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Freakonomics Trailer: How Black Names Affect Being Called For Job, Cultural Segregation, Paying For Grades, And More! [Video]

This movie is coming to Showtime soon.

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Freakonomics Trailer: How Black Names Affect Being Called For Job, Cultural Segregation, Paying For Grades, And More! [Video]

‘Jacki Weaver Superstar’: One Actress’s 48-Year Journey to the Role of a Lifetime (and Maybe an Oscar)

“Do you know the Myers-Briggs Test?” It’s Tuesday morning in Manhattan, and Jacki Weaver awaits an answer. The actress doesn’t have all day. She’s on a 36-hour stopover here promoting her new film Animal Kingdom — Weaver’s first theatrical feature in 13 years, and quite possibly the movie that will earn the stage/screen/television veteran of nearly a half-century an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, if not the trophy itself. Which is where the Myers-Briggs Test comes in. I ask her to explain.

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‘Jacki Weaver Superstar’: One Actress’s 48-Year Journey to the Role of a Lifetime (and Maybe an Oscar)

So You Think You Can Dance Finale: The Winner Shakes It All

What. An. Incredible. Finale. Mind you, it was also a half-hour too long, but So You Think You Can Dance proved itself the summer’s most entertaining and highest quality reality series with its big, Shakespearean conclusion. Let’s discuss whether the winner earned his/her title and whether surprise guest Ellen DeGeneres added any anti- Idol shade to the proceedings.

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So You Think You Can Dance Finale: The Winner Shakes It All

Democratic Health Care Package: Passed

After a long, hard, bloody, awful debate that brought out the worst in our national conversation, the Democratic health care package just passed by a vote of 220-215 .

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Democratic Health Care Package: Passed