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If you're not ready to see Up a lot of times, you'd better not buy the rather fantastic home video version. ( Walt Disney Pictures )
by Linda Holmes
When I got my copy of the Blu-ray combo pack that includes Up on Blu-ray and on DVD -- and includes a digital copy for your ...
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by Linda Holmes
This week in What We're Reading , we return to popular fiction, check out some short stories, and run with the space nerds.
If you're traveling this holiday season, you're likely to spot a few copies of Michael Crichton's final completed novel, Pirate ...
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Kelly Osbourne, along with singer Mya and Donny Osmond, is among the final three on tonight's finale of Dancing With The Stars . ( Adam Larkey / ABC )
by Linda Holmes
The best reason to watch Dancing With The Stars is that every now and then, something profoundly bizarre ...
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Dancing With The Stars
by Linda Holmes
If you missed The Big Bang Theory last night, then you didn't see Sheldon's appearance on Science Friday , where he discussed magnetic monopoles as part of a scheme to boost ratings.
Perhaps this clip will help clarify. It's always a hoot to see a good show like ...
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The Big Bang Theory
by Linda Holmes
Last night marked one of my holiday-season milestones: I saw the Hershey Kisses handbells commercial for the first time this year. As I mentioned last year , it is my favorite.
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And while I officially disapprove of holiday advertising ...
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by Linda Holmes
• Hey, if you're taking the opportunity this Thanksgiving to get up a game of golf (hey, it could happen), don't try the Happy Gilmore shot . You could wind up in legal trouble.
• What show on television has the highest ...
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Morning Glory
by Linda Holmes
In about the last two minutes of this 60 Minutes episode that aired last night, Andy Rooney does his favorite thing, which is to tell you for two minutes that you are doing everything wrong.
Thanksgiving, he explains, is about family and togetherness and the things ...
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by Linda Holmes
Love him or hate him, one thing Adam Lambert never was on American Idol was off-pitch. His singing style may not have been everyone's thing, but he tended to be technically on target. Not so last night at the American Music Awards, which is why it's a fortunate thing ...
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Adam Lambert
by Linda Holmes
I love a nice surprise.
The title Dear Old Love: Anonymous Notes To Former Crushes, Sweethearts, Husbands, Wives & Ones That Got Away sounds like it can only refer to a maudlin collection of drippy love letters and hand-wringing and boo-hooing. I almost ...
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by Linda Holmes
This weekend, New Moon made over $140 million . That's the third-biggest opening weekend ever behind The Dark Knight and Spider-Man 3 . It helped create the second-biggest box-office weekend of all time. It's the biggest opening weekend ...
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New Moon
The Dark Knight
Spider-Man 3
Twilight
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
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by Linda Holmes
• TLC has decided to soothe the homesickness of Minnesotans everywhere with Mall Cops: Mall Of America , a new show about security at the sprawling Bloomington, Minnesota complex. Having once lived about a quarter-mile from the MOA, ...
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Morning Glory
Sandra Bullock
Twilight
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by Rob Sachs
By any measure, this weekend's showings of The Twilight Saga: New Moon are already a big event . Fans all over have packed movie houses and camped out to be first in line to see the second installment in the bloodsucking series. In fact, online ...
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New Moon
by Linda Holmes
Let's suppose you are an actor. You can do comedy; you can do drama. You have been talked up for an Oscar, though not nominated for one. In the next year, you intend to play Allen Ginsberg, as well as show up in a comedy with Tina Fey and Steve Carell. Oh, and you are ...
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James Franco
Lost is coming back, and then it will be time to say goodbye. ( ABC )
by Linda Holmes
ABC announced yesterday that Lost will begin its final season on February 2, and will air weekly at 9:00 on Tuesdays. Many expect that V will eventually get the 10 p.m. slot on that same night, ...
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Dancing With The Stars
American Idol
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart bring their vampy stuff back to the big screen in ... well, you know. ( Summit Entertainment )
by Linda Holmes
This week's theater offerings, money-wise, are likely to be dominated by a certain semi-dead romantic leading man, but there are ...
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Nicolas Cage
Robert Pattinson
Kristen Stewart
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by Linda Holmes
• Mike White not only wrote School Of Rock , but he was an extremely likable contestant on The Amazing Race (with his dad, Mel). Now, to that eclectic resume, he adds a film version of a great story that aired on This American Life ...
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Morning Glory
Oprah Winfrey's show goes off the air in two years. The question now is whether we will all last that long. ( Jason Merritt/Getty Images )
by Linda Holmes
I can't tell you whether Oprah Winfrey will have a show on her new cable network, OWN, after she shuts down her existing ...
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Oprah Winfrey
Project Runway 's sixth season has been one big snooze. ( Lifetime )
by Linda Holmes
Fans of reality-competition shows tend to disagree a lot about which seasons are good and which are bad. This season of Project Runway is an exception: I don't know a single person who's enjoyed ...
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Project Runway
by Linda Holmes
I had the pleasure of co-hosting the podcast this week with movie critic Bob Mondello . We listened to Bob's review of the apocalyptic blockbuster 2012 and talked a little about blowing things up.
After that, it was on to Wes Anderson's The Fantastic Mr. Fox , ...
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Wes Anderson
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Ugly Betty
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by Linda Holmes
• Good news? Bad news? Who knows? Aaron Sorkin is returning to the world of television set behind the scenes of television . Could be another Sports Night . (Yaaaay!) Could be another Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip . (Boooo.)
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