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+Review Movies | October 13, 2011

Footloose: A Remake That's Hokey But Heartfelt

By Richard Corliss

Hokey but heartfelt, this remake of the old musical preaches that teens can dance their way out of the Recession

+Music | July 28, 2011

The 30 All-TIME Best Music Videos

By TIME Staff
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Thirty years ago, MTV began to beam a budding art form — the music video — into homes across the U.S. TIME takes a look back at the most memorable clips from three decades’ worth of music television

+Music | December 14, 2010

Top 10 Posthumous Albums

By TIME Staff
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TIME presents the classic recordings that brought fame and fortune to musicians—after they were gone.

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Tuned In+July 10, 2009

Dead Tree Alert I: Michael and the Media

By James Poniewozik

  My Tuned In column in the print TIME this week is, unsurprisingly, about the media welter around Michael Jackson. It is, to be honest, basically an amalgamation of my two posts earlier this week about the news coverage of his death and about the memorial ceremony (which, among other things, responded to his media [...]

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Tuned In+Music | July 7, 2009

One Last Big (Yet Moving) Show for Michael

By James Poniewozik

The coverage of Michael Jackson’s memorial began early on cable news this morning, with nonstop helicopter video footage from a “private” ceremony for Jackson’s family, while commentators vamped for time and guessed at what was going on behind closed doors. It was symbolically fitting: Jackson, after all, spent most of his life in the public [...]

+Music | June 26, 2009

Top 10 Michael Jackson Songs

By Josh Tyrangiel
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From enlisting Eddie Van Halen for a guitar solo to borrowing the refrain “Mama-se, mama-sa, mama-coo-sa” from a Cameroonian saxophonist, Michael Jackson’s very best songs drew from influences far and wide.