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  • Richard Kiel from the film "Moonraker" (Courtesy MGM Home Entertainment)

    The List: Top 10 tallest actors

    They scale the heights of talent on screen and are vertically superior in the real world. Here's a look at the tallest performers in Hollywood.


  • Review: 'Sinister' an enjoyably edgy fright flick

    A true-crime author stumbles onto something beyond his beat in Scott Derrickson's "Sinister," which follows Ethan Hawke's Ellison Oswalt as he grows increasingly obsessed with a missing-girl case he hopes will lead to a bestselling book. Occasionally stupid (stretching even fright-flick conventions) but scary nonetheless, the pic should please horror fans.


  • Review: 'Sinister' an enjoyably edgy fright flick

    A true-crime author stumbles onto something beyond his beat in Scott Derrickson's "Sinister," which follows Ethan Hawke's Ellison Oswalt as he grows increasingly obsessed with a missing-girl case he hopes will lead to a bestselling book. Occasionally stupid (stretching even fright-flick conventions) but scary nonetheless, the pic should please horror fans.


  • Fit for the feisty: a new shirt for the "We are the Future" rally for Rep. Ron Paul in Tampa on August 26. (Image from the Ron Paul Presidential Committee)

    Inside the Beltway: Tea party war drums

    It's no mere movement anymore as the political campaign escalates. The "tea party army" has emerged, and organizers are framing their activities in near dire terms.


  • Newt Gingrich's newly minted campaign "Dream Team" includes familiar faces. From left to right: Chuck Norris, JC Watts, Kellyanne Conway, Fred Thompson, Mr. Gingrich, Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Michael Reagan and Linda Upmeyer. (image from Newt 2012)

    Inside the Beltway

    Newt Gingrich is not done yet, despite gleeful pronouncements by pundits and foes who insist the Republican presidential hopeful is finished, kaput, washed up.


  • Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

    Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows:


  • Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

    Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows:


  • Arizona Cardinals place kicker Jay Feely is among the luminaries scheduled to address the Republican Southern Leadership Conference.

    Inside the Beltway

    There are rumblings that Mitt Romney, after Thursday night, may be a no-show in the six remaining GOP debates, now scheduled for Florida, Arizona, Georgia, California and Oregon through mid-March.


  • Oregon State: Football player Fred Thompson dies

    An Oregon State defensive tackle who collapsed during a pick-up basketball game and died was stricken so suddenly that even if emergency personnel had been on the scene, they likely could not have saved him, a state police spokesman said.


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