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Reba McEntire tops charts! Third Eye Blind ranks third

cited: MTV News

Country queen, Reba McEntire has hit it big with her second #1 country album debut, Keep on Loving You. Thanks to selling 96,000 copies (according to Nielson SoundScan), it will take its top spot on the Billboard 200 next week. Third Eye Blind, the 1990’s alternative pop band that hasn’t released a new [...]

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Superhero games- is this one mighty?

Cited: Associated Press
Superman, Aquaman, Iron Man, X-Men: all these undefeatable superheroes have suffered defeat at the hands of an industry that often functions more as a money-making tool than actual entertainment.

So calling “Batman: Arkham Asylum” (Eidos, $59.99, for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3) one of the best superhero games ever is kind of a backhanded [...]

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Biel: the most dangerous click of them all

cited: InformationWeek
McAfee just released its third annual list of the internet’s most risky celebrities. They found that 20% of searches for “Jessica Biel,” “Jessica Biel downloads,” Jessica Biel photos”, etc., take the searcher to malware-full websites. Spyware, adware, spam, viruses, and phishing mechanisms all fall under the company’s definition of malicious programs. If a computer [...]

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“Mastering the Art” finally a best-seller

cited: New York Times
48 years after first publishing, Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” finally topped the best-seller list. With its rise to the top, the book brought all the fatty goodness home gourmets did their best to ignore while Lipitor swept the nation.

The book, given a huge lift from the recently released [...]

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News flash, Tarantino: you write FICTION

cited: The Movie Critics

Tarantino took plenty of liberties with Inglourious Basterds- from casting the gore-heavy director of the Hostels, Eli Roth, as the “bear Jew” who loves smashing Nazi heads, to transforming Christoph Waltz’s character (SS officer, Col. Hans Landa) into a light-footed, nimbly joyful philosophizing detective (and the most interesting character of the film)- [...]

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Moscow Magazine may include work of Literary Mole

Cited: NewsDaily

A short novel- titled “Close to Zero”- appeared on bookshelves last month. Thursday, someone realized that the tale of corrupt Russian officials, bribed journalists, and dirty cops was penned by someone with definitive expertise on the subjects. Apparently, the author was none other than the Kremlin’s chief political strategist Vladislav Surkov, who published under [...]

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