Columbia Writing Professor Sends World's Haughtiest Email to Former Students [Academia]

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Janette Turner Hospital is the author of Orpheus Rising and other books, and a professor at Columbia. She sent MFA students at her old school, the University of South Carolina, the following note about their inferiority.


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Getting reacquainted with Satan

The devil is not who we think he is. In fact, for much of ancient history, he wasn't even a "he," says Kimberly Stratton, who is teaching a new Carleton University course on the history of Satan. The earliest Biblical references use


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The In Crowd: Matt Reeves and Kodi Smit-McPhee

Raising the stakes on the vampire movie


TORONTO — Even though Matt Reeves's previous film was the cult favorite Cloverfield, fans of Swedish director Tomas Alfredson's offbeat Let the Right One In howled when they learned that the American director


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Ruben Navarrette Jr: Stephen Colbert may have been out of order, but so is Congress

THERE'S A great scene at the end of the film "And Justice for All" where idealistic attorney Arthur Kirkland, played by Al Pacino, uses his opening statement to tell the jury that his guilty client should go to jail. The judge bangs the gavel and calls


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The words 'celebrity' and 'Ireland' belong in the same sentence much as 'lush' and 'Gobi' do

PERHAPS the most forlorn television programme in Ireland is 3E's salute to Irish celebrity, 'Style Me Famous'. Now, we all know that the words 'celebrity' and 'Ireland' belong in the same sentence in much the same way as do 'lush' and 'Gobi', or 'Zaire'


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No, Albert Haynesworth, You're Not a Slave: No Slave Made $100 million

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No, you didn't read that wrong. Haynesworth, who fleeced the Redskins for a record $100M contract last year, is indeed comparing his


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Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming Blu-Ray Review


Blu-Ray Review
SoHood.com Reviewed by: Edwin Diaz
Movie Rating: 3.5 out of 5
Extras Rating: 5 out of 5
Overview: In the countdown to a national step-off, rivalries at Truth University run red hot. The Theta Nus are counting on new pledge Chance Harris


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Of Mice and Men at Work

The elegant Apthorp was built by the Astors but named for Charles Ward Apthorp, owner of a farm by that surname that in the late 18th century encompassed about 300 acres of what is now the Upper West Side. Despite asking prices averaging $3,000 a square


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Cenk Uygur: Obama Scapegoats His Own Voters

I was just going to write about how we should rally the troops to fight for strong progressives, when Obama dragged me back into the fight between real progressives and the Obama administration. As Al Pacino said in Godfather III, every time I think I'm


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Contra Costa DA Candidate O'Malley Steps into the Mel GIbson Mess and TMZ Territory


This is so exciting! I get to cite TMZ as a source for a story--this one involving a figure in a key Contra Costa County political race!
Anyway, the celebrity gossip news site reports that Dan O'Malley, a candidate for the Contra Costa District Attorney'


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Best of the worst

[yt] Man's Heart of Darkness: A montage of the best villains to grace the silver screen, displaying the human condition at its worst. No Darth Vader, T2000, Predator or Freddy Kruger to be found here, just 44 of the most badass human villains in film


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ACTRESS - Jessica Chastain


When it comes to redheads in Hollywood, Christina Hendricks still ranks above Jessica Chastain both in her immense popularity and her scorching sexiness. That being said, there is one advantage that Ms. Chastain has to work with. Unlike the Mad Men


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Play a Joke On Your Friends: PRANK ME! For iPhone and Android


A hugely popular app has just received its 200th 4 star review, and is ranked in the top 50 in the Entertainment Category. PRANK ME! Has recently been updated and is available for owners of the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, and Android devices.
Released by


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1 reason to root for the Sox until the end

The mid-September morning after the White Sox were whamboozled 9-3 by the Twins, effectively killing any chances of a postseason berth, I took out the rectangular box containing the remainder of my season tickets.
No more games for me this year. Time to


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Buy or Sell

So as you guys are fully aware Im not a stock broker, but that doesnt stop me from using a convoluted ploy like stock buying and selling in my wrestling column.
Buy and buy right now
The Miz: There is no one who is better on the mic right now than The


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John Thompson: Liverpool FC fans must keep making themselves heard as ownership issue reaches a head

ONE minute he’s accused of cheating. The next he is told he’s a thoroughly bad sport. Just why Premier league managers like Alex Ferguson and Steve Bruce don’t show a bit more respect to Fernando Torres is hard to see. Or maybe it isn’t.
Top football


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Ian O'Doherty: Here we go again...

In a fine echo of Gerry Adams's infamous and rather sinister comment "they haven't gone away you know", it would appear that Ken Livingstone is attempting to inflict himself on the Brits once again.Red Ken has had a rather chequered political career to


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Agyness enrols at film school

Supermodel Agyness Deyn has signed up to take lessons at a legendary Hollywood film school

We had to contend with only seeing Agyness Deyn on the front-row rather than the catwalk during London Fashion Week - and now it looks like the model is moving


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Agyness Deyn enrolls in Pacino and De Niros acting institute

From ANI
London, Sep 27: British model Agyness Deyn is hoping to be mentioned in the same league as Hollywood big-guns James Dean, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, for she has joined the same institute attended by these towering figures of 20th Century


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Nu Image's Kane & Lynch Delayed, Still Stuck in Development

24 Frames says that other directors they're now trying to get involved with this once again include: Wayne Kramer (Running Scared), F. Gary Gray (Italian Job, Law Abiding Citizen) who we wrote about in June, and Antoine Fuqua (2001 Training Day ,


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The Murse code

In what must appear to be the strangest manoeuvre in the age-old battle of the sexes, men, after centuries of contemplating the feminine cleavage with a mixture of lust, envy, and aesthetic detachment, have finally decided enough is enough, and gotten


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Rise of the bilingual Brando

In July, while Spain was still revelling in its dramatic World Cup win, Javier Bardem was far away in the Bahamas, celebrating his recent marriage to his equally well-known wife Penelope Cruz. The fact that Spain's most eagerly followed couple chose to


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Keltz finds luck in Reeves' old home

LOS ANGELES -- Did Keanu Reeves leave a good-luck acting spirit in his old apartment in Toronto?
Some time after The Matrix superstar's mother vacated the apartment on St. Clair Avenue, and Reeves had been living in L.A., the family of up-and-coming


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Hottest Articles on BWW 9/19/2010 - 9/26/2010

Lincoln Center has released a full set of promo shots of WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN! The organization also announced today that in order to give the creative team additional technical stage time, it has rescheduled the first performance


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'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps' Inspires A Look Back At Late-Arriving Sequels


Why do we crave sequels? Is it to revisit characters we fell in love with the first time around? To see a property improved upon by new talent? Before the "Godfather"'s and "Star Wars"' of this world, there was a time when sequels were frowned upon in


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Test your movie quotation quotient

By AS SOON AS IT'S SAID MANY PEOPLE CAN FORM A VISUAL IMAGE IN THEIR MIND. THEY KNOW THE MOVIE. THAT'S "WALL STREET" AND THAT'S MICHAEL DOUGLAS AS BILLIO

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No wire hangers!
Here's


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Original sin: Hollywood addicted to remaking foreign films

One that Hollywood got right ... The Departed was a remake of Hong Kong's Internal Affairs and was a financial and critical success. Photo: aP

If you enjoyed the Hollywood remake of a foreign film, chances are the original was even better, writes


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Film Power 100: who have we missed? | Andrew Pulver


It was like herding cats. Then getting the same cats walking in a straight line, on their hind legs, in single file. How do you even go about setting up a Film Power 100?
The first question we had to think about was what sort of "power" are we talking


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Letter from Al

Maybe I’m alone in this, but ever since the 2000 presidential race, I’ve noticed that Al Gore’s campaign style has become more like Al Pacino’s acting style: the way you prove you’re serious about anything is to yell really loud. Though I think Gore’s


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Combat Jack’s True Stories Behind 25 Rap Classics

This should be interesting
son tell me this don’t look like cici ….10 racks pay pal
how do you know for a fact ANYTHING about Maurice White…
some of the group members were not Masons which is why they ultimately left, and were replaced (c) Al McKay…


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GoandDo: History Theatre is back at the Banke

The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce will hold a community expo Saturday, Sept. 25 from 1 to 6 p.m. at Barrington Middle School, Route 9, Barrington, with prizes, raffles, free food tasting and star-studded auction items.
Admission is free, and,


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Paul Heyman Comments on the Success of ECW and why he wouldn’t Go to TNA for EV2.0

“When I wrote Smackdown,” he said, “it didn’t look anything like ECW. Neither did the time I spent in OVW. I would never script/write/book anything that would even resemble the ‘style’ or ‘pace’ of ECW in the 1990s. That era, that style, the


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Stephens: Breakfast With Ahmadinejad

It's a few minutes before eight in the morning on Tuesday, and the 30 or so journalists who have assembled to meet Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the conference room of a midtown Manhattan hotel are gorging themselves on lox and bagels and wondering whether the


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Wouldn't Clint be just perfect as Bond? No, punk!

The James Bond series of films has become almost as famous for its unforgettable catchphrases, as its gadgets, gals, exotic locales and ridiculous baddies with a hook for a hand and a palace on the moon. "Vodka martini, shaken not stirred." "The name's


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Video | Simon McBurney: Complicite is 'a nomadic family'

Simon McBurney, co-founder of Complicite, talks to Andrew Dickson about Al Pacino, opera, and the theatre company's performances of A Disappearing Number, Shun-kin and A Dog's Heart
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Inner City Blues: The Racialicious Review of Detroit 1-8-7 1.1

There’s worse ways for a show to curry favor than by dropping a little Stevie into its’ opening scenes. Fortunately for Detroit 1-8-7, it’s got a few other things going for it.
Shot for the most part in a documentary style (we’re introduced to each


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Monster Mash: Art Institute of Chicago sues over new wing; Kennedy Center gets big donation


-- Lawsuit: The Art Institute of Chicago is suing a London engineering firm for what it calls delays and shoddy engineering in its Modern Wing addition that opened last year. (Chicago Tribune)
-- Windfall: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has


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Hey, Mr. Critic!

Questions from youngsters on the rise, and about in-laws and marathon runners, fiances and Saturday nights. I have done my best to answer. Keep the questions coming.
I fall squarely into the Just-Graduated-From-College-and-I’m-Broke demographic. Can


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Oregon State-Boise State stat comparison: cover your eyes, because this isn't pretty


MONDAY, with Oregon State football:
I know it’s just two games, but if you spend any time pouring over Pac-10 and NCAA statistics you’ve got to be concerned about what might happen when No. 24 Oregon State ventures onto the blue turf to play No. 3 Boise


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Are demons the new vampires?

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Does it seem like demons are taking over vampires as the new “it” monster?
Trailers for “The Last Exorcism” released in late August feature a wild-eyed, stringy-haired possession victim whose father looks like an extra from “The


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Classic Movies of All Time


There's nothing quite like a good movie is there? The kind that stays with you after the credits have rolled, and isn't quite forgotten, no matter how long it's been since you've watched a rerun. Although there are a number of really good movies, and


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Hale: Trading the front porch for a New York City bench

NEW YORK CITY -It's 8:30 in the morning, and you've caught me sitting in a small cafe at the corner of West 73rd and Amsterdam Avenue, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
The outside temperature here is around 75, and the promise is that it won't reach


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Javier Bardem interview

Following her nomination for her role in Almodovar’s 2006 film Volver,
Cruz eventually won her Oscar two years later, for her brilliantly fiery
turn in Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Bardem, of
course, won his for his portrayal of a


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The 10 best gangster movies? Fuhgeddaboudit

The series, which stars Steve Buscemi as Prohibition-era mob leader Nucky Thompson (his real last name was Johnson), was written by Emmy-winning "Sopranos" writer Terence Winter. Martin Scorsese is an executive producer on the series, and he directed


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Movie Review: The Town


In many ways, The Town, starring Ben Affleck and Jeremy Renner, tries to be a modern age crime family drama akin to The Godfather and more recently The Black Donnellys. The story of four friends from Boston, engaged in the illicit act of bank and


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Al Pacino, Joe Pesci To Reunite For Scorsese Movie?

Al Pacino and Joe Pesci are in talks to reunite with Robert De Niro and Goodfellas director Martin Scorsese for new gangster film The Irishman, according to reports.
De Niro has already signed up to play Frank 'the Irishman' Sheeran in the project -


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Touchdown! 12 Standout Football Movies

Movies about sports agents count, right? Especially one Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise), whose only client, wide receiver Rod Tidwell (Oscar-winning Cuba Gooding Jr.), learns a little give and take — on and off the field — with his uber agent.
Nick Nolte and


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Dave Newhouse: Al Pacino as Billy Martin? Roll the cameras

if you catch my drift.
Another Oakland A's season is winding down with little theater, except for two highlight reels -- Dallas Braden's perfect game and "Moneyball" the movie.
But the cinematic "Moneyball" doesn't do much to validate "money ball," the


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Master's Choice: Music, Food, Literature, Cinema

Get your list of what to read, listen, eat and watch from the proven experts in the field.
Music
1 Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley): When I started to write lyrics in 2007, Jeff Buckley was one of my main influences at that time. This is his most
emotionally


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Movies offer crash course in business and management

Two big business movies are about to hit the big screen: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, the sequel to Oliver Stone's 1987 suspender-snapping classic, and The Social Network, about the founding of and feuding within Facebook, now with north of 500


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Al Pacino, Robert De Niro reunite for violent gangster movie

The film, to be directed by Martin Scorsese, will be gangster heaven for all mob movie fans.

All four are famous for their previous hit movies about the American Mafia.

De Niro and Scorsese, both 67, have been working together on the movie for


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How we finally got to the truth about Joaquin Phoenix's I'm Still Here


The Sala Grande at the Venice film festival has seen some pretty big arrivals in its time, perhaps most famously in 2004 when the 17-strong delegation for The Merchant Of Venice left its star, Al Pacino, with nowhere to sit. But for I'm Still Here, the


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Links: Cher, Cheyenne, Celestia, Carey and CQueen


Guardian good piece on Anne Heche, her not totally recovered career post-Celestia, and Hollywood's double standards about men and women with troubled souls.
After Elton first look at Cheyenne Jackson on Glee. He's replacing Idina as the Vocal Adrenaline


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The Town Movie Review

Movie Review of The Town starring Ben Affleck, Jeremy Renner from The Hurt Locker, Rebecca Hall from Dorian Gray, and Jon Hamm from Mad Men.
The Town is a cops and robbers movie lovers dream. Set in the robbery capital of the United States, Charlestown,


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Michigan film incentives: Report stirs more debate

Michigan's film subsidies may be enhancing the state's image and producing pockets of new economic activity, but they're a net loser for taxpayers, according to a new report from the Senate Fiscal Agency.
The state treasury spent $37.5 million in


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It all started in a shoeshine parlor

TROY — It was as a child working in a shoeshine parlor that Frank Serpico got his first taste of the police dishonesty he would one day seek to expose among his fellow officers.
Working with his father, Serpico was glad to shine the shoes of a police


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"Priyanka sinks into her character" - Ranbir Kapoor

It's pretty strange but I am going to reveal a lot more in this article. So read on. Be patient, just observe and remember Saawariya, for a bit. So, out of the ordinary, the moment I reach my 6th floor apartment at 11.25pm Indian time, I look at my


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Sports T&A w/ Amy: Inspired by the Movies

So Tuesday morning at 4:50 AM, I was rudely awakened by an exploding light bulb that apparently was left on and then burnt out without my knowledge. It was like the Green Mile in my house, minus the big guy who has the flies come out his mouth. I


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Oksana Grigorieva 'to sue' Mel Gibson

According to sources, Oksana has hired Martin Garbus and Daniel Horowitz, two formidable lawyers who have been around the block in celebrity cases, reports TMZ.com.
Garbus has defended Robert Redford, Al Pacino, and Spike Lee.
Garbus and Horowitz will


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Robert De Niro's next role: 'The Irishman'


Call it the acting challenge of his career: Robert De Niro, the man famed for his unforgettable portrayals of Italian mobsters, is now set to play an Irishman.
The Oscar winning actor will return to one of his preferred genres with Al Pacino and Joe


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At 82, Oscar winner Martin Landau is diving into new roles with old friends

Landau certainly knew what his role was in his latest film, the romantic drama, "Lovely, Still." The tall, lanky actor turns in a beautifully nuanced, poignant performance as Robert Malone, a lonely, elderly man who spends his days working as a bagger


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In Italy, a Volcanic Vintage

"Do you drink wines from Italia?" asked my French compatriot on a recent visit to Burgundy. "Sure," I replied. "I drink wines from Italia—from Piedmont, Tuscany, the Veneto, Campania—yes, all the time. Why? You?" The answer confused him; in France, it


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The Trip

Michael Winterbottom's "The Trip" is about 20 minutes too long, but the other 90 are among the funniest in recent memory. Two-hander road movie is powered by the impressionistic skills of comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon (reuniting after


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More than a Rich Set of Pipes


MOST COMEDIC IMPRESSIONISTS are little more than a rich set of pipes. Often found on cruise ships, in small-town casinos, and within the cast of Saturday Night Live, these comedians offer nostalgia and little else.
James Adomian, however, is much more


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"Life is worth living for and that's what Anjaana Anjaani is all about" - Ranbir Kapoor

It's pretty strange but I am going to reveal a lot more in the lines to come. So read in between them. Be patient, just observe and remember Saawariya, for a bit. So, out of the ordinary, the moment I reach my 6th floor apartment at 11.25pm India time,


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Former NYPD Detective to speak at Troy PBA dinner

TROY — Former New York City detective Frank Serpico, who became legendary when his exposure of police corruption was chronicled in an Oscar-nominated film starring Al Pacino, will deliver the keynote address at the Troy Police Benevolent Association’s


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Chicago Housing: Cheaper, Still Unaffordable

There's good news and bad news in the study, titled "Paycheck to Paycheck: Wages and the Cost of Housing in America." Let's start with the good.
The median home price in Chicago was $210,000 in 2009, a 6.7 percent drop from $225,000 in 2008. This makes


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A Good Ole' Mob Reunion With Martin Scorsese!

This would be absolutely epic! The mob flick to end all mob flicks!
Joe Pesci, Al Pacino, and Robert de Niro are in talks to join director Martin Scorsese for his new film, The Irishman!
The script, written by Steve Zaillan, is based off the book I


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Classic Hollywood: Martin Landau finds love


Martin Landau has worked with some of cinema's most accomplished filmmakers, including Alfred Hitchcock ("North by Northwest"), Francis Ford Coppola ("Tucker: The Man and His Dream"), Woody Allen ("Crimes and Misdemeanors") and Tim Burton ("Ed


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The completed movies that appear to have disappeared


It's not unusual for a film to be completed and then sit on the shelves for a long time. In some cases, such as with the Al Pacino vehicle 88 Minutes a few years back, it'll eventually get a cinema release some years after the final cut was locked. But


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'The Town,' 'Casino Jack' and 'Client 9' take the stage at Toronto Film Festival


His sophomore directorial effort, "The Town," will be released on Friday. "I've come to a time in my life where everything is make or break," Affleck says in his quiet room in the buzzy Four Seasons hotel, while awaiting the film's North American


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Pacino and Pesci to Star in 'The Irishman'?

According to a report by deadline.com, both Al Pacio and Joe Pesci are eyeing up 'The Irishman', an upcoming film about Frank Sheeran. The film, whichrevolves aroundSheeran's murder of Jimmy Hoffa,is being adapted from Charles Brandt's 'I Heard You


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Serpico still preaches honest behavior

TROY -- Retired New York City Police Department Detective Frank Serpico battled corruption in his force and continues to see it happen there as well as in police departments of the Capital Region and elsewhere.
For Serpico, whose name for most people


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Giamatti's goes from 20 to 60 in 132 minutes

Paul Giamatti describes the character he plays in Barney's Version, between ages 20 and 60,as "a weirdly self destructive character."
But the whys and wherefores behind that behavior are not spelled out.
"I like the fact that it doesn't spoon-feed you


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Robert De Niro and Al Pacino To Reunite for The Irishman


Could this be the greatest movie cast ever assembled? Martin Scorsese's hit man thriller The Irishman, which is already set to star Robert De Niro, could also snag Al Pacino and Joe Pesci. Deadline reports that the project, based on Charles Brandt's


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Pacino, Pesci to Join De Niro, Scorsese for 'The Irishman'


How many Italians does it take to make The Irishman? At least four, from what I can tell.
Deadline is reporting that Al Pacino and Joe Pesci are joining Robert De Niro for Martin Scorsese's planned adaptation of I Heard You Paint Houses, a book


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New for Fall: The Theatre


Les Freres Corbusier’s rowdy satire “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson” (written and directed by Alex Timbers, with music by Michael Friedman) gets a chance to wow uptown audiences at the Bernard B. Jacobs (previews begin Sept. 20).| “Women on the Verge of a


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HBO, AMC triumph at 62nd Primetime Emmys

MUMBAI:
A mix of new comedies and veteran dramas dominated the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards.
HBO monopolised the statuettes for movies and miniseries courtesy Temple Grandin.
ABCs Modern
Family led all series programmes with three Emmy wins, including


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Saturday Night At The Movies -- The Gaulfather


The Gaulfather
French twisted: Vincent Cassel as Mesrine
In November 1979, a truck full of police sharpshooters ambushed and killed France’s “Public Enemy #1” as he drove down a busy Parisian boulevard with his girlfriend (who was wounded, but survived).


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FALL 2010: 'Spider-Man' is just one strand in a web of Broadway openings

On Dec. 21, “Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark” is slated to open on Broadway. With a score by U2's Bono and the Edge, direction by Julie Taymor (left, with Bono)and a superheroic title character with a sticky web of fanaticism, this is supposed to be a


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In the news

LITTLE ROCK Pia Beathe Pedersen, a Norwegian radio journalist, quit on the air after complaining about her job at a regional radio station of public broadcaster NRK and saying she wouldn’t read the day’s news because “nothing important has happened”


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Al Pacino -- Dog Day Afternoon


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John Farr: The Best Movies That Talk Business

Welcome to those post-Labor Day blues, when the days dwindle down and chilly evening breezes return. Often at this time, we enjoy a heady dose of Indian summer, but even these sweet moments are tinged with melancholy, serving as sweet yet fleeting


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Netflix Inks Content Deal with Nu Image/Millennium Films

An even-better Apple iPod touch retains its designation as the best portable media player you can buyand for the price, it should be.
Norton AntiVirus 2011 took the top score in malware-removal test and well in other tests. Its unique features makes it


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TIFF: Director’s cut — when actors go behind the camera

Familiarity breeds comfort as actors who’ve moved behind the camera debut their work at the Toronto International Film Festival
After years in front of the camera, many actors decide to try their hand at directing, with varying outcomes — success


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Money manager Kenneth Starr pleads guilty to running scam

NEW YORK (Reuters) - An investment adviser, whose clients included director Martin Scorsese and singer Carly Simon, pleaded guilty on Friday to fraud more
Adviser to the stars pleads guilty to £33 million fraud
A disgraced financial manager for


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'Heartbreaker' Star Romain Duris on Crying and Dirty Dancing with Vanessa Paradis

Cinematical: Parts of the film similarly feel like they're making fun of yourself, or at least your onscreen persona in that someone that isn't so physically imposing could be such a ladykiller, like a caricature of a Don Juan that can instantly seduce


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Ponzi wife is go-go-gone

Guess she had better things to do. On the same day that celebrity money manager Kenneth Starr was pleading guilty to a massive Ponzi scheme, his perfectly primped and grinning ex-stripper wife was off running errands on the Upper East Side. Former


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Premiere Supper Club Set to Debut in Los Angeles Tonight


Vinny Laresca has his own playhouse. The New York City native and longtime L.A. nightlife veteran, who made his mark at Villa in West Hollywood alongside Reza Roohi, soft opens his own theater-themed club, Premiere Supper Club, tonight in Hollywood


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Pacino's pound of flash

It's Rosh Hashanah -- but the only Jew on Broadway who's cele brating is Shylock. Al Pacino, as Shake speare's complex villain in "The Merchant of Venice," has racked up by far the highest advance of any show opening in the fall. I reported the other


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Only a Partial View of Facebook Is Revealed in 'The Facebook Effect' (Column)


To most people, Facebook needs no introduction. You’re probably on it, along with some half billion other people worldwide. The social media site is growing at a rate of about 25 million new users a month, and is capturing the imaginations of both


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Photographers' photo shoots with the stars

ORIGINALLY from Llanidloes, Cambridge Jones is now staying in hotels across the globe doing photo shoots with some of the world’s most glamourous stars, in some of the most glamourous cities.
Cambridge Jones was adopted by his parents in the town of


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EXAGGERATIONS OF THE TRUTH

"I welcome hecklers," said the comic, but was quick to add, "I have the mike. I will let you do your thing, and I will bring you into my house. Then when you feel very comfortable it's my turn."
Don't know about you, but this weekend at Princeton's


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Netflix Is on a Roll!

David Gardner called it. He’s up 868%! See what David’s recommending that you buy NEXT.
Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) is on a roll. The streaming movie catalog is going from deep-but-aging to a more crowd-pleasing mix of old and new movies as film distributors


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Netflix signs up more new movies for streaming in 2011

Netflix is continuing to position the Watch Instantly streaming service against existing cable networks when negotiating for content, as evidenced by its latest deal with Nu Image/Millennium Films. The two are behind flicks like The Expendables, 16


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Cool Videos: Flight of the Pacino-ator

It's been quite a long time since I've seen the escapist kid-flick FLIGHT OF THE NATIVATOR, but I don't remember the sentient spaceship being quite so... brusque.
It's actually more entertaining this way -- with gruff screen veteran Al Pacino as the


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Trustee Seeks to Auction 80 Artworks Owned by Defunct Dreier Law Firm

Nearly two years after the arrest of Marc S. Dreier for fraud, the trustee appointed to liquidate Dreier LLP has requested permission to auction off more than 80 artworks formerly owned by the defunct 250-attorney firm (See Motion and List of Items).


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Live Review: Aerosmith in Winnipeg

WINNIPEG - It ain't easy being an Aerosmith fan.
Truth is, it hasn't been for a long time. Not for the last 30 years, anyway. Admittedly, there have been a few high points along the way. But there have also been way too many sins to forgive. Too many


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AMC Locks Down 'Godfather' Trilogy Through 2019


AMC acquired the exclusive U.S. cable rights to the "Godfather" trilogy from Paramount Pictures for the next nine years starting in Jan. 2011 and ending in Dec. 2019.
The deal gives AMC exclusive U.S. basic cable and On Demand rights to the iconic,


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Carlito's Way at One Midtown Kitchen, Midtown


One of the driving forces behind the culinary cocktail movement is — no surprise — inspiration from flavors coming out of the kitchen. That was the case when Linda Torres, bar manager at One Midtown Kitchen, first tasted the Tabasco-spiked passion fruit


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Cinemas are one of French capital's greatest, but often overlooked, attractions

It may seem backward to travel to one of the most beautiful cities in the world and sit in the dark.
In Paris, there are seemingly endless rues and quais and museums and cafes to explore, which means visitors often hurry past one of the city's greatest


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Season's lineup heads for a fall

I asked a theater insider for his take on the upcoming Broadway season. He's got a bitchy streak, but he's usually on the money. "A year ago, I looked out my office window and saw the Broadhurst Theatre with pretty Jude Law in 'Hamlet' on the marquee,"


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Was it worth card … or maybe Oscar?


A lot of contact occurs during a soccer match. And even if slaps to the neck are beyond the norm, Sounders FC defender Patrick Ianni mostly supports referee Silviu Petrescu despite his non-call on New England’s Shalrie Joseph on Saturday.
“It’s stuff


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Selling New York: Manhattan’s palaces in the sky

Michele Kleier is flanked by her two daughters, Samantha, left, and Sabrina, in the doorway of a Fifth Ave. penthouse apartment. The Kleiers are key players in Selling New York, a high-end real estate reality show premiering Wednesday on HGTV


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Image Entertainment Makes Deal with Sony Home Entertainment

Image Entertainment, Inc. recently announced that it has entered into a multi-year agreement with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Inc. in which SPHE will handle all manufacturing and distribution services for Image Entertainment's Blu-ray and DVD


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FALL 2010 BROADWAY SEASON PREVIEW: Shows on the Verge


Another screen-to-stage musical is Elf, a new show by Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin (the team from The Wedding Singer), with a book by Bob Martin (The Drowsy Chaperone) and Thomas Meehan (The Producers). Casey Nicholaw directs the story of an orphaned


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Talking Pictures


Photographs of creative people inspired by Wales will be unveiled in a new exhibition at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay. Talking Pictures is the brain child of celebrity photographer Cambridge Jones, and the Welsh Assembly Government. Jones


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Cable Wins (Again) At Emmys

The kudos and the statuettes
keep coming for cable.
The 62nd Annual Primetime
Emmy Awards marked another
strong showing for cable. Not
only did the medium tally 17 wins
— almost double the Big Four’s
total of nine during the ceremony
from the Nokia


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Last Respects

The bifurcation of the American movie industry into big-studio productions (superheroes, explosions, glossy chick-flicks, 3-D, animation, CGI, fantasy, historical spectacle) and independently made features (sometimes receiving major-studio distribution)


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Clooney's 'American' a hit at holiday box office

With James Bond on hiatus due to MGM's money woes, can heartthrob George Clooney fill the bill as the suave action hero of filmdom? Clooney, shown with Thekla Reuten, stars as an assassin who finds himself in trouble in scenic Italy in 2010's "The


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Michael Sheen carries on shining


Its called Carry On In Your Pocket, he grins, happily pressing a button on a plastic gadget that immediately produces Kenneth Williamss voice saying:

Oooh matron, take them away!
Many movie stars leave characters they have played in the past behind


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Dog Day Afternoon


It was 1975, and actors Al Pacino and Charles Durning joined up with director Sidney Lumet to tell the seriously twisted - but true - story of . Set on a hot, steaming summer day in New York City, the action starts with a botched bank heist. Instead of


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The needle: Who's revved, idled and stalled

BEETLE BAILEY America's best known GI turns 60 with no promotion or retirement in sight. But at least he's out of Iraq.
STEVE MILLER Guitar rocker to be artist in residence this fall at USC's Thornton School of Music. And some people called him a space


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Fantasy sports: Good, bad teams remain good, bad

The NFL has long prided itself on parity and competitiveness, so much so that “any given Sunday” has become a large enough part of the cultural lexicon that it makes us believe Al Pacino could be a football coach.
I started to muse on this idea after my


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Plies Drops His 'Mixtape of the Decade'

Plies could barely wait three months after releasing his 'Goon Affiliated' album to drop a new mixtape. Hitting the Internet earlier today, the Florida-based MC's new tribute to all things "real" is entitled 'You Need People Like Me' and features a


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Al Pacino's Scarface machine-gun up for auction


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Ultimate Big Brother: Nikki and Pete face each other

BEAUTY Jessica Linley has been crowned the new Miss England, beating dozens of gorgeous girls.

Al Pacino's monstrous gun in Scarface which he referred to as my little friend is to be sold.

CARING celebrities will invite tramps into their homes as


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Al Pacino’s machinegun to be auctioned

London, Sep 4 – The machinegun used by Al Pacino’s gangster character in the mafia movie ‘Scarface’ is likely to fetch 100,000 pounds at an auction in the US.
The Sun Saturday reported that Tony Montana shot rivals with the M-16A1 at the end of the 1983


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Al Pacino's 'Scarface' gun expected to fetch 100,000 pounds at auction

The little machine, M-16A1, is expected to fetch a whooping 100,000 pounds at the US auction.
Gun owner Kevin Martin said Pacino was persistent on using a real gun - but it has been made safe, reports the Sun.
Al Pacino used the gun in famous Scarface


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'You Can't Take it With You' Revival Off for Fall

Cross the revival of “You Can’t Take It With You” off the list of Broadway shows for this fall. The producer Elizabeth I. McCann, who had announced she would mount the show in November, said on Thursday that she is now aiming for a spring opening of the


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'Selling New York' explores multi-million dollar real estate in Manhattan

While that lavish residence boasts seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms, it doesn’t come with parking.
"If you live here, you don't need a car," says Michele Kleier, matriarch of the Gumley Haft Kleier agency, one of two real estate boutiques showcased on


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Ray Winstone: 'I used to be a raving lunatic'

According to an old Fleet Street adage, it is a bad idea to interview your heroes. As I don't have very many, however, the situation seldom arises. But the warning began to make sense while I was getting ready to meet Ray Winstone, for it's hard not to


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All The Best Victims

The shocking thing about Kenneth Starr’s alleged Ponzi scheme wasn’t the amount—$59 million, pocket change by Madoff standards—but his client list. How did an accountant from the Bronx pull in the likes of Bunny Mellon, Barbara Walters, Al Pacino,


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Woman to learn acting in Hollywood

A WOMAN from Watlington is to visit Hollywood to hone her acting skills.
Liz Mente-Bishop, 39, of Howe Hill, is one of only 14 people to be given a place on a course that includes a week-long "boot camp" in Los Angeles.
Brian Timoneys Ultimate Acting


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Many ingredients in recipe of life

" ... Mama, put my guns in the ground
That long black cloud is comin' down
While waiting for Chris Christian to get off work, I enjoyed a bowl of his pizza soup.
Filled with Italian sausage, pepperoni, green peppers, onions, mostaccioli and shredded


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After Emmys, Kevorkian eyes Oscar, more

For a guy who was described as near death a few years ago when he was pleading with the state of Michigan for an early release from prison, Jack Kevorkian appeared to be a pretty healthy 82-year-old at the Emmy Awards in Los Angeles.
However, Kevorkian


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Service users show Jami's got talent

Mental health charity Jami staged an evening of home-grown talent, with seven service users showing off their skills in jazz, singing and poetry.
The talent show attracted a crowd of more than 60 to the Jami premises in Golders Green for a programme


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DeLorean film revving up

LOS ANGELES - Adam Mazer, hot off his Emmy win Sunday for writing the HBO TV movie "You Don't Know Jack," is getting in the fast lane for a movie about flamboyant automobile mogul John DeLorean.
Mazer is in the final stages of writing the DeLorean


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Cram Session: Tips from the brightest NCAAF betting minds

“Two for the Money” is the most underachieving movie ever. It’s the UCLA of film.
The sports betting world is filled with fascinating characters, from surly backroom bookies to obnoxious touts. You throw Al Pacino, Matthew “Wooderson” McConaughey and


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RSVIP: 64th Prime-Time Emmy Awards Party Report

With a weekend of starry fetes second only to those of Oscar week in Los Angeles, the parties of the 64th Prime-Time Emmy Awards lost little ground this season against news of a still flagging U.S. economy.
For Luxist, ice began clinking in the


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Emmy Resentments Surface in TV Industry

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The major broadcast networks are serious about splitting the Primetime Emmys into two shows, and they have support among cable networks who share a frustration about HBO so thoroughly dominating the longform categories.


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Should Broadcasters Make Emmy Cut the Cable?

Tom Hanks and entourage collect another Emmy for HBO's The Pacific. / NBC
The Emmy Awards are over, but as always, the complaining about them isn't. This year, however, the gripes are not coming from critics—who mostly found it in our


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Brownlow, Coppola, Godard and Wallach to Receive Academy's Governors Awards

The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted last week to present the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to producer-director Francis Ford Coppola and Honorary Awards to historian and preservationist Kevin Brownlow,


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Morning Shots: No Bedbugs At TIFF, No David Mills, And More Housewives

Happy to lead with a follow-up to yesterday: it appears that it was a false alarm regarding bedbugs at the Toronto International Film Festival. On behalf of everyone I know who goes to these events: whew.
Many critics were stunned when writer David


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