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Brad Pitt

A sanitized Brad Pitt in “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood.”

Mr. Clean

Media

An unsung frickin’ hero: the actor who overdubs Brad Pitt’s profane lines for broadcast television.

Five Things You Had to See Online This Week

Arts, Culture & Media
Sachin Tendulkar

‘God of cricket’ hangs up his bat

Sports

What’s old is new — and award winning — in Academy Award nominations

Arts, Culture & Media

Redheads need not apply says world’s largest sperm bank

Global Politics
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Cannes Film Festival on a budget

Arts, Culture & Media

How is the film industry’s most lavish event is keeping its shine amidst the global economic downturn?

Quentin Tarantino

Arts, Culture & Media

Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino talks about his latest film, exploring disparate genres, and keeping it real.

Tavis Smiley one of “Time’s” 100 Most Influential

Arts, Culture & Media

PRI host chosen for his leadership, a growing media empire, and for encouraging Americans to hold this country’s leadership accountable.

Movie Date: “Monsters University”, “World War Z”, and “Before Midnight”

Our movie date team, Kristen Meinzer and Rafer Guzman,  review three new movies this week: John Goodman and Billy Crystal reprise their roles as Sulley and Mike in the computer animated film “Monsters University”–the prequel to Disney/Pixar’s “Monsters, Inc.” which was originally released in 2001. Meanwhile, Brad Pitt stars in the highly anticipated “World War Z”, […]

New Movie Releases: ‘Killing Them Softly,’ ‘Anna Karenina’

   Friday is movie day on the Takeaway. Today, in keeping with our week-long theme of love and death, we look at a film from each end of the spectrum: “Killing Them Softly” stars Brad Pitt, and “Anna Karenina” (going into wide release today) stars Keira Knightly. The Takeaway’s  Movie Date  team,  Rafer Guzman  and  Kristen Meinzer, share their thoughts […]

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