'Brooklyn's Finest: Training Day' in Overdrive
Antoine Fuqua’s new film could have been a great TV series. Instead it’s a movie with too many balls in the air
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Gaza: A Cartoon History
Joe Sacco’s Footnotes offers a unique take on the traumas, past and present, of the embattled Palestinian enclave
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Box Office Report: Alice's Wonderful Weekend
On a weekend when all movie eyes are peeled for tonight’s Oscar ceremony, Disney’s Alice in Wonderland demolished early-year records with a $116.3 million opening for three days at North American theaters
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Final countdown: One more day until the Oscars (AP)
AP – One. More. Day.
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Mo'Nique, Harrelson win supporting Spirit honors (AP)
AP – Mo’Nique won the supporting-actress honor Friday at the Spirit Awards honoring independent film for the Harlem drama “Precious,” while Woody Harrelson earned the supporting-actor trophy for the war-on-terror story “The Messenger.”
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Predictability out of the picture at Oscars (AP)
AP – Too predictable. That’s the persistent complaint about the Academy Awards, whose drama generally is sapped by a glut of earlier award shows that spell out what films will win at the Oscars before the show starts.
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"Alice in Wonderland" opens strongly at box office (Reuters)
Reuters – “Alice in Wonderland” set a new record for a March release at the weekend box office in North America, earning an estimated $41 million on its opening day, distributor Walt Disney Co said on Saturday.
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Met premieres Shostakovich's absurdist 'The Nose' (AP)
AP – Dmitri Shostakovich composed his first opera, “The Nose,” more than 80 years ago and based it on a short story written nearly a century before that.
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Stars dressed down, shining bright at rehearsals (AP)
AP – Robert Downey, Jr. Charlize Theron. Kathy Bates. John Travolta. Tina Fey. Matt Damon. Jake Gyllenhaal. Kate Winslet. Penelope Cruz. Tom Hanks. Jennifer Lopez. Robin Williams. Zoe Saldana. Sarah Jessica Parker.
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Midnight deadline looms in Cablevision-ABC feud (AP)
AP – With a midnight deadline looming on a threat to pull the plug on Cablevision’s 3.1 million customers in New York a day before the Academy Awards, there was still no word Saturday night on whether ABC’s parent company and the cable operator have reached a decision.
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'Transformers,' Bullock make Razzies worst list (AP)
AP – “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” was picked as last year’s worst picture at Saturday’s Razzies, and Sandra Bullock won worst actress for “All About Steve” — on the eve of her expected Academy Awards triumph for another film.
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Food Inc. Director Robert Kenner
In his Oscar-nominated film, Robert Kenner takes on the entire food industry to demonstrate how a handful of corporations often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer and the safety of workers and our environment
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Rachael Ray in Praise of Burgers and Our Culinary Tastes
Every year Rachael Ray hosts a Burger Bash at the South Beach and New York Wine and Food Festivals. We caught up with Rachael at the event to ask her a few questions about hamburgers, American tastes, and how things have changed under her watch
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'Yellow Handkerchief' Review: Kristen Stewart Road Trip
Director Udayan Prasad’s movie The Yellow Handkerchief, starring William Hurt and Kristen Stewart, overcomes implausibility of action to suck you into its peculiar mood
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'Shutter Island' Beats 'Cop Out' at Weekend Box Office
At the weekend box office, Martin Scorsese’s you-dunit Shutter Island claimed $22.2 million, easily besting the Bruce Willis-Tracy Morgan police-buddy comedy Cop Out
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Sarah Palin loads up on free stuff at gift suite (AP)
AP – Sarah Palin showed up at a celebrity gift suite with two daughters, her brother and a small entourage in tow and loaded up with free promotional cosmetic and fashion items being given away in connection with Oscar-week festivities.
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Video of kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard to air on ABC (AP)
AP – ABC says it will air home video Friday of kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard, who was rescued last August after 18 years in captivity.
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HBO plans TV movie on 2008 financial meltdown (Reuters)
Reuters – HBO plans to make a television movie about the 2008 financial meltdown, based on the book “Too Big to Fail” by a New York Times journalist, the cable network said on Thursday.
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Sharon Wauchob: Artily Minimalist Rockers (Fashion Wire Daily)
Fashion Wire Daily – What a difference a night job makes, as you could see from the packed audience in Paris on Thursday, March 4, for the latest collection by Sharon Wauchob.
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Sarah Palin pitching TV show about Alaska (AP)
AP – Producer Mark Burnett said Thursday he is pitching a series to television networks that would be about Alaska seen through the eyes of its most famous resident, Sarah Palin.
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