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Funny Lady
I recently had the pleasure of talking to comedian Chonda Pierce. If you’ve heard of her, you know the girlfriend is funny. If you haven’t,
Movie Monday: The Help
The calendar may say we have a month of the season left to enjoy. But as far as Hollywood is concerned, summer’s over. Audiences have
Do You Trust This Woman?
Listen up, corporate America: 89-year-old Betty White is your best bet if you’re trolling for a celebrity endorser. That’s according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll
The Stitchuation
So, would this count as a non-endorsement deal? Abercrombie & Fitch, the youth clothing marketeer, has apparently offered Mike “The Situation” Sorriento of MTV’s Jersey
The (No) Paper Trail
As you all know, the world of presidential politics is heating up and will be getting incrementally toastier in the next 18 months. Candidates are
Are Kids Less Creative?
What seemingly grouchy adults have suspected for years is actually true—at least according to a new study. Overall, kids today are less creative than they
Movie Monday: Those Apes Need No Help
You can’t keep a good ape down. That’s what movie prognosticators learned this weekend as Rise of the Planet of the Apes repeated as box
Oh Be Careful Little Eyes What You See
Here’s a paragraph I didn’t write, but I certainly could have: I see a lot of movies for my job, and at almost every R-rated
Shelved
Don’t look now, but Apple—the quirky computer company of the 1980s, the one that always played nebbish outsider to Microsoft’s football jock in the 1990s—is
Heroes in the Tweets
OK, I’ll admit it, I haven’t always been the most vocal supporter of the wonders of social networking. In fact, I was recently contemplating its
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