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Neil Patrick Harris to Return as Tony Awards Host
The 67th annual awards will be broadcast live by CBS from Radio City Music Hall on June 9
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America is the land of second acts, but still, a gay former child actor who loves magic isn't supposed to return as an icon of cool masculinity. Yet at 36, Neil...
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AUTHOR EDITION GOOD WEEK/BAD WEEK Neil Patrick Harris The jack-of-all-trades inked a deal for a memoir, due out in the spring of 2014 J.K. Rowling The Harry...
Keeping Afloat
On the Friday night before the Super Bowl, in the host city of Indianapolis, the U.S. synchronized-swimming team is ready for a party. But they're not going to...
Welcome to the Emmys, Jane Lynch! Please Leave Sue Sylvester at Home
The good news first. Well, at least it's potentially good news. Jane Lynch is the host of the next primetime Emmy awards! Yes, I liked Neil Patrick Harris too,...
Quote: Steve Martin Gives Eddie Murphy Oscar-Hosting Advice
"If you feel tired midway through, give Neil Patrick Harris a Red Bull and throw some sheet music at him." — STEVE MARTIN, in an open letter on his website,...
No Smurfing Good: New 'Smurfs' Movie Gets 6% Rating on Rotten Tomatoes
The Smurfs are blue, but the producers are probably downright depressed. The Smurfs, set to come out in theaters on Friday, received a 6% rating on the movie...
The Networks vs. Cable: The Oscar-Night Battle
Sunday night's Oscar program almost didn't happen for millions of TV viewers in the New York City area, in the latest high-stakes battle between media giants...
Prop. 8: The Musical
Oh, those crazy Hollywood liberals—show 'em an opportunity to school the nation on civic duty, and they never fail to jump. While this tendency can sometimes...
Reading While Eating for Jan. 25: Women Join the Fight
In today's must-read links for your lunch break: What you need to know about the abolishment of the U.S. ban on women serving in combat.
Actual Facebook Graph Searches Are Creepily Specific
Liking something on Facebook "ironically" isn't so funny when it show up in search results.
Disney's Fantastic Voyage
Disney owns childhood. For three quarters of a century, since the 1937 premiere of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the Walt Disney Company has created animated...
The Hero Whisperer
There's a t-shirt that's popular at comics and science-fiction conventions that reads, in the famous Star Wars font, joss whedon is my master now. The line comes...
Stop Moping, Muppets. Of Course We Want You Back
The Muppets transcend. They are of special genius. They don’t need to slink back insecurely back into the frame of fame.
Box Office: Why Cowboys & Aliens Got Smurfed
The big boys came into town -- stars Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford, Über-producers Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard, Iron Man director Jon Favreau -- with a...
The Influence Index
If we lived in some kind of Orwellian dystopia, we could hook a nanobot to everybody's brain and scientifically measure just how much influence each human being...
Reading While Eating for June 11: Start Your Engines
Who Won Mad Men Season 5? Flavorwire has been keeping track of which characters scored the best lines. And the winner is… (Flavorwire) 11 Things You Didn’t Know...
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MUSIC Miley Cyrus Breakout; out now The production spares no '80s trick--from spoken interludes to overdubs that do for Miley's voice what Vaseline on the lens...
Penguins and Pooh Bears And Horcruxes, Oh My!
Mr. Popper's Penguins A sextet of Antarctica's finest voyage to Manhattan, where they quickly thaw the cockles of a real estate mogul's cold, dead heart. Jim...
