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Alt-news mogul aims to rock prime-time with 'Vice'
Big and beefy with a scraggly beard, Shane Smith looks more like an aging roadie than a thrill-seeking foreign correspondent or a budding media mogul. But Smith is both those things. Vice Media Group, the company Smith co-founded and is chief...
Tags: Entertainment, Morley Safer, Book, 60 Minutes (tv program), Companies and Corporations
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reportedly meets Dennis Rodman
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sat down Thursday for a rare meeting with an American – the pierced, provocative former basketball star Dennis Rodman, according to media reports. Rodman reportedly chatted with Kim as they sat side by side at a...
Tags: Dennis Rodman, Columbia University, Travel, Harlem Globetrotters, Trips and Vacations
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Michelle Obama on the Oscars: The behind-the-scenes story
On Feb. 14, a Hollywood delegation showed up at the White House. Motion Picture Academy President Hawk Koch, Oscar producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron and film mogul Harvey Weinstein had come to explore a rather important matter (for them): They wanted...
Tags: Robert A. Iger, Entertainment, Silver Linings Playbook (movie), Steven Spielberg, Entertainment Events
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Chinese government launches screenwriting contest for U.S. writers
In the latest effort by China to expand its cultural influence and build stronger ties to Hollywood, government officials in Beijing are looking for U.S.-based screenwriters to help tell their stories. The Cultural Assets Office of the Beijing Municipal...
Tags: China, The Pink Panther (movie, 1964), Harvard University, AMC (tv network), Beijing (China)
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Snoop Dogg was gangsta; Snoop Lion is Rasta
Snoop Dogg had come to Burbank to let loose the lion. Engulfed by a haze of marijuana smoke thick as London fog in a hotel suite high above the so-called Media Capital of the World, the gangsta rap superstar surrendered himself to a hairdresser's...
Tags: Rita Ora, Entertainment, Music, Busta Rhymes, Diplo
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Review: 'Reincarnated' gets personal with Snoop Lion
First he was Snoop Doggy Dogg, then simply Snoop Dogg. Now, 20 years after the release of his debut single as a solo artist — the still-vibrant "Who Am I (What's My Name?)" — the laid-back rapper from Long Beach has altered his identity once...
Tags: Jamaica, Music Industry, Entertainment, Tupac Shakur, Music
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Dennis Rodman urges Barack Obama to call his new BFF Kim Jong Un
It’s a real-life scenario so bizarre and outlandish it seems like it was dreamed up by the writers of “South Park” or “30 Rock”: Retired NBA player turned C-list reality star Dennis Rodman travels to North Korea, becomes...
Tags: Barack Obama, Kim Jong Il, Harlem Globetrotters, Jerry Buss, Human Rights
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'Animal Rescue': James Gandolfini gets involved with the mob
Is there an actor who’s been taking on more colorful roles lately than James Gandolfini? In the last few months he’s been a blitzed-out hit man (“Killing Them Softly”), self-promoting casino magnate (this weekend’s “The...
Tags: James Gandolfini, Noomi Rapace, Nicole Holofcener, Bradley Cooper, Dead Man Down (movie)
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Violent video games: Pushing wrong buttons in blame game
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesCritic's Notebook: Yes, unrelenting carnage is a problem in video games — but not in the way most people might think. ...... -
D.C. is an issue in Oscar campaigns
Hollywood director David O. Russell took a meeting this week to talk about a movie. But the man in the room with him wasn't a studio executive or an actor hoping for a role — he was Vice President Joe Biden. Russell met Biden and spoke on the...
Tags: Entertainment, Leon Panetta, Silver Linings Playbook (movie), Frost Nixon (movie), John McCain
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For David O. Russell, an entry in his own 'Silver Linings Playbook'
The last time David O. Russell went to the White House, to screen “Three Kings” for Bill Clinton in 1999, he brought his 5-year-old son Matthew. Russell didn’t fully know it then, but a world of struggle loomed for the boy, who grappled...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Silver Linings Playbook (movie), Entertainment, Mental Health, White House
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Letters: Framing the gun debate
Re "The NRA's loose cannon," Editorial, Jan. 24 National Rifle Assn. Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre's defense of "absolutism" on gun rights requires a strong rebuttal. The framers knew that change is a fact of life, and they wrote the...
Tags: Tom Mix, National Rifle Association of America, Gun Control, Entertainment, Barack Obama
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