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'Game of Thrones' Season 2: Take the quiz
'Game of Thrones' returns for its third season March 31. In the meantime, test your knowledge of the show's second season.
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Fake identities: Manti Te'o scandal and 6 other Internet hoaxes
Believe it or not, the Manti Te'o scandal is not the first online identity hoax, nor the longest-standing. Here's a look at some of the biggest scams to surface on the Internet, from the lives and deaths of fictitious characters to the downfall of their makers.
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Bram Stoker books: 9 things you didn't know about the 'Dracula' author
Bram Stoker is the godfather of the vampire craze, but the writer is often a mystery to modern readers. Here are 9 facts you probably don't know about the author.
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15 highest-paid authors of 2012
Here's the annual Forbes ranking of the 15 top-grossing authors in the book industry. Can you guess who's No. 1?
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Game of Thrones: 12 burning questions as Season Two ends
Here are the top 12 questions I'm left with after watching last night's season finale of Season Two of "Game of Thrones."
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Canadian TV producers: We don't really hate America
US diplomatic cables suggested Canadian TV seeks to “twist current events to feed long-standing negative images of the US." Not really, say Canadian producers and officials.
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Netflix changes the game again
Netflix has a history of surprising the industry. After progressing from red envelopes in the mailbox to streaming movies, Netflix may become a premiere network like HBO and Showtime.
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Top Picks: Oprah's latest shows, 'Camelot', a way to avoid Charlie Sheen, and more
Two new television shows on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), a creative retelling of 'Camelot', a web plugin that blocks all references to Charlie Sheen, and more recommendations.
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Netflix announces first exclusive TV series deal
Netflix will be the only place to watch 'the most sought after premium series.' Competing more directly than ever with pay TV channels like HBO, Netflix is flexing its muscles with the new 26 episode deal.
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Netflix: The next HBO?
Netflix reportedly wants first rights to House of Cards, a new television program starring Kevin Spacey.
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Julianne Moore set to play Sarah Palin in HBO film
Julianne Moore will star in the film 'Game Change,' which follows John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign from when he chose Palin as his running mate through their defeat in the general election.
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"A Dance with Dragons" will finally appear – George R.R. Martin fans rejoice!
After waiting impatiently for six years, George R.R. Martin fans will finally be rewarded with the appearance of "A Dance with Dragons," Book No. 5 in the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series.
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The Oscars 2011: How real are the reality-based Best Picture nominees?
Oscar has always loved films based on true stories – 100 out of 485 Best Picture nominees since 1927 would qualify – but never more than this year. Four of the 10 features on the Best Picture slate are based on real characters and events: “The King’s Speech,” “The Fighter,” “The Social Network,” and “127 Hours.” Eavesdrop on departing moviegoers and you will inevitably hear, “I’d love to know what really happened.” Here are some facts behind the “true-life” stories contending for this year’s Best Picture Academy Award.
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Oscar swag to fill your designer bag. And is that Brad Pitt??
Designer stuff is a big part of Oscar weekend – everything from handbags, Mongolian jewelry, vitamins, hand-made chocolates, aluminum art apples, and cosmetics to exotic lodging deals. Hollywood’s glitterati come to see and be seen. And to fill their swag bags.
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In Pictures: Phones on screen
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In Pictures: Sundance Film Festival 2011
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Noir City: the best books behind the great noir films
On the eve of the Noir City film festival launch, mystery writers list their favorite noir books.
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Director Tyler Perry receives 19 NAACP Image Award nominations
Tyler Perry has been nominated for a whopping 19 NAACP Image Awards for his work on "For Colored Girls," "Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too?" and others.
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Ideas for a better world in 2011
In many ways, 2010 is a year you may want to relegate to the filing cabinet quickly. It began with a massive earthquake in Haiti and wound down with North Korea once again being an enfant terrible – bizarrely trying to conduct diplomacy through brinkmanship. In between came Toyota recalls and egg scares, pat downs at airports and unyielding unemployment numbers, too little money in the Irish treasury and too many bedbugs in American sheets. Oil gushed from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico for three months, mocking the best intentions of man and technology to stop it, while ash from a volcano in Iceland darkened Europe temporarily as much as its balance sheets. Yet not all was gloomy. The winter Olympics in Canada and the World Cup in South Africa dazzled with their displays of athletic prowess and national pride, becoming hearths around which the world gathered. In Switzerland, the world's largest atom smasher hurled two protons into each other at unfathomable speeds. Then came the year's most poignant moment – the heroic and improbable rescue of 33 miners from the clutches of the Chilean earth. There were many transitions, too – the return of the Republicans in Washington and the Tories in Britain, the scaling back of one war (Iraq) and the escalation of another (Afghanistan), the fall of some powers (Greece) and rise of others (China, Germany, Lady Gaga). To get the new year off to the right start, we decided to ask various thinkers for one idea each to make the world a better place in 2011. We plumbed poets and political figures, physicists and financiers, theologians and novelists. Some of the ideas are provocative, others quixotic. Some you will agree with, others you won't. But in the modest quest to stir a discussion – from academic salons to living rooms to government corridors – we offer these 25 ideas.
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Top picks: PBS's 'The Calling,' Leonard Bernstein 60-CD set, Keith Urban's 'Get Closer,' and more
PBS documentary 'The Calling,' 60-CD set 'Leonard Bernstein: The Symphony Edition,' new Keith Urban album 'Get Closer,' and more recommendations.
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HFPA announces Golden Globe nominations 2011
Golden Globe nominations 2011: The King's Speech and The Social Network took the most nominations.
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Movie review: 'The Fighter' starring Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale
The fighting isn't just in the ring in 'The Fighter,' as Mark Wahlberg's working-class boxer 'Irish' Micky Ward deals with his destructive family.
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Holiday gift guide 2010: Television programs
We have more gift ideas for you this holiday season. For the person who enjoys Canadian television comedy, World War II drama, a TV documentary on mankind's narrative myths, and a classic British television detective series, we have a quartet of selections. By the way, if you would like to purchase any of these DVD sets, there are links to do so on each page and you can help the Monitor at the same time.
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The King's Speech: movie review
Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush, as prince and speech therapist, are marvelous in 'The King's Speech,' a moving and remarkable story of friendship and triumph.
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Top picks: 'Edible Stories,' 'Mood Music for Time Travellers,' Fran Lebowitz focused documentary 'Public Speaking,' and more
Author Mark Kurlansky's 'Edible Stories,' Either Orchestra CD 'Mood Music for Time Travellers,' Martin Scorsese documentary 'Public Speaking' on Fran Lebowitz, and more recommendations.
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West Memphis Three: Three men convicted, DNA evidence reopens case
For the first time in Arkansas, convicted murderers prevail in seeking review of DNA evidence. Such reviews have exonerated 261 others, but will it help West Memphis Three?
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Veterans Day 2010: how Americans paid tribute
Veterans Day 2010 observances included a charity cross-country 'Gumpathon' and 'code talkers' ringing the bell on Wall Street.
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In Pictures: Paul Reubens as Pee-Wee Herman
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L.A. noir: darkness under the sun
A writer tours the gritty spots that inspired the birth of the Los Angeles literary noir movement.
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Brett Favre scandal headlines bad-boy edition of Monday Night Football
The Brett Favre scandal isn't the only off-field storyline heading into tonight's edition of Monday Night Football. The game will hardly be a symbol of the commissioner's bid to clean up the NFL.
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