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Bonnie and Clyde Director Arthur Penn Dies at 88

More sad news to report from Hollywood : Acclaimed stage, television and film director Arthur Penn passed away last night. No cause of death was immediately announced. Penn, who will be most remembered for directing Bonnie and Clyde in 1967, just turned 88 on Monday. [ NYT ]

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Dancing with the Stars Elimination: How Am I Supposed to Jive Without You?

Dancing with the Stars sent another amateur trotter to the glue factory last night, and girls, it was not sad. The losing dancer was downright surly for how inevitable his/her elimination was, and we caught it all on tape. Or rather, the Internet did. (It’s faster than I am.)

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VIDEO: Who Wants to See George Lucas’s Animated Likeness Go on a Shooting Spree?

Upon returning to work Monday morning, I typically find the Movieline mailbag bulging with goodies and not-so-goodies that have accrued over the weekend. And then there are curios like… this , a preview of the next Clone Wars episode that features a character loosely based on George Lucas blowing the hell out of a bar where his kidnapped family appears.

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Out of the Past: Back to the Future Comes to Theaters

Have you been wishing for a DeLorean to take you to a time where blockbusters were more than just comic book/children’s toy/amusement park ride adaptations and 3-D conversions weren’t driving up ticket prices? I have good news. In honor of its 25th anniversary, AMC theaters will screen Back to the Future Saturday October 23rd at 12:30PM and Monday October 25th at 7:00PM on 158 screens in over 40 cities. Everyone who goes gets a free poster as well as a chance to win other prizes. And of course it’s digitally remastered. [ AMC Script to Screen Blog ]

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REVIEW: Execrable You Again Tests the 5 Stages of Moviegoer Grief

Infinitely worse than you dared to hope it wouldn’t be, You Again dumbfounded and then defeated me. That’s a pretty limited spectrum of response, and yet I left the film feeling like I’d just crossed the Gobe with four actresses on my back. The shock is still too great to talk about the fifth — Betty White — except to say that, although like the rest of the free world I am glad that she’s back in heavy rotation, someone needs to lay down the rules of fair use, and penalties must be called when she is deployed to such pitiable effect.

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Project Runway Recap: High-End Hijinx

Today’s Project Runway recap will be abbreviated because, well, the drama was abbreviated. Ivy stayed tame, Gretchen didn’t have an Antigone -like downfall, and Christopher didn’t strip in the middle of the workroom. Come on, guys. In the meantime, we’ve got a bunch of “high-end” dresses and some serious Michael Kors stank to discuss.

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Last Night on Community: ‘I Don’t Like Where That’s Going’

Uh-oh. Having been a major cheerleader for the first season of Community — and having done a Derek Jeter-like fist pump when NBC wisely renewed the under-watched comedy for a second season — my hopes were high for the season premiere. Maybe that was a mistake.

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A Puking Tony Stark was Supposed to Open Iron Man 2

I already like the movie better. In this past summer’s pretty disappointing Iron Man 2 , the movie opens with Iron Man calmly walking out onto the platform of an open plane cargo door. Them without comment, he jumps out and pretty routinely flies down to the applause of adoring fans — followed by two hours of explosions.

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Breaking: Jeff Zucker Steps Down at NBC

You won’t have Jeff Zucker to kick around anymore. According to the New York Times ‘ Bill Carter , Zucker sent an e-mail this morning to his employees informing them that he would set down as CEO of NBC Universal when the Comcast takeover of the company was complete. “Look, I knew from the day this was announced that this was a possibility,” Zucker told Carter. “I wasn’t going to shut the door on anything. But in the last nine months it became increasingly clear that [Comcast] did want to put their own team in place — and I didn’t want to end up being a guest in my own house.” Developing… [ NYT /Media Decoder ]

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The 9 Worst Shows NBC Aired During Jeff Zucker’s Tenure

It was a bittersweet moment for the Internet when Jeff Zucker announced earlier today that he was leaving NBC . Sweet, of course, because most people deem Zucker the enemy in the Great Late Night War of 2010, and it’s a nice bit of schadenfreude to see him walking out the same door as Conan O’B rien. But it’s bitter, too; now which network executive is everyone going to mock and insult? That remains up for debate, but what isn’t is that Zucker’s reign of terrible television is over. Ahead, take a trip with Movieline down memory lane to remember the 9 worst shows from his tenure.

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