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'Do The Movies Have A Future?' Recalls Better Times
10/26/2012
What a great time it is to be a movie-goer in a book store! Just after Ty Burr came out with Gods Like Us, David Denby of The New Yorker publishes a book about movies of his own with Do The Movies Have a Future?.
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Barack Obama, Mitt Romney Roast Each Other At Al Smith Dinner
10/19/2012
President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney displayed their funny bones Thursday night in Manhattan at the 67th Alfred E. Smith Dinner, hosted by the Catholic Archdiocese of New York. The two candidates roasted each other — and themselves — in what turned out to be a fun affair, no doubt the last such occasion between the two candidates with a final debate less than a week away and an election looming.
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My Doubts About Steven Spielberg's 'Lincoln'
10/05/2012
The latest trailer for Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln was released during Wednesday’s presidential debates and it has garnered considerable buzz since, with many chomping at the bit to name it the year’s best film.
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VIDEO: 'SNL' Debuts With Eastwood Chair
09/17/2012
Saturday Night Live debuted this weekend with a side-splitting skit of Clint Eastwood and Chair (yes, that chair), played by Bill Hader and an empty stool, respectively. “Seth Meyers sent me an email saying, ‘Are you watching this?’ And I said, ‘No, I’m watching Rolling Thunder with William Devane and Tommy Lee Jones.
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Google Introduces 'Bacon Number' Tool
09/20/2012
Bored at work? Google just launched its Bacon number tool — also known as your new pastime. For those of you unfamiliar with the Bacon number, this figure represents the degree of separation between a person and actor Kevin Bacon.
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LISTEN: Morgan Freeman's Quasi-Reading Of '50 Shades Of Grey'
09/07/2012
Morgan Freeman, 75, may be known as one of the greatest actors of a generation, portraying everyone from Lucius Fox in the Christopher Nolan Batman movie franchise to Nelson Mandela in Clint Eastwood's Invictus and even God in Bruce Almighty, but he also has one of the most distinctive voices, having narrated such films as War of the Worlds and March of the Penguins, as well as the current Disovery Channel pop-science program, Through the Wormhole.
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Barack Obama Gets Bear Hug From Small Business Owner On Campaign Trail
09/10/2012
President Barack Obama, 51, is rising to new heights on the campaign trail — literally. On Sunday, Obama stopped his Florida bus tour in the small town of Fort Pierce, where he visited Big Apple Pizza and Pasta Italian Restaurant to congratulate owner Scott Van Duzer on his activism for the cause of donating blood, and got more than he bargained for when registered Republican Van Duzer gave the President a big bear hug and lifted him a few feet off the ground.
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Clint Eastwood Explains RNC Empty Chair Stunt
09/07/2012
It’s been a week since Clint Eastwood’s infamous empty chair rant at the Republican National Convention, and just as the dust has begun to settle, Eastwood is speaking out. “I had three points I wanted to make,” Eastwood, 82, told his local newspaper, the Carmel Pine Cone.
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NYU Professor Sues James Franco
09/07/2012
James Franco, star of Spider-Man and Rise of the Planet of the Apes, is being sued by New York University film professor Jose Angel Santana for defamation. While attending NYU's MFA program in 2010, Franco received a “D” in Santana’s class, “Directing the Actor II,” for poor attendance – Franco reportedly only attended two of a possible 14 classes.
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Julian Castro's Daughter, Carina Victoria, Upstages His DNC Keynote Speech
09/05/2012
Clint Eastwood's gimmicks don't hold a candle to the casual antics of a three-year-old girl. America was introduced to Democratic National Convention keynote speaker Julian Castro, the mayor of San Antonio, last night when he took the stage to speak on behalf of President Barack Obama in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Kal Penn Takes A Dig At Clint Eastwood At DNC
09/05/2012
Speaking at the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night, Kal Penn of the Harold & Kumar franchise couldn’t resist the opportunity to make fun of Clint Eastwood’s “invisible chair” rant at the Republican National Convention last week when Eastwood, 82, turned to an empty chair on his left, pretending it was President Barack Obama, and debated with the “president” seated next to him.
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Celebrities Flock To Democratic National Convention
09/04/2012
Clint Eastwood, 82, may have made headlines with his onstage semi-hallucination at the Republican National Convention when he spoke to an empty chair on behalf of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, but President Barack Obama is the one with the celebrity entourage, as the Democratic National Convention, which kicked off on Monday in Charlotte, North Carolina, is sure to demonstrate.
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FUNNY: Twitter's Celebrities Respond To Clint Eastwood's Bizarre RNC Speech
08/31/2012
Clint Eastwood, 82, made headlines at the Republican National Convention when he devoted his speech to debating an empty chair he pretended was occupied by President Barack Obama. Not surprisingly, Twitter blew up on the topic and two Twitter handles were created in response to the spectacle.
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Who Is 'Girls' Star Adam Driver?
07/10/2012
You probably know him from playing insensitive pseudo-boyfriend Adam Sackler opposite Lena Dunham's Hannah Horvath on HBO's new celebrated series, Girls, but you may not know that Adam Driver, 28, has had quite the career both on and off the screen.
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Mrs. Eastwood & Company
05/07/2012
Despite his firm stance in favor of marriage equality for same sex couples and, more recently, his Superbowl ad for Chrysler which many perceived to be an endorsement of Barack Obama, conservatives have long enjoyed a great love affair with screen giant Clint Eastwood.
