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updated: Sun Jul 06, 2008 07:31 pm

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4 hrs ago | USA Today

Reality TV's new target: Flipped-verdict dramas

Reality television, which has probed virtually every aspect of American life, is looking to enter a gritty part of the criminal justice system: the campaign to exonerate the innocent.

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Related Topix: National Geographic, Federal Prisons, Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York, Entertainment, Television

19 hrs ago | Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter

Dennis Hernet/Seniorside: Today's TV shows can't compare to the oldies

Viewing a list of old TV shows that are no longer on the tube made me realize "TV ain't what it used to be." And in many cases, that's unfortunate.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Soap Opera, Entertainment, Television, Jack Webb, Harry Morgan, Red Skelton, Carol Burnett

Sat Jul 05, 2008

Whittier Daily News

Cal Phil opens its summer season under the stars

The only confusion at the June 28 California Philharmonic concert at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanical Garden, which opened the orchestra's new season of outdoor concerts at the Arcadia venue, was ...

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Related Topix: Los Angeles County, CA, Home Gardening, Home, Arcadia, CA, San Gabriel, CA, Walt Disney

Atlantic Monthly

Ross Douthat

Matt pays a visit to the galaxy far, far away: I was watching Star Wars IV: A New Hope last night on television, and somehow it occurred to me for the first time that a new generation who watches the six movie ...

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Related Topix: Star Wars

WETA-TV Arlington

The WETA Movie: Dial M for Murder

Master filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock mixes suspense and mystery with dangerous romance in the story of a three-cornered love affair that leads to murder.

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Related Topix: Alfred Hitchcock, Thriller, Crime Movies, Dial M for Murder, Mystery Movies, Murder!, Drama, Television

Fri Jul 04, 2008

Pasadena Star-News

Dr. Seuss silliness comes alive

Seussical The Musical cast practice during the first vocal rehearsal at Covina Center for the Performing Arts in Covina on June 26, 2008.

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Related Topix: Children, El Monte, CA, San Gabriel, CA, Anaheim, CA

The New Zealand Herald

Author's grave attacked

The gravestone of Denmark storyteller Hans Christian Andersen has been vandalised at a cemetery in Copenhagen, in response to the city ridding a wall of graffiti.

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Related Topix: Hans Christian Andersen

Thu Jul 03, 2008

Scotsman.com Living

Film of the week: The Mist

DIRECTED BY: FRANK DARABONT STARRING: THOMAS JANE, MARCIA GAY HARDEN, LAURIE HOLDEN, TOBY JONES AFTER The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, writer/director Frank Darabont makes a third trip to the ...

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Related Topix: Stephen King

Regina Leader Post

Cuba marks anniversary of Hemingway death

The bell tolled for Ernest Hemingway Wednesday as Cubans marked the 47th anniversary of his death by ringing a bell and playing music from the opera "Aida" at his home outside Havana.

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Related Topix: Ernest Hemingway, Arts, Opera, Cuba, World News, Central America, Ketchum, ID

Poughkeepsie Journal

It's time for TV marathons

The Fourth of July weekend has traditionally been a time when many TV programmers - presumably in cahoots with the manufacturers of DVRs - give over their schedules to 'marathons.' That's a nice word to ...

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Related Topix: Alfred Hitchcock, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, Entertainment, Drama, Television

The Ledger

That Was the Week That Was

Published: Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 12:00 a.m. Entertainment highlights during the week of July 6-12: 1935: Jimmy Stewart's first film, "Murder Man," opened.

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Related Topix: Jack Webb, Soap Opera, Dragnet, Entertainment, Drama, Television

Telegram & Gazette

Washington's boyhood home found, but no hatchet

This undated image provided by National Geographic and George Washington Foundation, George Washington Foundation director of archaeology David Muraca, left, and GWF research fellow Philip Levy examine evidence ...

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Related Topix: National Geographic, Archaeology, Anthropology, Science, Fredericksburg, VA

Wed Jul 02, 2008

Silver Bullet Comics

Dark Tower: Long Road Home #5 Preview

One of 2008's best-selling series, Dark Tower: The Long Road Home, comes to its conclusion today in Dark Tower: The Long Road Home #5! The chart-topping team of writers Robin Furth & Peter David, artists Jae ...

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Related Topix: Stephen King

AdelaideNow...

Hans Christian Andersen tomb vandalised

THE gravestone of Denmark's famed storyteller Hans Christian Andersen has been vandalised at a cemetery in Copenhagen.

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Los Angeles Times

Tolkien's children fight for 'Lord of the Rings' gold

SO 'THE LORD OF THE RINGS' made no money. Let me amend that. The film trilogy, which grossed $2.96 billion worldwide at the box office and $3 billion or so more in DVD and ancillary markets, has not made any ...

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Related Topix: Media, J.R.R. Tolkien, Entertainment

Digital Spy

Promo Graphic

Director: Frank Darabont Screenwriters: Frank Darabont Starring: Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Toby Jones, Andre Braugher, Laurie Holden Running Time: 127 mins Certificate: 15 The last two times Frank ...

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Related Topix: Stephen King

Reuters

Prince Caspian tops box office

Three years after "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," the second filmed instalment of C.S. Lewis' Narnia books is back on top of the box office.

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Related Topix: C. S. Lewis

E! Gossip

Cohen, Ferrell Feel Right at Holmes With Apatow

Here's an elementary bit of casting. Sacha Baron Cohen and Will Ferrell are set to star as Sherlock Holmes and Dr.

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Related Topix: Sacha Baron Cohen, Will Ferrell, Arthur Conan Doyle, Entertainment, Drama, Television

Tue Jul 01, 2008

Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day

Your Shot and the Ranidae clan

Last week, here, we wrote about The Big Picture and its innovative use of, well, big pictures.

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Related Topix: National Geographic

The Post Chronicle

Chicago Blackbirds 'Bird Attacks' Blamed On Mating

Chicago residents fending off blackbirds in a series of bird attacks in their city streets have been told it should stop in late July after mating season ends.

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Related Topix: Alfred Hitchcock, Horror, Drama, The Birds, Thriller, Offbeat

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