Archive | Arts & Entertainment
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‘Office’ star John Krasinski shares jokes, anecdotes
A crowd of star-crazed fans filled an auditorium at Brown U. last night to see 2001 Brown alum John Krasinski crack jokes and tell personal stories in an informal hour-long question-and-answer session.
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Movie review: ‘J. Edgar’
J. Edgar Hoover, the man who ran the FBI for almost 50 years, was in some ways the closest the United States has ever been to having an unelected dictator.
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Album review: Gym Class Heroes’ ‘Papercut Chronicles’ sequel bleeds mediocrity
"The Papercut Chronicles II," the newest release from Gym Class Heroes, doesn't have a slew defining tracks — nothing like "The Queen and I" or "Cupid's Chokehold" — but actually presents a more aggressive Travie McCoy with the same teenybopper sensibility.
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Brad Pitt to retire in three years
In an interview for Australian show 60 Minutes, Brad Pitt stated that he would like to act for another three years, when he turns 50. When pressed on the matter, the actor said that he was enjoying his role as a producer and saw his future as being behind the camera.
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Ashton Kutcher disables Twitter after Joe Paterno tweet
Actor Ashton Kutcher released Wednesday that he would take a leave of absence from Twitter due to a tweet he sent about Penn State firing head football coach Joe Paterno. Kutcher tweeted, “[sic] How do you fire Jo Pa? #insult #noclass as a hawkeye fan I find it in poor taste.
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Editorial: Overexposed
Michelle Duggar of the popular TLC reality television show “19 Kids and Counting” just announced yesterday that she is pregnant with her 20th child at 45-years-old.
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Column: Why Kim and Kris matter
Life somehow has gone on only a week after the Kim and Kris kibosh: Reality television socialite Kardashian filed for a divorce from occasional NBA game participant Humphries last week.
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Book review: Chomsky on 9/11
9-11: Was There an Alternative? Noam Chomsky 176 pp. Seven Stories Press. $13.95. Following 9/11, few people questioned whether the American government was right to invade Afghanistan, and certainly did not blame the American government for the attacks on the World Trade Center.
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Book review: Isaacson paints complex portrait of Jobs’ genius
The story of a person’s life is more about that person’s place in the grand narrative of history than a simple timeline of the events in their life.