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• Hollywood Headlines: a crazy week in review
• Movie review: 'Drive Angry'
• On the Media: Your words, your real name
• Critical Mass: 'Hall Pass'
• The Oscar economy is staging a comeback
• Charlie Sheen and Chuck Lorre lock horns over 'Two and a Half Men'
• Six days of Oscars: The Academy Awards' best YouTube moments
• Critic's Notebook: Charlie Sheen's last straw
• News Corp. stealthily deepens investment in social gaming
• MPAA awards PG-13 rating to alternative version of 'The King's Speech'

Hollywood Headlines: a crazy week in review Posted: 25 Feb 2011 06:08 PM PST Charlie Sheen's "sheenanigans," Justin Bieber sheds his locks, Banksy pops up and Lindsay Lohan will get jail time. Charlie Sheen's "sheenanigans," Justin Bieber sheds his locks, Banksy pops up and Lindsay Lohan will get jail time.

Movie review: 'Drive Angry' Posted: Fasten your seatbelt: satanic cults, a curvaceous waitress, 3-D violence, nudity and Nicolas Cage too. Fasten your seatbelt: satanic cults, a curvaceous waitress, 3-D violence, nudity and Nicolas Cage too.

On the Media: Your words, your real name Posted: Comments can turn ugly and run out of control, but if people posting had to use true identities, that might solve the problem. Comments can turn ugly and run out of control, but if people posting had to use true identities, that might solve the problem.

Critical Mass: 'Hall Pass' Posted: 25 Feb 2011 03:58 PM PST Assessing Peter and Bobby Farrelly's latest offering, "Hall Pass," we wonder if the critics have decided to stop beating up on them.

The Oscar economy is staging a comeback Posted: Vendors and service providers to Hollywood are reporting a strong uptick in business ahead of the Academy Awards. Studios are again hosting lavish parties to promote their contenders. The GOP is resurgent. No, not the Republican Party — the Gross Oscar Product, the measure of all the money the movie industry spends during the awards seasons that culminates in the Academy Awards on Sunday.

Charlie Sheen and Chuck Lorre lock horns over 'Two and a Half Men' Posted: The fate of CBS' top-rated sitcom rides on a poisonous relationship between a leading actor and a star producer. The fate of CBS' No. 1-rated sitcom smash "Two and a Half Men" now rides on the toxic relationship between two TV industry powerhouses, troubled leading man Charlie Sheen and his driven, often caustic boss Chuck Lorre.

Six days of Oscars: The Academy Awards' best YouTube moments Posted: 25 Feb 2011 08:22 PM PST And who will provide one of those onstage highlights or gaffes that become water-cooler fodder for the morning after this year?

Critic's Notebook: Charlie Sheen's last straw Posted: It's hard to feel sorry for CBS and Warner Bros. After all, they looked the other way at Charlie Sheen's string of bad behavior. Apparently, the star finally went too far being mean to Chuck Lorre. It's hard to feel sorry for CBS and Warner Bros. After all, they looked the other way at Charlie Sheen's string of bad behavior. Apparently, the star finally went too far being mean to Chuck Lorre.

News Corp. stealthily deepens investment in social gaming Posted: 25 Feb 2011 08:09 PM PST The company quietly acquired social game publisher Making Fun Inc., a year-old San Francisco company, last November but never announced it.

MPAA awards PG-13 rating to alternative version of 'The King's Speech' Posted: 25 Feb 2011 01:54 PM PST Just two days before the 83rd Academy Awards, the Motion Picture Assoc. of America announced that it has assigned a PG-13 rating to an alternate version of "The King's Speech" in which, a source says, the contentious F-words have been muted out.

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