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  • #triviagasm

    The Ultimate Movie Cliche: The Wall Of Newspaper Clippings

    Whether it's homage or insanity, the best way to skate over tons of movie backstory is with newspaper clippings, on a wall. We've collected the best and the worst of this cliché, so you can decide: worthless, or worth it? More »
    12/24/09
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  • #blinditems

    What Drunk Boulder, Colorado Author Tried Stealing His Own Book?

    A literary blind item in the New York Times? Yes! Buried in novelist Margo Rabb's NYT Sunday Book Review essay about increases in shoplifting at bookstores is an anecdote about an unnamed author who jacked his own product from one. More »
    12/20/09
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  • #rant

    When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like "Avatar"?

    Critics have called alien epic Avatar a version of Dances With Wolves because it's about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the latest scifi rehash of an old white guilt fantasy. Spoilers... More »
    12/18/09
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  • #beautifulawards

    Your Golden Globe Nominations Are Here

    The hacks of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association have taken a pause from endless junketeering to release their list of the year's most excellent movies and TV shows. Up in the Air and Avatar continue their inexorable awards march. More »
    12/15/09
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  • #traderoundup

    'Avatar' and 3D Films: the Extra 'D' Stands for 'Dollars'

    If 'Avatar' makes as much money as 20th Century Fox basically needs it to, we may never see a plain 2D movie again. Variety reports that 3D films tripled their B.O. take this year, to $1.3 billion. More »
    12/15/09
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  • #thatsrich

    Up in the Air Is The Grapes of Wrath for the Rich and Out of Touch

    In yesterday's New York Times, Frank Rich says the George Clooney flick Up in the Air will, "salve national wounds that continue to fester in the real world." Did he see the same movie we did? Because he's totally wrong. More »
    12/14/09
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  • #printisdead

    NYT and Washington Post Ombudsmen Going Soft? BitchBoxes, Burgers, and Flavor Flav

    Ombudsmen, the Internal Affairs officers of journalism, should be feared and respected—but mostly: feared—by their respective publications. It's their job. The New York Times' Clark Hoyt? Quickly going soft. The Washington Post's Andrew Alexander? Pussywhipped. What's happening here? More »
    12/13/09
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  • #ivyleague

    Of Harvard and Hogwarts: Ivy League Schools Using Harry Potter to Whore Themselves Out

    A precocious high school student: upset, and writing into the Times! On college tours of schools like Harvard and Dartmouth, she heard comparisons to Harry Potter's magical school, Hogwarts. And she didn't like it. And people don't like her. Muggles! More »
    12/12/09
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  • #defamermovieguide

    Nelson Mandela to Battle the Lovely Bones at the Multiplex

    After a slow build-up, Oscar season is coming in like a lion. Mandela! Tom Ford directing! An Alice Sebold novel! This weekend's got prestige written all over it. More »
    12/11/09
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  • #recessionomics

    Famished America Dreams of Purchasing Biscuit

    The Way We Live Now: Munching on an affordable breakfast as our most valuable national institutions crumble. Culture? Broke. Harvard? Broke? Big stores? No more. Might as well shoot em up, shoot em up, shoot em up, bang. More »
    12/11/09
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