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TV Bites: Fox Kills Off Ben Stiller’s Station, Martin Short’s Tax Man and Laurie Metcalf’s Strange Brew

Are You Ready for Comebacks from Kirsten Dunst and Winona Ryder?

After a few years spent wandering in the career wilderness, actresses Kirsten Dunst and Winona Ryder have emerged, hoping to triumph over spotty roles, substance abuse rumors, and recent blank spots in their filmographies. Ryder has juicy supporting roles in Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan and Ron Howard’s Cheaters on her docket, while Dunst booked a lead in Lars von Trier’s Melancholia and today added a new project to her comeback bid.

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REVIEW: Flimsy Princess Kaiulani Serves Up Hawaiian History Lite

Designed to be both essential history lesson and costume weeper, Princess Kaiulani comes up short on both fronts: Deadly earnest intentions and lack of dramatic gumption ensure that the story of Hawaii’s favored daughter remains under-told. Skimping on detail and narrative depth, the film manages to misuse its embarrassment of natural resources — beautiful brown people in Victorian garb, for one thing; the tetchy notion that British colonization suited the Hawaiians better than American imperialism did, for another — in its determination to honor them with a queasy blend of History Channel import and Merchant-Ivory sweep.

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REVIEW: Flimsy Princess Kaiulani Serves Up Hawaiian History Lite

On DVD: A Quarter-Billion Cantinflas Fans Can’t Be Wrong

Who’s Cantinflas? You may not have heard of him, but hundreds of millions of Latinos and Latinas from Buenos Aires to Beverly Hills know him as the most famous Mexican movie star ever — a comic figure so infused in popular Spanish-speaking culture that his name is officially an adjective and verb recognized by the Royal Spanish Academy. Think about it: A quarter of a billion people use your name in everyday conversation during your lifetime (he died in 1993). That’s props. And now Sony is paying tribute of its own.

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On DVD: A Quarter-Billion Cantinflas Fans Can’t Be Wrong

You Decide: What Should They Rename Cougar Town?

Cougar Town creator Bill Lawrence has a regret or two: “I’d like to [change the title], and the studio has been talking about it,” he tells Hitfix. “It’s tough, man…It’s a great hindsight mistake.” While it would be unusual for a major network show to change its title between seasons without a radical recasting or rejiggering as inspiration, who knows what’s typical anymore in today’s crazy, mixed-up world of television? We put it to you, then: if this Courteney Cox sitcom changes its title, what should they call it?

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You Decide: What Should They Rename Cougar Town?

What’s On: The Best Tyramail of All

Tonight America’s Top Next Model concludes its 14th cycle and finally makes a decent clothes-wearer of one lucky girl. Tyra Banks, your soon-to-be favorite author , has enlisted a well-known fashion designer to make the last runway a daunting one — as if the aluminum sheen of Nigel Barker’s noggin wasn’t disorienting enough.

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What’s On: The Best Tyramail of All

Sharlto Copley’s Prosthetic Snit Fit

Why was Sharlto Copley replaced by Timothy Olyphant in DJ Caruso’s I Am Number Four ? Variety says “scheduling conflicts,” but FilmDrunk has the much more fun behind-the-scenes story , where Caruso wouldn’t let Copley wear a prosthetic nose and Spock ears to play the film’s inconspicuous, human-looking alien. For the District 9 alum, it’s apparently alien-human hybrids or bust! [ FilmDrunk via Slashfilm ]

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Sharlto Copley’s Prosthetic Snit Fit

23 Questions About Lost Episode 615, "Across the Sea," Answered!

Previously on Lost : Two men sit on a beach. Two men sit on a beach, one wearing a white ensemble, the other dressed in black. Two men sit on a beach, chatting with an undertone of mystery and menace. Two men sit on a beach, and one of them is all, “I’m gonna learn some loopholes, and then I’m going to kill you!” And the other one’s like, “Go right ahead, brah. I’m mostly unkillable!” Then the two men Indian leg-wrestle, with the one in black throwing in some illegal noogies. “Bah! I’m gonna kill you, you’ll see!” he says. “See you in Hell, or on another Purgatory island or something, tough guy!” Eventually, an atom bomb explodes. Let’s cherish this time together, as we have only two more episodes to raise our Questions, and search for our Answers. Like the ones we’re about to ask concerning “Across the Sea,” right now!

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23 Questions About Lost Episode 615, "Across the Sea," Answered!

5 Ways Heroes Could Go Out with a Bang

It’s become a yearly tradition at NBC : Heroes gets a last-minute renewal, the creators apologize and promise that the new season will be better than the last, viewers realize it isn’t, and ratings continue to fall. This time, however, NBC may have run out of patience. Vulture reports that the network likes its new pilots so much that it may cancel Heroes outright, or at least bring it back in a severely truncated form. In case the show does get a reprieve, here are 5 things the writers could do to make it worthwhile.

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5 Ways Heroes Could Go Out with a Bang

Ryan Murphy Demands an Apology From Newsweek, Urges Readers to Boycott

Add Glee creator Ryan Murphy to the laundry list of people offended by Ramin Setoodeh’s Newsweek editorial, in which the author proclaimed that gay actors cannot convincingly portray straight characters. Murphy released a scathing open letter to Newsweek last night, in which he scolded the publication for not issuing an apology to readers, suggested a full-on Newsweek boycott and invited Setoodeh to the set of Glee for a sing-along of Madonna’s “Open Your Heart.” Click through for the full letter.

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Ryan Murphy Demands an Apology From Newsweek, Urges Readers to Boycott