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VIDEO: Natalie Portman Gives You Crazy Eyes in Latest Clip from Black Swan

Best Use of Crazy Eyes in a Motion Picture is not yet at category at the Academy Awards — it isn’t even recognized by the Hollywood Foreign Press — but based on Natalie Portman’s work in this new clip from Black Swan , maybe it should be. Because, damn , she looks crazy ! This bit of Black Swan marketing comes from the final act of Darren Aronofsky’s film, but don’t worry: There are no spoilers. Unless the fact that Portman’s ballerina performs Swan Lake in the film is a spoiler. Click ahead to watch, but be forewarned: Natalie will haunt your dreams.

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VIDEO: Natalie Portman Gives You Crazy Eyes in Latest Clip from Black Swan

REVIEW: For Better and Worse, Night Catches Us Lives a Little Too Much in the Past

Set in Philadelphia’s summer of 1976, Night Catches Us opens with the sound of Jimmy Carter’s voice wending through an urban neighborhood, planting the usual, soft promises as it passes. His vow to give power back to the people is, I imagine, why first-time writer and director Tanya Hamilton pulled that particular clip from the teeming archives: It adds a layer of situational resonance to her story of the last days of the Black Panther movement, before that story even begins.

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REVIEW: For Better and Worse, Night Catches Us Lives a Little Too Much in the Past

When Twitter Marketing Goes Wrong: How Do You Know Hashtag Causes Confusion, Derision

As Twitter has become a legitimate source of news, opinions and even a place for television pitches , movie studios have warmed to its other feature: Promotion. Toy Story 3 was the first film to buy “ad time” in the trending topics section , but many others have partaken in this bit of nuevo-marketing madness since then. The latest is How Do You Know , the James L. Brooks dramedy scheduled for release next month. Too bad that particular promoted hashtag isn’t going as well as Columbia Pictures probably hoped.

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When Twitter Marketing Goes Wrong: How Do You Know Hashtag Causes Confusion, Derision

Don’t Blink: First Promo for Simon Cowell’s The X Factor Premieres

Are you ready, America? Coming in the fall of 2011, former American Idol judge (and V-neck aficionado) Simon Cowell will return to televisions with The X Factor . The British import is already one of the most hyped events on the Fox calendar next year — right up there with the Glee Super Bowl episode and, well, the Super Bowl — and so it goes to reason that the network would want to start plugging it as soon as possible. As such, say hello to the 10 quickest, most nondescript seconds in the history of television promotion.

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Don’t Blink: First Promo for Simon Cowell’s The X Factor Premieres

Lea Michele and Chris Colfer Tackle Evita: You Must Love Them?

“Don’t Cry For Me Argentina” is a Patti LuPone classic, a Madonna career-changer, a standard of the American stage, and now… yet another symbol of Rachel Berry’s haughty elitism. Yep, Glee , Lea Michele, and — strangely — Chris Colfer are attacking Andrew Lloyd Webber’s salute to Eva Peron, and the audio is ready for your constructive criticism and/or scoffs and/or LGBT sympathies.

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Lea Michele and Chris Colfer Tackle Evita: You Must Love Them?

Suck It, Kanye: David Lynch Breaks Off Fall’s Best Pop Single

Bludgeoned from all sides by hype (Nicki Minaj), hubris (Kanye West), cosmetically enhanced treacle (Katy Perry) and/or some unholy hybrid of all three ( Glee ), I can’t really overstate the palliative rush to be had from David Lynch’s swell new electro-pop single “Good Day Today.” Yes — that David Lynch. And yes — it lives up to its name.

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Lost Alum Lands On Lie To Me

Doug Hutchison (aka Lost ‘s groovy Horace Goodspeed) has been tapped to guest-star on Fox’s Lie To Me , Movieline has confirmed. Hutchison will play Lane Bradley, a police detective whose star is rising in the department…until his world is waylaid by the kidnapping of his infant daughter.

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Lost Alum Lands On Lie To Me

Sarah Palin’s Alaska Recap: The Wrong Track

Now, now. Sarah Palin’s Alaska is allowed to have boring mid-season episodes like any reality show. Don’t be a hater Liberal crybaby about it. Sure, no one whacked halibuts silly this week, and Bristol didn’t even titillate us with her skeet-shooting prowess, but that’s no reason to turn your back on television’s finest hour. After all, we did witness a couple of fishing trips and the slow rise of Track, the eldest Palin child. Wheee! Ascent in the ranks! Sigh. Fight off your yawns and join us on a picture journey of last night’s highlights.

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Julie Taymor’s Spider-Man Musical Gets Tangled in Web of Bad Reviews

And you thought only movies could have disastrous screenings! Julie Taymor’s Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark previewed on Broadway last night and the $65 million production went off with so many hitches that the production lasted for almost three-and-a-half hours, contained five stoppages and one almost-revolt. If only Broadway had review embargoes, amirite?

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Julie Taymor’s Spider-Man Musical Gets Tangled in Web of Bad Reviews