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Russell Brand’s gobsmacking TV interview
British comedian Russell Brand takes down ‘Morning Joe’ hosts as they struggle to control the interview and even get his name wrong. Some people like Russell Brand.
Feel the force of my fist, Who fan
Star Wars and Dr Who fans have finally settled the age-old question of who’s the hardest. It turns out neither, although both are equally sad
It’s All Free!
James Phung saw Phone Booth before you did.
For Lithium Car Batteries, Bolivia Is in the Driver’s Seat
Breaking America’s dependence on foreign energy supplies and suppliers who often don’t like the U.S. is a driving force behind the search for alternative fuels.
A Legacy Lost
Just before daybreak on a rainy summer morning last July, three large trucks pulled up to the gates of an outdoor sculpture museum south of Seoul with some unusual passengers. The trucks were carrying 70 wooden crates: inside, carefully wrapped in felt, lay the statues of 65 Korean scholars, one warrior and four children.
‘This Is It’ pulls in record $2.2 mil
Even after his death, Michael Jackson is breaking records. “It wasn’t really like going to the movies, it was more of going to a V.I.P.
Review: Von Trier’s ‘Antichrist’ an atrocity
An infant falls to his death from a second-story window while his parents are making love. The mother (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is consumed with grief and guilt
The Screening Room’s top 10 movie shoots from hell
Budgets spiraling out of control; cast and crew on the verge of collapse; sets destroyed: Just a few of the catastrophes to afflict the ill-fated productions in The Screening Room’s Top 10 movie shoots from hell. From “Cleopatra” to “Apocalypse Now,” these infamous productions have all been struck by extreme weather, tragedy, illness and sometimes death.
Iran acknowledges second nuclear facility
The United States, France and Britain have presented “detailed evidence” to the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog that “Iran has been building a covert uranium enrichment facility,” President Obama said Friday before the start of the G-20 economic summit. Iran’s newly unveiled uranium enrichment facility “is inconsistent with a peaceful (nuclear) program,” Obama said.