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Young Hollywood:  How 30 Became the New 40                  aging

            

TV Everywhere

What Rotten Tomatoes Tells Us about Stars' Trajectories

13 Actors Who Badmouthed their Films                   

Gary Lures Hollywood with a Bounty of Decay                        The United States

 Seth MacFarlane to Produce Cosmos                                      Family Guy

The Rollicking Life of Larry Hagman                                          actors

PBS Plans a British Outlet                                                           PBS

 Space Invaders:  The Movie                                                    Atari

Studios Shying Away from Comic-Con                                 movie studios

10 Sundance Hits that Became Flops                                     film

Stars Gain Control of Online Images                                      the Internet

All Time Box Office -- Adjusted for Inflation                              film  

The Best and Worst American Remakes of British TV Shows    history

Talk Show Hosts Explained through Flow Charts                     talk shows

A Reality Show Trade Show:  Bring Your Freakishness              reality TV

The Muppets . . . Revamped                                                   the Muppets

Forbes' Most Overpaid Actors:  A Numerical Analysis              celebrities 

The Movie that Almost Killed Disney Animation                      animation

A Cure for Screenwriters with Writer's Block                            writing

For $1000 a Year, Celebs Can Keep Their Image Clean         websites

Charlie Sheen Helps Make a Name for Ustream                    websites

How Hollywood Portrays Foreign Language                          history, language

Dallas Stars Will Return in TNT Sequel                                      television

Kevin Spacey Plans Middle East Acting Academy                 actors

Michael Moore Sues Weinsteins over Fahrenheit 9/11

'The Pee-wee Herman Show' Coming Back to HBO               HBO

 Shakespeare in Love...the Sequel                                           Shakespeare

Inflatable Dolls Make Cheap Extras                                      [extras]

When Lines in Films Were Memes                                       [film]

What's Wrong with Movies about Composers                  [music]

The Mannered Weirdness of Nicolas Cage                         [Nicolas Cage]

Die Hard Director is Sentenced to Year in Prison                [directors]

'Sesame Street' Pulls Katy Perry Video from Show               [Katy Perry]

'$#*! My Dad Says' Defies DVRs                                            [TV]

10 Great Films that Were Never Made                                [film]

Jean-Luc Godard Defends Internet Piracy                           [piracy]

'Borat' Star to Play Freddie Mercury                                      [Queen]

Hulk Casting Decision Angers Norton's Agent                     [film]

Some Movie Theaters Now Want You to Sing Along           [movie theaters]

Hulu Offers $9.99 Subscription to Full Season of TV Shows    [Hulu]

Steve Carell to Leave The Office in 2011                               [The Office]

Bollywood Prepares a Bin Laden Satire                                 [Osama Bin Laden]

Disney's World of Color Tries to Revitalize California Park       [Disney]

Warner Bros. Revamping Looney Tunes                                  [Warner Bros.]

WWE's Raw's Huge Ratings Draw Celebrities to Appear         [wrestling]

'South Park' Episode Altered After Muslim Group's Warning    [Islam]

Curb Gets an Eighth Season                                                    [Curb]

New Cirque Shows Based on Music by Michael Jackson    [Michael Jackson]

South Park Creators Set on Mormon Musical                      [Trey Parker, Matt Stone]

Conan O'Brien Will Move to...TBS                                        [Conan O'Brien]

Talent Agents for Video Game Creators                             [video games]

New TV Show May Anger Jobs                                            [Steve Jobs]

For Movie Stars, the Big Money is Now Deferred                 [celebrities]

Why Famous Filmmakers Use Pseudonyms                          [directors]

Celebrities Take on a New Role:  Theatrical "Presenters"     [celebrities]

Goodbye Miramax                                                              [Miramax, film studios]

Dune Set for Cinematic Revamp                                        [Dune]

Ready for 2010, a Crop of Movies Shot Back in 2008           [film]

'Avatar' Unleashes a New Type of Hollywood Executive      [Avatar]

Mel Gibson and Leonardo DiCaprio and . . . Vikings           [Mel Gibson]

No More 'Flight of the Conchords'                                        [FOTC]

CBS Cancels 'As the World Turns, P&G's Last Soap Opera     [soap operas]

Even Broadway Flops Make Money Over Time                      [Broadway]

Pulp Fiction Writer Goes to Jail                                              [Pulp Fiction]

Cosby Goes Mad on the Web                                               [Bill Cosby]

"Quizmaster:"  5 Contestants Test What the Host Knows       [Germany]

Hollywood's Most Overpaid Stars . . . #1?  Will Ferrell            [celebrities]

'Oprah' Will (Finally) End                                                         [Oprah Winfrey]

The Self-Manufacture of Megan Fox                                       [Megan Fox]

Comedy Central Heads to Middle East                                 [Comedy Central]

Mad Max 4 with Charlize Theron; Thor, Anthony Hopkins     [celebrities]

Roger Corman's First Web Series                                            [Roger Corman]

A Brief History of Saw, the Moneymaker                                 [Saw, film]

Movies Coming to the Weather Channel                             [TV, the Weather Channel]

NBC Names Jon Bon Jovi as "Artist in Residence"                  [Jon Bon Jovi, NBC]

'Dallas' Remake Planned                                                       ['Dallas,' remakes]

The Return of the Sitcom                                                        [TV, comedy, sitcoms]

Disney Creates a Venezuelan Version of "The Golden Girls"  [Disney, Golden Girls, Spanish, Venezuela, TV]

Breaking Rabbits' Legs in the Name of Film 'Objectivity'       [film, documentaries]

Movie Studios See a Threat in Growth of Redbox                  [Redbox, business]

Hollywood Players Vie to Tell DeLorean's Story                       [John DeLorean, history]

Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, Stepping Stone to SNL       [Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, comedy, actors, Saturday Night Live]

Scorsese to Produce HBO Show with Buscemi                       [Martin Scorsese, Steve Buscemi, HBO, TV]

Monty Python Reunites                                                           [Monty Python, comedy]

John Stamos Considering Full House:  The Movie                  [John Stamos, Full House]

New 3-D Lorax Film in the Works                                            [The Lorax, Dr. Seuss, film, 3-D]

Ryan Reynolds to Play Green Lantern                                     [Green Lantern, comic books, Ryan Reynolds, superheroes] 

A Hollywood Blogger Feared By Executives                            [blogging, Nikki Finke]

Rise of Web Video, Beyond 2-Minute Clips                             [the Internet, YouTube, technology, trends]

New Options for Faded Celebrities                                        [celebrities, David Faustino]

Spielberg and Smith to Make US Version of Violent Old Boy  [Steven Spielberg, Will Smith, Old Boy, Korean film

Despite Flops, Studios Want Eddie Murphy                             [Eddie Murphy]

Mission Impossible 4 on the Way                                            [Tom Cruise, Mission Impossible]

Twitter is Hatching a Reality Series                                          [Twitter, reality shows, TV shows]  

10 New Sitcoms Meant to Cure the Recession Blues              [sitcoms, TV shows]

Scorsese to Direct Sinatra Film                                                [Martin Scorsese, film]

William Morris and Endeavor Agencies Merge                        [William Morris, Endeavor, talent agencies]

Sean Penn Joins 3 Stooges Movie . . .as Larry                          [Sean Penn, The Three Stooges]

It on the Big Screen                                                                  [Stephen King, It]

Samuel L. Jackson Signs on for Possible 9 Marvel Movies        [Samuel L. Jackson, entertainment business, Marvel]

Seinfeld Moving to NBC to Produce Reality TV                        [Jerry Seinfeld, NBC, reality shows]