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FOX News Struggles to Define "Rock"
Fox News's Roger Friedman has called for a boycott of Rolling Stone. The magazine's publisher, Jann Wenner, is also the founder of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and it seems Friedman is a little...
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Meeting of the Mindless
The Republican Party is so bankrupt of new ideas that they've taken to co-opting every criticism that was launched at the Bush administration for eight long years and lobbed them right back at Barack...
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Links for the Day: Classic Campaign Ads, Freeman's Voice Stolen, What Obama...
Hipsters can watch classic campaign ads and a political documentary in Williamsburg tonight. GOP candidate B.J. Lawson, who is running against Democratic incumbent Rep. David Price in North Carolina's...
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Links for the Day: Best Books of 2010, Bogdanovich Remembers Edwards, Film...
Christmas is here, meaning many of us will be stuck in airports across the country with nothing to read. Rather than pick out something by Stieg Larson from the nearest bookrack, let these fine lists...
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Links for the Day: Slant Picks Best Singles of the '90s, DGA and ASC...
Is it fair to say that many of us attach no actual "nostalgia," in the strictest sense of the word, to the singles of the 1990s? The Directors Guild of America has announced their nominees for...
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Links for the Day: Vulture Critics Poll, Lubezki on The Tree of Life, M.I.A....
Guess what film tops the Vulture Critics Poll this year? "It's very hard to talk about this movie because almost anything I say will reduce it and make it seem prosaic and simplistic," says a cagey...
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Links for the Day: Jackie Cooper R.I.P., Fake Osama Photo, New Tree of Life...
First child star of the "talkie" era Jackie Cooper dies at 88. Irony lost on senators passing around fake photo of bin Laden body and telling media there's no need to release it because it's...
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Links for the Day: Madonna Reportedly Takes the Field, DOC NYC Lineup, Tom...
Madonna to perform during the Super Bowl XLVI halftime show? Wardrobe malfunction to be confirmed. On the topic of football, ESPN has pulled Hank Williams Jr.'s intro from their Monday Night Football...
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Links for the Day: New Book Details Steve Jobs's Treatment, Adam Levine vs....
A new biography on Steve Jobs discusses how, in his final years, the Apple CEO switched from exotic remedies to cutting edge treatments, including ultra-exclusive DNA sequencing that Jobs's doctors...
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UC Davis: A Lesson in Civil Disobedience
By now you've seen the video and heard the outrage: A group of student demonstrators at the University of California Davis supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement and protesting violent police...
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Links for the Day: Marilyn Monroe Is Cannes Icon, Mitt Romney's Big Night,...
Marilyn Monroe is selected as the icon of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. New Google privacy policy may violate European law. Mitt Romney has a big night, but so does Barack Obama. Once film-focused,...
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Links for the Day: What Makes Mad Men Great, Kim Novak Explains Artist Rape...
Matt Zoller Seitz asks, "What makes Mad Men great?" Björk has released a video for "Hollow." Stephin Merrit of the Magnetic Fields dishes about his new album, gay rights, and Catholicism. Kim Novak...
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Links for the Day: The Simpsons Town Inspiration Revealed, Bill Maher...
After 25 years, The Simpsons creator Matt Groening has finally revealed his real-life inspiration for the town of Springfield. D'oh! How Bill Maher managed to occupy an important place in the national...
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Links for the Day: The Consequences of Digital, George Zimmerman Charged, Joe...
The Consequences of going digital are vast and troubling. George Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder. Joe Eszterhas accuses Mel Gibson of antisemitism in a letter. Axl Rose also writes a...
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Links for the Day: Una Noche Actors Defect, IMAX Strikes Back, Deep Red's...
Oddly, it surprised the makers of Una Noche that two of the film's stars would use the chance to come to the United States for the Tribeca Film Festival as an opportunity to defect from Cuba. IMAX...
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Links for the Day: Rikers Violence: Out of Control, Obama Raises $15 Million,...
The Voice has obtained extremely disturbing images from New York City's jail system. Matt Zoller Seitz asks, "Was season eight of The Office a total disaster?" Stuart Varney does nada to correct false...
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Links for the Day: Agnès Varda's Working Memory, George Lucas Reaffirms...
For n+1, Jeanette Samyn on Agnès Varda's working memory. George Lucas retiring to make "hobby movies." Kaneto Shindō dies at 100. Family Guy asks for the Emmy consideration of "bloated, overprivileged...
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Links for the Day: 2012 Emmy Nominations, Grum R.I.P., Bret Easton Ellis vs....
The Emmy nominations were announced this morning. Click here for the full list. Huge spam botnet Grum is taken out by security researchers. Bret Easton Ellis versus Nikki Finke. In a moment of sanity,...
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Links for the Day: Sight & Sound Directors Poll Results, Videodrome Remake...
Sight & Sound reveals the directors' picks for the greatest films of all time. Ignatiy Vishnevetsky on Tony Scott's smearing of the senses. Why one network applies so much makeup. Book on Osama...
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Links for the Day: Barack Obama Makes Case, VMA Winners, Jennifer Egan on...
Barack Obama makes case for second term. Only six awards were announced at the VMAs last night. Click here to find out who else won. D.T. Max writes about the juvenilia he drew on in writing his David...
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Links for the Day: More Mitt Romney Video, Fincher's Lost Classic, Adele to...
Mother Jones exposes more of Mitt Romney's unfiltered opinions. David Fincher's lost classic? We agree. The year's most significant movie? Philip Seymour Hoffman to direct period ghost tale Ezekiel...
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Links for the Day: Where Cuba Is Going, Tom Cruise vs. Scientology Backlash,...
Where is Cuba going? How Tom Cruise plans to fight Scientology backlash. bell hooks does not love Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild. Charles McGrath interviews Salman Rushdie. Roman Polanski...
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Links for the Day: Emmy Predictions, How Not to Write Comics Criticism, NYPD...
See who the experts think will rule on Sunday on the Emmy stage. Daniel Mendelsohn explains how his life would be different if boys were kissing boys on screen 40 years ago—like they are today. Joke...
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Links for the Day: Independent Spirit Awards Nominees, Adele's 21 Sells 10...
The nominees for this year's Independent Spirit Awards have been announced. Adele sells 10 million copies of 21. Meanwhile, Rhianna scores her first number-one album. Paul Feig selects his favorite...
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Links for the Day: SAG Nominations, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees,...
Dominating today's SAG nominations are Lincoln, Argo, and Silver Linings Playbook. And none of those films lead the 44th annual NAACP Image awards. Donna Summer, Public Enemy, and others to be...
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