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Download the Sunset Strip Music Festival mixtape

Kevin from BuzzBands sums up my sentiment about the Sunset Strip perfectly: Oh, Sunset Strip, you conflict me so. On one hand you are an interactive museum of rock clichés, Madame Tussauds with a pulse and a Flying V, a … Continue reading

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The 82nd Academy Award winners: were your predictions right?

A list of the winners of the 82nd Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, for “Inglourious Basterds” Best Animated Feature Film: “Up” Best Original Song: “The Weary Kind (Theme From Crazy Heart),” music and lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone … Continue reading

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Jared Leto’s bomb scare just a bag of dough

People may not dig Jared Leto‘s guylinery rock star look these days, but that’s no reason to freak him out with a bomb threat.The star and his band, 30 Seconds to Mars, had arrived for an appearance in West Hollywood … Continue reading

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Hollywood writers take their research seriously

Mark Boal was crouched on the ground, preparing for impact. A freelance journalist and screenwriter, Boal had gone to Iraq and was working with a bomb-defusal squad as research for a Playboy article that would later inspire the movie “The … Continue reading

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Hollywood goes to Copenhagen climate summit

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Think melting arctic ice caps are the biggest threat from global warming? Dangers to polar bears? Think again, and think fast. To hear film director Michael Nash and others talk, bigger issues are national security and … Continue reading

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Gervais says stars in for teasing at Golden Globes

Ricky Gervais said he plans to play it loose and off-the-cuff as host of next month’s Golden Globes, with Frank Sinatra and his pals as role models. “I want to host it a little bit more like someone from the … Continue reading

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