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Michael Jackson’s Global Reach

Arts, Culture & Media

This video of Filipino inmates performing a mass-ensemble dance to “Thriller” was circulating around the web a year or so ago. Given today’s news, we thought it was worth another look. Jackson’s death adds a dose of poignancy to the bizarre spectacle.

360 Staff Pick: State of Play

Arts, Culture & Media

New Movie Releases of The Week: The Butler, Paranoia, Jobs, Kickass 2

American diplomat expelled from Russia for spying evokes memories of Cold War

Global Politics

New book looks tells fictional tale of post-euro Europe

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French Spy Novelist Gérard de Villiers’ and his Factual Fiction

Arts, Culture & Media

Gérard de Villiers may be the most famous French writer you’ve never heard of. What’s interesting is that a number of his terrorist and espionage plot twists have actually happened in real life — well after they appeared in book form.

Euro Crisis Set as Thriller in New Book

Business, Economics and Jobs

What if Germany did decide to abandon the euro and go back to the Deutsche Mark? A former financial journalist in Berlin has written a thriller based on that scenario.

Nettle’s ‘El Resplandor’ Inspired by Stephen King’s ‘The Shining’

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El Resplandor is a fictional resort in Dubai, not unlike the hotel in the Stephen King thriller, “The Shining.” Band Nettle’s Jace Clayton dreamed up the music inspired by King’s creepy novel and the movie of the same name.

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Matt Damon in Contagion

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Matt Damon seems to have done it all – He’s starring in Steven Soderbergh’s new thriller Contagion about a new viral pandemic, playing a man whose wife is stricken with the disease.

New Movies: ‘Contagion’ and ‘Warrior’

The biggest release this weekend is the thriller “Contagion,” which has a formidable cast of big names in Hollywood: Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburn, and Jude Law. “Warrior,” a mixed martial arts movie starring Nick Nolte, is also opening this weekend.   Rafer Guzman  and  Kristen Meinzer, hosts of  The Takeaway’s Movie Date podcast, give their […]

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