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It’s About To Go Down: Best BET Award Moments Of The Last Decade

With the BET Awards fast approaching, it’s only fitting to relive some of the most memorable BET Awards show moments ever. You know BET is the only channel that can have gospel sets mingled in with rappers dropping expletive bombs every other second while censors struggle to keep up with the bleeps. The BET Awards has never failed to be the highlight of a conversation with the hairdresser, over lunch with a girlfriend, or at the Sunday dinner table with family. Check out these most memorable moments.   More. ..

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It’s About To Go Down: Best BET Award Moments Of The Last Decade

Oh, Baby: Natalie Portman’s Father Writes Pregnancy Thriller

Ripped from the conversations at his own dinner table! Long Island fertility specialist Dr. Avner Hershlag — the man better know Natalie Portman’s father — is shopping his debut novel Misconception to publishing houses. A “reproductive thriller” about cloning and embryos, don’t be surprised when Darren Aronofsky and Natalie Portman team up again in five years to adapt Misconception , and take another swing at the whole Rosemary’s Baby thing they did in Black Swan . [ NYO ]

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The happythankyoumoreplease Trailer Leaves Us Hoping for More, Please

You should never really judge a film by its trailer, if only because, like books and their covers, the trailer only tells the part of the story marketing wants you to know. So, let’s all give the new trailer for Josh Radnor’s well-received 2010 Sundance Audience Award winner a pass…because, hoo boy , is this one horrible.

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The happythankyoumoreplease Trailer Leaves Us Hoping for More, Please

REVIEW: Genre Confusion Makes For Hard-to-Watch Dilemma

The Dilemma , Ron Howard’s cheerless, would-be relationship farce, begins with two couples around a dinner table and ends with two men running into each other’s arms. Ronny (Vince Vaughn) and Nick (Kevin James) are tight. Friends since college, they share their lives, they share a business — Nick designs car engines and Ronny sells them to Big Auto — and they’ve shared a woman at least once, just to keep things on the level. They share, in other words, the kind of bond that has transformed a certain kind of comedy into a homo-social love story, a soft-core sausage fest.

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REVIEW: Genre Confusion Makes For Hard-to-Watch Dilemma