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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 1:05am CST
August 7, 1974--A young Frenchman named Philippe Petit steps out on a wire suspended 1,350 feet above ground between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 1:05am CST
Based on the award winning novel of the same name by Jonathan Trigell, Jack (Andrew Garfield) is released from prison at the age of 24, having been institutionalized for most of his life after he and another boy murdered a child, when they were themselves children.
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 1:05am CST
AMERICAN TEEN is the touching and hilarious Sundance hit that follows the lives of four teenagers - a jock, the popular girl, the artsy girl and the geek – in one small town in Indiana through their senior year of high school.
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 1:05am CST
Next summer, the guys who brought you Superbad reunite for the action-comedy Pineapple Express. Lazy stoner Dale Denton (Seth Rogen) has only one reason to visit his equally lazy dealer Saul Silver (James Franco): to purchase weed, specifically, a rare new strain called Pineapple Express.
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 1:05am CST
Hell Ride is a raucous throwback to the days of the Sergio Leone spaghetti western, with a heaping helping of testosterone-fueled chopper action thrown into the mix.
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 1:05am CST
More complicated than your average bodice ripper, Catherine Breillat's Last Mistress features beautiful costumes, wrought romances, and a feral performance from Argento.
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 1:05am CST
% The Great American Western - Vol. 7
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Bale Denies Assault Allegations
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Getty Confirms Separation From Wife
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Estelle Getty Dies
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Bale Arrest Dubbed 'A Family Situation'
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Ugly Betty Leads Alma Award Nominations
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Longoria Parker Takes Name Out Of Alma Contention
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Cyrus: 'Photoshoot Was A Mistake'
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Gyllenhaal Supports Ledger Oscar Nod
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Arthur Pays Tribute To Golden Girl Getty
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Downey Jr. Returns Book Advance
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Connery Brands Ex-wife's Claims 'Insane'
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Dickinson Breaks New Cell Phone Law
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Portman To Star In Boyfriend's New Video
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Campbell Thanks Beckham For Support
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Caine: 'Batman Success Hard To Top'
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Spelling To Write About Motherhood
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Campbell In Hotel Row
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Dicaprio's Girlfriend Takes Cameras On The Road For American Adventure
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House Star Dudek Is Pregnant
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Madonna Ordered To Rest By Doctors?
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Spears Snapped Smoking Next To Son
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Lopez Baffled By Diva Tag
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The Dark Knight Sets Another Record
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Cuban Forecasts Live 3-D Telecasts To Theaters
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Netflix To Shutter Indie Investment Unit
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Horror-Movie Directors To Make Short Films For Xbox
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All-Star Game Scores For Fox
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Williams, Gibson, Run Neck-and-neck
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Advertisers Paying For Few YouTube Videos
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Disney Swiftly Replaces Ebert And Roeper
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Golden Girl Getty Dead At 84
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Fetched: July 25th, 2008, 1:03am CST
Australia's ABC Making Shows Available On Demand
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am CST
An ingenuous 24-year-old man-child is at the center of John Crowley's wrenching melodrama "Boy A."
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am CST
Philippe Petit's high-wire walk between the towers of the World Trade Center in 1974 is the subject of "Man on Wire," James Marsh's thorough, understated and altogether enthralling documentary.
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am CST
A round-up of the day's celebrity news
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am CST
In his new book, "Le Pain Maudit," the author Steven L. Kaplan looks at the affair of the poisoned bread in Pont-Saint-Esprit, France, in 1951 when more than 300 people fell sick after eating bread.
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am CST
Novels informed by the values and brands of fashion are starting to pump that well dry.
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am CST
When Jawdat Khoudary opens the first ever museum of archaeology in Gaza this month, it will be an act of Palestinian patriotism, showing how this increasingly poor and isolated coastal strip was once a thriving multicultural crossroad.
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am CST
The "The Good, the Bad, the Weird" revives the genre of "Manchurian westerns," which were popular in South Korea in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am CST
A round-up of the day's celebrity news.
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am CST
Christian Bale, Warner Brothers' latest Batman in its smash hit "The Dark Knight," denied allegations of assault made against him by his mother and sister.
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am CST
"The Condition," Haigh's third novel, revolves around one family and its tragic secret. "The Outcast," a work of nonfiction, explores the consequences of hypocrisy and silenced speech.
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am CST
In George Michael's grown-up persona, frankness and vulnerability mix with dance beats and the old sex-symbol charm.
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am CST
In her new book, Jane Mayer describes the U.S. war on terror as a "political battle cloaked in legal strategy, an ideological trench war" waged by a small group of true believers.
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am CST
The Film Society of Lincoln Center is honoring Dominique Delouche, a filmmaker whose documentaries celebrated great ballet dancers.
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am CST
A construction boom tied to the Olympics is threatening two types of housing in China's capital.
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am CST
The newest addition to the Maryinsky repertoire and a work long championed by a cult of admirers will likely draw the greatest interest when it runs at the Edinburgh International Festival next month.
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am CST
Picasso's masterpiece "Guernica" depicts intense suffering, but its own health is not in danger.
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am CST
Germany has long been funny about celebrity, which makes the show at the Helmut Newton Foundation a particularly fascinating and revealing exercise.
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am CST
The cyclist Chris Hoy had an unusual start to his career: the movie "E.T."
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am CST
The DIY television shows are dedicated to the proposition that ordinary humans, with the proper motivation and instruction, can rewire a living room ceiling or install a gas fireplace by the outdoor pool.
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am CST
The Gate Theatre is back at the Lincoln Center Festival with 3 productions of Samuel Beckett: "Eh Joe," "First Love" and "I'll Go On."
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am CST
This year the spotlight at Bregenz is on two pre-war rarities by the Austrian composer, "Kehraus um St. Stephan" (Goings-on Around St. Stephen's Cathedral) and "Karl V."
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am CST
The "Iron Man" will not be wielding a pen: Robert Downey Jr. has postponed plans to write a memoir and has returned his advance to publisher HarperCollins, a spokeswoman for the actor told The Associated Press.
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am CST
Reviews of "Boots on the Ground by Dusk" by Mary Tillman with Narda Zacchino; "April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America" by Michael Eric Dyson; "Rapture Ready! Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture" by Daniel Radosh; and "Comfort: A Journey Through Grief" by Ann Hoo.
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am CST
"Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling," which opened on Sunday at the Museum of Modern Art and was organized by Barry Bergdoll, makes a convincing case that prefabricated housing was both a central theme of Modernist history and a dream that remains very much alive today
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am CST
Getty's portrayal of a crabbily charming octogenarian on the television sitcom "The Golden Girls" gave new prominence to elderly characters in prime time.
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am CST
What started as a whim of the Duchess of Northumberland has become one of the most ambitious public gardens created in Europe since World War II, a rollicking tourist attraction widely known as the Versailles of the North.
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am CST
A roundup of the day's celebrity news
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am CST
The Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai and his longtime companion Carina Lau were married at a resort in Bhutan, Hong Kong media reported Tuesday.
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am CST
In turning "Brideshead Revisited" into a feature film, the director Julian Jarrold has studiously avoided the mini-series that was made 27 years ago.
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am CST
The number of televisions atop gas pumps have skyrocketed since their introduction at a handful of stations in 2006.
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am CST
Although it lasts just half an hour, this staging of a Samuel Beckett's "Eh Joe," performed by Liam Neeson, is one of the most wholly satisfying nights I've spent at the theater this year.
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am CST
Singer Amy Winehouse's husband was sentenced Monday to 27 months in jail for assault and obstructing justice.
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am CST
Ford Motor Co. is marking the 100th anniversary of the Model T, the first low-priced car that introduced motoring to the masses, at a time when Americans are cringing at the cost of filling their gas tanks and the U.S. auto industry is struggling with plant closings and layoffs.
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am CST
In "The Likeness" by Tana French, Cassie Maddox works the murder investigation of a student who's the spitting image of her, while the heroine of "Of Men and Their Mothers" is a single mom trying hard not to be her mother-in-law.
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am CST
A round-up of the day's celebrity news
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am CST
A digital resurrection allows Yeats to stride again along the hinge of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:11am CST
As a journalist and critic Janet Malcolm wields prose with the precision of a scalpel, creating studies unflinching in their directness and layered with meaning and metaphor.
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Posted: July 24th, 2008, 11:00pm CST
Pamela Anderson is living with ex-husband Tommy Lee again — but not like that.
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AP - "It's a deeply personal matter. I would ask you to respect my privacy in the matter." — Christian Bale, on allegations that he assaulted his mother and sister at a London hotel.
AP - LONDON (AP) — Madame Tussauds unveiled a waxwork of Amy Winehouse on Wednesday complete with her signature beehive, black eyeliner and a bright yellow minidress.
Reuters - Britain's music and film industries
launched a fight back against online piracy on Thursday,
persuading the six biggest Internet providers to send warning
letters to those suspected of illegal file-sharing.
AP - NEW YORK (AP) — 50 Cent has sued Taco Bell, claiming the fast-food restaurant chain is using his name without permission in advertising that asks him to call himself 99 Cent.
