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MSNBC
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It is the year of the tween. Coming off a massive concert tour, a hit 3-D movie — and a risqué picture in Vanity Fair — pop star Miley Cyrus (aka Hannah Montana) leads a slew of young stars onto Forbes' annual Celebrity 100 ranking of the world's ult..
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New York Times
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“The immaterial has become material,” announces the East India Company’s scheming Lord Beckett (Tom Hollander) early in “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.” He could be referring to the recent resurrection of the pirate Barbossa (Geoffr..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Some will come to defend us ... Most will come to destroy us." All of the Transformers, however, will be coming to pick our pockets this summer, because this is the season the robots-cum-vehicles will take over the world. Today sees the rerelease of the 1..
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ABC News
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One of the world's most famous 'do's considered by many to be a fashion don't remains intact after its owner, Donald Trump, prevailed in Sunday night's "hair match" at Wrestlemania.
Trump trumped World Wrestling Entertainment owner Vince McMahon in the..
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Canada.com
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As much as 50 per cent of the world's pirated movies come from Canada, prompting the film industry to threaten to delay the release of new titles in this country.
According to an investigation by Twentieth Century Fox, most of the illegal recording, or..
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ABC News
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Help Wanted: an attractive blonde, 18-28, must care about world peace
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Okay, so that's not exactly the ad that's been running in Sweden's national employment register, but it's pretty close. The actual ad is in Swedish, and it is gender-neutral, as a..
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Canada.com
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As much as 50 per cent of the world's pirated movies come from Canada, prompting the film industry to threaten to delay the release of new titles in this country...
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Bloomberg
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Sony Corp., the world's largest maker of game consoles, said its PlayStation 3 has problems playing software designed for older consoles, marring the company's launch of its newest machine after a shortage...
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MSNBC
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To draw a parallel would be to do a disservice to the people who live here and who are trying through their art and through their culture to reach out to other human beings, to make a better world for themselves and for all of us,” he said.
'We are v..
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Rolling Stone
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What is your most cynical vision of the future?
That's a good one. I'm genuinely excited about the future, but it's clear that there's jeopardy. I don't know if you've read Martin Amis' short-story collection Einstein's Monsters. He's writing about the..
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BBC News
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Victoria Wood and Stephen Fry are among the British nominees for this year's International Emmy Awards.
Wood is up for best actress for her role in Housewife, 49, while Fry's The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive is nominated in the documentary categ..
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SF Gate
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Beverly Sills, the Brooklyn-born opera diva who was a global icon of can-do American culture with her dazzling voice, bubbly personality and management moxie in the arts world, died Monday of cancer, her manager said. She was 78. It had been revealed just..
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News.com.au
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TROUBLED movie star Lindsay Lohan's weird world of drug binges and lesbian romps has been laid open by a former bodyguard - who says he had to quit the job because it is too dangerous.
Lee Weaver is quoted in an extensive interview with London's News o..
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CNN
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J.K. Rowling, who became the world's first billion-dollar author on the back of Harry Potter's success, has given the go-ahead for the creation of a Florida theme park dedicated to the schoolboy wizard.
"The plans I have seen look incredibly exciting a..
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FOX News
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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" hauled in $142.1 million to commandeer the record for best Memorial Day weekend debut, capping a huge month that puts Hollywood on track for record summer business.
Disney's third "Pirates" adventure fell far s..
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CNN
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It takes an age before Johnny Depp shows his face in "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," and when he does, it's the tip of his nose that looms into screen left, eventually succeeded by a flaring nostril.
I doubt there's been a larger, longer cl..
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BBC News
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Record numbers of people are watching, listening to and clicking on BBC News around the world, according to independent research.
Television, radio and online news have a combined weekly audience of 233m - up from 210m last year.
The survey, across..
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Alter Net
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In a world of Tivo and Youtube, the traditional commercial is passe. In its place we have product integration, which may feed a culture of consumption, compromise artistic freedom and erode consumer choice ... or not. You decide.
It's not news that, in..
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BBC News
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The latest movie in the Pirates of the Caribbean series, At World's End, has had its world premiere in Los Angeles.
Crowds of screaming fans turned out to glimpse stars of the film, including Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom, as they attended the gala eve..
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Alter Net
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Bowing to pressure, Ken Burns decided to amend his new PBS documentary about World War I that did not include Latinos. Let's hope PBS now amends their decision-making process.
"It was Ken," said John Wilson, Senior Vice President & Chief TV Programming..
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