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Oh no! The secret is out!

A trio of guys try and make up for missed opportunities in childhood by forming a three-player baseball team. A serious breach of security has ripped through the movie industry. Somehow, some way, a critic in Florida (of course) got…

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'South Park' Held Hostage: Day 12

Oh, it just keeps getting more and more twisted. A Daily Dish reader from Canada notes that the banned-in-the-UK (and US) "South Park" episode ridiculing Tom Cruise and Scientology, "Trapped in the Closet," has been hastily rescheduled for showing on…

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Why 'Crash'? Some theories...

In the weeks leading up to the Academy Awards, certain Oscar prognosticators had diverse theories about why dark horse "Crash" might overtake supposed front-runner "Brokeback Mountain" for the Best Picture award. Among them:* Interest in "Brokeback" peaked too early, voters…

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The Boys Who Cried 'Moral Equivalence'

In a piece last week about irresponsible and wantonly unsubstantiated criticisms of Steven Spielberg's "Munich" (by some people who hadn't even seen it), I wrote that the term "moral equivalence" is the "first refuge of a con-artist." Speak of the…