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Angelina Jolie's decision to get a double mastectomy after learning she had the breast cancer gene mutation has been lauded by many as courageous, empowering, and even heroic. But singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge -- a breast cancer survivor herself -- thinks it's actually the opposite of those things. Asked about Jolie's recent New York Times op-ed, in which she revealed the news of her mastectomy and breast reconstruction, Etheridge told the Washington Blade that she wouldn't make the same decision for herself. Nor would she encourage others to do so without properly researching their options. "I have to say I feel...

'Sucker Punch' (2011) Zack Snyder's 2011 flop is like the video-game fantasy of an oversexed teenage boy come to life, with Emily Browning's Babydoll and her fellow brothel-dwellers (most of them endowed with stripper names like "Sweet Pea," "Blondie" and "Rocket") running through a variety of overstuffed action-movie scenarios in a procession of skimpy outfits that wouldn't look out of place at the Playboy mansion's annual Halloween party. Much like the director's "300," Larry Fong's screen-searing cinematography and some artfully-realized digital effects are breathtaking in scope, but sadly even they can't prop up a limply-realized screenplay and woefully underdeveloped characters...

Director Oliver Stone brought thunderous applause to a crowd of more than 500 festivalgoers at the 16th Shanghai International Film Festival in China on Monday when he praised whistleblower Edward Snowden as a “hero.” In response to a passionately worded indictment from an audience member accusing the U.S. National Security Agency of “eavesdropping on the world,” the celebrated—and provocative—director said, simply: “Snowden is a hero,” before launching into a brief discussion of the revelations about the U.S. spy programs and their aftermath. …

RUSH: Last night was the Miss USA Pageant, and it was on in our house. (interruption) I didn't say I watched it. I said it was on. I heard it. I was at my desk doing show prep, I heard it, and we got a sound bite from Miss Alabama. (interruption) I don't think we have a Miss Utah. What, you like Miss Utah? BREAK TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Last night, the 2013 Miss USA competition. This is Trump's deal. Do you know where they're gonna do Miss Universe? Trump came out there last night and said they're gonna do Miss Universe,...

....Fame today is a matryoshka doll: inside each celebrity is a series of smaller, hollow simulacra, and, at the very core, there is a hard little being who feels buried alive. In Alexis’s gang there were four girls and three boys: the main culprit, Nick Prugo, was a gay kid working his way out of the closet. When he was eventually arrested by the police he was wearing a striped top he’d stolen from the house of the actor Orlando Bloom. And that’s what they did: after days of shopping or doing pilates, hanging out on MySpace, texting or oh-my-god-ing...

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"Today is Father’s Day, so it was fitting that a recent interview with David Morrissey popped up regarding the upcoming season of The Walking Dead. The Governor is one of The Walking Dead‘s most hard working papas. Rick may be the most prominent father in the show, but he’s never had to deal with Carl trying..... *- Warning -* If you don't want 'Walking Dead' show speculation stop reading ! *

One of my favorite movie quotes when it comes to Father's ""When people ask me if Michael Sullivan was a good man, or if there was just no good in him at all, I always give the same answer. I just tell them... he was my father." Road to Perdition (2002)

On June 29th, Lifetime will air a biopic, "Anna Nicole." We were recently forced to endure Lindsay Lohan as Liz Taylor in an epic bomb, "Liz & Dick." Thus, it seems inevitable that the left-dominated Hollywood will feel the overwhelming urge to bring the stories of Edward Snowden and the Tsarnaev brothers to the small, if not the big screens. So, while just now enjoying the spectacle of Tiger taking a triple bogey on the 2nd hole, I was wondering who they might cast in these roles?

Han Zimmer's soundtrack could debut in the top five on the chart; meanwhile vocal quartet Big Time Rush could sell around 45,000 copies during the tracking week. Big Time Rush and the Man of Steel film soundtrack are heading for top 10 debuts on the Billboard 200 albums chart next week. Industry sources suggest Big Time Rush's new 24/Seven album could sell around 45,000 copies by the end of the tracking week on Sunday, June 16. The Man of Steel soundtrack -- an instrumental score album by Hans Zimmer -- might move around 30,000.

Just thinking about getting a Dog, next thing I know I'm watching Youtube vids with Dogs... The Duke had a good one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdQbsa5E4ZQ Any favorites? TT

I have DirectV and had DVR'd "The Walking Dead," all eight episodes. The other day I got bored and watched them all in one sitting. As I sat there and let the story unfold, I couldn't help but think about recent events (Benghazi, AP, IRS, NSA and probably scads of others we don't even know about – yet.) I also couldn't help from thinking about the three basic kinds of 'actors' in the series, either. We have the Walkers (undead biters) – mindless zombies endlessly feeding on whatever is slow enough for them to catch. Then we have the "he's...

A homeless alcoholic has admitted conning staff at a £70-a-night inn into giving him a room by claiming he was "Louis Theroux from the BBC". Allan Debenham, 39, booked a room at the Duke of York, Shepton Beauchamp, near Ilminster, Somerset, in the name of the documentary maker, South Somerset magistrates heard. He provided staff at the pub with a telephone number for the BBC's finance department and an order number to arrange payment for his three-night stay. He also pretended to be Theroux's personal assistant and persuaded staff to put two bottles of wine on his room tab. They...

Official site Wikipedia IMDb Man Of Steel - Official Teaser Trailer Man of Steel - Official Trailer #2 Man of Steel - Official Trailer #3The movie opened today. Here are some reviews: Rotten Tomatoes Metacritic E Online: Man of Steel Reviews Are In-Superman Flies High With Critics Yahoo: First Reviews Are In: Is 'Man of Steel' Too Dark, Too Big, Too Much? The Independent (UK): Man of Steel: Reviews round-up - S is for Serious not Superman as Henry Cavill dons the tights CBS News: "Man of Steel" critics' reviews: Film wallows in sorrow more than soars New York Post:...

How could a film maker make such a good film as "Young Sherlock Holmes" with a perfect Holmes, (Nicholas Rowe) and Watson, (Alan Cox) who both have diction enough to understand no matter how loud or soft they speak, and a complimentary screen relationship on a par with Rathbone and Bruce..... and not make the next film we were promised by the end of that movie

These are five of my favorite movies with Father and Son. Name yours.

THE HONEYMOONERS cast was a marriage made in Heaven, but Jackie Gleason’s drinking and bizarre habits turned some days into a living hell for his co-stars, reveals Joyce Randolph, the last surviving member of the legendary sitcom’s cast. “Working with Jackie was the toughest challenge an actress could face,” the 88-year-old, who played Art Carney’s TV wife Trixie Norton, reveals in an exclusive interview at her Manhattan apartment. “You never knew what he’d say or do. He often ad-libbed and you had to think lightning fast to keep the laughs coming.” The classic show centered onthe antics of Big Apple...

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Zack Snyder's been a busy man - not only is he currently promoting his new Superman movie Man Of Steel but on the day of the premiere he also released a teaser trailer for his next comic book movie - 300. The director took to the blue carpet in London's Leicester Square on Wednesday night alongside Henry Cavill. But while the hype builds over the Henry Cavill film, he's already looking to the next as he gears up for the 2014 release of follow up movie 300: Rise Of An Empire, which he returned to albeit as a producer and...

Rodham,’ a film about the life of a young Hillary Clinton, is generating serious buzz in Hollywood and Washington. The Daily Beast has the screenplay. Here are some of the juiciest bits from the movie. 113 inShare.53 The most powerful woman in the world is about to get the Hollywood treatment. Hillary Clinton, the former first lady, senator, and secretary of state—who is maybe running for president in 2016—is the subject of a new feature film about her youth. Rodham focuses on 1974, when the 26-year-old was a determined—and relatively humorless—lawyer working as a member of the House impeachment inquiry...

Steven Spielberg on Wednesday predicted an "implosion" in the film industry is inevitable, whereby a half dozen or so $250 million movies flop at the box office and alter the industry forever. What comes next -- or even before then -- will be price variances at movie theaters, where "you're gonna have to pay $25 for the next Iron Man, you're probably only going to have to pay $7 to see Lincoln." He also said that Lincoln came "this close" to being an HBO movie instead of a theatrical release.

You'd think that nobody would turn away the chance to be a Yale graduate, United States Senator, Secretary of State, beloved meme, and premiere candidate for the 2016 presidency. But for some reason, nobody seems willing to take on the role of Hillary Clinton — a woman who has managed each of these achievements — in the developing biopic Rodham. A number of names have been thrown into the mix to play the political icon: Jessica Chastain, Carey Mulligan, Scarlett Johansson. All talented performers, each with her own checks in the Pros column for the embodiment of our former first...

It looks like Carey Mulligan won't have to prime up her American accent again after all. Last week we heard reports that said that the Oscar-nominated ingenue was the frontrunner for the title role in the upcoming Hillary Clinton biopic Rodham, but apparently things have fallen apart in the time since. Despite the fact that the initial report said that both Mulligan and the production were eager to make a deal work out, The Hollywood Reporter has learned from a source that Mulligan has decided to pass on the film. Interestingly, there doesn't seem to be any strict reasoning behind...

Le LAPD vient de diffuser les photos prises par ses experts dans la maison de Michael jackson, à Bel Air, le jour de sa mort.Une demeure, ou plutôt un hôpital à domicile qui évoque plus l'environnement d'un grabataire que celui d'un Roi de la Pop seulement âgé de 50 ans. The LAPD has just release pictures taken by experts at the Bel Air mansion of Michael Jackson. A residence or rather a hospital that evokes the environment that bedridden the King of Pop only at age 50.

For aviation fans, get ready for a ton of wonderful archival footage coming your way in William Lorton's Spitfire 944. A true-life story, Lorton has discovered rare 16mm footage of a 1944 spitfire crash and tracks down the pilot, now an 83-year-old World War II veteran to show him the footage. The early parts of this film consists of wartime remembrances and nostalgia for days gone by. The elderly pilot recalls his time spent with his comrades and explains the basic information involved with his aircraft. What he doesn't know is that he is about to see, for the first...

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This is your Turner Classic Movie channel alert! Tonight...Baby Face(1933), 8pm est "A beautiful schemer sleeps her way to the top of a banking empire." Overview & Cast

As an actor, Harry Lewis took second billing to the likes of Humphrey Bogart and Edward G. Robinson, most notably in the 1948 film noir "Key Largo." But he found his own starring role as a Los Angeles restaurateur who helped usher in the concept of the "gourmet burger" when he launched the ground-breaking Hamburger Hamlet restaurant chain, among others.

Even with a darker take on the great American superhero, our favorite costumed good guy is still the man! ‘I grew up in Kansas,’’ says the dimpled superhero of the unabashedly crowd-pleasing blockbuster “Man of Steel’’ as he faces attempted rendition as an enemy alien. “I’m as American as they come.’’ Deploying an impeccable American accent, Brit Henry Cavill may be as charming as the late great Christopher Reeve — or Reeve’s unfortunate doppelganger Brandon Routh, who donned a more traditional Superman costume in “Superman Returns,’’ an underrated attempt to reboot the franchise seven years ago.

This is the season of Superman in America — a time when the Last Son of Krypton is celebrating his milestone 75th birthday, Warner Bros. is releasing its “Man of Steel’’ movie that it hopes will be the biggest ever for a superhero, and everyone from comic book aficionados to Ivy League academics are asking what, if anything, our most enduring icon can tell us about not just himself but about us. Ah, you say, the Metropolis Marvel — I know him! But did you know that Superman stood up to Hitler and Stalin before America did? The comic-book superhero...

“Glee” star Jane Lynch is divorcing her wife of three years. Lynch married Dr. Lara Embry in 2010 in Massachusetts. She told People magazine in a statement Monday that splitting up was “a difficult decision for us as we care very deeply about one another.” …

Not even Chewbacca and his light saber get a free pass with airport security before being cleared to travel. Transportation Security Administration agents in Denver briefly stopped “Star Wars” franchise actor Peter Mayhew recently as he was boarding a flight with a cane shaped like one of science-fiction’s most iconic weapons.

"AMC's The Walking Dead won't wait long to offer viewers a feel for what to expect under new showrunner Scott Gimple which will be directed by Greg Nicotero. ....*- Warning-* : --If you don't want ' Walking Dead' show speculation stop reading.-- *

Who needs the Jedi mind trick when you have Twitter? Peter Mayhew, the actor who famously portrayed Han Solo’s erstwhile companion, Chewbacca, in “Star Wars,” was returning to his Texas home this month from the Denver Comic Con convention. And like any traveler -- or smuggler, for that matter -- he’d hoped to avoid “Imperial entanglements” while clearing Denver Airport security on the way to his scheduled American Airlines flight.

Script's characters, named for real teachers, abuse studentsThe screenplay that is now part of an ongoing investigation into an alleged sexual assault involving three Exeter High School teachers is laced with profanity, sexual innuendo and talk of illegal activity with students. "Graduation Crashers" is described on the document as an original screenplay by Robert M. Batchelder Jr., Mark Forbes and Tod Grossmith, social studies teachers at Exeter High School. SAU 16 Superintendent Michael Morgan revealed in a memo to the district on Thursday that an "original screenplay" was discovered as part of the district's investigation and that the screenplay "may...

June 11, 2013 at 7:30 AM (ET) Starring Ronald Reagan, Eleanor Parker, and Eve Arden Sergeant falls for a love-scorned actress. Comedy/1948 TCM, One For The Book

Miss Alabama USA Mary Margaret McCord

As NSA data collection from Verizon Wireless is defended this morning by no less than the office of the President of the United States, actor Wil Wheaton and top Android hacker/developer Koushik Dutta have announced their departure from the carrier. The order in question was revealed yesterday, having originated from the FBI and passed down to the public media by an anonymous source. The order shows how the National Security Agency uses Verizon specifically to mine records of phone calls, numbers, and everything in-between for data. Data such as “unique identifiers”—unspecified beyond that, call length, number of individuals on each...

Former "Dancing With the Stars" contestant Bristol Palin is heading back to reality TV. She'll switch places with Joan Rivers on "Celebrity Wife Swap." The 22-year-old single mom and her sister Willow Palin are the latest stars to sign up for the trading-places series. And this time, they're doing double duty as the daughters of Sarah Palin head to Los Angeles to switch lives with comedian Rivers and her daughter Melissa.

The Purge is an attack on the Tea Party and NRA.

We don't know when we'll get the answer to the biggest question about Hillary Clinton's future: Will she run for president? But we're getting closer to answering the second-biggest question: Who will play her in the movie about her early life? Carey Mulligan is in talks with producers of an upcoming movie about the former first lady and secretary of state, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The actress will meet with director James Ponsoldt, and "both sides are eager for it to work," say THR sources. Mulligan is a surprising choice for the film, which has been buzzed about since...

Patrick Stewart took a brief respite from eating pizza to share this photo with the world. "I should have never switched to Verizon. #NSA," he tweeted. Stay gold, Sir Patrick. Stay gold.

Article contains spoilers & speculation for the season 3 finale. Also includes spoilers from the book series. Click the link if you want to read: http://www.wetpaint.com/game-of-thrones/articles/2013-06-05-season-3-finale-spoilers-what-to-expect

An Okaloosa County man has been charged with firing his gun after watching a documentary on Adolf Hitler. A sheriff's office report says 28-year-old Joseph Ryan Dobson was arrested Tuesday. He's charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without the intent to kill and discharging a firearm while under the influence of alcohol. It's not immediately known if he has an attorney. Woman Designs Toilet Paper Wedding Dress Authorities say Dobson pointed a gun at his fiance and a friend after watching the video. He then pointed the gun to the ceiling and fired two shots. Deputies who responded...

As a child, the first show we ever watched was "Gunsmoke". We watched it as a family, and Marshal Dillon had a profound effect on the way I looked at life then and now. I continue to watch "Gunsmoke" reruns daily; it's a great refresher of the lessons I learned so long ago. True Friends

I never lie. I have always been a Batman guy. I can’t help but think, “If I had all that money and the proper motivation,” — meaning if my parents were shot to death in a filthy alley before my 8-year-old eyes — “I could be him.” Superman, on the other hand, I can’t be. I can’t leap tall buildings in a single bound, and I never will. I’ve long had a love/tolerate relationship with Superman, who’s celebrating his 75th anniversary this year with not only a rebooted movie franchise but with a new comic book from DC Comics’ top...

Will Smith has never spoken openly of his connections to the Church of Scientology, but they are well documented. Whether or not Smith is a devout member or simply curious about this Hollywood faith, he has visible ties to the group. In 2007, he donated $122,500 to several Scientology rehabilitation organizations. Two years later, he and wife Jada Pinkett Smith opened California's New Village Leadership Academy, a private school founded on the teachings of Scientology creator L. Ron Hubbard. Yet to this day, when asked about his own involvement, Smith suggests close friend Tom Cruise introduced him to the practices...

Though Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Chastain and Emma Stone have been rumored to be in the "Rodham" mix, the Brit actress has emerged as the top choice. Carey Mulligan has emerged as the frontrunner to play Hillary Clinton in Rodham, Temple Hill and the Arlook Group’s biopic of the former first lady, New York senator and Secretary of State. The Great Gatsby actress is the producers' top choice to play Clinton during the formative years of her storied career in public service, according to several sources. Several American actress' names have been bandied about to take on the widely admired but...