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Pasture Of Muppets: Inside the Metallica Reviews Scandal | Listening Post from Wired.com

Posted by Damianmann from Blog.wired

Agents of Metallica managed another internet debacle last week, caused this time by preposterous demands that journalists who attended a listening party for the upcoming Metallica album pull their subsequent reviews. Only one publication refused: The Quietus.

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One of the Girls: BBF in the City

Posted by Shemuses

As the black best friend in Sex and the City: The Movie, Jennifer Hudson plays a tired role.

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Comic actor Harvey Korman dies at 81 - CNN.com

Posted by Damianmann from CNN

Harvey Korman, the tall, versatile comedian who won four Emmys for his outrageously funny contributions to "The Carol Burnett Show" and played a conniving politician to hilarious effect in "Blazing Saddles," died Thursday. He was 81.

The guy made me laugh very hard as a kid. He'll be missed.

http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=g2075uk9yw

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America’s Porn Culture -- Corporate drive for profits is damaging girls

Posted by Shemuses

College-age women often come to Professor Gail Dines in tears after she lectures about how popular culture has become poisoned with a hyper sexuality that demands women offer themselves to any man who asks. The young women feel isolated and alone because they refuse to degrade themselves in exchange for male companionship, said the professor of sociology and women's studies at Wheelock College in Boston and founder of the Stop Porn Culture movement. It's time to end a corporate-driven effort to promote "slut culture" in the United States, Professor Dines said.

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The Real Fight Over Fake News

Posted by Jeff from Bits.blogs.nytimes

Full episodes of three Comedy Central shows - "The Daily Show," "The Colbert Report" and "South Park" - will start being Webcast, both on MTV-owned sites and on the Fancast site from Comcast. (Comedy Central, which is owned by Viacom's MTV Networks unit, has been Webcasting "South Park" episodes for a few months.)

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Sydney Pollack dies of cancer at 73

Posted by Damianmann from Breitbart

An agent for actor and director Sydney Pollack says the Academy Award winner has died. He was 73.

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Palestinian Youth Express Themselves Through Hip-Hop

Posted by Shemuses

May 2008 marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Nakba - Arabic for catastrophe, the expulsion of the Palestinian people and creation of the state of Israel. However, the Palestinian Diaspora decided to commemorate it with a different image: sharing and performing hip-hop. A commemoration concert was recently held here at the Civic Center Plaza and it was free and open to the public. Performers were male and female. They ranged in ethnic backgrounds -from Palestinian and other Arab nationalities, to African American, Mexican and Caucasian. They had come from across the United States, Canada, the West Bank and Israel.

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