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question of the day: Did you know that the Facebook movie ‘The Social Network’ is fiction?

Wed, Sep 22, 2010
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I haven’t read extensively about the film, but I did assume that it would be at least loosely based on the reality of how Facebook came into existence. I think that’s not an unfair assumption. Am I wrong?

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question of the day: What would a new Bill & Ted movie look like?

Tue, Sep 21, 2010
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You must see Keanu Reeves’ impersonation of Werner Herzog explaining why he’d make a movie about Bill & Ted…

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question of the day: Is network television dead?

Mon, Sep 20, 2010
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I feel like we’ve been having this same conversation every September for the last few years, but each year it does seem more urgent…

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question of the weekend: Why are there no male muses?

Sat, Sep 18, 2010
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The notion of women inspiring men to make art seems ‘normal,’ but the converse — men inspiring women to make art — is just about unheard of…

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question of the day: On October 30, will you attend Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity or Stephen Colbert’s March to Keep Fear Alive?

Fri, Sep 17, 2010
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As Colbert often says, We’re at war: pick a side. I hope the DC police are ready for this.

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question of the day: Can Roger Ebert’s new ‘At the Movies’ survive in the current TV environment?

Thu, Sep 16, 2010
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Roger Ebert announced earlier this week that he will be producing a new version of At the Movies, the PBS and later syndicated film criticism series he and Gene Siskel pioneered in the 1970s…

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question of the day: Why do I smell such an ominous vibe coming off NBC’s ‘The Event’?

Wed, Sep 15, 2010
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All I can think about is M. Night Shyamalan’s risible The Happening, and poor Alan Ruck having to deliver one of the most awful lines of dialogue in the history of movies: ‘There appears to be an event occurring.’

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question of the day: Is atheism standing in the way of an Emmy for Bill Maher?

Tue, Sep 14, 2010
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Bill Maher is now the losingest Emmy nominee ever. Is there a nefarious reason why?

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question of the day: What actresses should play Shakespeare’s great male characters?

Mon, Sep 13, 2010
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Woo-hoo! Helen Mirren is going to play Prospero — the wizard has been redubbed Prospera — for a new film adaptation of The Tempest from director Julie Taymor…

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question of the weekend: Where are our heroes?

Sat, Sep 11, 2010
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It seems like the only public ‘heroes’ we have these days are celebrities and athletes. Where are the people doing truly significant things?

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