Happy Feet Two: Mr. Miller's Poppy Penguins Save Their Own Planet

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In his effervescent sequel to the 2006 hit, director George Miller softens the eco-message and ups the pleasure ante for 97 mins. of 3-D delight

Today's Movie Trailer: Titanic 3-D. Will Our Hearts Go On?

James Cameron’s 1997 classic will be re-released on April 6. Get ready to fall for Leonardo DiCaprio all over again.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn—Part I. More like Breaking Yawn

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Edward and Bella finally consummate their love. Which means that our death march through these twisted but Puritanical movies is finally nearing its end.

Chelsea Handler: The Anti Oprah

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In this week’s issue of TIME, Karl Taro Greenfeld profiles Chelsea Handler, who, he says, is “the final iteration of decades of salty female comics, from Phyllis Diller to Joan Rivers to Kathy Griffin to Sarah Silverman.”

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Up All Night, Modern Family and TV’s Feminism for Men

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In a fall distinguished by female stars and creators, one of the season’s most feminist characters may well be a dude.

Madea Meets the Ku Klux Klan

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Nearly a century apart, Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas and D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation contrast a sassy black family with a racist masterpiece

Jonah Hill Babysat My Two-Year Old Son

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Somehow, Joel Stein got the actor-comedian to come to his house and watch his child. And then he filmed him with a nanny cam.

Beware Bella’s Belly: The Top 9 Disturbing Movie Pregnancies

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The new Twilight movie features a particularly gruesome birth scene. TIME takes a look at the nine (months, you know) most frightening film pregnancies.

The Incredible Gravity of Being Alejandro Escovedo

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Beginning November 18, Escovedo will play a trio of nights at the Rubin Museum in New York City, where he’ll perform songs from his first two albums.

Regis Philbin: A Career on Camera

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As Regis Philbin steps down from his morning show, TIME looks back at a 28-year TV career.

Offensive What? Ricky Gervais to Host 2012 Golden Globes

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Ricky Gervais will return to host the 69th annual Golden Globes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association confirmed today. This will be Gervais’ third year in a row hosting the awards telecast despite the fact that he drew strong criticism for his mockery of the Hollywood elite at this year’s Golden Globes.

Today's Movie Trailer: Brave—Pixar's Princess Movie

The studio behind the bulk of the past decade’s great animated films has released a full-length trailer for its next film. Brave, out next June, is Pixar’s first film to star a female protagonist (voiced by Boardwalk Empire‘s Kelly Macdonald).

William Shatner’s Bizarre Thanksgiving Safety PSA

Thanksgiving is just one week away, which means that you’ll soon be forced to make that annual trip to the grocery store to purchase a turkey. But if you’re thinking about deep-frying your bird this year, William Shatner has some advice for you. And he has put it in the form of this very odd [...]

Behind the List: The Making of TIME’s Top 10 Books of the Year

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TIME’s Lev Grossman grapples with the task of compiling his list of the best fiction and nonfiction books of 2011.

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Glee Watch: Monstrous Mash

Glee is itself a mash-up. It’s a story about kids with real, believable problems—mashed onto Crazy Glee, a funhouse mirror world of bizarro stories that seem to exist to keep Ryan Murphy awake.

‘Dancing with the Stars’, Week 9 Results: No More Hope

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Next week is the DWTS finale. Did the right contestant go home last night?

Elvish, Klingon and Esperanto—Why Do We Love To Invent Languages?

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“People who are inventing languages that could be used for international communication are doing more to push us in the direction of world harmony…”

Top 10 Tunes You Think You Know (But Really Don’t)

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From Benny Hill to the jingle for the original iPhone, ten tunes that you’ve heard many times before, yet are still in the dark about.