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Single Person’s Movie: Scarface
It's 2 a.m. and you awake with a jerk, alone in your fully lit apartment and still on the couch. On TV, the credits of some movie you've already seen a billion times are scrolling by. It feels like...
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The Week in DVR: Hot Nurses, Gordon Ramsay’s F-bombs, and Val Kilmer as the...
Monday: Dateline NBC: Vegas Undercover Normally, we make a point to shy away from these Dateline NBC specials reports, but, since we’re still on a contact high from watching The Hangover (backlash be...
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Money Never Sleeps: Wall Street, Stoned
"Are you a bee? Do you like to sting people?" a handsome banking executive in a merlot-colored suit growls to his protégé. It is early afternoon in the third-floor offices of a midtown skyscraper, the...
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Sean Penn or Bust! Hugo Chávez Insists on A-Listers for Ambassadors
Last week Barack Obama retired Larry Palmer of his duties as ambassador to Venezuela after President Hugo Chávez disapproved of the selection. Why did El Jefe say adios to the longtime American...
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Ayyy! When LiLo Met Fonzie
The Lindsay Lohan post-rehab goodwill tour made an impromptu stop at Don Hill's last week at the after-party for the premiere of Ceremony. Henry Winkler was on hand to support his son Max, the film's...
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The Popcorn Broker! Oliver Stone Shooting Robert Moses Movie for HBO
Not since David Lynch (tried) to adapt Dune for the screen has The Observer had such conflicted feelings about a movie: According to The Hollywood Reporter, Oliver Stone will adapt The Power Broker,...
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The Son Also Kneels: Hanging with Oliver Stone’s Kid Sean, Newly Minted Muslim
Oliver Stone was deplaning at LAX following a 16-hour trip from Indonesia when he turned on his phone and found it blowing up with texts from his office. Apparently the media—what he called the...
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Patch Adams is Real, Really Supports Julian Assange
Dr. Adams, left, with Dennis Kucinich. Patch Adams, MD, the clown doctor portrayed by Robin Williams in the eponymous 1998 film, has joined several dozen prominent figures of the American Left in...
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Savages: From Hashish to Ashes, Cannabis Flick Can’t Stay Lit
Kitsch, Lively and Johnson in Savages. What I know about the internecine workings of Mexican drug cartels you could fill in an egg cup—and still have enough space left over for the egg. But this I...
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Andrew Goldman Returns to The New York Times Magazine
Andrew Goldman made his triumphant return to the pages of The New York Times Magazine on Sunday. Mr. Goldman, you may recall, was suspended from the magazine after he got into a Twitter kerfuffle with...
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