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Gene Weingarten: Rhyme and punishment

Another installment in my ongoing efforts to lose more readers by re-telling old jokes as bad poems. *** The Delicacy, in the style of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 Read full article > >

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Gene Weingarten: Rhyme and punishment

The grand but unwieldy new HBO series “Game of Thrones” is based on a successful series of medieval fantasy novels (more than 7 million copies sold since 1996) by George R.R. Martin, whose fans are so eager for another installment — as an article in the New Yorker recently described — they’ve built Web sites devoted to browbeating Martin about the many years it has taken for him to write the next book.

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HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’: A lot to sword out

Fast Five Break out your need for speed because you’ll need a whole ton of power to knock this franchise off course. It’s rare to see a franchise that isn’t based on an existing series of books become hotter as each installment is released, but here we are with a fifth Fast and Furious movie and these guys don’t look to be slowing down anytime soon.

The first teaser trailer for Transformers: Dark of the Moon has arrived online, and right away you can tell that this installment feels different (maybe more serious?) from the previous two. It’s a teaser, yes, but it’s a two-and-a-half-minute teaser that recreates Neil Armstrong’s iconic moon landing in 1969, but instead makes it seem as if NASA had ulterior motives that included heading to the dark side of the moon to inspect an alien spacecraft. Upon scoping out the spacecraft, we can briefly see what looks to be Transformers inside, and as the camera moves around we eventually find our way to the face of a new Transformer who may or may not be Alpha Trion, one of the original 13 Transformers, and apparently a father-figure to Optimus Prime. In some versions of Transformers, he is… Read More Read Comments

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‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ Teaser Trailer Storms Online

The first half of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows scraped up more money than any other installment of the series so far, bringing in $125.2 million over the weekend, a whopping 23 percent more than the previous biggest opening weekend for the…

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Harry Potter Conjures Up $125M

Well-known environmentalist Ed Begley, Jr. and his friend Jeff Goldblum offer their tips for helping the environment in this installment of Ecollywood. (Video by Gerri Miller) —————————————————————– Transcript:

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Ecollywood: Jeff Goldblum and Ed Begley, Jr.