CM Punk Talks About Almost Leaving WWE

NoDQ.com > WWE Posted by Steve Carrier on 05/30/2012 at 01:32 PM CM Punk was interviewed by IGN in promotion of WWE '13. Here are a few highlights from the interview. On the differences between a smaller and a larger venue: The difference between wrestli


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John Travolta's Bad PR Means An End, Really, for the 'Gotti' Movie


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Jude Law Slated To Play Fairbanks In Biopic - PostChronicle.com

Jude Law is reportedly in talks to portray Douglas Fairbanks in a new Mary Pickford biopic. Broadway star Lily Rabe will portray movie icon Pickford in the film, produced by Jennifer DeLia and Al Pacino's daughter Julie. Fairbanks was one of Pickford's t


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The Grey's hero, dead? Perish the thought

Things don't look so great for Liam Neeson at the end of The Grey. He's the last remaining survivor of an aeroplane crash in the frozen tundra, and he's hemmed in by a pack of gigantic, man-eating wolves, who aren't all that well disposed toward him beca


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Casting Net: Adam Shankman comedy eyeing all-star cast. Plus: Jude Law, Michelle Pfeiffer, Gillian Anderson, Taran Killam

Image Credit: Kenzo Tribouillard/Getty Images • Jason Bateman , Zac Efron , Goldie Hawn , Leslie Mann , Malin Akerman , and Jason Sudeikis are all in negotiations to star in the ensemble comedy This is Where I Leave You , author Jonathan Tropper ‘s adapt


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Danny Trejo

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There was so much that was deeply naff about the decade that it is hard to look back without cringing, or laughing, or both. Post-hippy fashion was awful, a conformist fantasy of nonconformity, dressed up in tank tops and denim bell bottoms. The decade c


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Too many pounds of flesh in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice for BBC viewers

They were taken aback by repeated scenes of topless women in the 2004 Hollywood version of the story starring Al Pacino and Jeremy Irons. According to the Daily Mail there were 15 shots of bare breasts and scenes of a sexual nature. One viewer described


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They Wished They Were Honest, The Knapp Commission, Police Corruption, and Serpico

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Sanjay Dutt to play a don in SHER - News


Fans of the deadly Dutt are in store for a special treat this year as the superstar continues to showcase some of the most diverse roles in 2012! After winning acclaim for his menacing Kaancha Cheena in AGNEEPATH, Sanjay Dutt is all set with yet another


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Coriolanus


Graphic battle violence, characters injured and killed Shakespeare’s play about a Roman general who survives battle only to take on the bigger battles of politics has been brought to screen by Ralph Fiennes, who directed and stars as the title character.


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Red Sea Media picks up Frankie Go Boom and Bad Kids go to Hell at their first Cannes

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MSG Invites Viewers To Its 'Summer Block Party'

Complementing its live-game coverage, MSG has set the programming lineup for its fourth annual "Summer Block Party." The regional sports network, which will televise WNBA New York Liberty games and Major League Soccer's Red Bulls matches, plans themed pr


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Hollywood a longtime friend of the CIA

said, 'This kid could not be on a ship,' and we changed the casting." In another scene, a sailor got into a fist fight. "It was important to them that he be held accountable." WASHINGTON -- Some Republican lawmakers were outraged when federal records rel


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Yolonda Ross, LisaGay Hamilton Will Headline John Sayles' New Drama "Go For Sisters"


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Government, police deny allegations in suit

An attorney who represents the five Lafayette Police Department officers claiming to be "Serpico"-type whistleblowers is now claiming top police and government officials have sought retaliation against his clients for filing the lawsuit that alleges a cu


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Men in Black 3: Josh Brolin Joins Ranks of Gifted A-List Impressionists Including Kevin Spacey, Matt Damon and Jim Carrey [VIDEO]


Josh Brolin plays a young Tommy-Lee Jones in Men in Black 3 ( Sony Pictures) The third Men in Black film has seen actor Josh Brolin singled out for an unexpected skill, his ability to do a Tommy-Lee Jones impression. In the film, which recently opened in


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'Romeo' reading draws cast

Christopher Walken, Jeffrey Wright, Jesse L. Martin, Raul Esparza, Sam Waterston and Jerry Stiller are among the thesps lined up to join Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline in the Public Theater's one-night-only reading of "Romeo and Juliet." Composer Jeanine T


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Raúl Esparza, Jesse L. Martin, Jerry Stiller, Jeffrey Wright and More Join Romeo and Juliet Gala at the Delacorte

The Public Theater has produced Romeo and Juliet twice before at the Delacorte (1968 and 2007). Streep, who has performed five times at the Delacorte since 1976, and Kline, who has performed nine times since 1970, will play the iconic teen-age roles for


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Flashback to Sonny Corelone! James Caan sports similar white vest to his famous Godfather alter ego


He achieved worldwide fame and lasting notoriety as the eldest son of Marlon Brando's Don Corrleone in smash hit film The Godfather. And, 40 years later, James Caan was channelling his alter ego in the familiar white vest worn by Sonny in the 1972 film.


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Isn’t it SHOCKing?

If you are hooked up to the Internet you will, through no fault of your own and in inverse proportion to your native apathy or antipathy towards such things, have to sift through a gauntlet of celebrity gossip concerning people who have in their lifetime


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Threats feared in LPD dispute

An attorney representing the five Lafayette Police Department officers suing their superiors has filed a motion asking a judge to force top-ranking LPD and Lafayette Consolidated Government officials to testify under oath about an alleged culture of corr


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Interview: Tahar Rahim, actor in A Prophet and Free Men

French-Algerian Tahar Rahim has the acting world at his feet, but, finds Alistair Harkness, he’s in no rush to work in America EVERY young unknown actor dreams of the breakthrough role that’s going to catapult them into the big league, but it’s hard to i


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Adam Mazer Signs On To Write Miami Nightclub Owner Biopic

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Apple rejects e-book pricing lawsuit as “fundamentally flawed”

Did Apple illegally fix the prices of e-books in collusion with five publishing houses? Not at all, says the company, and to suggest otherwise - as the US Justice Department is doing with its current anti-trust lawsuit against Apple - is "fundamentally f


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’Tis nobler in mind of James

A SELBY teenager recited Shakespeare on the small screen this weekend. James Osman, 15, from Selby High School, read from Hamlet and Henry V in the final of Off By Heart Shakespeare in Stratford that was broadcast by the BBC on Saturday evening. The comp


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Five Lafayette police officers sue their superiors

Five Lafayette Police Department officers are suing their superiors and asking for temporary restraining orders, claiming LPD has a culture of corruption that has led to physical threats and racial discrimination. The lawsuit, filed in the 15th Judicial


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Meryl Streep To Present Shirley MacLaine With Prestigious American Film Institute Life Achievement Award At "TV Land Presents: The AFI Life Achievement Award Honoring Shirley MacLaine"

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The Reem, Episode 11 - The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly

Here's the basic back story, all of which you likely know by now. After defeating Brock Lesnar at UFC 141, the former Strikeforce/Dream/K-1 champion earned a shot at UFC heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos at UFC 146. Following a lengthy press tour an


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Deepa Mehta to make Masterpiece with Al Pacino

MUMBAI: Amidst the shoot of her film Midnights Children, Deepa Mehta has announced her next film titled Masterpiece. She has, however, clarified that she would move on to her venture after she is done with Midnights Children. Masterpiece is about acclaim


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The 57th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards Ceremony Takes Place Tonight at Webster Hall - Press Releases

NEW YORK, May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Tonight's 57th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards will be presented by Eric McCormack, Grace Gummer, Hugh Dancy, Jonathan Pryce, Juliet Rylance, Justin Bartha, Leslie Odom Jr., Lily Rabe, Michael McKean, Tonya Pinkins


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She may not be a household name, but a perfectly sculpted body in a rather petite bikini can only be a good thing to ease people into their Monday morning back at work. And with Gabrielle Anwar's incredibly toned body slipping into a tangerine two-piece,


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There is perhaps no contemporary security policy issue that is as important, but so poorly understood, as cybersecurity. A major part of the problem is a simple lack of familiarity with the most basic terms and definitions. Almost all policymakers today


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Movie Poem

Saw the trailer and looked up this poem right away: I fell in love once, before I died, When my soul was bright and my eyes were wide, But he was young and I was young, We lived our lives like a loaded gun, So we knew, it would not last. We couldnât save


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Jazz Stories: Hi, my name is Amar. I’m a Jazz fan.

Sadly, this is a statement that so many people contest. You know, like there’s such a huge bandwagon of South Asian origin, Canadian born, immigrant Jazz fans who live in Detroit. That are Hindu. And loyally followed the Jazz since 1987-1988, aka, before


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How very fortunate that Gerald Schoenfeld, the late chairman of Broadway’s all-powerful Shubert Organization (which owns and programs 17 Broadway theaters) finished , his enjoyable, conversational memoir, just a month before suddenly passing away in 2008


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Deepa Mehta set to make Masterpiece!


Although currently occupied with finishing Midnight’s Children (MC), Deepa Mehta has announced her next film, titled Masterpiece. After MC — her adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s novel of the same name — hits theatres, she confirms she’ll move on to a film


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The 57th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards Ceremony Takes Place Tonight at Webster Hall

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OLLY SMITH: Popcorn? Pah! I'll have a wine...


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The secret of CSI's success

He was also at the Actors Studio in New York with Al Pacino, whom he counts as a friend. This is all before a dozen series of CBSs fine CSI: Crime Scene Investigation where he continues to play Captain Jim Brass with a wryness and irony which doesnt imme


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Val Kilmer has been looking for a part to give him a career resurrection, a role that would remind the world of his talent, a part only he could do justice. In The Fourth Dimension, the Top Gun star has finally found such a role: he plays Val Kilmer. Bef


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Fisher Stevens Plans American Pastoral


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The American Repertory Theater celebrated the life of David Wheeler with a memorial service Monday, and his friends and former colleagues fondly recalled the founder of the Theatre Company of Boston. Among those slated to appear were Paul Guilfoyle , who


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The only reason to see Dark Shadows is to discover how dire and pointless—how flat-out dreadful—a movie can be even when it has Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Helena Bonham Carter attached to its flimsy pretext. This is one more vampiric


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Our earlier post about Mitt Romney’s days at the elite Cranbrook Schools in Michigan has taken on new significance in light of a report about Romney’s tormenting another student. The Washington Post writes that Romney tackled a male classmate who was pre


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Obama supports gay marriage


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Say hello to my little friend: ‘Scarface’ actor Steve Bauer meets Marlins players


“I did a movie in New York City recently and I came back in time to come down here because I live in LA.” Actor Steven Bauer, best known for his role as Al Pacino’s sidekick Manny Ribera in the 1983 film Scarface, attended the Marlins’ game today at Petc


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Michelle Pfeiffer: What She Knows Now


Michelle Pfeiffer greets me with an air kiss and introduces her husband, TV writer-producer David E. Kelley (Ally McBeal, The Practice, Harry’s Law), at whose office in Burbank, Calif., we are meeting. Kelley—handsome, bemused—kisses his wife. “We won’t


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North East News: CITY BACKDROP FOR TV GANGSTER

Life on the wrong side of the law has proved lucrative for County Durham man Howard Linskey who has just had his debut novel about a Geordie gangster optioned for a television series. IAN ROBSON talked crime with him HOWARD Linskey is a man who knows cri


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A LIFE IN THE THEATRE: Estelle Parsons, a Four-Time Tony Nominee, Is Back on Broadway


She has also directed (those credits include Salome, with Al Pacino, on Broadway in 2003, and Shakespeare with Joseph Papp in the 1980s) and for five years was artistic director of the Actors Studio. Her other recent Broadway shows include August: Osage


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Out of town arts and entertainment events

Highlights of dozens of music, theater and dance performances in Hampton Roads through June 6. www.vafest.org, (757) 282-2822. Today: Lula Washington Dance Theatre, 3 p.m., Attucks Theatre, Norfolk, $30. Thursday: Andre-Michel Schub with Ani Kavafian and


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TV What to Watch: New 'Treasure Island' miniseries

The network promises a new spin on the Robert Louis Stevenson adventure classic. Comedian Eddie Izzard stars as Long John Silver and Elijah Wood and Donald Sutherland round out the cast of this story about ayoung man who is drawn into the world of piracy


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Sugar Shane Mosley's Last Stand or a New Beginning?

Shane Mosley never made it to 39-0 like his Saturday opponent, Saul Canelo Alvarez, who also has a draw on that otherwise spotless record. But when he entered the ring at Madison Square Gardens Theater to face Vernon Forrest in January of 2002, 38-0 was


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'The Avengers' proves Hollywood needs avenging

WASHINGTON - From the "X-Men" (200)" to "Spider-Man" (2002) to "The Dark Knight" (2008), 21st-century Hollywood has been all about the comic book superhero. And of all the efforts so far, "The Avengers" may be the most shrewd business scheme Hollywood ha


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Film Friday: 'The Godfather' Saga directed by Francis Ford Coppola

The Godfather and The Godfather Part II have become such cornerstones of cinema that it is almost impossible to know how film history and American culture would have developed without them. The films, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and adapted from Mar


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Library in the News: April Recap Edition

April seemed to be a picture-perfect month for the Library of Congress in the headlines. Its release of a rare collection of images by Frances Benjamin Johnston, one of the first female professional photographers, made it into several high-profile media


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The Hollywood Reporter's List of the 25 Top Drama Schools

"I look at the school, and anyone who tells you they don't is lying to you," says producer Todd Black, who helped cast the Meryl Streep film Hope Springs. "I'm gonna look much faster at a kid from a top school than from the University of Southern North D


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Sequel Bits: Michelle Rodriguez Returns For ‘Machete Kills,’ Vin Diesel Teases More ‘Riddick,’ Plus ‘Wrong Turn 5’, ‘Treasure Island 2′

There’s a lot of sequel casting and development to report today, and so after the break you’ll find: Michelle Rodriguez will return for Machete Kills and Fast and Furious 6 Vin Diesel is teasing further Riddick sequel news Steve Coogan is cast in Despica


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Scott Thorson, Liberace's Lover, Claims He Had Affair With Michael Jackson

Liberace's lover Scott Thorson has come forward with shocking claims he had an affair with Michael Jackson. As Entertainment Tonight is reporting , Thorson said he and Jackson had an intimate relationship in the early 1980s, shortly before the King of Po


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Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

World-renowned though he may be, Peter Greenaway's films are rarely screened on the local repertory circuit, which makes the New Beverly's double feature of The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover and The Belly of an Architect a very special occasio


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What women want


They are the objects of desire of three men — Parambrata Chattopadhyay, Rudranil Ghosh and Neel Mukhopadhyay — in Friday (May 4) release Teen Yaari Katha, directed by Sudeshna Roy and Abhijit Guha. If Gargi is Parambrata’s fantasy girl, Rudranil has a cr


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Geoff Cox’s DVD guide: War Horse, Four, Transit


Following the critically acclaimed stage production, Spielberg’s adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s 1982 novel is a showcase for the director’s sure sense of storytelling and trademark visual flourishes. This moving odyssey outlines the suffering of the Fi


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Casting Net: Michelle Rodriguez back for ‘Fast and Furious’ 6 and ‘Machete Kills.’ Plus: Pierce Brosnan, Steve Coogan, Sharlto Copley

Image Credit: Craig Barritt/Getty Images • It’s official: As teased in a post-credits scene of Fast Five , Michelle Rodriguez will reprise her role as Leticia “Letty” Ortiz in the sixth Fast and Furious film, to be directed by Justin Lin . The actress wi


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Casting Call: Malcolm McDowell Joins TBILISI, MY CITY; Steve Coogan Joins DESPICABLE ME 2; Kyle Gallner in BEAUTIFUL CREATURES and More


Lots of casting news to catch up on, so here it is in brief: Steve Coogan ( Tropic Thunder ) has been cast to voice a character in Despicable Me 2 , starring Steve Carell and Al Pacino . Malcolm McDowell ( The Artist ) will star in a vignette of Tbilisi,


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Casting: Wer, Kilimanjaro, Despicable, Marine


The story is set in Paris and follows an investigation of a gruesome slaying of a family. Sahay is a member of the defense team who learns their suspected client (O’Connor) is also a werewolf. The story centers on a man (Brian Geraghty) who is determined


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Despicable role for Steve Coogan

Steve Coogan has joined the cast of the Despicable Me sequel.The Alan Partridge star will voice a character in the eagerly anticipated follow-up to the 2010 animated comedy film, according to The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision blog.It has also been rev


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The Ruskin Theater Presents Two Short Plays Written And Performed By Clara Mamet

Melissa Curtin is the LA City Editor for Miss A. After teaching third grade for many years in an east coast public school and a LA private school, she tutors privately all over Los Angeles from Venice to Bel Air. Recently, she launched an educational T-s


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