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Seth Rogen stars in the action comedy The Green Hornet and takes the action comic hero genre in a whole new direction. For this film nothing is sacred and all of it is fun. We get the beginnings of the duo Green Hornet and Kato and see all the ego pounding and putdowns that go into the process. Rogen is a funny guy and he has found his perfect screen partner in Jay Chou who gives Kato more personality than he has had in any previous incarnations.
The film gives the back story of poor little rich kid Britt Reid (Rogen) who was bullied by his father until he became a petty

Collider is reporting that Summit Entertainment has hired Jon and Erich Hoeber to pen a sequel to their hit comic book adaptation Red. As you recall, the film opened to around $22 million in mid-October and stuck around seemingly forever, ending up with $90 million in domestic grosses and $164 million worldwide. In an age where every film seems targeted younger and younger, Red was a diamond in the rough, a spy-comedy that was all about the older generation. It was, at its core, an action comedy/romantic caper starring Bruce Willis and Mary Louise-Parker, but it had scene-stealing supporting turns for Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, Brian Cox, Morgan Freeman, Richard Dreyfuss, and Earnest

When you dream of travel, do you hear Robin Leach narrating your trip? Do you have champagne tastes but a beer budget? Here are some ways that you can roll like Brangelina and Lindsay Lohan, as well as some people you might actually respect, like Heidi and Seal or Chris and Gwyneth.
Before we share some Poshbrood picks to inspire impromptu packing, here are five key tips to keep in mind:
Be flexible on dates. Try the Caribbean in the off season. It can save you up to 50%! If you’re a risk taker, go to the Caribbean at the height of hurricane season for even greater price breaks.
The best deals available often depend on the time of

It’s all change, baby, and with that in mind we’re experimenting with the format of the podcast. We’ve stripped away the news, theatrical releases and homevid segments — they’ll be combined with our weekly Post-Mortem bull session to form the Cinefantastique Round Table Podcast later this week. What’s left, now dubbed the Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast and debuting here, will provide us with time to stretch out, unhinge our brains and mouths, and let the conversation about the week’s top release take us where it will.
And brother, do we have a kick-off film for the new format.

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A potentially unprecedented change in venture capital and in the funding of the science sector is on the cards as a consequence of today’s economic climate and the austerity measures that are being introduced by many governments around the world, including the G7. Partly a consequence of the global financial crisis, this period of simultaneous change has additional consequences in the manner in which funding in the science sector and venture capital interact with, and affect, one another. These changes have created a perfect storm.
The science sector
The whole spectrum of sciences, including vitally important areas such as cleantech, life sciences and biotech, and engineering, is facing extreme upheaval, particularly related to the funding of scientific research. In an overall difficult economic situation, cuts by governments in the area of blue-skies research and less funding available from corporates have created an environment in which the funding of science that is not immediately of commercial value is seen as unnecessary, imprudent, and

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
– Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, Sweden, December 11, 1964.
At the time of the Martin Luther King,

Tom Ferguson was an actor. You’ve never heard his name. You wouldn’t have recognize him if you sat next to him at a restaurant. He was a B-movie character

Broadway is mired in tradition. Much of these traditions are based on gentlemen’s agreements that have been in place since before anyone reading this was born. For instance, there are no reviews prior to opening night because of an informal agreement between the press and the Broadway League (which is comprised of theater owners and operators, producers, presenters and general managers). In light of the Spider-Man debacle, I have been wondering if this tradition — which has continued even as its supporting traditions have dissipated — will be forever destroyed and, more importantly, whether the way we do things now is somewhat

France’s Foreign Minister, Michele Alliot-Marie, put her post-colonial foot in it when she proposed before the National Assembly on January 12 that France could offer its know-how to the Tunisian police in order to cope with the country’s fraught security situation.
To be fair, the seasoned cabinet member, who was formerly France’s Interior Minister, made her remarks before the “Jasmine Revolution” reached its paroxysm, on 14 January, when the dictator Ben Ali, more helpless and more hastily than the Shah, fled Tunisia in an airplane, which found a circuitous route to… Saudi Arabia.
What the French minister said, which caused one opposition figure to call for her resignation, was that, “The know-how of our security forces, which is recognized by the entire world, makes possible the handling of security situations of this type. This is the reason for which we in effect propose to the two countries [Algeria and Tunisia] to enable them, in the framework of our cooperation, to act in order that the right to demonstrate can take place at the same time that security is assured.” [Note: This is the author's personal translation from French]
What Mme. Alliot-Marie was presumably reacting to was the appalling use of live fire by the Tunisian police and security services, which resulted in dozens of deaths and which Ben Ali, in one of a series of desperate concessions on TV, promised to end.
There is a back story here, which the French minister referred to only obliquely, in the phrase, “in the framework of our cooperation.” The fact is that the French have been in bed with Ben Ali for a long

The insiders in Washington really really want to cut Social Security, and they are prepared to say or do anything to do it. Among the latest lines is that they want to make Social Security more “progressive.” This sort of rhetoric appeared in a report from the liberal Center for American Progress (CAP) in a plan that proposes substantial cuts in benefits.
To understand what CAP and other proponents of increasing the progressivity of Social Security mean, consider the idea of raising marginal tax rate paid by many middle-income people from 25 percent to 35 percent. The current 25 percent bracket begins at an income of $34,500 for singles, and $69,000 for couples.
Raising this tax rate by 10 percentage points would be a substantial hit to tens of millions of families who are certainly middle class by anyone’s definition. However, this tax increase would also be

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In the week or so since its publication, Amy Chua’s controversial Wall Street Journal essay prescribing “Chinese” parenting has run through the system like a bad case of food poisoning. There has been nausea, intense pain, and now a seemingly massive wave of relief: She didn’t mean it, after all! (Journalist Jeff Yang reported that the book from which the “excerpt” was taken offers a far more nuanced, chastened message; Chua crosses her heart that she had no idea how the fragments would be edited; Asian American critics who had decried her harmful message now look abashed as if they are themselves to blame for having misjudged her.)
Despite the frenzy of responses both in and now outside the Asian American community, however, I’ve not seen anyone name my deepest dismay about this essay. And as the piece continues to circulate — through the delayed but ever-widening network of emails forwarded — that neglected point becomes only more salient: Long after we have tired (as we have already begun to tire) of Facebook-posting or retweeting rebuttals and responses to Chua’s piece, it will still be finding its way to Asian parents like my own.
In light of this, to the extent that the book and essay do not align, the essay is more reprehensible, not less.
Because you see, the WSJ essay will reach these immigrant parents without context. It will not be accompanied by the outpouring of blogs and comments, testifying that parenting methods like those the article champions have driven their writers (or siblings) to therapy (or

Horrifying, but rare events, like the killings in Arizona, sometimes result in changes in public policy that calm the fears evoked by the events, but which may not actually reduce the risk that they will occur again. Of course, calming public fears can be useful, particularly to elected officials, who need to show their constituents that they are taking action to protect them from what everyone hopes are preventable events. Hopes, however, are not realities. Sadly, not all terrible events are

Sixteen months ago, President Obama stood in the well of Congress and issued a ringing call for a progressive vision of government. Working to persuade Members of Congress to adopt health care reform, he said that “large-heartedness… is part of the American character. Our ability to stand in other people’s shoes. A recognition that we are all in this together; that when fortune turns against one of us, others are there to lend a helping hand.” Many took comfort from that vision, the first avowedly affirmative one we had heard from a President about the government he leads in many a

Everyone knows that exercise is good for their health and longevity, but so few of us are willing to get off our butts and actually do it. According to a 2009 Roper poll, only one in four Americans can manage to squeeze in a half-hour of exercise five times a week. This despite the mountain of data proving that exercise extends lives. A study by the Institute for Aerobics Research in Dallas, for example, found that men who became fit decreased their risk of dying of any disease by a remarkable 44 percent.
On

If you think Don Kirshner was just some guy who Paul Shaffer impersonated — brilliantly, I might add — on Saturday Night Live, you would be very wrong. Kirshner — sometimes known as the Man With The Golden Ears — was a central figure in the Brill Building era that brought the world lots of the most sublime popular music of the 20th century written by the legendary likes of Carole King and Gerry Goffin, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield, to name just a few. “They were the gods,” Neil Diamond once told me of those Brill Building greats, and Don Kirshner was the man who signed the gods, or as Neil once called Kirshner, “The Mayor of the Brill Building. ”
I really wish that I’d been around to walk those Brill Building halls back

The tighter belts being worn of late are leaving less room for baby bumps. According to data released in December by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, births for 2009 continued the downward trend begun in 2008, and 2010 data indicate more of the same. Falling birthrates often breed anxiety: Who will do the work; who will pay the Social Security taxes of the future? But in reality, the declining baby rates — prompted by the recession, many experts say — actually bode well for women, their families and the nation.
That’s because, while the birthrate declined 3% overall, the underlying story is delay. And delay is good.
For the second year running, younger women are putting off kids in much greater numbers than older

On Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, we commonly remember the great civil rights leader’s struggle to peacefully end segregation, but the King commemorations often fail to mention another key part of his legacy. That’s why, on January 13, I joined a group of homeowners, elected officials and community advocates to call attention to another part of Dr. King’s dream that is in grave danger.

America Ferrera huddled in a back booth at B. Smith restaurant chatting with her pal, Gilmore Girl Alexis Bledel, the occasion: the 500th performance of the off-Broadway gem, Love Loss and What I Wore, by Nora and Delia Ephron based on a book by Ilene Beckerman aka Gingy. Nearby sat Nikki Blonsky, Judy Gold, Anita Gillette, Pauletta Washington (who I’d first met at last spring’s Fences opening night with her husband Denzel); the fine actresses in the new ensemble held court at tables crowded with celebrants, including Ferrera’s fianc Ryan Piers Williams and Gilmore grandma actress Kelly Bishop. I have seen the play 3 times but that does not qualify me as a regular, Gingy

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Regis Philbin announces retirement plan
Veteran US broadcaster Regis Philbin has announced he is retiring from his weekday talk show, which he has hosted for more than 25 years.
The 79-year-old presenter said he would step down from Live With Regis and Kelly around the end of the summer.
“There is a time that everything must come to an end for certain people on camera – especially certain old people,” he said.
The show will continue with Kelly Ripa and a new replacement.
Philbin, who began his TV career in the 1950s, has also presented the US version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and the first series of America's Got

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Beheading trial opens in New York for TV executive

As the infamous dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier returns to Haiti after 25 years in exile in the south of France, the U.S. State Department and the French Foreign Ministry have been ratcheting up the pressure on the impoverished, earthquake-destroyed, and cholera stricken country of Haiti.
The pressure is not to prosecute the dictator for his atrocities, as human rights groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have recommended. The pressure is to force the government of Haiti to accept the decision of the United States and France as to who should be allowed to compete in the second round of Haiti’s presidential election.
It is worth looking at the details of this international subversion of the democratic process in Haiti just to see just how outrageous it is.
The first thing to notice is how unusual it is for any electoral authority to change the results of an election without a full recount of the vote. Imagine that happening in Florida in 2000, or Mexico in 2006, or in any close, disputed election with