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Holiday-themed sequel features "pot"-pourri of stoner hijinks

As with Cheech and Chong's string of classic stoner comedies of a generation ago, it looks like longevity might also be in store for relatively-nerdy Harold & Kumar's series of similarly-themed, Marijuana misadventures.


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Does the GOP even want the Black vote?

Have you ever noticed how few African-American Republicans there are? At any Grand Old Party gathering you see on TV, there are generally so few Blacks in attendance that they tend to stand out like a sore thumb.


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'Anonymous,' 'All's Faire in Love,' 'The Rum Diary,' and more

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


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PBS documentary "Slavery by Another Name" examines brutal conditions post-emancipation

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Laurence Fishburne is the narrator for an upcoming PBS documentary on black workers in the post-slavery South.


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Darryl Roberts Stars in Sequel Exploring Body Image

Are you overweight? There's a very good chance that the National Institute of Health (NIH) might consider you obese. That's because in 1998 it lowered the threshold from 28 to 25 on the Body-Mass Index (BMI) index.


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Lives forever changed when they became Freedom Riders during the civil rights era

The play, by the award-winning Atlanta-based writer Pearl Cleage offers an intimate story of an African-American couple whose lives were forever changed after they became Freedom Riders, during the civil rights era.

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"You Betcha!" is a journey across Alaska's anti-Sarah landscape

Fair warning: This revealing expose' is not for diehard supporters of Sarah Palin. The damning biopic essentially paints the former governor of Alaska as less of a Mama Grizzly Bear than a power-hungry witch who goes to great lengths to crush her adversaries, whether they be political or personal.


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Freed prisoners will attend showings of "Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory" in New York

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Three men released nearly two decades after they were convicted of killing three Arkansas Cub Scouts are in New York for a movie screening about their case.


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Kam's Kapsules: Weekly previews that make choosing a film fun

"The Ides of March" (R for pervasive profanity): George Clooney wrote, directed and co-stars in this adaptation of the play "Farragut North," a political potboiler about an idealistic press secretary (Ryan Gosling) who compromises a presidential candidate's prospects by becoming embroiled in a scandal while on the campaign trail. With Marisa Tomei, Paul Giamatti, Philip Seymour Hoffman Jeffrey Wright and Evan Rachel Wood.


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Country singer brought up Hitler when describing presidential golf outing

BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) -- ESPN pulled Hank Williams Jr.'s classic intro song from its broadcast of Monday night's NFL game after the country singer famous for the line "Are you ready for some football?" used an analogy to Adolf Hitler in discussing President Barack Obama.

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