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'If you're a blonde fashion model, you're not going to jail. But if you're a black kid from the 'hood, you'll go away for twenty years'

"Are you unemployed or stuck in a dead-end job? Don't worry, we have an answer!" That is the dubious proposition made by How to Make Money Selling Drugs, a tongue-in-cheek (I pray) documentary about the art of dope dealing.


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'The Heat,' 'White House Down,' 'A Band Called Death' and more

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Born in Santa Ana, Calif., on Feb. 9, 1987, Michael B. Jordan is one of Hollywood's brightest young actors. In 2012, he starred in 20th Century Fox's box office hit Chronicle, a supernatural thriller that follows three Portland teens as they develop incredible powers after exposure to a mysterious substance. He also had a supporting role in George Lucas' film RED TAILS, a World War II saga recounting the story of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen.


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He tweeted on Sunday that he's not ashamed\"'of 'Kick-Ass 2,' but that 'recent events have caused a change in my heart'

(CNN) -- The tragedy that occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary in December has left its mark on Jim Carrey.


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However, all of the above is irreversibly rendered irrelevant when an earthquake registering 9.7 on the Richter scale rocks the city and rips a giant fissure right in front of Franco's place.


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August Wilson's Radio Golf will be read June 24 at the Bowmer Theater in Ashland

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is reaching out to support one of the most beloved African American theater companies in the nation with a reading of August Wilson's "Radio Golf," at 7 p.m. Monday, June 24 in the Angus Bowmer Theatre.

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I'm not sure whether there's a term for the Jewish equivalent of an Uncle Tom but, if there is, it would probably be applicable to Hannah Arendt

However, as Shakespeare suggested in Julius Caesar, "The evil that men do lives after them: The good is oft interred in their bones." Such is apparently the case with women, too, as Hannah appears fated to be forever remembered for a series of articles she wrote for the New Yorker magazine while covering the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem.


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Soon, the boundary is irreversibly breached when kindhearted Charlie lets the stranger inside at a moment of weakness

The setting is America in 2022, a disturbing dystopia where the prisons are even more overcrowded than we find them today. Consequently, the overwhelmed authorities have come up with a unique way of dealing with crime, namely, designating one night a year on which the rule of law is suspended, and anything is legal, even murder.


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Rochelle, My Belle

Born in New York on May 17, 1976, Rochelle Aytes is quickly establishing herself as one of Hollywood's brightest starlets with an impressive film and television career on the rise. Rochelle is now starring on Mistresses, ABC's new, nighttime soap opera ...


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