Columns
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Captured by Captcha — So How Do You Type Hebrew?
Filling out the security box for a Facebook message ended up a linguistic feat
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Dan Bloom -
Celebrating Sheila MacRae’s 90th in Song — a Dynasty Ritual
As it does every year, family and friends will gather round the baby grand for a slew of husband Gordon’s hits
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Carole Mallory -
‘The Mormon Murders’ — the Mini-Series the Latter Day Saints Shut Down
It is said that LDS President Gordon B. Hinckley called CBS founder and chief William S. Paley and asked, “How would you like some outsiders doing a vicious four hour attack on your Jews?”
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Arthur Axelman -
Saving Ferris: My Charlie Sheen Years and Yours
It was only in watching Monday’s “Two and a Half Men” that I began to realize how intertwined all of our stories had become
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Peter McAlevey -
Lady Antebellum Owns ‘Night’ — and Billboard Chart
Easily aced failed comebacks by a whacked Bush and petered-out Primus
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Review: ‘SuperHeavy’ Moves Like Jagger, With Good Reason
Mick Jagger and Joss Stone have natural duet chemistry in a supergroup project that’s good fun, if you don’t take it super-seriously
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Review: Demi Lovato Struggles With a Split Musical Personality in ‘Unbroken’
Eschewing her former rock leanings, the most talented starlet to come out of the Disney Channel stable now finds herself torn between silly rhythmic-pop fluff and honest, searing balladry
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Review: Lady Gaga, Amy Winehouse Trump Tony Bennett’s ‘Duets’ Partners
Gaga is the octogenarian’s ideal trampy drinking buddy, and Winehouse his perfect foil in sorrow, even as the chemistry with other celebrity partners falters
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I’m Quitting Netflix
It’s clear you don’t care about keeping me happy, like you once did. And I don’t feel so proud being caught with that little red envelope anymore
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Review: Sensitive Gavin DeGraw Gets a Little Rascally in ‘Sweeter’
On his occasionally feisty new album, the recently battered piano man proves he can dish it out as well as take it, at least romantically
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Surprise … My Old Friend Albert Brooks Drives ‘Drive’
How Albert turned the playful, fun-loving comedy writer and director of the terrific film “Mother” into a terrifying hit man astounds me
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Carole Mallory -
Spielberg’s ‘Amblin’ to Cameron’s ‘Xenogenesis’: The Promise of Short Films
Making short films is absolutely essential for every promising filmmaker with a movie career dream
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Guy Magar -
Another Steve Jobs Lookalike Hits Chinese TVs
The new TV spot is also giving away a free iPad to those who buy the junk food snack packs
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Dan Bloom -
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We Gave Meaning to the Word ‘Broadcast’
I disagree with Hollyblogger Arthur Axelman’s assertion that my tenure at NBC brought “a bewildering sameness … and C and D level casting and production values
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Lindy DeKoven