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Saturday Night Live’s 10 Greatest One-Season Wonders

With news this morning that single-season Saturday Night Live cast member Jenny Slate may be out of a job in the fall , Movieline is taking the time to relish those who made a lasting impact with a one-year gig on Lorne Michaels’ mothership. Here are ten SNL performers — some successful and some forgotten — who had only one season to shine.

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Saturday Night Live’s 10 Greatest One-Season Wonders

VIDEO: Chris Evans Talks Captain America, Toddlers Falling Down

Chris Evans didn’t plan to sign up for so many comic book movies — really! So how did his superhero-studded career come together? The newly minted Captain America told Elle all about it, and Movieline has the first look.

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VIDEO: Chris Evans Talks Captain America, Toddlers Falling Down

REVIEW: George Clooney, The American Prove They Do Make Movies Like They Used To

Anton Corbijn’s The American looks and feels like a movie made by a filmmaker who hasn’t been to the movies since the ’70s — and I mean that as the highest compliment. This is Corbijn’s second feature: His first was the elegiac and gorgeously shot (by Martin Ruhe) Control, based on the life story of Ian Curtis, lead singer of the influential and much-loved Manchester band Joy Division, who committed suicide at age 23 in 1980. Before Corbijn was a filmmaker, or even a director of videos for the likes of U2 and Depeche Mode, he was a photographer specializing in rock ‘n’ roll types as subjects; he had photographed Curtis and the other members of Joy Division early in his career, having left his native Holland for England because, as he’s said in interviews, he wanted “to be where that music comes from.”

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REVIEW: George Clooney, The American Prove They Do Make Movies Like They Used To

Buzz Break: Lindsay Lohan Stars in Vanity Fair’s Confessions of a Paroled Drama Queen

Lindsay Lohan is on the cover of this month’s Vanity Fair , and she’s conjuring the dignity of the Evelyn Waugh book of the same name. Click through for more Buzz Break, as January Jones makes a smart TV choice, Joan Cusack goes to cable, Stan Lee meets Nikita , and The Situation announces he’s at a disadvantage on Dancing with the Stars .

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Buzz Break: Lindsay Lohan Stars in Vanity Fair’s Confessions of a Paroled Drama Queen