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Entertainment News

Sopranos gets top nod
2007-09-18 05:05 - Acclaimed TV gangster saga The Sopranos has won the Emmy Award for best drama.

Mother Nature’s Restless Sons
2007-09-17 06:01 - Sean Penn finds a kindred spirit in the hero of ?Into the Wild.?

Darkness Invisible
2007-09-17 06:01 - Owen Wilson’s very public suicide attempt outs an unspoken stigma.

Being Rachel Zoe
2007-09-17 05:43 - She turned her own look into a tabloid-headline-grabbing, million-dollar-sales-generating, Hollywood-star-making style machine. What will she fashion next?

Imaginary Trips Beyond Reality
2007-09-17 05:43 - Both the movie ?The Great World of Sound? and the book ?The Homeless Channel? understand the reality TV phenomenon.

Exploring Humanity, Violence and All
2007-09-17 05:43 - In ?Eastern Promises,? David Cronenberg delivers the human body in all its ugliness and glory, part and parcel of a violence mediated by nothing, not even clothing.

Jesse James, an Outlaw for All Seasons
2007-09-17 05:43 - ?The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford? feels more like a novelty than it would have in the 1950s when westerns were as ubiquitous as tumbleweeds.

Keeping it global
2007-09-15 06:01 - When Francoise Cactus, one half of Berlin-based trash-pop outfit Stereo Total, declares ’we feel we’re an international band,’ she’s not overselling the point.

Critic’s Choice | ’My Brother’s Wedding’: The Rough Poetry of Real Ind...
2007-09-15 06:01 - Charles Burnett’s ?My Brother’s Wedding? has a sense of place and personality that is marvelous and rare.

In the Bronx, a Film School With a Ghetto Name
2007-09-15 05:43 - Ghetto Film School gives teenagers a rigorous introduction to filmmaking and, despite the humblest of origins, has built up an enviable roster of Hollywood donors and supporters inside city government.


 
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