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Is Your Favorite Artist Good In Bed? Reddit Investigates

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Popular artists will never honestly cop to being average in bed. If Drake, the bastion of millennial honesty, won’t do it, your favorite rapper probably…

Is Your Favorite Artist Good In Bed? Reddit Investigates

A Candid, Emotional Interview With Watson, Jeopardy!’s Winning Supercomputer

As you’ve no doubt heard by now, a computer named Watson scored a runaway triumph in this week’s Jeopardy! IBM Challenge, defeating two of the game show’s most legendary champions — Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter — en route to a $1 million prize. (IBM will donate the winnings to charity.) But the road to victory was not without a few sizable bumps, and in an exclusive chat this morning with Movieline, Watson discussed some of the difficulties encountered on his way to the finish line — and how his real challenge begins now.

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A Candid, Emotional Interview With Watson, Jeopardy!’s Winning Supercomputer

American Idol Hollywood Week: We’re a Grown-Ass Group!

Telegram from Hollywood Week: Those old contestants you’ve seen sing already? They can still sing. Really! Signed, Nigel “I Only Care About Lauren Alaina Anyway, Lol, Not Joking” Lythgoe. Group week gave us little to hope for in terms of newer, breakout stars, but here are the four most memorable performances (for better or for worse) of the night.

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American Idol Hollywood Week: We’re a Grown-Ass Group!

Alex Pettyfer on I Am Number Four, Beastly and the Magic of Cinematic Sweat

It is an exciting time for Alex Pettyfer. Based on the box office performance of his first big budget film, I Am Number Four — which premieres tomorrow — the 20-year-old English model-turned-thesp could join Robert Pattinson in the ranks of hunky, tortured heartthrobs. Like Pattinson’s Twilight character, Pettyfer plays a sensitive-yet-inhuman high school student at once trying to fit in, overcome supernatural obstacles, and win the heart of his mortal crush (played by Pettyfer’s real-life-girlfriend Dianna Agron). And with the sci-fi thriller’s all-star pedigree — D.J. Caruso directed while Steven Spielberg and Michael Bay produced — I Am Number Four is indeed poised to carry the handsome Pettyfer from verge to vampire-level popularity.

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Alex Pettyfer on I Am Number Four, Beastly and the Magic of Cinematic Sweat

REVIEW: Unknown Actually Just Tired, Familiar Same-Old From Liam Neeson

When someone makes a list of the most influential movies of the last decade — has EW done that yet? — The Bourne Identity should get its own category, not only because of the ruthless efficiency of its action sequences but also for the detached competence of its star, Matt Damon, whose deportment while stalking the gray, shadowy streets of West Europe suggested a man on a mission while lost in a dream. In the intermittently diverting Unknown — there could also be a compilation of movies with that title — Liam Neeson borrows from the Bourne playbook, as an American stranded in mysterious Berlin, his brow knitted even deeper by the fact that, after recovering from an accident, he’s been replaced in his life by someone claiming to be him.

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REVIEW: Unknown Actually Just Tired, Familiar Same-Old From Liam Neeson

25 Possible Titles For the Next Sex and the City Film… in 2016

Good news, no one! Sarah Jessica Parker has not fully closed the door on a third Sex and the City film: “I’d definitely tell that [third] story, and I know Michael would do it right,” she told the Los Angeles Times . “But maybe not now. Maybe in five years, you know?” Phew! That gives us plenty of time to come up with an appropriate title for what’s sure to be another bastion of cinematic brilliance. To get things started properly, your friends at Movieline have come up with 25 appropriate titles for Sex and the City 3 . Laugh along with them ahead, then feel free to add your own.

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25 Possible Titles For the Next Sex and the City Film… in 2016

Detectives Go to the Videotape for Francis-Jenner Smackdown

Was Girls Gone Wildman Joe Francis the innocent casualty of a club clubbing? Was former Playmate Jayde Nicole the instigator or victim

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Detectives Go to the Videotape for Francis-Jenner Smackdown

No truck with Pakistan, say Baluch youth

In an interview with Nasim Zehra at the Quetta Press Club — the bastion of civilian protest –, Baluch students both male and female asked her not to call them Pakistanis as they are Baluch. Zehra tried to sell… read more

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No truck with Pakistan, say Baluch youth