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Photos by Warner Bros. Pictures Emile Hirsch stars as the title character in “Speed Racer,” the new live-action version of the 1960s Japanese anime television cartoon series.
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No need for ‘Speed’

05/09/2008
Camera tricks, strong cast can’t save sugar-coated film
The Wachowski brothers have tumbled into a matrix of their own with “Speed Racer,” one that has rendered them completely out of touch with the outside world.

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05/09/2008
A man with a guitar and a megaphone climbed atop a convenience store roof to serenade commuters with his musical protest of high gasoline prices – until police halted the impromptu concert.
A $3 million jackpot puts Vegas “newlyweds” Joy McNally (Cameron Diaz) and Jack Fuller (Ashton Kutcher) at odds. Twentieth Century Fox allmoviephoto.com
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‘Vegas’ no mystery

05/09/2008
It’s not hard to figure out what ‘Happens’
Come on, now. You already know “What Happens in Vegas.” You’ve undoubtedly seen the ubiquitous television commercials in which Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher bicker and beat each other black-and-blue but, secretly, seethe with lust.

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‘Redbelt’ adds wit to martial arts mix

05/09/2008
Quick-paced dialogue elevates genre
A martial-arts movie by David Mamet. It sounds like a jarring combination at first, as if the two just don’t to go together – until you learn that Mamet himself is a purple belt in jujitsu.

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‘Nights’ languid, unrealistic

05/09/2008
The road to romantic recovery is meandering, far-flung and thousands of miles long in “My Blueberry Nights,” Wong Kar Wai’s first English-language film.

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R. Kelly arrives at Chicago courthouse for pornography trial

 R. Kelly arrived at a Cook County courthouse Friday to face child pornography charges filed after a videotape allegedly showed him having sex with a girl as young as 13.

Speedy new character debuts on new season of NBC's `Heroes'

 She's not just fast. She's very fast.

'CSI' star Gary Dourdan charged with felony drug possession

 "CSI" co-star Gary Dourdan has been charged with felony possession of heroin, cocaine and ecstasy stemming from his arrest last month, prosecutors said.

How Iron Man was trounced by a scruffy car thief

 Niko Bellic is richer than Tony Stark.

Study of 'Daily Show': It's a lot like O'Reilly

 A journalism think tank studying "The Daily Show" doesn't believe many people get their news from Jon Stewart _ because otherwise they wouldn't get the jokes.
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Sue Doeden
Scone recipe a sample of book’s local flavors
It was love at first flip. On a recent Saturday morning I curled up in an overstuffed chair and watched as big flakes of snow gradually formed a thick featherbed over the perennials in my garden.
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Bob Lind
It was a Norwegian Notice: a letter from Bjorn Dahler, of Moss, Norway, to Neighbors in 2005 seeking relatives he might have in The Forum’s reading area.
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Cherished giraffe toy looking well-loved

Erin Hemme-Froslie
Having hauled around a tattered plaid blanket until the day I started kindergarten, I looked forward to the day my son found a blanket or toy he couldn’t live without.

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