Competing at the 2006 bee, Finola Hackett and winner Katharine Close (seated). ESPN Photo: Mark Bowen The 2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee, baby! I can’t even do this event justice in a small blog post. American kids of far-flung nationalities puzzling over the etymologies of the same dead languages. The dissonance of the ding! of [...]
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Box Office Report
The Avengers Storms the Billion Dollar Club — In Just 19 Days
Like a Hulk in a music shop, the all-star superhero movie keeps smashing records, and sends Johnny Depp's Dark Shadows to an early grace
1 Marvel's The Avengers $103.2M 2 Dark Shadows $28.8M 3 Think Like a Man $6.3M 4 The Hunger Games $4.4M 5 The Lucky One $4M -
This Weekend’s Movies
Johnny Depp in Tim Burton's Dark Shadows: Death Warmed Over
In their eighth film together, the star and his favorite director turn the '60s horror soap opera into a middling pastiche
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TV Recaps
Game of Thrones Watch: I Capture the Castle
In a busy, rushed episode, characters find that holding on to power is trickier than taking power, and that refusing to show mercy can be as dangerous as showing mercy.
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Photos
Madonna’s Extraordinary Career
TIME takes a look at her life and career, both of which have been lived firmly in the public eye.
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Populist
Top 10 Terrible Dancing with the Stars Contestants
The 14th season of Dancing with the Stars began last night. And while the new dancers skills have yet to fully be revealed, we can definitively tell you that these old contestants were not so nimble.
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