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Did It Happen That Way? (And Does It Matter?)
According to most Oscar prognosticators, this year’s race to the Academy Awards Best Picture statuette may be a two-horse affair between The King’s Speech and
Skins: A Cultural Rorschach Test
Every now and then something comes along in the entertainment world that serves as an impromptu cultural Rorschach test of sorts. One person looks at
Movie Monday: The Rite
The faith-inflected frightfest The Rite scared up $15 million to claim No. 1 at the box office this weekend. It proved Anthony Hopkins, at the
A Week Without TV
The last week has been an interesting one for my family. Why? Because we shut off the TV completely. And it’s been fascinating to observe
Balancing Your Digital Kids
A friend of mine tells me his 3-year-old loves to play computer games. He shares that fact with equal parts pride, alarm and shock that
The Virtual Lies They Tell
I’ve been keeping an eye on a new video game that’s coming out soon called L.A. Noire. It’s a 1940s crime thriller being released by
Oscar: The Movie World’s Kingmaker
Oscar, America’s favorite naked golden statuette, bestowed its shiny favor on a handful of films this morning, honoring the fighter in all of them, their
Movie Monday: No Strings Attached
Get ready, America, for the year of Natalie Portman. Portman’s No Strings Attached (which also stars camera pitchman Ashton Kutcher) roped in box office honors
Of Skins and Publicity
An old saw says that all publicity is good publicity. And MTV’s racy, controversial new TV series Skins is the latest boundary-bending bit of intentional
The Golden Rule at the Golden Globes
For award watchers and showbiz prognosticators, Sunday night’s Golden Globes went pretty much as expected. Lots of people hit the “like” button for The Social
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