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3 hrs ago | Guardian Unlimited

Film reignites literary debate over Alexandre Dumas's ghostwriter

He spent his life in the shadow of one of France's most celebrated authors and in death has become a mere footnote in literary history.

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8 hrs ago | KIMO

Hugo Weaving talks about his return as Elrond in 'The Hobbit'

One of the pleasures of participating in this weekend's press day for "The Wolfman" was finally chatting with Hugo Weaving, an actor whose work I've admired for many years.

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Related Topix: The Wolfman, J.R.R. Tolkien, Entertainment

12 hrs ago | The Austin American-Statesman

Sinatra, Martin to receive stars in Las Vegas

Las Vegas Walk of Stars spokesman Pablo Castro Zavala said stars for the crooners would be unveiled Feb.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Thriller, Crime Movies, Action Movies, Ocean's Eleven, Frank Sinatra, Jazz, Dean Martin, The Rat Pack, Music, Entertainment

16 hrs ago | Collider

Katherine Heigl Counts One for the Money

Katherine Heigl plus a best-selling book series plus a character who is a lingerie buyer/bounty hunter adds up to a very promising prospect for Columbia Pictures and Lakeshore Entertainment.A According to Variety , the Grey's Anatomy star is attached to play the role of Stephanie Plum in the adaptation of Janet Evanovich's One for the Money .A The ...

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Related Topix: Killers, The Ugly Truth, Katherine Heigl, Janet Evanovich

21 hrs ago | Piaw's Blog

Review: Juliet, Naked

I was telling Cynthia earlier today that Nick Hornby is the poet laureate of the Male Obsession Syndrome .

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Related Topix: Sport Movies, Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Short, Comedy Movies, Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby

Mon Feb 08, 2010

Peter Scott's Library Blog

British Library to offer 19th Century first editions for free download on Amazon Kindle

The British Library is to make more than 65,000 rare first editions of 19th Century fiction available for the public to download for free from the spring.

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Related Topix: Jane Austen

ContactMusic.com

Marilyn Monroe - Monroe Photos to Sell at Auction

Caption: Marilyn Monroe & Charlie Chaplin look-alikes Tom Bergeron playing celebrity twister on Hollywood celebrity handprints, footprints outside the Grauman's Chinese Theatre for a segment of 'America's Funniest Home Videos'. Tom is also the host for the ABC reality series 'Dancing with the Stars'. Los Angeles, California .... Never-before-seen ...

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Music!, Thriller, Crime Movies, Musical Movies, Marilyn Monroe, Comedy, America's Funniest Home Videos, Reality TV, Entertainment, Television, Hollywood (Los Angeles, CA), Los Angeles, CA

HendersonvilleNews.com

Free vs. Paid, Murdoch vs. Rusbridger

Welcome to the liveliest fight on Fleet Street. In the blue corner, we have Rupert Murdoch, chief executive of News Corp.

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Related Topix: Journalism, Harry Potter

Sun Feb 07, 2010

New York Times

Don DeLillo, a Writer by Accident Whose Course Is Deliberate

Don DeLillo , whose new novel, "Point Omega," came out on Tuesday, is not exactly a Pynchonesque recluse.

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Related Topix: Don Delillo, Psycho, Horror Movies, Thriller, Arts

Kildare Nationalist

Monroe-inspired shoes made of pans

Giant shoes inspired by the ones worn by Marilyn Monroe in the clip from The Seven Year Itch when she famously stood on an air vent go under the hammer later this week.

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Related Topix: The Seven Year Itch, Comedy Movies, Marilyn Monroe

HomeTownLife.com

Theater troupes stage murder thriller, interactive mystery

Audience members are likely to feel like they're on the party guest list when they take their seats at Barefoot Productions' upcoming production of Rope.

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Related Topix: Theater, Arts, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Thriller, Rope, Marketing, Alfred Hitchcock, Chicago, IL

Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter

Get comfy this winter with a 'cozy' book

Winter is the perfect time to get comfy with a cup of cocoa and work through the madness and tension of a whodunit.

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Related Topix: Agatha Christie, Theater, Arts

Philly.com

3-way sex-tape squabble

There may exist, on this planet, a sex tape featuring Jennifer Lopez and her ex-bf Sean "Diddy" Combs .

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Pop/Rock, Jennifer Lopez, J Lo, Bill O'reilly, Lost, Action TV, Entertainment, Drama, Television

Daily Mail

'Not in my country': Author's fury over 'war criminal' Tony Blair's...

Best-selling author Paulo Coelho has branded Tony Blair a 'war criminal' in a stinging attack on his appointment as an adviser to the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

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Related Topix: Paulo Coelho, South America, World News, Brazil, Metal, The Alchemist

Sat Feb 06, 2010

Martin County Hometown News

Author remembered 50 years after death

As Ariena B. Lee sat in the audience during a program at Sarah's Memorial Gardens on Jan.

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Related Topix: Zora Neale Hurston, Fort Pierce, FL, Anthropology, Science, African-American, St Lucie County, FL

Connecticut Post

Hannibal, Mo., gets ready to celebrate the Year of Mark Twain

The hubbub could be right out of a Mark Twain tale. Although researchers say the new paint job on the outside of Becky Thatcher 's house matches the original color, not all of the comments have been favorable.

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Related Topix: Hannibal, MO, Mark Twain

KESQ-TV Palm Desert

Annual Dickens Festival Held in Downtown Riverside

Downtown Riverside will be transformed into a Victorian-era London marketplace today and tomorrow for the 17th annual Dickens Festival, a tribute to the life and times of the famed author.

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Related Topix: Riverside, CA, Riverside (Riverside, CA), Charles Dickens, Highland, CA

New York Times

In Visit to Fox News, Jon Stewart Faults Fox News

Jon Stewart , who already had a reputation for lobbing word grenades at media personalities and outlets that displease him, this week delivered one of the most sustained criticisms of Fox News ever heard on Fox News.

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Related Topix: The Daily Show, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Jon Stewart, Bill O'reilly, The O'Reilly Factor

Lite Rock KISS 98.1

Alone - Heart

Sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson are the creative spark behind Heart, a hard rock group who initially found success in the mid-'70s, only to reach greater heights after engineering a major comeback a decade later.

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Related Topix: Nancy Wilson

Fri Feb 05, 2010

Telegraph.co.uk

US confirms Barack Obama will meet Dalai Lama

US President Barack Obama will meet the Dalai Lama in Washington later this month, US officials have confirmed, despite warnings from China that the meeting would further inflamed already strained diplomatic relations.

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Related Topix: Dalai Lama, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Hu Jintao

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