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In 2012, Dark Fantasy, Fables & Fairytales Will Lift Our Spirits
Superheroes, dark alliances and ultimate villains make for an exciting — and bizarrely uplifting — year at the movies
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Anthony Burt -
The Curse of Being Tom Cruise
Maybe it’s his inability to see that doing in your own stunts at 35 in the first “Mission” Impossible” is cool but doing your own stunts at 50 is desperate
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Mali Perl -
‘Big Brother’s’ Chima on ‘Real Housewives’: Phaedra Ends It With Sheree
Sheree had been bad-mouthing Phaedra’s legal abilities and Phaedra was not having that
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Chima Simone -
The Shopping Days of Our Lives: Oh Holy Night
All I know at this point is that I’ve been mired in the holiday shopping morass for what already feels like eternity
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Ellen Besen -
Screenwriters, It’s Important to Understand ‘Both’ of Your Objectives
At every moment there are two primary objectives attempting to be fulfilled: private and public
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Mark W. Travis -
Review: Anthony Hamilton Gets ‘Back to Love’ With Musical, Sexual Humility
The R&B star is semi-retro-soul in his balladic style … but really, really retro in his non-explicit lyrics and genre-defying modesty
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Between the Unfinished Swings and the Monkey Bars
My adventures with the heart and soul of rock ‘n’ roll
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Arthur Axelman -
What You Need to Know About the New Crowd-Funding Bill
Now in the Senate, the bill allows entrepreneurs to crowd source up to $2M a year from individuals without having to register the investors with the SEC
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Jeff Steele -
Move Over Ang Lee, Here Comes Te-sheng Wei
The four-hour “Seediq Bale” is a trailblazer and will go down in film history as one of Taiwan’s finest contributions to the world of cinema
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Dan Bloom -
Review: Elvis Costello’s ‘Spinning Songbook’ Almost Worth Head-Spinning Cost
For $200+, you get some of rock’s greatest songs performed live on CD, DVD, and vinyl … and Matthew Weiner and Sandra Oh dancing
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Why We Need Story Structure
We are drawn to structure in our stories simply because our lives have no discernable structure of their own
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Mark W. Travis -
Review: Black Keys’ Glam ‘El Camino’ Leaves Blues in the Dust
The erstwhile indie-rock duo re-team with producer Danger Mouse for that ol’ T-Rex sound
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Review: Amy Winehouse’s ‘Lioness’ Opens Up An All-Too-Empty Vault
Only two of the songs on Winehouse’s posthumous collection post-date ‘Back to Black,’ and they were clearly unfinished, suggesting just how fallow her last years were
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Success! The Wires Now Report That the Walk of Fame Stars Are Bought & Paid For!
The $30,000 cost of a Walk of Fame star is now being reported in wire stories
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Dan Bloom -
‘Big Brother’s’ Chima on ‘Real Housewives’: ‘Phaedra Owned This Episode’
In what has become a standard show open, Phaedra came bearing gifts as an apology for the previous episode’s kerfuffle
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Chima Simone