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Top Gun Flying Your Way in 3-D, and 5 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Happy Monday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: Bobcat Goldthwait explains his pop-culture revenge fantasy … Amitabh Bachchan is the only one not getting rich off Baz Luhrmann’s Great Gatsby … A Hollywood terror may soon be back on the street … and more.

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Twit Wit: The 9 Best Contagion Tweets of the Weekend

Contagion handily won this weekend’s unremarkable box office race , but it was an even bigger smash on Twitter, where 140-character raconteurs offered up every version of your standard germ/Purell/Paltrow jokes. In our new feature “Twit Wit,” we’ll highlight nine tweeters who make us laugh, make us think or just say likable things about a new movie. With Contagion , the tweets ranged from supportive to silly, and our No. 1 is a rigorously scrubbed gem.

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Bucky Larson Achieves Monumental 0% Rotten Tomatoes Rating

At the risk of piling on, today we need to recognize the rare cultural milestone achieved by Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star . No, not its approval from a leader in the porn community , and not its status as one of the biggest mainstream flops in years. Nope. The Adam Sandler-produced, Nick Swardson-starring comedy has managed that ever-rare zero-percent approval rating among the critics of Rotten Tomatoes.

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Bucky Larson Achieves Monumental 0% Rotten Tomatoes Rating

Volkswagen TDI Phaeton: The TreeHugger Test Drive

Photos: Brian Merchant In Europe, the concept of a diesel-powered luxury car is anything but surprising. In the US, it’s a bona fide oxymoron. Many folks stateside still equate diesel to the thick, particulate-laden exhaust that blasts like black smog from semis on the highway. Yet, as most TreeHugger readers are likely aware, new developments in technology have enabled diesel engines to burn even more cleanly and efficiently than the average gas-powered ICE. Which is why in Europe (and China and South Korea), the diesel-powered Phaeton, Volkswagen’s luxury car, is an extremely popular car. On a recent trip to Germany to check out

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Schwarzenneger’s Post-Governor Plan: Fight Climate Change

Photo: the Guardian Arnold Schwarzenegger will not likely be remembered as California’s most beloved governor — he’s leaving office with his approval rating in the 20 percent range. But history may be kinder to his legacy on climate — addressing global warming eventually became his trademark issue with the passage of the state’s solid climate law AB 32, that requires California to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Defending the law from Texas oil companies, who attempted to shut it down w… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Schwarzenneger’s Post-Governor Plan: Fight Climate Change

Despite teabagger, deather, birther madness, Obama’s approval is UP UP UP!

PRINCETON, N.J., Aug. 10 (UPI) — More than 60 percent of U.S

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Despite teabagger, deather, birther madness, Obama’s approval is UP UP UP!