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COMIC-CON 2008: 'Tropic Thunder'

TROPIC THUNDER Paramount may not be showing us any new STAR TREK , but they're showing the heck out of this, with screenings almost every night.

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Related Topix: Ben Stiller, Comedy Movies, Reality Bites, Drama

Yesterday | Deadline Hollywood Daily

Comic-Con Opener: Sunday

Regular DHD readers know I don't do geek. But frequent LA Weekly film reviewer and comic book expert Luke Y Thompson does.

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Related Topix: Steve Coogan

Tue Jul 22, 2008

Kansas.com

The big winners and losers of the summer movie season

The summer movie season is 11 weeks old, so naturally it's time to assess the winners and losers of the season.

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Related Topix: Jon Favreau

Mon Jul 21, 2008

99.3 the FOX

Roger Daltrey: 'Jack Black is Like Elvis'

"He should have been a rock star," Daltrey said of Black. DAILY ENTERTAINMENT PHOTOS: Get the Latest in Fashion, Glamour, and Scandal! The Who frontman Roger Daltrey is begging Jack Black to quit acting and ...

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Roger Daltrey, Tenacious D, The Who, Elvis Presley

Sun Jul 20, 2008

Wired News

The Who: Less Influential Than Def Leppard?

In a taping for VH1 on Saturday in Los Angeles, everyone from Pearl Jam, Tenacious D and Flaming Lips to X-Files spook David Duchovny, Office nerd Rainn Wilson and more showed up to fete The Who.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Tenacious D, The Flaming Lips, Music, Entertainment

Fri Jul 18, 2008

E! Gossip

Chinese Artist Swipes at Kung Fu Panda

Nobody pokes fun at a panda in this town and gets away with it. A Chinese artist known for invoking his country's bamboo-gnawing national symbol in nearly everything that he does has filed a complaint against ...

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Related Topix: World News, China, Asia

Thu Jul 17, 2008

ContactMusic.com

the Who - Roger Daltrey: 'Jack Black is Like Elvis'

THE WHO frontman ROGER DALTREY is begging JACK BLACK to quit acting and become a full-time rocker - likening the TENACIOUS D frontman to ELVIS PRESLEY.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Tenacious D, Roger Daltrey, The Who, Elvis Presley

Examiner.com

Hollywood studios, SAG at impasse after meeting

Jul 16, 2008 9:37 PM AP Hollywood star Jack Black, center, poses with Po the Panda, the main character of "Kung Fu Panda," shown on the screen as actress Lucy Liu, right, and co-director Mark Osborne, left, ...

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Related Topix: Lucy Liu

Wed Jul 16, 2008

Best Week Ever Blog

How Many Crazy Poses Can Jack Black Make In Japan?

A few weeks ago, when Kung Fu Panda premiered in Cannes, we brough you a post asking what is perhaps the unanswerable: How many crazy poses can Jack Black make in one photo shoot? It was an emotional journey, ...

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Tue Jul 15, 2008

Salon.com

Lucy Liu says 'Kung Fu Panda' an improv adventure

Lucy Liu had some trouble learning her lines for the hit summer animated film "Kung Fu Panda." But that wasn't her fault - a lot of the time, she said, there weren't any lines to learn.

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Related Topix: Lucy Liu, Charlie's Angels, Comedy Movies, Action, Adventure, Entertainment

Mon Jul 14, 2008

WFTS

Black signs on for second 'School of Rock '

Actor Jack Black attends the 'Kung Fu Panda' Japan Premiere at Shinjuku Piccadilly on July 14, 2008 in Tokyo, Japan.

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Related Topix: Japan, World News, Entertainment

ContactMusic.com

the Who - the Who Honoured by Foos and Pearl Jam

Legendary rockers THE WHO were honoured by the FOO FIGHTERS and PEARL JAM on Saturday at the third VH1 Rock Honours ceremony.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Tenacious D

Get Reading

Why be kind when VHS no longer matters?

Be Kind Rewind has an interesting - " albeit stupid - " concept behind it. Junkyard worker Jerry lives in a poor American neighbourhood near a power plant, which he is convinced is killing him slowly.

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Sun Jul 13, 2008

National Post

The beauty of side B

The first time most of us met Jack Black was when he stormed into John Cusack's record shop in High Fidelity, ejected the new Belle and Sebastian and blasted Walking on Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves from ...

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Related Topix: John Cusack, Belle & Sebastian, Tim Robbins, Pop/Rock, The Up, Shania Twain, Country

Sat Jul 12, 2008

ContactMusic.com

Jack Black - Black Desperate for 'Badass' Title

Caption: Jack Black and pregnant wife Tanya Haden leaving a medical centre in Beverly Hills Los Angeles, California .... Comedian JACK BLACK was so desperate to become an "American badass" his teenage years ...

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Related Topix: Los Angeles Metro, Drugs

Fri Jul 11, 2008

Houstonpress.com

All's fair in love and war for St. Louis rapper Black Spade

In the 2002 movie Orange County , Jack Black plays a pudgy slacker who manages to get a gal out of her clothing by uttering, "Do you want me to get naked and start the revolution?" Black Spade's future's so ...

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Related Topix: Hip-Hop, The Grouch, Music, Entertainment

Thu Jul 10, 2008

Arizona Republic

Tenacious D 'one-and-a-half songs'

Tenacious D plans to release another album - just don't hold your breath waiting for it.

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Related Topix: Kyle Gass, Pop/Rock, Tenacious D, Music, Entertainment

Wed Jul 09, 2008

Surrey Advertiser Online

Jack Black talks Kung Fu Panda

ACTOR Jack Black talks about his latest role as the voice of unlikely hero Po in Kung Fu Panda.

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XtraMSN Real Estate

"Hancock" beats panda at box office

Boozing superhero "Hancock" shot to the top of the box office at the weekend, recording one of the year's highest opening takes and keeping Po the panda off the No.

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Related Topix: C. S. Lewis, Vocal

ContactMusic.com

Jack Black - Black Beat Bad Habit with Anti-Depressant

Caption: Jack Black 'Kung Fu Panda' UK Premiere held at the Vue Leicester Square - Arrivals London, England .... Funnyman JACK BLACK has conquered his smoking habit with antidepressant medicine Wellbutrin.

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Related Topix: World News, United Kingdom, Smoking, Medicine, Health, Nicotine, NicoDerm, Nicotine (generic), Medication, Zyban, Wellbutrin, Bupropion (generic)

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