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Oh, Brothers
It was the same ol’, same ol’ at the box office this weekend, with The Blind Side trading places with The Twilight Saga: New Moon
The Movies Made Me Do It!
It’s a funny thing how watching movies can give you ideas you might not have had otherwise. Even if, perhaps, you’re old enough to know
Boston Teen Party
Kids are stepping it up in Boston. A panel of 14 teens recently started pointing to some contemporary music and telling their peers, “watch out
Guessed List?
Last week, Virginia couple Tareq and Michaela Salahi allegedly crashed a state dinner in honor of India’s prime minister. The Salahis—who also are said to
A Knuckle Sandwich to Chew On
Plugged In has passed the halfway point in my 584-part series on film and faith (well, it seemed that long while I wrote it), and
Power to the People
We tried. We really tried to keep this blog an Adam Lambert-free zone in the wake of his American Music Awards appearance Nov. 22. But
Star Pressure
A while back I spouted a bit about director Roman Polanski, his 30-year-old sex crimes, and the celebrities who rallied together demanding that he be
Doctors and Secretaries and Moms, Oh, My!
Last month on a flight to the West Coast I sat next to a young woman who’d just gotten her Ph.D. in sociology. She was
Blinded by the ‘Twilight’
Leave it to a vampire to drain us of our discretionary income. Recession? Pish. The Twilight Saga: New Moon powered to a staggering $140.7 million
Forget About Fangs, ‘Twilight 2’ Is All About the Abs
The line snaked around the lobby, out the door and around the corner of the theater. Music blared from competing radio stations booths. There were
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