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		<title>Film Review Podcast: &#8220;Shame&#8221; &amp; &#8220;A Dangerous Method&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Fassbender would appear to be January&#8217;s Flavor of the Month. He had a secondary role in the eminently forgettable &#8220;Haywire,&#8221; which I mentioned in passing either last week or the week before. Ah, but this weekend, it vas all Fassbender all zuh time. He was intense and compelling as Brandon in the psychological study [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History Warp (1/30 &#8211; 2/05): Courts &#8216;r&#8217; Us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do we like the Supreme Court, or don’t we? That’s the question. The answer depends on whether you thought the decision which handed the presidency to George W. Bush over Al Gore was legit or not? Or your marker may be Roe vs. Wade. Which is to say the Court is as political as ever, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s To The Loser: Closed Captioning Clicker Smackdown Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those of you who are NFL fans know about the Tim Tebow phenomenon, and how it reached full flower with a big late season victory over the Steelers. The game went to overtime. Under the league&#8217;s rules, first team to score wins, without the other squad having an an opportunity to tie it up. Denver [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.culturemaven.com/blog/2012/01/27/heres-to-the-loser-closed-captioning-clicker-smackdown-report/</link>
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		<title>The Real Super Bowl: Closed Captioning Smackdown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For a number of years now, I have lunched every Wednesday with a couple of pals. I&#8217;ll call them Dale and Milt, because, well, those are close enough but not their real names. They are as past the dawn of their dotage as I am. Which means that none of us hears very well. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Film Review Podcast: &#8220;The Artist&#8221; &amp; &#8220;Haywire&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How coincidental is it that on the day the Academy Award nominees are announced, I review &#8220;The Artist?&#8221; Which film, as you probably know, has already garnered any number of awards, including three from the new major playah in Hollywoodland, the Foreign Movie Press. A/K/A the Golden Globes. So I guess it&#8217;s kinda neat but, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History Warp (1/23-1/29): Matrimony &amp; Prohibition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[England’s Henry VIII had a thing for marriages. Actually he had a thing for marriages to women named Anne, truth be told. On January 25, 1533, he entered into a hallowed state of matrimony with Anne Boleyn. (Years later, in 1540 to be exact, he would tie the knot with Anne of Cleaves.) For those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.culturemaven.com/blog/2012/01/23/history-warp-123-129-matrimony-prohibition/</link>
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		<title>Film Review Podcast: The Ladies of 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When receiving her Golden Globe Sunday Night (For her bioflick portrayal of Margaret Thatcher), Best Actress Forever Meryl Streep mentioned how very many great cinematic portrayals by women they&#8217;re were last year. Who am I to disagree? Actually it was the singular theme in film last year, about which I&#8217;ve been harping for awhile. So, [...]]]></description>
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