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It stands to reason that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be the next-to-last offering in what is already the most lucrative film franchise in history, unless author J.K. Rowling succumbs to fan pressure to extend her best-selling series of children's novels. This installment covers the first half of the seventh and presumably last book, with the final adaptation slated to be released in July of 2011.


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Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun


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While best known as the founder, producer, and mastermind behind the Wu-Tang Clan, RZA has built an incredibly diverse and successful career as a musician, a composer of film scores, a producer, an actor, a businessman, a player and advocate of chess, and as the author of the best-selling The Tao of Wuand The Wu-Tang Manual. Here, he talks about his latest outing playing Mouss in The Next Three Days, an action-thriller directed by Academy Award-winner Paul Haggis and co-starring a couple of other Oscar-winners in Russell Crowe and Liam Neeson.


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When Lara Brennan (Elizabeth Banks) met her husband (Russell Crowe) and in-laws for dinner after a particularly difficult day at work, she seized the opportunity to vent about how much she disliked her boss (Leslie Merrill). She was clearly still visibly agitated over an argument the two had earlier during which she had referred to Elizabeth as a "useless cow."

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Weekly Previews for movies opening Nov. 19, 2010 ...


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Kevin Carson (Bow Wow) wasn't even thinking about buying a lottery ticket that fateful Friday the jackpot had reached $370 million, even though folks on the long line were already talking about how they planned to spend the money on everything from a Versace suit to a mail order bride. But then a couple of events transpired which you might call divine intervention.


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Soledad O'Brien is the daughter of immigrants, one from Australia, the other from Cuba, who met in this country while pursuing the proverbial American Dream. However because one was white, and the other was Black, they had to flee the South


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Born in London on November 6, 1972, Thandie Newton is a consummate actress associated with riveting performances in everything from "Beloved" to "Besieged" to "Crash" ... Here, she talks about playing Tangie in Tyler Perry's screen adaptation of Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls," an ensemble drama co-starring Kerry Washington, Janet Jackson, Kimberly Elise, Loretta Devine and Phylicia Rashad.


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For three days this November, seven area high schools and the Portland Playhouse are bringing Shakespeare to town.For Brian Weaver, Shakespeare and the drama of high school are a perfect fit. They're both bawdy, they're both a little ....


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Students of the Marshall High School Renaissance Arts Academy not only watched a live theater show about public education and the Civil Rights Movement late last month – they were actively inspired to build a protest movement of their own to keep open the doors of their school.


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