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Billboard Music Awards: Best & Worst
Critic's Notebook: The 'Glee' machine
'Celebrity Apprentice' finale recap: John Rich wins in a circus of a season
'You Light Up My Life' songwriter dead of apparent suicide
'Game of Thrones' recap: Uneasy lies the head
Cannes: Festival favorite enjoys L.A. ties
Television Review: 'Too Big to Fail'
How will the Palme d'Or affect 'Tree of Life's' commercial prospects?
Missy Elliott, Miranda Lambert, Mary J. Blige open up for new season of 'Behind the Music'
Billboard Music Awards: Arrivals

Posted: 22 May 2011 09:59 PM PDT

Britney, Rihanna, Beyonce and the kiss that shook a teen nation.

Britney, Rihanna, Beyonce and the kiss that shook a teen nation.

Critic's Notebook: The 'Glee' machine

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'Glee Live! In Concert!' shows that the show is as much about marketing as it is about music.

'Glee Live! In Concert!' shows that the show is as much about marketing as it is about music.

'Celebrity Apprentice' finale recap: John Rich wins in a circus of a season

Posted: 23 May 2011 07:32 AM PDT

Who would have thought the finale of "Celebrity Apprentice" could make you a little misty eyed?

'You Light Up My Life' songwriter dead of apparent suicide

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Joseph Brooks, who won an Academy Award for the song that became a hit 1977 Debby Boone single, was awaiting trial on rape charges. His body is found in his Manhattan home.

New York — Joseph Brooks, the Academy Award-winning songwriter of "You Light Up My Life" who was awaiting trial on suspicion of rape, was found dead Sunday of an apparent suicide in his Manhattan apartment, police said.

'Game of Thrones' recap: Uneasy lies the head

Posted: 23 May 2011 07:57 AM PDT

The moral of this week's episode of "Game of Thrones" is that anything gold is a very bad thing to have on your head, whether it's a hair color, a price or just the metal itself.

Cannes: Festival favorite enjoys L.A. ties

Posted: 22 May 2011 10:13 PM PDT

Terrence Malick's film takes the Cannes Film Festival's top award. Kirsten Dunst is named best actress for 'Melancholia.'

Terrence Malick's film takes the Cannes Film Festival's top award. Kirsten Dunst is named best actress for 'Melancholia.'

Television Review: 'Too Big to Fail'

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A tale of the 2008 financial meltdown comes to HBO, with straightforward direction by Curtis Hanson and a sizable cast led by William Hurt.

"Too Big to Fail," which premieres Monday on HBO, is the latest of that network's high-toned original films ("Recount," "The Late Shift," "From the Earth to the Moon," the upcoming "Game Change") in which a large cast of medium-big-to-big-named actors assume the skin of the real people to put you backstage at history. In this case — the story of the 2008 financial meltdown and the attempt to keep us all from ruin — the paint is barely dry on the actual events. Indeed, their ongoing consequences will affect the next election.