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			<title><![CDATA[Bat bucks: The Game]]></title>
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			<author>(Tom Long)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[The most popular game in show biz this weekend is "pick a number for Batman."
So I'll pick 128.
I'm talking, of course, about how much money the latest Batman movie, "The Dark Knight," will earn over the weekend.
It will obviously bring in bundles. It's a sequel to a successful reboot of the]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:15 AM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Indie to Iron Man]]></title>
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			<author>(Tom Long)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[It's the American way, or at least the way America used to be.
Somebody starts out with a small business, they build a customer base and a good name, then move into the big leagues.
That's happening all over the place in Hollywood right now as people who've worked on small films or obscure foreign]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:33 AM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Wacky Ben]]></title>
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			<author>(Tom Long)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Just saw "The Wackness" and while my review will wait until it comes out here July 25, Ben Kingsley's performance in it brings up one of the more curious issues actors have.
Some great actors are perhaps too choosy about roles (Daniel Day-Lewis). Other great actors, and Kingsley is one of these,]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:48 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Threes]]></title>
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			<author>(Tom Long)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[So far this year, nine movies have earned more than $100 million. Two more ("Wanted" and "Get Smart") seem sure bets to pass that mark, and one other ("Zohan") may squeak its way in to the club.
Of those nine, though, three have been anthropomorphic animation works -- "Horton Hears a Who," "Kung Fu]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 2:08 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Desperate times, big box office, Happy Fourth]]></title>
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			<author>(Tom Long)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[OK, it's hardly a secret, but this 4th weekend is primed to bring in major box office bucks.
After only two days plus in theaters it looks like "Hancock" is going to bring in $100 million or more by Sunday, while "WALL-E" should make another $50 million and "Wanted" could take in $40 million. Even]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 12:27 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Will "WALL-E" be golden?]]></title>
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			<author>(Tom Long)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[There's been quite a bit of buzz going on concerning "WALL-E" and Oscar.
A good deal of it has to do with there being no Oscar buzz on anything else that's hit the screen so far this year. By this time last year there was at least some indie sleeper potential with "Once" (worked) and "Waitress"]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 7:06 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[WOW-E]]></title>
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			<author>(Tom Long)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[The words quality and blockbuster don't go together very often, but this weekend they do and it looks like Hollywood, and movie audiences, are striking gold.
"WALL-E," the brilliant new Pixar release which has critics (including me)tripping all over themselves to come up fresh hosannas, went]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 1:37 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Hollywood's off-color vision]]></title>
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			<author>(Tom Long)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[OK, here's a depressing reality. Tomorrow I have a story running on young, lesser-known actors and actresses on the brink of success and stardom in Hollywood.
I couldn't find more than one minority to include in the group, and he was a stretch. There were at least five other white actor/actresses I]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 3:44 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The 300 club, year to year]]></title>
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			<author>(Tom Long)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[The good news for Hollywood: "Iron Man" will fly past the $300 million mark this weekend, the first film to do so in 2008.
The bad news for Hollywood? By this time last year three movies -- "Spider-Man 3" ($336.5 million), "Shrek the Third" ($322.7 million), and "Pirates of the Caribbean: At]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 8:40 AM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Freebie and what?]]></title>
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			<author>(Tom Long)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[They only share one brief scene, I believe, but the most noteworthy thing about "Get Smart" this week may be that it reunites the stars of "Freebie and the Bean."
What, you may ask (especially if you're under the age of 40), is "Freebie and the Bean"?
"F&B" was a film starring "Smart" supporting]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 2:25 PM</pubDate>
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