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George Clooney’s Suicidal Side, and 5 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Happy Monday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: The ripoff artistry of the L.A. Times … Vanity Fair has a surprising new film critic… Atlas Shrugged has a blurb problem… The “Chocolate Rain” guy explains the economy… and more.

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George Clooney’s Suicidal Side, and 5 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Twit Wit: The 5 Best Tweets About J. Edgar, Immortals, and the Dreaded Jack and Jill

Three mockable movies, five prolific Twitter stars: Who most effectively skewered the achronological, bizarrely unlit J. Edgar , the gauzy Immortals , and the downright insulting Jack and Jill ? Join us for a rundown of Twitter’s best quips about the weekend box office .

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Twit Wit: The 5 Best Tweets About J. Edgar, Immortals, and the Dreaded Jack and Jill

Twit Wit: The 5 Best Tweets About Martha Marcy… and Other Weekend Movies

This weekend on Twitter, most of our tweeting luminaries avoided addressing the obvious ( Paranormal Activity 3 ) and instead talked about Martha Marcy May Marlene , The Three Musketeers , and — my word — Johnny English Reborn . To the tweet machine!

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Twit Wit: The 5 Best Tweets About Martha Marcy… and Other Weekend Movies

Weekend Receipts: Real Steel Cuts Loose on Footloose

Kick up your Sunday lose ! Real Steel used robot abilities to topple the very well-received Footloose remake at the box office this weekend, though only by a slim margin. The Thing chimes in with a halfway decent showing, and The Big Year ‘s first receipts are… well, un-big. Let’s investigate.

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Weekend Receipts: Real Steel Cuts Loose on Footloose

Friday Box Office: Let’s Give Footloose a Hand!

I’m squeaking and bopping like Deniece Williams, because the new Footloose is both critically hailed and a box office success. Kenny Wormald’s big debut tops the Friday countdown, leading all newcomers by a significant margin — especially the not-so- Big Year .

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Friday Box Office: Let’s Give Footloose a Hand!

Is Kevin James the New Chris Farley?

I didn’t make the rules, girls, but it appears that Kevin James has reached a point in his career where he can look back and say, “I’m like if Chris Farley had it together!” I’m going to get out this comparison’s way and let the late SNL star and Zookeeper topliners’ careers speak for themselves.

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Is Kevin James the New Chris Farley?

American Idol’s Top 3 Auditions: All the Lonely Wee-ple

Exhale, children: Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez didn’t ruin American Idol last night. Not quite. They sat nearby while attention-starved banshees ruined American Idol (and our speakers) on their behalf, but that’s OK. It’s what the audition episodes are all about: our feeling demoralized and a little furious with manipulative, mean-spirited editing. Feels like home. Let’s rake through the two-hour premiere and rehash the three youngsters whose auditions made Steven Tyler perk up like the bemused mugshot he is.

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American Idol’s Top 3 Auditions: All the Lonely Wee-ple

Thor and Captain America Booked for the Super Bowl

Help Decode The New Still From The Hangover 2

Warner Bros. just released the first official picture from The Hangover 2 and like a mysterious Renaissance portrait, it appears to be laden with a bunch of clues and hints about the new movie. We’ll have to go full Da Vinci Code on this one. Check it out after the jump!

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Help Decode The New Still From The Hangover 2

Weep For the Poor Girls Working The Glee Project’s Critic Event

Just how far did NBC Universal go to promote The Glee Project during this afternoon’s Television Critics Association panel for Oxygen? Let’s put it this way: they hired a squad of actresses (and actors) to dress up in Cheerio-esque costumes, prance into a ballroom full of tired TV critics wielding pompoms and then do a herkie each time a question was posed to producers onstage.

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Weep For the Poor Girls Working The Glee Project’s Critic Event