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Is the America’s Got Talent Winner a Star?

We’ll conceal the champion until after the jump, but America’s Got Talent crowned its fifth-season victor last night to the delight of many and to the abject disappointment of others. Let’s break down the potential for mainstream success (and credibility).

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What’s On: The Outlaw Jimmy Smits

It’s a big night of debuts and finales on TV tonight — Survivor returns, Top Chef: Just Desserts rocks your palette, America’s Got Talent and Big Brother conclude, and a stirring new drama called Outlaw offers Jimmy Smits (and Jesse Bradford !) a meaty role to dig into. We preview it all after the jump.

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The Latest Tangled Trailer Presents a Hair-Raising Adventure

When we last saw a trailer for November’s sure-to-be animated smash Tangled (a 3D version of the story of Rapunzel), it was presented as some lazy, Disney-lite fairy tale that seemed like a total snooze. Not this time! A new trailer has arrived, loaded with the type of swashbuckling fun and quick wit that your 12-year-old inner self would find positively charming. Will your adult self feel the same way, though?

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Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions Pick Up Robert Redford’s The Conspirator at TIFF

Don’t worry, you’ll have plenty of time to get the necessary caffeine boost before seeing Robert Redford’s The Conspirator in theaters. Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions have announced that they’ve purchased the Redford’s historical drama about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln with an eye toward releasing it next spring, outside of this year’s already-crowded awards season. [ NYT /ArtsBeat ]

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Buzz Break: Keri Russell, Unzipped

Late Night Highlights: Craig Ferguson Recalls His Lost Porn Career

Craig Ferguson may be a successful talk show host but the Scotsman received other kinds of on-screen offers when he first arrived in Los Angeles — at least that’s what the Late Late Show personality told Kristen Bell last night. Meanwhile, The Situation got fresh with Jamie Lee Curtis on The Tonight Show , Chelsea Handler recalled the Jersey Shore baby she lost on Sunday and Justin Long remembered his most unlikely fan.

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Late Night Highlights: Craig Ferguson Recalls His Lost Porn Career

Warehouse 13’s Relic Roundup: The Super-Archaeologist Tribute

The first part of Warehouse 13’s season two finale was pretty artifact-light. That is, unless you count the heavy-handed references to everyone’s favorite big-name super archaeologists … of which there are two. Truly, it was the “Indiana Jones” episode that Allison Scagliotti promised, complete with puzzles, pyramids and Elsa Schneider-is-a-Nazi-after-all-type reveals. Click through for the roundup!

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TV Bites: Ryan Reynolds Returns to Television Without the Pizza Place

Also in this morning’s TV Bites: ABC readies a new political drama… MTV adds two new series… My Boys gets the boot… and more ahead.

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Major Theater Chain Breaks ‘No Unrated Films’ Policy This October

In an unprecedented move, AMC theaters have agreed to play the unrated version of Hatchet 2 this October, breaking with the chain’s long-running refusal to play NC-17 or unrated films. A week later the remake of I Spit on Your Grave will also go out unrated. Until now, major movie theater chains haven’t budged on this policy, which meant that studios for the most part refused to fund movies that might not get an R-rating. Could this move usher in a new era where American filmmakers aren’t afraid to make explicit movies for adults?

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Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls Trailer Starts with Crying and Ends with Screaming

First we get news of an awards season release date , and now here’s an ultra-serious, smile-free trailer for Tyler Perry’s ensemble piece For Colored Girls , which is based on a play with a much longer title . Academy members, expect champagne and fruit baskets on your doorsteps soon with a personal note from Perry.

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Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls Trailer Starts with Crying and Ends with Screaming