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10 book-to-movie adaptations coming this holiday season

These movies adapted from both children's and adult books are hitting the screen this holiday season.
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Oscar nominations 2012: year of the 'feel-good' nominee (+video)

This year's Oscar nominations for best film contain little violence, explicit sexuality, or offensive language. Moviegoers are enjoying a wavelet of prestigious, feel-good films.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: movie review (VIDEO)

Wrenching and at times exploitive, 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close' takes on 9/11 events as seen through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy.
10 book-to-movie adaptations coming this holiday season

These movies adapted from both children's and adult books are hitting the screen this holiday season.
Chapter & Verse
James Garner's not afraid to dish in 'The Garner Files'

James Garner offers straight talk about fellow actors like Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson, in addition to revelations about his own drug use and his hardscrabble childhood.
Chapter & Verse
'Moneyball': The movie may be great – but does it do justice to the book?

Like 'The Blind Side' – another Michael Lewis book turned into a movie – 'Moneyball' is complex. Did Hollywood capture it?
The Simple Dollar
Student loans: pay them off or save for retirement?

Student loans can be paid off at different rates. Is it better to finish paying off student loans quickly or start putting some of the money toward retirement savings? Question No. 3 of the Reader Mailbag.
In Pictures: Oscar's red carpet runway
Betty White voted AP entertainer of the year for 2010

Betty White: After a year remarkable for a star of any age, White has been voted the Entertainer of the Year by members of The Associated Press.
In Pictures: Barbara Walters' 10 most fascinating people of 2010
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Barbara Walters' 10 Most Fascinating People ... and Gen. David Petraeus?

Barbara Walters' '10 Most Fascinating People of 2010' list includes the usual scrum of celebrities, but it took a serious turn by adding Gen. David Petraeus, commander of US forces in Afghanistan.
The New Economy
Amazon Black Friday 2010: Great deals. Better extras.

Amazon Black Friday is again beating the competition with lower prices on selected merchandise. But it's the extras, like low-price guarantees, which make some deals really compelling.
Life as We Know It: movie review

In 'Life as We Know It,' Katherine Heigl plays a mopey singleton suddenly faced with parenthood.
Sandra Bullock asks to be scrubbed from Gulf restoration video

Sandra Bullock has asked to be removed from a video promoting Gulf coast restoration. Sandra Bullock discovered that Women of the Storm, the group that produced the video, lists BP and other oil companies as sponsors.
Sandra Bullock appears at Nashville Rising flood relief benefit

Sandra Bullock made a surprise appearance Tuesday night at the Nashville Rising flood relief benefit concert.
Gallery: Celebrities giving to Haiti
Sandra Bullock and the blind side of NCAA March Madness

A movie like "The Blind Side," with Sandra Bullock and depicting a real scholar-athlete, has a lesson for the NCAA in this March Madness: Get the graduation rates up for players, especially blacks. Otherwise, Uncle Sam may be on your case.
Sandra Bullock cancels London premiere due to scandal

Oscar-winner Sandra Bullock won't attend the London premiere of "The Blind Side" due to a scandal at home.
Chapter & Verse
The books that took the Oscars

Oscar winners "Crazy Heart," "Precious," "The Blind Side," and "The Secret in their Eyes" all took their inspiration from books.
Oscar winners 2010: full of drama

Oscar winner 'Hurt Locker' beat out 'Avatar' for Best Picture, while Sandra Bullock won Best Actress, beating out 16-time nominee Meryl Streep.
Gallery: Oscar winners 2010
Oscar nominations: 'Avatar,' 'The Hurt Locker' take the lead

But some fresh faces appear in the Best Actress category with Carey Mulligan (‘An Education’) and Gabourey Sidibe (‘Precious’).
In Pictures: Oscar nominees 2010
Golden Globe nominations tap 'Avatar' and 'Up'

Globes’ nominations offer a rough road map to the Oscars in March.
'The Blind Side' - movie review

Sandra Bullock plays a feisty Southern belle in this true story of a wealthy family who takes in a near-homeless black boy and nurtures his talent for football.
Betty White the only good part of the movie 'The Proposal'

Romantic comedy is a rehash of old jokes and the predictable can't-stand-each-other-but-fall-in-love progression.