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Twimmolation Alert: Roland Martin Gets His Ascot in Hot Water at CNN
The broadcast of the Super Bowl inspired hundreds of thousands of tweets on Twitter, and a few of them just got analyst Roland S. Martin suspended from CNN. The political commentator was criticized by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance …
From Gun-Toting Black Panther to Ivy League Professor
In 1968, Jamal Joseph was a Bronx high-school student on his way to college. But it was the turbulent 1960s and, radicalized by the times, he joined the militant Black Panthers. Joseph’s new book, Panther Baby (Algonquin) tells …
Beyond Good and Awful: Literary Value in the Age of the Amazon Review
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The other day I was reading a book review on a blog. The review was of a literary novel by a well-known writer. The review made the argument that …
Today’s Movie Trailer: The Bourne Legacy
Matt Damon is out and Jeremy Renner is in for the fourth entry in the Bourne series. Renner, who gave us a glimpse at his secret agent abilities with Deember’s Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, will star alongside Ed Norton, …
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Sorkin’s Newsroom Plans Premiere, Adds to Vast History of Fake TV Networks
According to a report in Mediabistro, HBO is moving ahead with plans for a summer premiere of Aaron Sorkin’s cable-news drama The Newsroom, possibly on June 24. The report also says that there’s a new name for the fictional cable …
The Oscars vs. Motion Capture: Tintin and Apes Snubs Raise Big Questions About the Academy
Two of this year’s biggest Oscar exclusions have us wondering: in an era of increasing motion capture use, what does it mean to animate a film?
Which is the Better Best Picture, Gone With the Wind or Sound of Music?
The readers of TIME.com are choosing the BEST Best Picture of All-TIME. Come back every day to vote on a different match-up. Polls close at 9 pm EST.
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The Morning After: Hey, Dollface!
One fun thing about seeing episodes of shows in advance is going on Twitter and watching people’s reactions blow up at a certain scene you know will freak them out. In the case of the two-hour premiere of The River, that would …
On A Different Kind of Truth, Van Halen Aren’t Cool But They Can Rock
This post is in partnership with Consequence of Sound, an online music publication devoted to the ever growing and always thriving worldwide music scene.
“Cool” gets thrown around a lot, but most critics and fans alike wouldn’t
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Clint’s Halftime Ad: From the Director of Pineapple Express
“Halftime in America” was the spawn of director David Gordon Green, poet Matthew Dickman and a car company and ad agency willing to sponsor an art film to run on the Super Bowl
From Downton to Dickens: Watch the Trailer for Masterpiece: Great Expectations
Today, as we celebrate the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens by unveiling the final book in our Blogging the Dickens series, PBS has gone and unveiled a trailer for their upcoming Dickens miniseries, Great Expectations.
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The Morning After: NBC, Finally Something to Sing About?
The preliminary ratings are in, and it looks like NBC’s Smash, whose ads have been tattooed on the insides of your eyelids for three months, had a strong first airing at 10 p.m. We’ll have to see how well the numbers hold up …