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• 'Black Swan's' risks pay off
• Andrew Garfield, Mila Kunis hit W's A-list Golden Globes party
• In pop music, a whole new way of doing business
• 'Water for Elephants': Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon join the circus
• TCA Press Tour 2011: FX addresses the competitive cable landscape and introduces a dog to its lineup
• Owen Wilson and Jade Duell have a baby
• The Sunday Conversation: Bill Paxton
• Critic's Notebook: Television's wider, sharper, distorted view
• 2011 Movie Preview: 'Unknown'
• 2011 Movie Preview: 'Cars 2'

'Black Swan's' risks pay off Posted: 15 Jan 2011 05:48 PM PST A horror movie set in the world of ballet? Small budget? Darren Aronofsky? It's an unlikely recipe for a smash hit, and its success is surprising even its makers.

Andrew Garfield, Mila Kunis hit W's A-list Golden Globes party Posted: 15 Jan 2011 04:45 PM PST With every awards weekend there's usually one party that rivals the actual event and W mag hosted that party Friday evening, ahead of the Golden Globe Awards.

In pop music, a whole new way of doing business Posted: The Gorillaz, MIA and the Flaming Lips are among the acts finding creative methods to deliver their music to fans. January has always been slump month when it comes to new pop music. Musicians tend to turn bearlike around this time, hibernating until conditions seem friendlier. Yet the resourceful pop lover will be anything but bored right now, with so much to reap from the eternally sunlit realm of the Internet.

'Water for Elephants': Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon join the circus Posted: Reese Witherspoon called Tai a 'calm, … easygoing presence' during filming, unlike some of the other animals in the circus movie. On the last day of shooting "Water for Elephants," Reese Witherspoon was so upset that she broke down in tears. She hadn't been that saddened by a movie wrapping in years, the actress said, but she had become particularly attached to one costar: an 8,800-pound elephant named Tai.

TCA Press Tour 2011: FX addresses the competitive cable landscape and introduces a dog to its lineup Posted: 15 Jan 2011 05:06 PM PST FX's fall drama "Terriers" was critically acclaimed but was rejected by audiences, and now the new midseason drama "Lights Out" may be in the same boat.

Owen Wilson and Jade Duell have a baby Posted: 15 Jan 2011 01:19 PM PST Duell's pregnancy went public Monday via Us Magazine, which said "Little Fockers" star Wilson and his girlfriend of a year wanted "to do everything as natural as possible."

The Sunday Conversation: Bill Paxton Posted: The actor is relieved that the fifth and final season of HBO's 'Big Love' series is completed. He enjoyed the run, but it took its toll too. As HBO unveils the fifth and final season of "Big Love" Sunday night, Bill Paxton, 55, returns to the dramatic fray as Bill Henrickson, a freshly minted state senator and the patriarch of a polygamous family of sister wives played by Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chloe Sevigny and Ginnifer Goodwin.

Critic's Notebook: Television's wider, sharper, distorted view Posted: Giant screens are impressive, but they don't automatically improve the content. And it's not good when older or historical images are adapted to fit widescreens. I watch TV on a 20-year-old, 21-inch Panasonic television set with a single RF input into which I run a DVD player, a VHS machine and a cable box chained in sequence. It is the only television in the house, though sometimes I do watch things online — on an even smaller screen, a 15-inch cathode-ray computer monitor of no certain age (though it has survived more than one CPU). The Panasonic has never given me a lick of trouble, and although I am sure that the mere writing of those words guarantees its failure in the near future, I have no plans to upgrade until that happens. It would be wasteful and disloyal.

2011 Movie Preview: 'Unknown' Posted: January Jones traded in Betty Draper's stylish pumps for sensible shoes to race across Berlin, playing a possibly duplicitous wife. January Jones is, perhaps for the first time in her career, contemplating sensible shoes.

2011 Movie Preview: 'Cars 2' Posted: The sequel ventures to Europe and Japan and introduces new characters, such as Finn McMissile, a James Bond type who didn't make the cut for 'Cars.' Michael Caine voices him. At an idea factory like Pixar, clever concepts often land on the cutting room floor. In the case of "Cars," the animation studio's love letter to gear heads, one of those discarded notions has helped inspire the sequel.

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