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Universal Pictures has got to be praying that Repo Men isn’t the box office poison that Green Zone and The Wolf Man were. The story is set in the future where human replacement parts are easily obtainable…unless you default on the payments for the services. In which case, be it a kidney, liver, eye or [...]


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Moviegoers leaped right back down into the rabbit hole for the second week in a row. Filmmaker Tim Burton’s updated revisiting of Alice In Wonderland, starring Johnny Depp, grabbed the top slot bringing in a huge $62 million over the weekend. That’s down 42.6 percent from its debut of $116,101,023, but with mega box office [...]


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Stephen J. Cannell is the brains behind the hit TV shows, The A-Team, 21 Jump Street and The Rockford Files to name just three. But, he’s also a successful author as well.

The producer has penned an average of a novel a year – and now he’s upping the ante.

Cannell has been asked to [...]


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[caption id="attachment_26443" align="alignleft" width="342" caption="Photo credit: Greg Gorman"][/caption]
Stop relying on stylists, says jet-setting author, Jackie Collins. The novelist is flat-out tired of seeing the stars dolled up for the award shows, dripping with jewels and wearing gowns that aren’t theirs and never will be.

Collins would like to see individuality on that red carpet this year [...]


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For her very first novel Wench, Dr. Dolen Perkins-Valdez takes a real setting to weave together a story of slavery from a new perspective. Wench was inspired by a historical biography on civil rights activist, W.E.B. Du Bois entitled Biography of a Race (David Levering Lewis). A casual mention of Wilberforce University in that book, [...]


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Former James Bond star Pierce Brosnan is receiving his best notices in years thanks to director Roman Polanski’s first rate thriller The Ghost Writer.  In the film, Brosnan plays a disgraced former British prime minister living in America after being accused of war crimes across the pond.  Ewan McGregor is the ghost writer hired to [...]


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[caption id="attachment_26334" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="Jackie Collins latest potboiler is "Poor Little Bitch Girl." Photo credit: Greg Gorman."][/caption]
The newest Jackie Collins novel, Poor Little Bitch Girl is all the sex, sizzle and intrigue expected from the famed author, but she has made some changes her readers will be surprised by.

Some of the story is told in [...]


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Leonardo DiCaprio is turning into a good luck charm for Director Martin Scorsese. The actor and filmmaker have work together on four movies, including their latest flick, Shutter Island.

After the success of their other three films, Gangs of New York, The Aviator and Oscar winner The Departed, Scorsese knew his star could handle all the [...]


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Given a choice, Twilight star, Kristen Stewart, who plays the lovesick Bela Swan in the saga, would prefer the fourth installment in the successful flicks actually be number four and five.

Twilight: Breaking Dawn is so full that it needs the split in two to cover all the intricacies that fans expect from the romantic [...]


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Lost your Mojo? Never had it? Does Marshall Goldsmith have a book for you. His new book Mojo is a how-to guide to taking control of your life…happiness…and frustrations.

Just a few tips…forget about changing others, concentrate on yourself.

Happy homes make for a better workplace.

Stop complaining.

Goldsmith claims Mojo is a sure-fire method [...]


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