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The Latest Tangled Trailer Presents a Hair-Raising Adventure

When we last saw a trailer for November’s sure-to-be animated smash Tangled (a 3D version of the story of Rapunzel), it was presented as some lazy, Disney-lite fairy tale that seemed like a total snooze. Not this time! A new trailer has arrived, loaded with the type of swashbuckling fun and quick wit that your 12-year-old inner self would find positively charming. Will your adult self feel the same way, though?

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The Latest Tangled Trailer Presents a Hair-Raising Adventure

First Look: Julie Taymor’s Insane Spider-Man Costume Designs

With all this talk about Marc Webb’s bigscreen Spider-Man reboot, you may have forgotten that Julie Taymor is still working on her troubled Broadway adaptation of the property, Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark . After seeing her costumes, though, you’ll never forget it again.

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Hollywood’s 5 Most Well-Done Responses to 9/11

Hollywood was in a precarious position in the months and years following Sept. 11, 2001: Completely ignore the event and a filmmaker might seem callous or, at the very least, out of touch. Center an entire film around the tragedy and that same filmmaker could be accused of being exploitative. The industry obviously had to respond, but it had to be done right. There’s quite a difference between good filmmaking and a 9/11 reference only for the sake of tugging at already existing emotional strings (I’m talking to you, Remember Me ). It’s cheap. Though, some were done very well. We assembled a few examples of films over the last nine years which went about addressing those events of 2001 in a unique, thoughtful or poignant way.

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Going Out with Several Bangs

Keanu Reeves — Shrimp Boat Captain?

Filed under: We’re Just Sayin’ Here’s a bearded Keanu Reeves grocery shopping in West Hollywood earlier this week (left) — and Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump in 1994 (right).One of them isn’t the sharpest shrimp on the boat.We’re just sayin’. …

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Well Born and Well Kept at the Huffington Post

The Huffington Post just hired another VIP’s child , this one the son of White House senior adviser David Axelrod. Funny how a website famous for not paying bloggers finds room on the payroll for an undistinguished corps of rich kids.

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Well Born and Well Kept at the Huffington Post