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Jack White CD Review: ‘Blunderbuss’ Spins Gold Out of Girl Trouble
White’s first solo album has a bit of a bad attitude about women, even as his all-female band helps drive the diversified rockers home
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Carole King Review: ‘Legendary Demos’ Honors a ’60s Recording Career That Never Was
King’s album of pre-“Tapestry” classics proves she could’ve ruled as a singer as well as songwriter in the ’60s, too
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3 Lessons to Learn From Rich Ross’ Disney Departure
Guest Blog: Now that Rich Ross is out at Disney, here’s a little advice for the next guy in the hot seat
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A Second ‘Open Letter’ to Ricky Gervais on His Anne Frank Jokes
Guest Blog: Ricky, you must be careful when you joke about the Holocaust — go to Google and see how many people who still feel the Holocaust didn’t go far enough
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Dan Bloom -
Ricky Gervais, Please Stop the Tasteless Anne Frank Jokes (Video)
When did the Holocaust diarist become a subject for mirth?
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Dan Bloom -
‘Mad Men’ Season 5: So Far, So … Good?
Guest Blog: Could it be that the magic was gone, and that four glorious seasons were all we were going to have together?
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Mali Perl -
Jason Mraz CD Review: Severely Laid-Back ‘Love’ Makes Elevator Music Seem Downbeat
Jason Mraz abandons all attempts at pop-rap playfulness in favor of trying to revive easy-listening as an artform
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Train CD Review: ‘California 37’ Derails With Wacked-Out Wordplay
Pat Monahan has gone off the rails since writing 2001’s “Drops of Jupiter”
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When Did Opening Credits Turn Into Closing Credits at the Movies?
Guest Blog: Determining when Hollywood shifted from credits at the start of films to credits at the end of them isn’t easy. Have any ideas?
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Dan Bloom -
In Hollywood, No Job Is Too Menial – or Too Demeaning
Guest Blog: Take some solace in the fact that the person who assigned you the job has, at some point in their career, walked in your shoes
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Keith Fenimore -
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Is Out of Touch
Guest Blog: That’s why I’ve started my own Hall of Fame — and the first nominees include Hall & Oates and, yes, Weird Al
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Craig Marks -
Julia Roberts Should Have Looked Closer at ‘Mirror Mirror’
Guest Blog: Julie Roberts should have followed her instincts and insisted on a better script for “Mirror Mirror”
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Carole Mallory -
‘The Lady,’ Biopic on Burmese Activist, Gets Rave from Hillary Clinton
Guest Blog: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is among those at MPAA screening for “The Lady,” the biopic of Burma’s Nobel Prize-winning activist Aung San Suu Kyi
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Praising NBC’s ‘Bent’ – And Looking for Converts
Guest Blog: Cast, writing and concept come together gloriously in NBC’s midseason comedy “Bent.” Let us pray the cancellation clock stops ticking
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Bonnie Raitt Review: For World-Weary Fans, ‘Slipstream’ Arrives in the Nick of Time
On her first album in seven years, Raitt splits the difference between quiet covers of Dylan’s most depressing ballads and reviving that greasy, slide-guitar-fueled, “Thing Called Love” spirit