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Actress Angela Bassett brought a passionate message to the Twin Cities on Thursday night. via KAAL

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“This one just had an intensity to it. People who have seen it say it's definitely the most intense movie I've made and if it's not, then I did it improperly”

If there is one thing director M. Night Shyamalan enjoys, it is spooking audiences with his supernatural movies, and he promises his June release, "The Happening," will be the scariest ride yet. via Tuscola County Advertiser

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“This was a horrible crime committed senselessly”

A 21-year-old Lutz man will spend the rest of his life in prison for the shooting death of a Marine who served tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. via Tampa Bay Online

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Lionsgate has revealed the plot for Saw V , coming to theaters on October 24. The studio says that in the fifth installment, Hoffman is seemingly the last person alive to carry on the Jigsaw legacy. via ComingSoon.net

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Thou shalt find the Ten Commandments up for bid this summer. A pair of faux granite tablets that Charlton Heston cradled in the 1956 biblical epic "The Ten Commandments" is expected to fetch as much as $60,000, ... via Florida Times-Union

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“Moon River, a lazy stream of dreams”

Who was the first actress on a U.S. postage stamp? Strictly speaking, it was Ethel Barrymore, on a 1982 stamp with her brothers Lionel and John. via Contra Costa Times

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Caption: Susan Sarandon. Tribeca Film Festival 2008 premiere of 'Speed Racer' - Arrivals. via ContactMusic.com

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“In my zeal to oppose anti-Semitism and bigotry in all its ugly forms, I have often emphasized the darkest chapters in the history of Catholics and Protestant relations with the Jews”

Influential Texas evangelist John Hagee, center, leads a march of Christians in support of Israel in Jerusalem in this file photo. via San Diego Union-Tribune

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Actress Drew Barrymore arrives at "A Night to Benefit Raising Malawi and UNICEF" at United Nations headquarters on Feb. via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Malaysian author Preeta Samarasan reads from her debut novel Evening is the Whole Day . via Bostonist

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