4.27.2012

4.23.2012

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Think tops weekend box office


Who’da thunk it? Think Like a Man, Tim Story’s romantic comedy starring Kevin Hart and a raft of newcomers, outpointed The Lucky One, with Zac Efron, and the one-time money monster, The Hunger Games, at the U.S. box office this weekend.
Logo: © 2012 Sony Pictures. Box office data courtesy Rentrak. © 2012 Rentrak Corporation.

4.22.2012

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Jack at 75



“A man who, it sometimes seems, more than any other actor alive, happily looms like some trickster colossus over the entire Hollywood landscape ... and no one anywhere begrudges him his dominion.”

Life.com: Photos of an actor on the brink
HuffPo: John Farr on Jack's greatest hits
Photo: © 1969 Arthur Schatz, Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
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April, the cruelest month



CNN: Dick Clark, the eternal American teenager, television producer and a tireless champion of rock culture and its music, dies at 82 on Wednesday. 

Rolling Stone: Levon Helm, the drummer for The Band and that group’s indelible “beautifully gruff and ornery voice,” gone on Thursday at the age of 71.

Sydney Morning Herald: Greg Ham, the saxophonist whose distinctive sound made Men at Work a staple of 80’s rock, was found dead at his home in Melbourne on Thursday. He was 58.
Photos: Clark: Associated Press via The Washington Post
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