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Eva Longoria graduates with master's degree in Chicano studies

37 Votes Comment  Eva Longoria is backing up her beauty with a whole lot of brain. The actress graduated with a master's degree Wednesday.
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Do You Have to Quit Your Job to Change the World?

13 Votes Comment  If you want to change the world, and feel deeply fulfilled about doing it, you might think you need to give up your well-paid job and take another one at a charity or an NGO. That's not true.
blogs.wsj.com |  1h ago 
 

Naomi Watts Diana Picked Up For U.S. By Entertainment One

36 Votes Comment  Entertainment One has acquired U.S. rights to Diana, the Princess Diana movie starring Naomi Watts, from Embankment Films and Ecosse Films. eOne said it will release Diana late this year. It also p...
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'Fast & Furious 6': The cars cost millions, hundreds got crushed

16 Votes Comment  Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez and Gina Carano are billed as the stars of "Fast & Furious 6," opening Friday. But it only takes a few scenes of the latest installment o...
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Twitter Targets Firepower on TV Tie

37 Votes Comment  Twitter is deep in the throes of a love affair with TV advertising, launching a program to let marketers tweet ads to TV viewers and inking ad deals with 16 media partners, including A+E Networks, ...
variety.com |  2h ago 
 

Review: AMC's new reality series 'Showville' should be better than it is

25 Votes Comment  On paper, AMC's new reality show is fabulous. Each week for eight weeks, "Showville," which is set to premiere Thursday night at 9 p.m., will take us to a small town where talent coaches Alec Mapa ...
www.latimes.com |  2h ago 
 

Carole King honored with Gershwin Prize

17 Votes Comment  Carole King has amassed some impressive accolades in her storied five-decade career. Now she can add the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song to her mantle.
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'Behind the Candelabra' is must-see; 'Arrested Development'? We'll see

7 Votes Comment  Each week Times TV critic Mary McNamara offers her viewingpicks for the coming week:
www.latimes.com |  2h ago 
 

Hamptons Fest Sets Twenty Feet to Kick Off SummerDocs

27 Votes Comment  The Hamptons Intl. Film Fest has wrangled Morgan Nevilles Twenty Feet from Stardom to kick off its fifth-annual four-part SummerDocs series starting June 15. The summer series presents East End aud...
variety.com |  3h ago 
 

Modern Family, Criminal Minds Win As Season Wraps

21 Votes Comment  ABCs Modern Family emerged the leader in key demos on Wednesday, the final night of the television season, while a two-hour Criminal Minds performed well for CBS and won its timeslot. Despite facin...
variety.com |  3h ago 
 

'Epic' Movie Role For Music Superstar Pitbull

21 Votes Comment  Cuban-American musician Pitbull has collaborated with top artists and sold millions of albums worldwide. The Los Angeles Times has even called him "America's savviest party-starter." Now Pitbull br...
www.npr.org |  3h ago 
 

VOTD: Return of the Jedi 30th Anniversary Documentary by Kyle Newman

12 Votes Comment  Thirty years ago this Saturday, the Star Wars trilogy came to an end. Return of the Jedi hit theaters May 25, 1983 with the kind of hype and anticipation thats become almost standard for big movies...
www.slashfilm.com |  2h ago 
 

New Plot Details Indicate Poltergeist Remake Is Actually a Sequel

12 Votes Comment  The distinctions between reboot, remake, and sequel arent always clear. Its possible for a film to serve as one of those things while technically being categorized as another, or even to fit all th...
www.slashfilm.com |  2h ago 
 

Nashville Season Finale Review: Funerals, Proposals, Car Accidents, Oh My?

10 Votes Comment  "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive" did a fine job of pushing the right stories forward while still producing some admittedly goofy cliffhangers.
www.tv.com |  3h ago 
 

Scott Thorson: How Liberace Protected His 'Big Secret' in the Homophobic '50s

26 Votes Comment  The '50s, like the decades leading up to them, were an intensely homophobic period. Muscle cars and macho men were the order of the day. Although Lee knew that many of Hollywood's most famous and d...
www.thewrap.com |  2h ago 
 

'S.W.A.T.' Star Steve Forrest Dies at 87

11 Votes Comment  Steve Forrest, an actor best known for his role as Lt. Dan 'Hondo' Harrelson on ABC's "S.W.A.T.," died in Thousand Oaks, Calif., on Saturday. He was 87.A cause of death was not made available, but ...
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Time Warner Cable Customers Face Blackouts in 14 Markets Over Retrans Dispute

8 Votes Comment  Time Warner Cable has until May 31 to renegotiate a retransmission-consent deal, or LIN Television will pull its local broadcast stations in 14 markets. The current arrangement expires at 5 p.m. ET...
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What the Critics Are Saying About Alexander Payne's 'Nebraska': An Oscar Contender?

29 Votes Comment  After a sun dappled excursion to Hawaii with his most recent family drama "The Descendants," Alexander Payne returns to his native Midwest in the aptly named "Nebraska," which debuted Thursday at t...
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Cannes Review: In 'Nebraska,' Alexander Payne Paints an American Life

6 Votes Comment  "Nebraska" is a name that stands alone. It's the name of one of Bruce Springsteen's best albums, and it's now the name of one of Alexander Payne's best films.Across the wide, bleak expanse of his "...
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Vin Diesel Talks Marijuana, Steroids and Facebook in Bizarre 'Tonight Show' Interview (Video)

26 Votes Comment  Vin Diesel's still got it, at least according to the women in Jay Leno's audience. Oh, and Leno himself, who swooned over Diesel's cover photo on this month's Men's Fitness magazine. Leno comically...
www.thewrap.com |  3h ago