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Keeping You Posted: Is Texas About to Kill an Innocent Man? Also, the Subpoena That Keeps on Giving

David Protess | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Anthony McKinney, Hank Skinner, DNA Tests, Wrongful Conviction, Death Penalty, The Reader, Casey Anthony, Rick Perry, Anita Alvarez, Michael Miner, Medill Innocence Project, Chicago News

Even if Perry intervenes simply to prevent Hank Skinner's death from becoming a campaign issue, the most he can do under Texas law at this point is grant a 30-day reprieve.

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Oprah Loves Kate Winslet's Breasts (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Celebrity Skin, Video, Oprah Winfrey, The Reader, Kate Winslet, Oprah, Oprah Kate Winslet, Kate Winslet Breasts, Kate Winslet Oprah, Entertainment News

Kate Winslet got a lot of love from Oprah Winfrey on Tuesday, days after winning two Golden Globes. Discussing her role in "The Reader," Oprah brought...

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Why Must We Still Wait Months To See First-Run Movies On DVD?

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kate Winslet, Avon Theatre, Rachel Getting Married, Academy Awards, Gene Wilder, Doubt-Movie-Review, Angelina Jolie, DVD Rentals, I've Loved You So Long, Dvds, DVD Sales, Movie Theaters, The Reader, First Run Exhibition, Lasse Hallstrom, Anne Hathaway, Slumdog Millionaire, Tim Robbins, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Multiplexes, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Changeling, Stamford, The Changeling, Chevy Chase, Meryl Streep, Best Movies of 2008, Robert Altman, Arthur Penn, Tell No One, Entertainment News

The conventional thinking that a movie is best appreciated on a huge screen and in an assemblage of strangers no longer holds true when compared to a high-definition home theater.

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Oscar Wild

Tallulah Morehead | Posted 05.25.2011

Could we just keep Tina Fey and Steve Martin, and send everyone else home? "Don't fall in love with me," said Martin. Sorry, Steve. You're 35 years too late.

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Oscars 2009

Ken Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hugh Jackman Oscars, The Academy Awards, Kate Winslet, Jerry Lewis, Heath Ledger Oscar, Academy Award Winners 2009, Sean Penn Oscar Wins, The Oscars, Hugh Jackman, Oscar Results 2008, Slumdog Millionaire, Oscar Reviews, The Reader, Oscars 2009, Oscar Ratings, Sean Penn, Robin Wright Penn, Oscar Winners, Oscars Recap, Freida Pinto, Tina Fey Steve Martin Oscars, Sean Penn Acceptance Speech, Dustin Lance Black, Entertainment News

Hugh Jackman was sensational. Kudos to the producers for turning to an actual movie star to host instead of seeing who's available from Comedy Central.

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Kate Winslet Giddy With Best Actress Victory

AP | ERIN CARLSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kate Winslet, The Reader, The Oscars, Kate Winslet's Oscar Speech, Award Season, Entertainment News

NEW YORK — Kate Winslet pulled off the expected Sunday night, winning the Academy Award for best actress for her quietly powerful performance in...

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Alpha Financial Dogs Nouriel Roubini and Nassim Taleb, Socks Clinton and First Annual Lucky Award given to Mickey Rourke!

Wendy Diamond | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: AnimalFair.Com, Dev Patel, The Lucky Award, Bill Clinton, Sydney Pollack, Socks, Kate Winslet, Bloomberg News, Nouriel Roubini, PetSmart.Com, Anthony Minghella, Adoptions.Petsmart.com, Mickey Rourke, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Betty Currie, Sean Penn, The Reader, Random House, Slumdog Millionaire, Harvey Milk, Wall-E, 81st Academy Awards, Elegy, Kodak Theatre, Penelope Cruz, Vicki Christina Barcelona, Oscars, Paris Hilton's Tinkerbell, Heath Ledger, The Times, Vino, Style News

In honor of the 81st Academy Awards, I decided I wanted to start the first annual Lucky Awards. It's not about glamour, but the person or film and their contributions to a greater good.

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Harvey Weinstein And Stephen Daldry Hit Back At "The Reader" Criticism

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stephen Daldry, Film, Kate Winslet, The Oscars, The Reader, Harvey Weinstein, Award Season, Entertainment News

Supporters and producers of "The Reader" are hitting back at criticisms of the Oscar-nominated film and speaking out for the film, just two days befor...

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The Hot Illiterate Nazi (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: David Cope, The Academy Awards, Jews, Kate Winslet, The Reader Satire, Funny Videos, The Reader Parody, Sara Benincasa, The Reader, The Oscars, Illiterate Nazi, The Illiterate Nazi, Benincasa Reader, Hot Illiterate Nazi, Video, Comedy News

Last minute movie parodies are a staple of the week leading up to the Oscars, but this one's pretty great. The original trailer for "The Reader" m...

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Tea and Sympathy's Robert Anderson Was a Class Act: The Great Playwright Lured Deborah Kerr to Broadway

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: ACE Award, Russnow, Switzerland, Scottish Film Council, Academy Award Nomination, Deborah Kerr, Roundabout Theatre, Motion Picture Academy, The Patricia Neal Story, The Nun's Story, I Never Sang for My Father, You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running, David Bruce, Tea and Sympathy, WGA Award, WGA Nomination, Prime Minister Major, The Sand Pebbles, Cbe, Ben Benjamin, Until They Sail, Queen Elizabeth, Ingrid Bergman, The Reader, Tennessee Williams, Harvard Club, New York City, Arthur Miller, Robert Anderson, Michael Russnow, Providence, Klosters, Dame, Movies, The Last Act Is a Solo, Silent Night Lonely Night, Entertainment News

Tea and Sympathy will be remembered eternally for its final line, "Years from now when you talk about this -- and you will -- be kind" -- one of the tenderest moments in Broadway history.

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Report Card for Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet) Reading: I for Incomplete

Gabrielle Burton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bruno Ganz, The Academy Awards, Holocaust Movies, Kate Winslet, Hanna Schmitz, David Kross, Lena Olin, The Reader, Ralph Fiennes, Entertainment News

Nominated for five Oscars, this film is about secrets, obsession, collective and individual guilt, the indelibility of first love affairs, legality, morality, compassion, forgiveness, and the complexity of behavior.

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What If CelebrityNudityDatabase.com Picked the Oscar Winners?

A.V. Club | Keith Phipps | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kate Winslett, The Reader, The Academy Awards, The Wrestler, Kate Winslet, Academy Awards, Nudity, Nudity in Films, The Oscars, Mickey Rourke, Comedy News

Sure, Wikipedia gets all the credit for exemplifying the ability of Internet users to create collectively a useful reference work. But as anyone who's...

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Seedy Sexy Dirty Drum Boogie

Kim Morgan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elisha Cook Jr., Penelope Cruz, Kate Winslet, The Reader, Phantom Lady, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Ella Raines, Entertainment News

American cinema isn't really that dangerously sexy anymore. Film noir is the place for screwy sexy, and Robert Siodmack's Phantom Lady is both sizzling and poignant.

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The Oscar Nominations: Yes, But... Melissa Leo is now an Oscar Nominee!

Scott Mendelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Angelia Jolie, The Academy Awards, Wall-E, Brad Pitt, The Dark Knight, Doubt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Reader, Melissa Leo, The Oscars, Slumdog Millionaire, Frozen River, Movies, Entertainment News

Melissa Leo is now an Academy Award-nominated actress. Ladies and gents, Melissa Leo, who has struggled to find decent roles in the past ten years now has an Oscar nomination.

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Note to the Academy: Why So Serious?

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Oscars, The Academy Awards, Slumdog Millionaire, The Reader, Frost/Nixon, Box Office, The Dark Night, Best Picture, Milk, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Batman: The Dark Knight, Batman, Movies, Entertainment News

The Dark Knight was a critically acclaimed, monster box office hit with tons of buzz. In terms of domestic, unadjusted dollars, it was the no. 2 movie of all time.

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Your 12 Biggest Questions About Hollywood, Answered

Chris Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Dark Knight, Revolutionary Road, M. Night Shyamalan, David Zucker, An American Carol, The Reader, Tom Cruise, Joseph Goebbels, Valkyrie, Tom Cruise Scientology, Movies, Hollywood, Entertainment News

Director Bryan Singer worked really hard to get all the Nazi paraphernalia just right in Valkyrie, so why does he let Tom Cruise call Joseph Goebbels "George Gobel?"

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Rethinking The Reader

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Reader, Kate Winslet, Film, The Reader Movie, Movies, Nazi Germany, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Defiance, Germany, The New York Times, New York Times, Valkyrie, Entertainment News

Critics have been poo-pooing The Reader for the love affair between a minor and older woman, and other reasons, but I say, look again.

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Good the Movie is Only Somewhat So: Another Nazi Film About a Flawed Relationship

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011

Good hasn't a prayer of making any money but if you don't care about only seeing what's in vogue you won't go away feeling unmoved.

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Che The Movie, Exquisitely Detailed: It's Not Just One Film, It's Two, Though a Little Bit Overdone

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bolivia, Abc, Steven Soderbergh, Fulgencio Batista, Judgment at Nuremberg, Frost/Nixon, Benicio Del Toro, Russnow, Ram Productions International, The Reader, Che, Che Guevara, Movies, Peter Andrews, Harvey Milk, Passion of the Christ, Peter Buchman, Defiance, Julia Ormond, Alberto Iglesias, Benjamin Van Der Veen, Fidel Castro, Mel Gibson, Michael Russnow, Cuba, Milk, Lisa Howard, Spartacus, Entertainment News

Benicio Del Toro is magnetic and haunting as Che, but he has the difficult task of communicating to us through subtitles, as most of the film is told in Spanish.

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Nazi Themes Dominate In Six Holiday Movies

AP | SANDY COHEN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Kate Winslet, Award Season, Viggo Mortensen, Defiance, Good, Jeff Goldblum, The Reader, Tom Cruise, Film, Valkyrie, Entertainment News

LOS ANGELES — 'Tis the season to gather, be grateful for what we have and share what we can. But for cinephiles, it's awards season, and that me...

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Actress Kate Winslet Struggles With Making The Reader, The Nazi Era and Oscar Buzz

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Holocaust, Revolutionary Road, Germany, The Reader, Nazis, Kate Winslet, Women, Sex, Movies, Academy Awards, Stephen Daldry, The Third Reich, Ralph Fiennes, Bernhard Schlink, Interview, Oscars, Entertainment News

Kate Winslet: "All that mattered at the end of the day was that I made [Hannah Schmitz] my own and...played the... the truthfulness of that, the vulnerability of her and that I understood her."

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The Reader is a Surprising Film: Nazis Can Be Sympathetic, Though Not Forgiven

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011

On the whole David Hare has written a fascinating and engrossing script, and Director Stephen Daldry has given us a taut and emotional filmmaking achievement.

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Reading The Reader

Annette Insdorf | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Reader, Nazis, World War 2, The Reader Movie, Germany, Stephen Daldry, Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Movies, Entertainment News

Michael functions as a metaphor for his generation: like post-war Germany, he is drawn to this secretive emblem of the past, then repulsed, and finally makes a wary accommodation.

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Milk Robbed of Globes

Chris Goldberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Golden Globes Nominations, Milk Movie, Harvey Weinstein, Mickey Rourke, Sean Penn, Tom Cruise, The Reader, Movies, Wtf, Entertainment News

Sean Penn nails it in Milk (even the Queens accent, which I can personally attest to as a Sunnyside resident). The movie is nearly flawless. It puts most biopics to shame.

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Harvey's Back! Weinstein Company Gets 8 Golden Globe Nominations

Hollywood Reporter | Steven Zeitchik | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Weinstein Company, Golden Globes Nominations, The Reader, Harvey Weinstein, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Golden Globes, Entertainment News

When Harvey Weinstein landed scattered awards nominations during the past few years, some -- especially Weinstein himself -- touted a comeback. This ...

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