Movie sequels generally get a bad rap. Still, we at TIME were able to find the rare follow-ups that bested their predecessors.
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Marilu Henner Remembers Everything
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I get press releases asking me to embed clips of news reports all the time, and I usually hit delete. But this is bizarre, insane and awesome. According to a report to air on 60 Minutes Sunday, there are six people known to science …
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Never Forget: Jon Stewart Keeps Responding to First Responders
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9/11 was a tragedy that happened to the entire nation, and in its larger ramifications, to the world. But New Yorkers also felt it, and still feel it, on a personal level: not just the fear, the terrible sights and the awful memories (the rest of America watched 9/11; we smelled …
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Larry King Steps Away From the Big Microphone
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Even on his last show, with a gang of stars and Larry King Live regulars turned out to send him off, Larry King seemed to have an easier time talking about other people than talking about himself. Receiving tribute from former President Bill Clinton, he turned the conversation toward Clinton’s …
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You're a Good Man, Beethoven
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While there are still a few hours left to celebrate Beethoven’s 240th birthday, here’s an uncharacteristically arty (for Peanuts) but gorgeous scene from A Boy Named Charlie Brown. And yet they never put Beethoven on any bubble gum cards!
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The Good Wife Friends Mark Zuckerberg
For a show that’s watched by a lot of old people—I’m one of them, so relax—The Good Wife is extremely clued in to social-media technology. Seemingly every week includes a subplot involving Twitter, viral video or a social-media website of some sort. What’s more, it’s not just window dressing; the writers clearly think a lot about …
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Vapornews: The Huge-Then-Disappearing Stories of 2010
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Remember when the Park51 Islamic center, or “Ground Zero mosque,” was the absolutely most urgent political-religious-cultural issue facing the United States? When there were protests and fury and old 9/11 wounds reopened, and you needed to choose a side, and politicians from New York …
Top 10 Larry King Moments
In his tenure as host of the eponymous CNN interview show Larry King Live, the King has conducted some 50,000 interviews with persons of the moment. As he hangs up his suspenders, TIME takes a look at his most memorable moments …
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Sing-Off Watch: It's Not Over 'Til…
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Brief spoilers for last night’s The Sing-Off coming up:
It was the last performance before the live finale of The Sing-Off next Monday, and that meant it was time for some tough choices. The judges, having eliminated one group to take the field down to four, needed to do one more round of …
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AMC Rolling with Hell on Wheels
With Breaking Bad and Mad Men collecting awards hardware and The Walking Dead smashing ratings records, AMC is not letting up. Today, it announced that it is picking up to series Hell on Wheels, a Western about an ex-Confederate soldier after the Civil War who heads west to work on the Transcontinental Railroad and seek revenge. I …
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"Delicious, Strawberry-Flavored Death!" for Fringe
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Fringe is not going gentle into that good Friday night. As this promo clip indicates, the show’s January move to Friday is often considered a mark of doom for a series. But the show is looking to make the best of the situation, and—like any good mad-scientist drama—trying to …
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TIME Updates Zuckerberg's Status to "Person of the Year"
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In 2006, TIME’s Person of the Year was You; this year, it’s Your Former High School Classmates on Facebook. TIME’s managing editor Rick Stengel this morning announced the Person of the Year for 2010: Facebook founder (and Social Network …
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Running Wilde, Running Out of Time
It looks like the end for Running Wilde, as EW reports that Fox has decided the remaining five episodes of the sitcom are not even worth essentially burning off during the slow month of December. [Update: Just got word from Fox that, contrary to the earlier report, the episodes will run / be burned off in December: Dec. 19 at 7 and …