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 The Motion Picture Association of America has announced that movies will now be evaluated, in terms of protecting a younger audience from improper content, on a newly added criterion: portrayals of smoking.
Sexual and violent scenes and language have long been criteria for rating a film’s suitability for the impressionable minds...
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 LaKisha Jones came a long way on “American Idol,” surviving for a full eight weeks. She has been sent home now; three brave contestants continue the competition.
Wednesday night was goodbye night for 27-year-old LaKisha Jones. She may have gotten her hopes up after last week’s non-characteristic appreciation from...
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 A Chicago law firm went on a creative bent with a billboard proclaiming, “Life is short. Get a divorce,” which city officials were quick to take down.
Lawyers Corri Fetman’s and Kelly Garland found an interesting way to attract potential clients: a sexy image and a cynical (yet truthful) message. The billboard showed...
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 Grateful Dead memorabilia was obviously welcome at a recent auction that raised more than $1.1 million for guitars and guitar accessories that belonged to the group’s members.
Those nostalgic about the 1960s and summers of peace and flowers and nonconformity had a chance to relive the good ol’ memories this Tuesday....
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 The Phil Spector murder trial continued with a new testimony from a woman that claims to have been threatened with a gun by a drunk Spector years ago.
Dianne Ogden was called as a witness by the prosecutors. She told how 18 years ago, Phil Spector threatened her with a gun after a party, heavily inebriated, asking her to have sex with...
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 Spider-Man aficionados could take this as a personal achievement (or at least take pride vicariously): “Spider-Man 3” has done the unthinkable, i.e. it has beaten the “Pirates of the Caribbean 2” box office record.
When Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” managed its $135.6 million during its first three days of availability in...
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 Failures in Stopping the WTC Fire
Firefighters tried to call nearly 30 times from a burning skyscraper. Two firefighters died at the scene, as an official from the fire department has stated. The fire...
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 Showtime And The Weinstein Sign Deal
CBS Corp. ’s pay-TV holding, Showtime Networks Inc. ,
announced on Monday that it has accepted to exclusively broadcast movies
produced by The Weinstein Co. for seven...
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 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
After the death of Dr. Doom the Fantastic Four fell life is back to
normal for the team. And Reed Richards and Sue Storm Get married.
Little do they know that a new...
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 “SiCKO”: not a Fair Movie
Michael Moore’s controversial
latest documentary about the United
States’ health care system has been recently
categorized as a personal battle of the filmmaker...
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