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Top 10 real-life adventure stories
What’s the best way to enjoy the summer: A cookout in the backyard? A trip to the beach? These are nice, but look no further than reading a non-fiction adventure book. It’s by far the best way to immerse yourself in another world. Check out this list to see some of the best titles in this excellent genre.
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In Pictures: Oscar's red carpet runway
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Oscar predictions 2011: Keep your eye on The King's Speech
Oscar predictions 2011: The Monitor's film critic Peter Rainer picks which movies, and which actors, should win in five major Oscar categories. Best picture, best director, best actor, best actress, and best documentary. Do you agree?
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In Pictures: Oscar hosts
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In Pictures: Oscar nominees 2011
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Chapter & Verse
Barnes & Noble refuses to sell Amazon-published books
In the latest salvo in the war between the book giants, Barnes & Noble says it won't sell books published by Amazon in its stores.
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Fantasy goes dark
As new franchises replace 'Harry Potter' and 'Twilight' a grimmer, more apocalyptic tone haunts the story line.
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes: movie review
The apes are smarter in this latest "Planet of the Apes" movie, but it can't save the limp dialogue.
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Top 10 real-life adventure stories
What’s the best way to enjoy the summer: A cookout in the backyard? A trip to the beach? These are nice, but look no further than reading a non-fiction adventure book. It’s by far the best way to immerse yourself in another world. Check out this list to see some of the best titles in this excellent genre.
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Natalie Portman is a warrior in 'Your Highness': movie review
Lowbrow comedy 'Your Highness' is a spoof on period dramas but elicits few laughs.
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In Pictures: Oscar's red carpet runway
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Oscar winners no one expected: mothers everywhere
Oscar winners dispensed morsels of wisdom in their thank-you speeches Sunday night. 'Listen to your mother' was the advice of Best Director Tom Hooper, who won for the 'The King's Speech.'
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Oscar predictions 2011: Keep your eye on The King's Speech
Oscar predictions 2011: The Monitor's film critic Peter Rainer picks which movies, and which actors, should win in five major Oscar categories. Best picture, best director, best actor, best actress, and best documentary. Do you agree?
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James Franco and Anne Hathaway: Why are they hosting the Oscars?
James Franco and Anne Hathaway are the youngest to have hosted the Oscars. The choice has people guessing: Why were Franco and Hathaway chosen to host the 83rd annual Academy Awards? And why two hosts?
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In Pictures: Oscar hosts
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Oscar nominations: Actor-driven movies stand out
Oscar nominations have everyone in Hollywood buzzing with predictions, observations, and trends. Directors' mega-films got less notice than movies with meaty roles for actors, some note.
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In Pictures: Oscar nominees 2011
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Academy Award nominees include Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush for 'The King's Speech'
Academy Award nominees were announced Tuesday morning in Los Angeles. Natalie Portman, Jeff Bridges, Christian Bale, and Helena Bonham Carter are also Academy Award nominees for acting.
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In Pictures: Golden Globe nominees
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Black Swan leads Critics Choice award nominations
Black Swan, starring Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis as rival ballerinas, got a record 12 nominations in the Critics' Choice Movie Awards. Close behind was The King's Speech.
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127 Hours: movie review
James Franco plays Aron Ralston in ‘127 hours,’ a visceral retelling of a man facing calamity.
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Howl: movie review
In 'Howl,' the drama centers on the obscenity trial Allen Ginsburg faced after publishing his poem by the same name.
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Horizons
Angry Birds pointers? Ask Jon Hamm.
Angry Birds is a time-waster. And 'Mad Men' actor Jon Hamm thinks wasting time with furious birds and surly pigs is A-OK.
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Date Night: movie review
Steve Carell and Tina Fey played a bored suburban couple who stumble into the crime world in the action comedy ‘Date Night.’
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Sundance: Glitz gets low profile as festival goes back to basics
Documentaries were the winners this year with films about Pat Tillman, cane toads, and a cautionary tale about Facebook called ‘Catfish.'
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Review: 'Pineapple Express'
Black comedy about the adventures of two potheads is fitfully amusing but over the top on gross-out gore.
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