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Meet Tiana: Disney's First Black Princess (VIDEO)
Disney's newest movie has a princess like no other. Tiana is the first black heroine in 71-years of the company's cartoon history. The film is an updated version of the Brothers Grimm tale "The Frog Prince" that takes place in the Louisiana bayou in ...
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Howie Klein: Patti Smith, A Guest Post By Sandy Pearlman
photo by Jean Baptiste Mondino, 2009
The Museum of the City Of New York just put out a compendium of the 400 most essential people in NYC's 400 year history. It's quite an inspiring list and one of the names on it is Patti Smith, someone ...
Kim Morgan: Ugly Talents: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Thanksgiving brought me to one of my favorite dysfunctional romances and one memorable social occasion.
Good, better, best, bested. Many of us can understand this.
Back when I was a teenager studying movies, one of my film ...
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Frances Moore Lappe: A Thanksgiving Hymn For 2009
For a world of unprecedented hunger where more than one in seven of us now go without the food we need...
As we come together to offer Thanksgiving for all of the plenty we share here today, our hearts seek the courage to end the growing ...
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Susan Boyle Sucks Thumb, Cries After NY Performance
ust moments after finishing a note-perfect performance on live American television, Susan Boyle was seen on television breaking down in tears.
The 48-year-old had been enjoying lunch with fans at the Rock Centre cafe in New York's Rockefeller ...
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Mackenzie Phillips Uninvited From Family Thanksgiving
Two months after the publication of her memoirs and following the startling claim that she had an incestuous relationship with her father, John Phillips, Mackenzie Phillips told Access Hollywood's Nancy O'Dell that she won't be home for the holidays. ...
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Greg Mitchell: Beethoven's "Hymn of Thanksgiving": The Greatest Piece of Music Ever Written?
To give us some perspective on this day: Beethoven in 1825, very late in his life, wrote this third movement, molto adagio , of his string quartet opus 132, offering thanks for being alive, despite having gone completely deaf, the worst possible ...
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When Models Act: Who Should Stick To The Runway? (PHOTOS)
Plenty of actors have gotten their start as smalltime models, but not many supermodels have successfully transitioned to the screen.
Lily Cole is the latest runway darling to attempt a crossover career. She stars opposite Heath Ledger in the ...
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Lindsay Lohan Makes 'Amazing' Garlic Mashed Potatoes For Thanksgiving
Lindsay Lohan is coming home for the holidays -- and her family is putting her to work!
Although Lindsay usually gets VIP treatment, while in Long Island, N.Y., with her family -- including mom Dina, sister Ali, and two brothers -- the Mean Girls ...
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Anger As 'GMA' Books Chris Brown After Canceling Adam Lambert
ABC has booked Rihanna-beater Chris Brown for an interview and a performance on "Good Morning America" -- right after the network canceled guy-kisser Adam Lambert.
Brown will do a taped tell-all with Robin Roberts, followed by a performance of ...
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Roman Polanski To Be Quietly Moved To Gstaad
GENEVA — Roman Polanski will be quietly transferred from a Zurich jail to house arrest in his Alpine chalet, Swiss authorities said Thursday, adding that the process will last at least another day.
Polanski was being held in a Swiss jail a ...
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Meet Tiana: Disney's First Black Princess (VIDEO)
Disney's newest movie has a princess like no other. Tiana is the first black heroine in 71-years of the company's cartoon history. The film is an updated version of the Brothers Grimm tale "The Frog Prince" that takes place in the Louisiana bayou in ...
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James Spader Plays Dark, Familiar Creep In Broadway Debut
"CULTIVATE the appearance of contrition," the character Jack Lawson, a lawyer, tells a white client accused of raping a black woman in "Race," a new play opening on Broadway next Sunday. As uttered with don't-waste-my-time iciness by the actor James ...
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Kevin Federline Finds A Job!
Kevin Federline has found a way to earn some money, and he's following in Jon Gosselin's footsteps by making it. Federline is currently in Australia while ex-wife Britney Spears tours Down Under, as the couple share custody of their two young sons. ...
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Emma Watson Cozies Up With Spanish Rocker Rafael Cebrian
Her boyfriend had been worried that Emma Watson would fall for 'an American hunk' when she went off to study in the U.S.
Slinky Spanish rock stars obviously didn't occur to him.
Miss Watson, best known as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter ...
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Jacob Heilbrunn: Precious: Giving Thanks To Those Who Count
It's time to spread some good holiday cheer and offer thanks to five precious, leading public figures who've really made a difference.
First, God bless Sen. John McCain for picking Sarah Palin to be his running mate in 2008. Her continued ...
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Shawn Amos: Ten Bands (Below the Radar) That I'm Grateful For
Let's be honest: it's tough for all of you musicians out there to get any attention these days. There's no room for you on MTV. There's no room for you on the radio. There's room on YouTube, but there's room for everybody on YouTube. It's thankless ...
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Shawn Amos: Let Us Now Give Thanks for These Bands Below the Top 40 Radar
Let's be honest: it's tough for all of you musicians out there to get any attention these days. There's no room for you on MTV. There's no room for you on the radio. There's room on YouTube, but there's room for everybody on YouTube. It's thankless ...
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Courtney Love Disses Edward Norton On Facebook
Though she abandoned Twitter in a Miley Cyrus-led exodus, Courtney Love is now posting her barely-decipherable public missives at her Facebook fanpage. You'd be forgiven if you missed the memo about her new online home, but after today, we're ...
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Stuart Whatley: Palin And Twilight: American Pilgrimages
Two events were cause for Americans to leave the house this past week: Sarah Palin and The Twilight Saga: New Moon . The mass, separate interest in each has left many who are fans of neither wondering: What the hell is wrong with these people? ...
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David Finkle: "Glee" on TV: Is It the Best, the Worst or Both?
Okay, let's talk a minute about my idea of this season's best and the worst television series: Glee . All right, I don't actually think Glee is the absolute best. At the moment the honor goes to Curb Your Enthusiasm . Nor do I think Glee is ...
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Trish Kinney: Rape Fantasy And S&M at the AMA's
As the Beatles progressed through their personal artistic journeys, they took us along for the consciousness raising ride. The Rolling Stones were raunchier, with "Lets Spend the Night Together", a shocking subject for a single in those days. ...
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John Farr: It's Thanksgiving: Let's Party!
We all know it, and consciously or unconsciously, we prepare for it: Thanksgiving is not, after all, just a holiday, but the starting line for a five and a half week social immersion involving family, colleagues and friends that leaves us all ...
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John Farr: It's Thanksgiving, Let's Party!: Ten Films For The Coming Weeks
We all know it, and consciously or unconsciously, we prepare for it: Thanksgiving is not, after all, just a holiday, but the starting line for a five and a half week social immersion involving family, colleagues and friends that leaves us all ...
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"Real World DC" Trailer: WATCH IT
Well, everyone, another season of The Real World is almost upon us. The lucky city that gets to host MTV's latest group of dysfunctional young adults is Washington D.C. MTV has put out the trailer for the new season, and as Gawker notes , it's ...
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Tribeca Film: Free Flick Fridays: Pieces Of April
This weekend, take a break from your own family (dys)function to check out Katie Holmes in Pieces of April . It's a Thanksgiving classic, now available for free on Hulu.
Pieces of April
dir. Peter Hedges (2003)
Remember when Katie ...
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Leighton Meester's New Bangs: Love Them Or Leave Them? (PHOTOS)
Leighton Meester debuted some new bangs Tuesday night at a Nylon Magazine party in NYC. The new look may not be permanent, as her hair also grew about a foot since the pre-bangs picture below was taken earlier this month. What do you think? Could B. ...
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Saoirse Ronan From "Atonement": All Grown Up! (PHOTO)
Saoirse Ronan, the little girl who played a young Briony in 2007's "Atonement" is all grown up and starring in "The Lovely Bones." The new movie had its UK premiere Tuesday night in London, with even Prince Charles in attendance.
Ronan, now 15, ...
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Avatar LANGUAGE: Full Alien Dialect Created By USC Professor For Movie
This modern era of moviemaking has plenty of peculiar challenges for actors -- on green-screen sets, for instance, they have to watch a ping-pong ball hanging from a string and convince the camera that they actually staring down some magical beastie ...
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Marshall Fine: Interview: Pedro Almodovar talks Broken Embraces
It's a crisp fall day in Manhattan and Pedro Almodovar is explaining why his hotel room is all wrong for a movie scene, in terms of its color scheme.
"I'd never have such a unicolor setting," he says, gesturing to couch, carpet and walls - all in ...
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Amber Rose Gets Zipped Into Her Dress By Random Partygoer (PHOTOS)
Amber Rose, Kanye West's girlfriend, made a tight squeeze into her dress for a screening of "Me and Orson Welles" in NYC Monday night. At the afterparty she peeked her head out of the restroom and recruited a guest to zip her up, the New York Post ...
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Brad & Angelina Gave Away $7 Million In 2008
Angelina Jolie, 34, and Brad Pitt, 45, gave a whopping $6.8 million to charities in 2008
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Adam Lambert: The Controversy Is Because I'm Gay (VIDEO)
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NEW YORK - Adam Lambert admits he got carried away with his sexually charged American Music Awards performance, but he's offering no apology.
The glam rocker from "American Idol" said on "The Early Show" ...
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Erin Westrate Bitten At "New Moon" Showing By Strange Older Man (VIDEO)
The vampire action got a little too real for one "New Moon" fan when she went to the theater to catch the blockbuster movie. Erin Westrate was sitting behind a 'creepy' 30 to 40-year-old man who kept turning around making sexual comments to her:
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UPDATED: Erin Westrate LIED About Being Bitten At "New Moon" Showing By Stranger (VIDEO)
***UPDATE*** Erin Westrate has admitted that she made up the story about being bitten on the neck by a stranger while seeing a showing of the new Twilight movie "New Moon." Police say they interviewed her again this morning and concluded her ...
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Polanski Makes Bail, But Is Still In Jail
GENEVA — A Swiss court granted Roman Polanski bail on Wednesday, accepting $4.5 million to allow him to remain under house arrest at his chalet. The director will stay in prison for up to 10 days while the Swiss government decides whether to ...
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John Hillcoat: On Making The Road
Making The Road has been a unique and incredible experience for me. The film opens on Wednesday and so I have been reading some advanced reviews despite myself. I'm both relieved and pleased to read Mr. Reed's beautiful words and the many other ...
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Sting, 58, Preparing For The Winter Of His Life
NEW YORK — Sting and his wife Trudie keep with tradition on Christmas Eve: They go to a local church, sing along to carols, then head back home to their English estate to open presents with their family.
It's a cheery scene one would expect ...
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Larry Ross: From No Country For Old Men To No Movie For Faith Audiences? I Don't Think So
The Road , a sobering film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Cormac McCarthy, author of No Country for Old Men and All The Pretty Horses , is a national Thanksgiving holiday theatrical release opening Wednesday. Unlike other ...
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Carla Bruni To Star In Woody Allen's Next Film
PARIS — Woody Allen has successfully courted France's first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.
The former supermodel and wife of President Nicolas Sarkozy says she's agreed to be in the famed director's next film, but doesn't know what role he has ...
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Marshall Fine: Movie review: The Princess and the Frog
Disney has always set the standard for animation - so The Princess and the Frog arrives not just as a new animated feature, but as part of a lengthy heritage that goes all the way back to Snow White .
Still, this is Disney's first hand-drawn ...
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Carrie Fisher: Cary Grant Helped Me With My Teenage Acid Problem
When Carrie Fisher's mom got worried about her teenage daughter's LSD use, she did what any concerned parent might do.
"She had Cary Grant call me about my acid problem," Fisher told David Letterman on his show Tuesday night. "While I was ...
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Adam Lambert: Controversy Because I'm Gay (VIDEO)
(AP ARTICLE, SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO)
NEW YORK - Adam Lambert admits he got carried away with his sexually charged American Music Awards performance, but he's offering no apology.
The glam rocker from "American Idol" said on "The Early Show" ...
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Marshall Fine: Movie review: The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Rebecca Miller's The Private Lives of Pippa Lee is like a sigh of relief from a writer-director whose work has been sensitive/gloomy until now.
The film is also the first role that Robin Wright has had in ages that shows her considerable range ...
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Lady Gaga: I Was A Freak In High School
"I didn't fit in in high school and I felt like a freak," she tells Ellen DeGeneres in an interview to air Friday. "So I like to create this atmosphere for my fans where they feel like they have a freak in me to hang out with and they don't feel ...
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Lady Gaga On 'Ellen': I Was A Freak In High School
"I didn't fit in in high school and I felt like a freak," she tells Ellen DeGeneres in an interview to air Friday. "So I like to create this atmosphere for my fans where they feel like they have a freak in me to hang out with and they don't feel ...
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Amber Rose Gets Zipped Into Her Dress By Random Partygoer (PHOTOS)
Amber Rose, Kanye West's girlfriend, made a tight squeeze into her dress for a screening of "Me and Orson Welles" in NYC Monday night. At the afterparty she peeked her head out of the restroom and recruited a guest to zip her up, the New York Post ...
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Ben Kingsley To Play Shah Jahan, Emperor Who Built Taj Mahal
HONG KONG — Ben Kingsley, famous for his Oscar-winning portrayal of Indian independence hero Mohandas Gandhi, is reaching deeper into the country's history with a new role as the Mogul emperor who ordered the construction of the Taj Mahal.
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Bradley Cooper & Renee Zellweger's Date: Salad & A Movie
The casually dressed couple "was very nice -- and Renee was so sweet," their waitress tells us, adding that the actress ordered a spinach salad, while Cooper opted for a veggie burger with a salad on the side.
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Naked Roman Polanski & Sharon Tate Picture Going To Auction (NSFW PHOTO)
Christie's auction house is auctioning off a David Bailey photo of Roman Polanski and then-wife Sharon Tate taken shortly before her murder.
Christie's estimates it will sell for between $8,000-$12,000 at the December 7 auction.
From ...
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