlative Milk cost just $15 million. Why not fund ten more Milk-type films and forego one Button?

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Best Movies By Farr: When Oscar Screws Up

John Farr | Posted 03.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Edward G. Robinson, The English Patient, The Exorcist, Tom Hanks, History of the Academy Awards, Julie Andrews, Milk, Fred MacMurray, John Wayne, The Wrestler Stanley Kubrick, As Good as It Gets, Capote, The Great Ziegfeld, Traffic, L.A. Confidential, Driving Miss Daisy, Dr. Strangelove, Fargo, High Noon, Million Dollar Baby, Joan Allen, My Left Foot, Around the World in Eighty Days, Slumdog Millionaire, The Academy Awards, The Sting, Rocky Balboa, Letters From Iwo Jima, Double Indemnity, Shirley MacLaine, Rex Harrison, Little Miss Sunshine, Ed Harris, Life Is Beautiful, Peter Finch, Shakespeare in Love, Charles Chaplin, James Dean, Giant, Crash, My Man Godfrey, Barbara Stanwyck, The Contender, Network, Imelda Staunton, Academy Awards, Titanic, Louis B. Mayer; Daryl Zanuck; Samuel L Goldwyn, Hotel Rwanda, The Apartment, The Departed, Peter Sellers, Pulp Fiction, Burt Lancaster, Gladiator, Vera Drake, Sean Penn, Modern Times, Elizabeth Taylor, Chicago, Field of Dreams, Billy Wilder, Pollock, Al Jolson, Forrest Gump, William Powell, John Travolta, Carole Lombard, Singin' in the Rain, Taxi Driver, Cecil B. DeMille, My Fair Lady, Jack Lemmon, The Searchers, The Hours, Robert De Niro, Entertainment News
John Farr

2005 -- for Best Picture, give me Capote over Crash any ol' time. Another uninspiring year, I thought.

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"Pulp Fiction" Screenwriter Charged With Vehicular Manslaughter

AP | Posted 01.15.2009 | Entertainment

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VENTURA, Calif. — An Oscar-winning screenwriter of "Pulp Fiction" has pleaded not guilty to vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influen...

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WTF? Lieberman? Clinton? That's EXACTLY The Obama I Voted For

Lee Stranahan | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Religion, Secretary of State, John McCain, Samuel L. Jackson, Pulp Fiction, President Elect, Quentin Tarantino, Joe Lieberman, Hillary Clinton, Transition, Barack Obama, Wtf, Politics News
Lee Stranahan

Speaking for my tiny little chunk of the liberal blogosphere, I don't like Joe Lieberman. I was disgusted by Hillary's campaign. And I couldn't be happier with Obama's decisions.

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Israelis Sending Word To U.S. Jews: We Prefer Obama

Jan McGirk | Posted 11.07.2008 | Home

Read More: Pulp Fiction, An Inconvenient Truth, Evangelicals, Great Schlep, Sarah Palin, Weekly Standard, Sarah Silverman, Jews for Change, Bill Kristol, Alma Har'el, Lawrence Bender, Online Campaigning, Boaz Yankin, Jerusalem, Spymasters, Hamas, Bob Dylan, Barack Obama, Foo Fighters, Israelis for Obama, Jackie Mason, Sderot, Ramallah, Youtube, Israel, Joe Lieberman, Neo-Conservatives, Jesse Dylan, Christian Zionists, Willy Stern, Jewsvote, Home News
Jan McGirk

Israelis across the political spectrum, from leftwing actors to retired spy chiefs and generals, are challenging the conventional wisdom that a Republican hawk in the White House would be in their best interests. Their weapon of choice? Online video.

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