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'Bring Up the Bodies': 5 other portrayals of Anne Boleyn

One of history's most divisive personalities, Anne Boleyn has taken the spotlight again in Hilary Mantel's new novel "Bring Up the Bodies. Here are five other portrayals of the queen in pop culture.
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5 unusual gift ideas for booklovers

Any booklover on your list will appreciate the classic, timeless gift of a book. For lists of the best nonfiction, fiction, and children’s book titles recommended by the Monitor, click on the links above. But if your gifts have gotten so predictable that you no longer need to wrap them, you might want to try giving one of these more unusual non-book gifts for booklovers.
HFPA announces Golden Globe nominations 2011

Golden Globe nominations 2011: The King's Speech and The Social Network took the most nominations.
In Pictures: Golden Globe nominees
Thor and Transformers trailers come with the hammer and Alpha Trion

Some long-awaited glimpses of blockbusters for 2011, including Thor, Transformers Dark of the Moon, and Real Steel, debuted this week.
In Pictures: Natalie Portman's roles
Natalie Portman, a deeply dark 'Black Swan': movie review

Natalie Portman stars in a ballet film that's a 'willfully deranged quasi-horrorfest.'
Guy Fawkes Day 2010: Why Americans want to 'remember, remember the fifth of November'

Guy Fawkes Day 2010 gives Brits occasion to burn in effigy the revolutionary who attempted to violently restore Catholicism in 1605. But some see him as a symbol for dramatic change in government.
Chloe Moretz in 'Kick-Ass' -- are toddlers toting Uzis next?

Adapted from a comic book, Chloe Moretz and a bunch of wannabe young superheroes in ‘Kick-Ass’ don’t shy from expletive-filled hard-core violence.
"Android Karenina": no end in sight to mash-up novels

Are mash-ups junk lit or do they drive young readers to the classics?
Brothers: movie review

Tobey Maguire plays a returning vet in ‘Brothers,’ a dark drama about identity and the costs of war on the home front.
Review: 'New York, I Love You'

The latest in a series of 'Cities of Love' movies that doesn't do New York proud, despite the all-star cast.
Forget Obama, we're hoping to see Gossip Boys

At the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner -- the "nerd prom" -- Hollywood celebrities mix with the politically powerful.
New in theaters

Two Asian directors – Wong Kar Wai and Hou Hsiao-hsien – step out of their native countries (and languages) to create the melancholic films 'My Blueberry Nights' and 'The Flight of the Red Balloon.'
The court intrigue of 'The Other Boleyn Girl' fails to court intrigue

Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson play siblings pitted against each other in a bid for the affections of King Henry VIII. It doesn't end happily.
New on DVD: 'The Darjeeling Limited' and 'I Could Never Be Your Woman'

Three brothers journey across India in Wes Anderson's typically whimsical comedy; Michelle Pfeiffer lights up an uneven, direct-to-DVD film by Amy Heckerling.