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Bill Clinton Feels the Love in Denver

28 August 2008 8:55 AM, PDT

Bill Clinton knew the bar was high. The day after his wife and former presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton "rocked" the Democratic convention, in the words of Barack Obama, the former president took a turn at the podium to rally the Democratic faithful. "I'm not so grateful for the chance to speak in the wake of [Hillary's] magnificent address last night," he joked of his wife's rousing reception. "But I'll do my best." Clinton, who was greeted with thunderous applause, praised his wife saying, he is "proud of the campaign she ran." But he urged Hillary's supporters to back her former rival,

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Patrick Rogers

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Movie Reviews: Traitor

27 August 2008 10:35 AM, PDT

Several critics seem to suggest that Traitor, starring Don Cheadle, tries to take a complicated story and condense it for easy digestion -- but succeeds only in giving the audience something to chew on. As A.O. Scott puts it in the New York Times: "The movie ... tries to cover every side and cater to just about every possible ideological objection, an effort at comprehensiveness that seems noble and a little nutty." Similarly Tom Maurstad in the Dallas Morning News writes that "this movie tries to blur the line between action-thriller and a probing drama. The result is (more)

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Ferrell's Feral Food Tactics

28 August 2008 12:07 AM, PDT

Will Ferrell may be one of Hollywood's most beloved funnymen - but he's serious when it comes to food.

The Anchorman star is so protective of his meal leftovers, he forbids his wife from touching them.

And the comedian even separates his scraps so his partner doesn't mistake them for her own.

He says, "Even though I've been married for eight years, I do separate my food in the refrigerator from my wife's.

"I put labels on it that say 'This is Will's leftover chicken' or whatever. And if you touch it, yeah, I get livid."

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Final Tracking: 'Tropic Thunder' likely to hold off 'Babylon A.D.' for Labor Day Weekend Win!; 'Disaster Movie' may finish #3; 'College,' 'Hamlet 2' and 'Traitor' 7-8-9?

27 August 2008 4:56 PM, PDT

The end of August is a dumping ground for marginal movies that are, in many cases, barely worthy of release. Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer made friends on “the island of misfit toys,” but not even Rudolph would pay to see the “misfit movies” bowing for Labor Day weekend. I (more)

Steve Mason

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Bertino Returns to Write 'Strangers' Sequel

27 August 2008 11:53 PM, PDT

We broke the news exclusively here on B-d Back in June that Rogue Pictures was planning a sequel to their summer smash-hit, The Strangers, which racked in over $50 million here in the States. Today the news became official as Rogue has tapped Bryan Bertino to return to (more)

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Interview: Ken Leung on "Year of the Fish"

27 August 2008 11:00 AM, PDT

By Aaron Hillis

38-year-old New York actor Ken Leung ("Rush Hour," "Saw," "The Squid and the Whale") may have only gigged on a single episode of "The Sopranos" (as Junior Soprano's violent protégé in a psychiatric hospital), but it was enough to inspire producers to write him (more)

Aaron Hillis

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