G.O.P. Bob Turner gains House seat vacated by Anthony D. Weiner.
Andrew O'Hehir sat a few rows away from Madonna at Toronto.
See the anti-iPhone game that Apple doesn't want you to play.
Orson Welles's original version of The Magnificent Ambersons may be lost to history, but even the compromised cut is a masterpiece—and it's finally on DVD.
Jani Lane, the golden-haired former lead singer of 1980s hair-metal band Warrant, was found dead on Thursday in a hotel room in Woodland Hills, California. He was 47.
So, who do you think won last night's Republican snipefest?
Adrian Martin takes a look at the work of Larry Clark.
NYCers: get your bread from these places.
Do the London rioters respect reading?
The Suquamish tribe in Washington approves same-sex marriage.
Related: Bert and Ernie do not have penises.
Below is the Spike Jonze-directed music video for Jay-Z & Kanye West's "Otis," from their Watch the Throne album:
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Ten years and a diagnosis later, 9/11 demons haunt thousands.
The London riots have dealt indie music a devastating blow.
Related: Pictures from the front.
Marilyn Monroe is exploding Chicago's sense of decorum.
Dennis Harvey on the gutsy legacy of Herschell Gordon Lewis.
Josh Olson will not read your fucking script.
98-year-old woman becomes first woman ever to earn Judo's highest-degree black belt.
Bright Lights Film Journal's new issue is now live.
For Alt Screen, Jim Emerson reviews Buster Keaton's Our Hospitality.
Republicans hold on to Wisconsin Senate after recall vote.
Frances Bean Cobain is looking good.
Some thoughts on The Searchers by Peter Bogdanovich.
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Here are 45 reasons why you should donate $1 to the people of Somalia.
Why House Republicans are confident they have the upper hand in the debt-ceiling negotiations.
Download my girl Robyn's cover of "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall" here.
Tune in to General Hospital today as the ubiquitous you know who makes a return appearance.
The muppets from Sesame Street break it down to my favorite Beastie Boys track.
Below is Michel Gondry's music video for Björk's "Crystalline":
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Get this: Mitt Romney is unemployed.
Emmanuel Lubezki warns of a six-hour cut of The Tree of Life.
Elvis Mitchell lands on his feet yet again.
The Killing needs fixing.
Larry Flynt gives Anthony Weiner an offer he'll probably refuse.
The New York Times reviews Andrew Rossi's Page One: Inside the New York Times.
Rye Rye gets a visit from Robyn.
A reminder that not all Republicans suck.
Who thought it was a good idea to have Rob Zombie direct a Woolite commercial?
That was fast:
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Same-sex marriage within one vote of passage in Albany.
The Academy Awards tweak their Best Picture rules.
Pakistan arrests C.I.A. informants in Osama bin Laden raid.
Paris, here I come.
Finally, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark had its official opening on Tuesday Night. Ben Brantley of The New York Times reviews.
Isabelle Adjani will beat your ass…at least order someone to beat your ass.
Werner Herzog to read Go the Fuck to Sleep for the New York Public Library.
Terrence Malick's parents are alive.
Below, the CNN GOP debate in four minutes:
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Opening a new phase in a race to define the direction of their party, the leading Republican presidential candidates gathered Monday night for the first time to begin drawing distinctions among themselves in a vibrant competition to be seen as sufficiently conservative for primary voters, but electable enough to defeat President Obama.
A disabled boy's death exposes a system in disarray.
Aaron Sorkin and David Carr have a chat.
The real reason gay men don't get fat.
Tracy Morgan is making amends.
A very detailed presentation of Stanley Kubrick's film locations.
MUBI collects tributes to Gunnar Fischer. The Ingmar Bergman collaborator passed away on Saturday. He was 100.
Below is part one of a two-part video series by Kevin B. Lee on David Holzman's Diary (related: David Ehrenstein's piece on the film):
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House Democrats step up calls for Anthony D. Weiner to quit.
Go now to Google and play with their Les Paul-inspired interactive logo.
In the wake of The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) being banned in the U.K., Peter Bradshaw wonders if censorship means anything these days.
If you start today, you'll be caught up with Breaking Bad before the start of its new season.
Outfest reveals its lineup.
Bullz-Eye.com looks back at the history of ultraviolence.
Jon Stewart is disgusted by Weiner's dirty emails.
Yeah, slow news day, folks. Yesterday, Rachel Maddow asked Larry Flynt to weigh in on Republican hypocrisy and the party's "David Vitter problem":
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Democrats scored an upset in one of New York's most conservative Congressional districts on Tuesday, dealing a blow to the national Republican Party in a race that largely turned on the party's plan to overhaul Medicare.
At least 12 people were killed during a series of storms that struck portions of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Arkansas, including a tornado that killed five people near Oklahoma City, officials said Wednesday.
Could conjoined twins share a mind?
Harold Camping reschedules the Rapture.
Christopher Hitchens encourages democracy as a way to stop nuclear proliferation.
No doubt in response to this, New York Magazine whips up a slideshow documenting the history of Barack Obama feigning interest in mundane things.
Oliver Stone almost didn't make Platoon.
For Time Out New York, Keith Uhlich reviews The Tree of Life.
And some thoughts on the film's roots and shoots by Richard Brody.
Jim Emerson on the yeti-ness of Terrence Malick. (To see a picture of the actual yeti, click here.)
Matt Zoller Seitz on the NYC-lovin' season finale of Glee.
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On the occasion of Ebertfest '11 kicking off today, Fandor has a chat with the big man.
The Outer Critics Circle have announced there 2011 nominees.
Republicans are threatening your vote.
Jennifer Eagan wants women writers to shoot high and not cower.
For NPR, Robert Christgau remembers punk pioneer Poly Styrene, who died Monday at the age of 53 of cancer.
The age of America is nearing end.
State Department wants to make it harder to get a passport.
Bravo, Philip Spooner:
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Robbie Pickering's comedy Natural Selection, starring Rachael Harris, sweeps SXSW.
Richard Brody on our current cinematic golden age.
Over at Salon, Matt Zoller Seitz says how the Japan quake has wiped the smirk off cable news, while Andrew O'Hehir looks at Japan's cinema of disaster, from Godzilla to J-horror.
This doesn't happen every day, folks: A Republican says something retarded.
R Emmet Sweeney assesses J. Hoberman's An Army of Phantoms.
The world's worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl worsens by the day.
Back to Salon, David Sirota explains how the '80s programmed us for war and Matt Zoller Seitz declares it's time to wage war on the shaky cam.
Cinema Styles revisits The Deer Hunter and its controversy.
A.O. Scott examines the themes of power and isolation in Orson Welles's Citizen Kane.
Super awesome Mario film bumper from SXSW:
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Banksy is taking over Los Angeles, but will he be allowed to take the stage at the Oscars?
The state of Wisconsin is in near-chaos because of a Republican-sponsored anti-union bill.
Jeopardy! champ Ken Jennings explains what it's like to play against a computer.
Apparently, IKEA has been around longer than we thought.
Was Charlie Chaplin a gypsy?
Dennis Cozzalio compiles some vintage film noir ads and marquees.
Manhattan's cine pervs will be hanging out at the Quad starting today, where Cinema Libre Studio will present a week of sex in cinema; among the films included in the series are Antichrist, Shortbus, Betty Blue.
Mark Harris on the potential death of the Hollywood film.
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Andrew Burton has guts: The Oregonian bought a ticket to Cairo and has taken some of the most striking imagery of the chaos taking place there.
For The New York Review of Books, Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana talk about the Coens' True Grit.
Dissent within the ranks: House Republicans suffered an embarrassing setback Tuesday when they fell seven votes short of extending provisions of the Patriot Act, a vote that served as the first small uprising of the party's tea-party bloc.
This time next year, everyone will be talking about how Meryl Streep deserves an Oscar for playing Margaret Thatcher. Can't wait.
For The New York Times, A.O. Scott looks back at Sydney Pollack's 1982 comedy about show business and sexual identity, Tootsie:
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Robert De Niro has been announced as the President of the Jury of the 64th Cannes Film Festival.
Related: Glenn Kenny ponders De Niro's mystique.
The Republican army's war to repeal Obamacare is taking shape.
Time Out London wakes up with Michelle Williams.
The New Republic has appointed David Thomson to write reviews for their online edition, in a section called "At the Movies."
Salon TV critic Matt Zoller Seitz on The Cape and why TV can't do superheroes.
Jim Emerson has announced Scanners's Exploding Head Awards 2010.
Back at The New Republic, Isaac Chotiner discusses The King's Speech's ugly distortion of history.
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The Senate on Saturday struck down the ban on gay men and lesbians serving openly in the military, bringing to a close a 17-year struggle over a policy that forced thousands of Americans from the ranks and caused others to keep secret their sexual orientation.
By a vote of 65 to 31, with eight Republicans joining Democrats, the Senate approved and sent to President Obama a repeal of the Clinton-era law, known as "don't ask, don't tell," a policy critics said amounted to government-sanctioned discrimination that treated gay and lesbian troops as second-class citizens.
Mr. Obama hailed the action, which fulfills his pledge to reverse the ban. "As commander in chief, I am also absolutely convinced that making this change will only underscore the professionalism of our troops as the best led and best trained fighting force the world has ever known," Mr. Obama said in a statement after the Senate, on a 63-33 vote, beat back Republican efforts to block a final vote on the repeal bill.
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