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Celebrities Who Changed Their Names: Who Is Most Ridiculous? (PHOTOS, POLL)

Posted 11.28.2009 | Entertainment

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Some celebrities' names are as outrageous as their stage costumes (Lady Gaga and Pink come to mind) but you may not realize just how many actors were ...

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Ten Films For The Coming Weeks

John Farr | Posted 11.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The Graduate, Fred MacMurray, Woody Allen, Thanksgiving, Paul Simon, The Thin Man, The Apartment, Animal House, Diane Keaton, Peter Sellers, Spencer Tracy, Best Movies by Farr, Don Cheadle, Ben Affleck, Father of the Bride Movie, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Cary Grant, Burt Reynolds, Alfred Hitchcock, Barbara Stanwyck, Blake Edwards, Boogie Nights, Grace Kelly, Julianne Moore, Matthew McConaughey, Bonnie and Clyde, Jack Lemmon, Jeff Goldblum, Parker Posey, Preston Sturges, Dustin Hoffman, William H. Macy, Elizabeth Taylor, Holiday Shopping, Holiday Season, William Powell, John C. Reilly, It's a Wonderful Life, Holiday Season Commentary, To Catch a Thief, Billy Wilder, Mark Wahlberg, A Christmas Carol, Dazed and Confused, Jon Voight, Parties, Henry Fonda, Mad Men, Midnight Cowboy, Shirley MacLaine, P.T. Anderson, Annie Hall, Richard Linklater, Myrna Loy, Heather Graham, The Love Boat, Entertainment News

Get ready, folks, for the coming blur of forced reunions, work-related functions, and cacophonous Christmas parties.

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Carla Bruni To Star In Woody Allen's Next Film

AP | Posted 11.25.2009 | Entertainment

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PARIS — Woody Allen has successfully courted France's first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. The former supermodel and wife of President Nicolas Sark...

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Philip Roth and Woody Allen: Have I Got a Girl for You!

David Finkle | Posted 11.02.2009 | Entertainment

Roth and Allen are producing works it's difficult not to describe as clichés. What could be more commonplace than men obsessed with proving that male elders remain attractive to their female juniors?

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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

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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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Nick Swardson: "My Ass is the Best Joke Teller I Know"

Jon Chattman | Posted 10.08.2009 | Entertainment

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There is, for sure, a very twisted side to me. The other side is a nude Brad Pitt riding a unicorn with candy as his genitals.

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Letterman's Stupid Human Trick

Todd Greene | Posted 10.08.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Mark Sanford, Infidelity, David Letterman Affairs, Bowdoin-College, David Letterman Wife, David Letterman Extortion, The Late Show With David Letterman, Woody Allen, Office Romance, David Letterman Ratings, Marriage Infidelity, Roman Polanski, David Letterman, Entertainment News

It was always nice to turn on the television and know David Letterman could summon out of us a few laughs, but now, for me and countless viewers, the funny is gone.

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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

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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Polanski Punishment Should Fit the Crime - Period

Diane Dimond | Posted 10.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Diane Dimond Weekly Column, Extradition for Rape, Rape of a 13 Year Old Girl, TV Gabber Whoopi Goldberg, Harvey Weinstein, Charlie Manson, State of California vs Roman Polanski, Jack Nicholson, Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, Entertainment News

The only question right now should be why Roman Polanski fled the United States 32 years ago and denied justice for the child in the first place. He'd pleaded guilty to the crime and ran away like a coward.

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On Iranian Nuclear Weapons - From the Perspective of an Iranian Nuclear Weapon

Ben Berkon | Posted 11.29.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Comedy News, Nuclear Weapons, Annie Hall, News, Ben Berkon, Woody Allen, Comedy News

I thought I looked a little fat in my New York Times profile, but I've heard that "human fear" adds fifteen pounds -- especially when you're part fission, part fusion.

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'How to Be Happy' and Stop Being Fearful

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living

Children are naturally prone to curiosity -- but all too often this is replaced by nurture that cautions against everything that is unknown, leading ultimately to a life ultimately not much worth knowing about at all.

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Brooklyn: Woody Allen's Manhattan For Modern Times (VIDEO)

Posted 10.17.2009 | New York

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If Woody Allen was born in the 80s, is there any doubt that he'd be a Hipster Brooklynite? Of course the thick-rimmed glasses and tight pants would r...

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3D: Not the Next Big Thing

Marshall Fine | Posted 10.16.2009 | Entertainment

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No matter how open I am to 3D -- to what some have referred to as an "immersive experience" -- I still can't get past the glasses. Glasses = gimmick.

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Family Feud: If It Bends...

Rabbi Jennifer Krause | Posted 09.27.2009 | New York

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Oh, Ruth and Sunda. A lawsuit? Really? Mrs. Zafrin, Sunda is your son's wife and the mother of your grandchildren; a comedian in a long, long line of comedians who poke fun at their mothers-in-law.

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Is Summer Fin the Next Annie Hall ?

Stephanie Green | Posted 09.07.2009 | Style

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Woody Allen redefined the connection between movies and fashion with the iconic Annie Hall . (500) Days of Summer,'s female lead is just as quirky as Allen's.

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Bruno's Prejudice

Mike Miley | Posted 08.15.2009 | Entertainment

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The comedy of Sacha Baron Cohen and Larry Charles reassures people who already agree with them that their dislike for the South, Christianity, and conservatism are well-founded.

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Vanity Affairs

Michael Sigman | Posted 07.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Politics, Mark Sanford, Living, Mia Farrow, Woody Allen, Politics News

Mark Sanford isn't a man's man, nor is he a ladies' man. He's a very strange man, to be sure. But basically he's a selfish man.

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Theater: London Summer Roundup

Michael Giltz | Posted 07.25.2009 | Entertainment

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Before and after the Cannes Film Festival, I spent time in London catching up on theater and museums. Here's a roundup, beginning with shows that are still running, so -- if you're headed to Europe...

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Woody Allen: I Want Carla Bruni For A Film

People | Posted 07.20.2009 | Entertainment

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In Paris to promote his latest romantic comedy Whatever Works, the American director told reporters he would love to have Bruni-Sarkozy star in his ne...

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Whatever Works With Woody: Patricia Clarkson on Head Scarves, Being a Girl Scout and Loving Two Men at Once

Christal Smith | Posted 07.19.2009 | Entertainment

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"For women my age, comedic parts are so few and far between. But this humor comes out of the character, she is a stereotype, a cliche, and then you start to see shades."

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Woody Allen: New York Is Too Pricey To Film In

usatoday.com | Posted 07.19.2009 | Entertainment

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Allen, a filmmaker as synonymous with Manhattan as yellow cabs and the Brooklyn Bridge, has been priced out of the city he calls both his home and his...

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Larry David On 'Whatever Works': 5 Things He's Found To Complain About

HuffingtonPost.com | Katy Hall | Posted 10.28.2009 | Entertainment

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Woody Allen's new movie, "Whatever Works" may seem to follow a familiar formula (old New York grouch reluctantly finds himself taken by spritely young...

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HuffPost Review: Whatever Works

Marshall Fine | Posted 07.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Evan Rachel Wood, Whatever Works, Comedy, Larry David, Woody Allen, Entertainment News

I won't go so far to classify Whatever Works as A-level Woody Allen, but it's solidly in the high B range -- funny, heartfelt, with hokey jokes and occasionally surprising insights.

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Woody Allen And Larry David Together In New York

Huffington Post | Katy Hall | Posted 07.12.2009 | Entertainment

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Woody Allen is back in New York to promote his new film, "Whatever Works" with fellow Brooklyn native Larry David, the movie's misanthropic hero. Alle...

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Japanese-Jew Doesn't "Oy Veh" So Much Since Obama

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 07.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Jews, Nisei Generation, Second World War, Bar Mitzvah, The Audacity of Hope, Woody Allen, Multicultural, Kimono, Culture, Russian- Jewish, Neurotic, Shikseh Princess, Latino, Democratic Convention, The Purple Heart Batallion, Internment Camps, Asian, Multiracial, Melting Pot, Oy Veh, Barack Obama, Jewish Soul, Nisht Geferlech, Martin Luther King, University High School, Inclusion, Japanese Jew, Interfaith, Identity, Punahoe High School, Buddhism, 442nd Infantry, Japanese-Jewish Woman, Knish, Japanese-Hawaiian, Chuppah, Living News

Since Obama has become president, I feel comfortable as the multiracial shikseh that I am, and am engaging in thoughtful conversations about my heritage and background, without self-deprecation.

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