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Video: Taylor Swift's Hilarious SNL Musical Monologue

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Ah, revenge. After much anticipation, Taylor Swift finally got her chance to get back at Kanye West for storming the stage and interrupting her acceptance speech at September's MTV Video Music Awards. But Kanye wasn't the only one to feel the singer's (good-natured) sting. Dressed in a sparkly minidress and strumming a guitar, the star, 19, performed "Monologue Song (La La La)", featuring choice lines like, "You might think that I like writing songs about douche bags who cheat on me," and "Hey Joe! I'm doing really well!," apparently directed at former beau Joe Jonas. Check out the entire video - See more »

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Ho-Ho-Hum Weekend for Jim Carrey; Ho-Ho-Worse for Cameron Diaz

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Holiday movie season and high Oscar season have kicked off. But only one is kicking butt. While Jim Carrey's A Christmas Carol led a bah-humbug weekend with an underwhelming $31 million, per estimates, the Oprah Winfrey- and Tyler Perry-backed award-show contender Precious grossed a stunning $1.8 million at only 18 theaters. Elsewhere, Michael Jackson's This Is It did its thing (solid $14 million here, bigger $29 million overseas), George Clooney's The Men Who Stare at Goats ($13.3 million) did better than expected for a movie with goats and George Clooney See more »

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Exclusive: NCIS Gets Real U.S. Secretary of the Navy for a Cameo

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The United States Secretary of the Navy will make a guest appearance on an upcoming episode of NCIS, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.

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Secretary Ray Mabus will appear in the Nov. 24 Thanksgiving episode entitled "Child's Play," a rep for the show tells us. Mabus will play an NCIS agent.

Watch Mabus on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

In the episode, Gibbs (Mark Harmon) and the team have to put their Thanksgiving plans on hold when the investigation of a dead See more »

- Adam Bryant

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Good Morning, Oscar: November 8

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By Steve Pond

In this weekend’s roundup of Oscar news ‘n’ notes from around the web, France comes on strong, “A Christmas Carol” divides the critics, and biopics both good and bad are scrutinized.

 

Anne Thompson and Kris Tapley spend their weekly podcast approving of the choice of Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, lauding Jeff Bridges and “Crazy Heart,” and looking at the potential animated-feature nominees. Kris loves “Disney’s A Christmas Carol.” Anne, who hasn’t seen it, is skeptical. (In Contention) (Thompson on Holly... See more »

- Steve Pond

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Kick-Ass Character Posters Now Online

6 November 2009 8:08 AM, PST

We’re enormously excited about Kick-Ass, Matthew Vaughn’s balls-out deconstruction of the superhero flick, here at Empire Towers. And the debut of these American posters for the film haven’t changed that one iota.Ever since the news was announced that Vaughn would be adapting (and independently financing) this adaptation of Mark Millar and John Romita Jr’s ultra-violent tale of a young New York teen who becomes a costumed vigilante, there’s been an air of genuine cool about the movie. And the posters, which show only the backs of key characters Kick-Ass, Hit Girl, Big Daddy and Red See more »

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Taylor Swift Spoofs Kanye, Kate Gosselin On SNL (Video)

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Taylor Swift, host of this week's 'Saturday Night Live,' didn't spend much time addressing Kanye West's stage storming incident. She made brief mention in an opening song that included all the topics she doesn't want to talk about. "You might be expecting me to say something about See more »

- Katy Hall

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'Star Wars: The Clone Wars' Episode 2.05: 'Landing At Point Rain'

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Episode Title: "Landing at Point Rain"

Written By: Brian Larsen

Tagline: "Believe in yourself or no one else will."

The Story: It's like a return to "Attack of the Clones," but in a good way. Ever since the opening shots of the Clone Wars were fired on Geonosis in the rescue See more »

- Adam Rosenberg

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Colin Powell and the Stars of Precious Convene at the Crosby Street Hotel

6 November 2009 4:00 PM, PST

Sapphire, Lee Daniels, Gabourey Sidibe, General Colin Powell. From PatrickMcMullan.com. "Every time I get to New York I get nervous because of the New Yorkers," joked director Lee Daniels when introducing his new and much buzzed-about film, Precious, at the Cinema Society and Tommy Hilfiger's screening See more »

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Dan Aykroyd voicing Yogi Bear?

6 November 2009 12:36 AM, PST

Dan Aykroyd, Justin Timberlake and Anna Faris have all signed on to roles in Warners' new live-action/CG take on Yogi Bear. It's true- no matter how much we all try to avoid the fact that this film is on the way, it somehow finds a way See more »

- James White

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Are You Objectified?

6 November 2009 2:17 PM, PST

2Nd Update: We have our winners. Thanks, all! Update: To win a digital copy of Objectified, answer the question below and email editor.filmmakermagazine At gmail.com. Almost three years ago I decided to check out what seemed to be an obscure little documentary about graphic design at SXSW and was See more »

- Scott Macaulay

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