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'Peeples' is clunky, but star Craig Robinson is entertaining

'Peeples' is predictable, but Robinson keeps many of the movie's gags from collapsing.
Razzies worst-of list includes 'Twilight,' 'Battleship'

The Razzies worst-of list featured 11 nominations for 'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2,' including worst picture and worst actor and actress for Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart. The Razzies worst-of list was announced two days before the Oscar nominations.
Alex Cross: Why the movie doesn't measure up

The latest Alex Cross movie falls short when compared to James Patterson's 12th Alex Cross crime novel. And Tyler Perry is no match on the big screen for Morgan Freeman as Alex Cross.
Culture Cafe Sofia Vergara: Is she engaged to boyfriend Nick Loeb? (+video)

Sofia Vergara's rep won't comment. But media reports say Nick Loeb proposed the Modern Family star, Sofia Vergara, during a trip to Mexico.
Culture Cafe 'Think Like a Man' dominates at the box office

The movie based off Steve Harvey's bestselling book came in first over 'The Lucky One,' an adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks novel, at the box office this weekend.
'Bachelor' show discrimination? Why prime time TV is whiter than in 1976.

'Bachelor' show discrimination is at issue in a lawsuit that alleges the ABC program sought to exclude minorities. But 'The Bachelor' isn't alone in being predominately white.
The Vote If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. Obama embraces ‘Obamacare’

Ever since he launched it, President Obama’s health care reform program has been slammed by its critics as 'Obamacare'. Now Obama's reelection campaign has adopted the term.
Cocaine a factor in Whitney Houston drowning, says LA coroner

Whitney Houston drowned but heart disease and chronic cocaine use were contributing factors, according to the Los Angeles Coroner's Office. The exact amount of cocaine in Whitney Houston's body will be revealed in two weeks.
Obama tweaks GOP before Ill. primary: 'Maybe some Lincoln will rub off on them'

Obama noted the barrage of attack ads the primary season has unleashed and said they're not exactly appealing to — in Lincoln's famous words — 'the better angels of our nature.'
Gingrich, running a distant third, will not withdraw from race

The former congressman is running a distant third, well behind former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum in the delegate chase.
'Diddy' as TV mogul? Why new network could face steep challenges.

'Diddy,' a.k.a. Sean Combs, will head one of four new minority-owned networks on Comcast. But with the TV landscape changing, 'Diddy' will have to do something special to stand out.
Whitney Houston remembered at hometown funeral

The biggest names in entertainment swayed to gospel hymns at Whitney Houston's hometown funeral Saturday in the church where the future pop star once sang as a young girl.
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.
For Colored Girls: movie review

Ntozake Shange’s award-winning play ‘For Colored girls’ comes to the screen in a lumpy gumbo of high drama and low melodrama.
Salma Hayek and others ruin movie experience with 'Grown Ups'

Salma Hayek and Adam Sandler make a ridiculously unfunny movie. 'Grown Ups' is not worth the time or money.
Review: 'Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" By Sapphire'

Sixteen-year-old Precious – illiterate, overweight, and pregnant again – is a study in quiet courage despite her nightmarish family life.
Black middle-class comes into view

Since Obama's candidacy, African-American professionals once invisible in mainstream America, are moving from prime-time fiction to everyday fact.