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NASCAR driver Clint Bowyer guest stars and season seven winner Tara Costa guest star on Tuesday night’s (NBC, 8 pm et/pt) installment of The Biggest Loser.  The remaining seven contestants are tasked with the past season challenge of pulling a car for a half mile (a feat which might be tougher than last week’s [...]


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Author Wayne Pacelle, the President/CEO of The Humane Society of the United States, sat down with Hollywoodoutbreak.com to talk about his new book, The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them (William Morrow, 423 pages). Covering a wide array of subjects (including Pacelle’s meeting with Michael Vick, the Humane Society’s work during [...]


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[caption id="attachment_53925" align="alignleft" width="461" caption="Sally Field just 44 years ago"][/caption]

While Daniel Day-Lewis will play the title role in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, Sally Field has agreed to play the 16th First Lady, Mary Todd Lincoln.

“I’m excited to be working with Sally for the first time,” Spielberg said. “I’ve admired her films, and she has [...]


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“My mother, while she was transforming herself into the country legend Naomi Judd, created an origin myth for the Judds that did not match my reality,” Ashley Judd writes in her new book All Things Bitter and Sweet: A Memoir, about mother Naomi.  I loved my [...]


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[caption id="attachment_53174" align="alignleft" width="138" caption="Us magazine.com"][/caption]

Lauren Conrad, whose debut teen novel, L.A. Candy, hit #1 on a New York Times bestseller list, just landed another three-book deal with HarperCollins, she tells UsMagazine.com exclusively.

Called The Fame Game, the Hills alum’s upcoming trilogy is set in the reality TV universe, and features Madison Parker, an [...]


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Movies on DVD

TRON: Legacy is the sequel to the wildly popular 1982 movie TRON, with Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner reprising their roles. This time the son (Garrett Hedlund) of the virtual world designer (Bridges) goes hunting for his father and winds up in the virtual world that his dad created. Naturally, the fight [...]


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He’s played a cyborg, a sheriff, clairvoyant and even a bloodthirsty vampire with ease - and that’s just scratching the surface of Lance Henriksen’s acting gigs over the last nearly five decades in showbiz.

Now Henriksen’s life and career are about to be detailed in his upcoming autobiography entitled Not Bad for a Human.

The [...]


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The Walking Dead was a huge hit for AMC. They probably didn’t even realize how popular the zombie series would be. And though, the channel has been running marathons in the last week or so, The Walking Dead Season One DVD has extras that are must-haves for any horror fan out there, according to series [...]


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ACADEMY IS FUNDING FILM BOOK PROJECTS

In: BREAKING NEWS, Books, GENERAL, MOVIE NEWS

[caption id="attachment_50856" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="Gloria Swanson in 1921"][/caption]

The life and career of silent film star Gloria Swanson and camera movement in classic Hollywood cinema will be the topics explored by Cari Beauchamp and Patrick Keating, respectively, who have been named Academy Film Scholars by the Academy of Motion [...]


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[caption id="attachment_50565" align="alignleft" width="322" caption="Shania Twain "From This Moment On" book cover courtesy Arita Books (Simon & Schuster) and Sandbox Entertainment."][/caption]

International superstar Shania Twain’s highly anticipated autobiography will be out on May 3.  The book will be published by Atria Books, an imprint of Simon and Schuster, and has been entitled From This Moment [...]


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