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Entertainment Weekly

Doctor Who thing of the day: Grover and Cookie Monster sing Doctor Who!

Tue, Oct 02, 2012
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The Sesame Street stars visited the offices of Entertainment Weekly recently, and regaled the staff with their musical interpretations of some pop-culture phenomena…

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we now have the plot for Indiana Jones 5 (and other adventures in social networking)

Fri, Sep 28, 2012
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Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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Doctor Who thing of the day: the Doctor makes the cover of Entertainment Weekly

Fri, Jul 27, 2012
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I’m funny this way, but I think a publication like EW should be at least slightly ahead of the curve, not years behind it.

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a U.S.-only Avengers postcredits tag scene (and other adventures in social networking)

Thu, May 03, 2012
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What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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church of awesome: ‘EW’ and Cake Wrecks worship ‘The Princess Bride’

Sun, Oct 16, 2011
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Nobody doesn’t love The Princess Bride, especially when the mutton is nice and lean and the tomatoes are so perky…

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question of the day: What is the greatest opening for a movie ever?

Tue, Jul 12, 2011
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Entertainment Weekly has just posted its picks for “30 Classic Opening Movie Scenes” — and a few of them would rank among my favorite opening scenes ever…

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first look at Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins in ‘The Hobbit’

Fri, Jun 24, 2011
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Freeman looks even more wonderfully hobbity than I could have imagined…

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take a look back at the last royal wedding

Fri, Apr 29, 2011
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A shameless plug for a new book by my photographer uncle on the national party surrounding the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Di…

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question of the day: Is it really such a bad thing if an actor plays the same character — or his/herself — over and over again?

Tue, Aug 24, 2010
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I like the Tom Hanks persona. I like the Will Smith persona. I like the Kristin Chenoweth persona. Helen Mirren could just stand around being Helen Mirren and I would love her for it. Is that so wrong?

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fair warning: ‘Expendables’ sequel all but inevitable

Mon, Aug 16, 2010
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Sylvester Stallone: writer, director, *auteur*…

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