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Lil Wayne 'didn't want to disappear' while behind bars, debuts new album
National Book Award finalists announced: no Franzen
Critic's notebook: Will KCET keep its pledge?
David Milch aims for 'visceral experience' with HBO's 'Luck'
Sad 'Situation' on 'Dancing With the Stars'
Q&A: Mike Farrell and Jim Parrack in Edmund White's 'Terre Haute'
On the Media: Where's Muhammad? Not on many comics pages
Classic Hollywood: An epic restoration effort
Album review: Antony and the Johnsons' 'Swanlights'
CNN plunges to worst ratings in more than 10 years

Lil Wayne 'didn't want to disappear' while behind bars, debuts new album

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 06:03 PM PDT

Though he's been behind bars for the past seven months, Lil Wayne still manages to put his fans first.

Though he's been behind bars for the past seven months, Lil Wayne still manages to put his fans first.

National Book Award finalists announced: no Franzen

Posted: 13 Oct 2010 08:41 AM PDT

The National Book Award finalists announcement Wednesday morning in Savannah, Ga., contained one major surprise: The acclaimed bestselling novel by Jonathan Franzen, "Freedom," failed to make the list.

Critic's notebook: Will KCET keep its pledge?

Posted: 13 Oct 2010 12:00 AM PDT

The public television station says it will be in a better position to serve the community after its split from PBS. We'll see.

The public television station says it will be in a better position to serve the community after its split from PBS. We'll see.

David Milch aims for 'visceral experience' with HBO's 'Luck'

Posted: 13 Oct 2010 08:02 AM PDT

HBO hit the trifecta with the creative team for the upcoming series "Luck" -- writer David Milch, director Michael Mann and star Dustin Hoffman bring a lot of Hollywood horsepower to a series about racetrack culture and the dark deals made by gamblers and gangsters.

Sad 'Situation' on 'Dancing With the Stars'

Posted: 13 Oct 2010 08:28 AM PDT

We know Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino's tango was the exact opposite of fist-pumping, but did he really deserve to leave "Dancing With the Stars" before a few others?

Q&A: Mike Farrell and Jim Parrack in Edmund White's 'Terre Haute'

Posted: 13 Oct 2010 12:00 AM PDT

Farrell ('MASH') and Parrack ('True Blood') discuss their work in the Blank Theatre Company production.

Farrell ('MASH') and Parrack ('True Blood') discuss their work in the Blank Theatre Company production.

On the Media: Where's Muhammad? Not on many comics pages

Posted: 13 Oct 2010 12:00 AM PDT

Many papers pull a 'Non Sequitur' comic satirizing U.S. media's hesitancy to offend radical Islam. The cartoon should have run.

Many papers pull a 'Non Sequitur' comic satirizing U.S. media's hesitancy to offend radical Islam. The cartoon should have run.

Classic Hollywood: An epic restoration effort

Posted: 13 Oct 2010 12:00 AM PDT

History glows on the screen as Paramount introduces a digital restoration of the longer, road show version of 1956's 'The Ten Commandments.'

History glows on the screen as Paramount introduces a digital restoration of the longer, road show version of 1956's 'The Ten Commandments.'

Album review: Antony and the Johnsons' 'Swanlights'

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 05:54 PM PDT

In the 144-page book of his collages and paintings that Antony Hegarty put out as a companion to "Swanlights," there's an illustration of a bloodied polar bear.

In the 144-page book of his collages and paintings that Antony Hegarty put out as a companion to "Swanlights," there's an illustration of a bloodied polar bear.