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Hollywood Playbook: Thursday's Top 5 News Items

Hollywood Playbook: Thursday's Top 5 News Items

Forty-Minutes Added to ‘Once Upon a Time In America’ Bluray After thirty years, one of the most maligned, butchered, and massacred masterpieces in film history will finally be fully-fully-fully restored to the director’s original vision.   Director Sergio Leone’s original

Video: Justin Bieber Sings About Killing 'Ni**ers'

Video: Justin Bieber Sings About Killing 'Ni**ers'

A new video has surfaced, the second one in a week, that shows Canadian singer Justin Bieber using the word “n**ger.” The first video was of a 15 year-old Bieber (who’s now 20) telling a joke with the N-word as

Hollywood Playbook: Wednesday's Top 5 News Items

Hollywood Playbook: Wednesday's Top 5 News Items

Wachowski’s ‘Jupiter Ascending’ Delayed 7 Months – February 2015 With Warners’ promotion machine already in second gear (but not 5th), the movie predicted to be the biggest flop of the summer has been delayed for 7 months just 7 weeks

BBC to Slash Up To 600 News, Radio Jobs

BBC to Slash Up To 600 News, Radio Jobs

The Guardian reports that up to 500 jobs are expected to be slashed at BBC News with another 80 or so cuts affecting BBC radio. This is the latest phase in a round of cost-cutting that began at the BBC

Hollywood Playbook: Tuesday's Top 5 News Items

Hollywood Playbook: Tuesday's Top 5 News Items

Is “The Americans” Anti-American? In an earlier Playbook, one of the commenters asked if I thought the FX series “The Americans” was critical of America or an attempt to make the old Soviet Union look good in some way. First

'22 Jump Street' Jonah Hill Calls Photographer  'Fa**ot'

'22 Jump Street' Jonah Hill Calls Photographer 'Fa**ot'

Jonah Hill, a two-time Academy Award nominee and star of the upcoming “22 Jump Street,” was caught on video calling a photographer a “faggot” over the weekend in Los Angeles. TMZ has the video and reports that the photographer followed

Politico Honchos 'Jump Shark' To Defend Obama's Taliban Release

Politico Honchos 'Jump Shark' To Defend Obama's Taliban Release

Blake Hounshell, an editor at Politico Magazine, downplayed Obama’s decision to release five Taliban leaders in exchange for Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, based on the fact that the five terrorists are not “ninjas.” On his verified Twitter feed Hounshell wrote,

Oliver Stone to Oliver Stone Edward Snowden Story

Oliver Stone to Oliver Stone Edward Snowden Story

The Guardian reports that 67 year-old Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone will “direct a big budget adaptation of Guardian journalist Luke Harding’s book about Snowden’s role in exposing the NSA’s surveillance culture.” Stone’s version, which is scheduled to start shooting later

Hollywood Playbook: Monday's Top 5 News Items

Hollywood Playbook: Monday's Top 5 News Items

Bieber Caught Using N-Word On Video; No, Celebs Don’t Have It Worse Today Over the weekend a five year-old video surfaced of a 15 year-old Justin Bieber telling a racist “Why don’t black people…” joke that contained the N-word. Bieber

George Clooney Plans Move Into Politics

George Clooney Plans Move Into Politics

With his movie career fading into commercial and critical mediocrity and a wedding in sight, 53 year-old left-wing Democrat George Clooney is apparently ready to try politics. The Mirror reports that Clooney’s lovely fiancée, British attorney Amal Alamuddin, has convinced

'Toledo Blade' Closes Printing Facility, Axes 130 Union Jobs

'Toledo Blade' Closes Printing Facility, Axes 130 Union Jobs

Starting August 1, the left-wing Ohio newspaper, The Toledo Blade, intends to lay off about 130 of its unionized employees due to a permanent shutdown of its Toledo production center that handles printing and inserting. Stephen B. Spolar, vice president

Box Office: Jolie Soars, MacFarlane Stumbles

Box Office: Jolie Soars, MacFarlane Stumbles

With the Thursday and Friday numbers in, Deadline predicts Angelina Jolie’s fractured fairytale “Maleficent” will land somewhere between $63 million and $70 million by Monday morning. An A from CinemaScore means terrific word of mouth, so it is hard to

Hollywood Playbook: Friday's Top 5 News Items

Hollywood Playbook: Friday's Top 5 News Items

Box Office: ‘Maleficent” Surges, “A Million Ways to Die in the West” Aims for $20 Million The Thursday night numbers are in.  Disney’s “Maleficent” hauled in an impressive $4.2 million, which is even better than the awful Disney blockbusters “Alice

Hollywood Playbook: Thursday's Top 5 News Items

Hollywood Playbook: Thursday's Top 5 News Items

May Ratings: 3 A.M. ‘RedEye’ Crushes Most Everything On CNN The cable news ratings are out for the month of May. For left-wing CNN, the news was especially bad. The sinking network continues its sink. Fox News is not only

CNN: Economy Shrinking 'No Big Deal'

CNN: Economy Shrinking 'No Big Deal'

CNN’s left-wing bias appears to know no bounds. Even though the economy shrinking by a full 1% in the first quarter of 2014 means very real pain for very real people living in a very real economy that has remained