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  • Review: Parental Guidance tolerable if uninspired

    The schmaltz is piled on thick, and if the comedy were any broader it would require an Imax screen, but still there's something touching about how hard Billy Crystal and Bette Midler hustle to peddle the threadbare material that makes "Parental Guidance" a perfectly tolerable, if uninspired, moviegoing experience.


  • Tuning in to TV: New YouTube channel targets millennial audience

    Hey, YouTubers! Have you danced your fill to "Gangnam Style"? Have you seen enough versions of "Call Me Maybe"? Now video grazers can check out a brand-new YouTube channel that promises to be as amusing as any cat on a skateboard but also to engage viewers with ideas for changing the world.


  • Police: Man talked to 'Dr. Phil' before confessing

    A man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend in Houston and then driving hundreds of miles to dump her body in a West Texas oil field taped an interview about the case with the "Dr. Phil" show two days before confessing to investigators, police said Monday.


  • Hope for the Redskins begins with Robert Griffin III, whom they hope becomes their franchise quarterback. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

    DALY: At last, a season of hope for Redskins

    In this, their 80th anniversary season, the Washington Redskins are finally complete. At long last, they have a practice bubble. Doing without a practice bubble until 2012 is like traveling by train after the invention of the jet engine (though those parlor cars could be awfully comfy).


  • BOOK REVIEW: 'The Wolf Gift'

    Gone are the vampires, as are the angels. Make way for the beast-men. Anne Rice's new novel, "The Wolf Gift," combines lust for blood (human and/or animal), Christian theology, European fairytales and American comics in a truly absurd plot. Nevertheless, "The Wolf Gift" is highly entertaining.


  • OWN shakeup tests Winfrey, Discovery relationship

    Oprah Winfrey is used to running the show, whether it was her hit daytime TV program or the fledgling cable channel named for her and which she rules as chairman and chief executive.


  • Constantine Maroulis  (Associated Press)

    Tuning In to TV

    A former "American Idol" contestant is heading to Broadway with a character who, it's safe to say, is truly two-faced.


  • Long-time talk show host Regis Philbin, talks with co-host Kelly Ripa during a broadcast of "Live! with Regis and Kelly", in New York. (Associated Press)

    The List: Who is Regis Philbin?

    “Reege” says goodbye to “Live! With Regis and Kelly” on Nov. 18. Here's a brief look at the life of Regis Philbin.


  • Walters' 'View' primed for run at top of ratings

    With Oprah Winfrey gone, daytime television is ready for a new monarch.


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