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Far-left filmmaker Michael Moore is divorcing his wife, and the looming court battle looks ugly already. Moore’s contempt for capitalism is legendary, but the director appears ready to slam soon-to-be-ex Kathleen Glynn for her financial missteps, according to information gleaned

FORT DIX, N.J., June 5 (UPI)–George Jung, the cocaine trafficker whose life was portrayed in the 2001 film Blow, has been released from federal prison after serving 17 years of a 22-year sentence for drug charges stemming from his 1995

The Duck Dynasty clan remains pop culture’s strongest advocate for the Good Book. Now, two members of the reality show family are prepping the release of a “Duck Commander”-themed Bible in time for the holidays. The new book, titled The Duck

“D-Day was a completely incredible experience and one that I haven’t yet been able to write about satisfactorily. So much of it is a matter of feeling and sensation that you don’t write when you’re writing for a newspaper or

A new video released by James O’Keefe of Project Veritas features a meeting with liberal activist Susan Sarandon and environmental activists to discuss a fake anti-fracking movie backed by Middle East oil interests. In part two of the video series,

With the first chord of one of the most famous guitar riffs reverberating through the amplifiers Wednesday, 50,000 music fans were greeted with the 1981 classic Start Me Up, as the Rolling Stones made their Israeli debut in Tel Aviv’s

Rising star Shailene Woodley of Divergent fame enraged feminists recently by saying she wasn’t a fan of Feminism, 2014 Style. Now, Lana Del Rey is singing from a similar songbook. The superstar’s sexually charged music has drawn the attention of

During the June 4 airing of CBS’s Late Night, host David Letterman said private handgun ownership has to be dealt with, and he asked if everyone has to “have a family member who has been gunned down” before gun control

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

Actor Morgan Freeman thinks the media makes too much about race relations and its connection to wealth distribution. The Shawshank Redemption star told CNN host Don Lemon that people use race as an excuse for failure, but that isn’t the

LOS ANGELES, June 4 (UPI)–Actress Melissa McCarthy is tired of being disappointed in fashion. The 43-year-old Bridesmaids actress covers the July issue of Redbook, and shares her frustration in the interview with the lack of fashion choices for plus-size women.

The History Channel may need some help with its marketing division, but the network understands what audiences hunger for in the Age of Obama. The channel is producing Sons of Liberty, a new, six-part miniseries devoted to a group of

NEW YORK (AP) — Josh Trank will direct one of the planned stand-alone “Star Wars” films. Lucasfilm announced Wednesday that the 30-year-old filmmaker will helm one of the two announced “Star Wars” spinoffs being made outside of the third trilogy.

Justin Bieber recently apologized for a video featuring him, at 15, uttering a racist joke. Given his age, and the heartfelt mea culpa, any career damage seemed to be contained. Now, a new video has emerged with the pop star

Kickstarter, a major crowdfunding web site, announced a big change to its acceptance policy this week that gives artists the ability to start their campaigns immediately. The change comes in the wake of criticism the site blocked a TV film

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

LOS ANGELES, June 4 (UPI)–Marvel has moved forward with its Doctor Strange adaptation. The studio is reportedly in negotiations with Scott Derrickson to direct the film. The director is best known for his 2012 movie Sinister, and is expected to

Anyone who thought liberal comic Jon Stewart would play down the disastrous fallout from the government’s swap of five Taliban leaders for a U.S. soldier was sorely mistaken. Stewart detailed every unsettling twist and turn of the story on Tuesday

Count Mad Magazine as the first pop culture institution to target President Barack Obama’s Taliban prisoner swap. It’s hard to imagine any other humorist in any other medium hitting back quite so hard in the days to come. The magazine

Peter Berg had just taken a critical and commercial whupping for Battleship, the big-budget dud based on the board game, when he moved on to his next project. Lone Survivor represented Hollywood’s first Afghanistan war movie centered on courageous U.S.

Gwyneth Paltrow is taking shrapnel on all sides, to turn her own comparison back at her. The Oscar winner endured web-based mockery when she dared to compare being insulted online to what soldiers face on the battlefield. Now, the hosts

What do you give the bride who has more or less everything? Kanye West stared down that problem when it came time to give his new bride, Kim Kardashian, a wedding present. The solution? A painting of the reality show

The new documentary Almost Sunrise takes care to honor the sacrifices of the men and women who fight for our freedom while trying to heal the soldiers’ enduring mental scars. A Kickstarter.com campaign for the project, which wraps June 10,

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

Madonna can look a little … awkward … trying to keep up with her younger, envelope-shredding peers. She showed off her underarm hair via social media a few weeks back, and she caught the paparazzi’s eye with her dental grill