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TV Tonight: 'The Hour,' 'Kennedy Center Honors,' 'Top Chef'
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December 26, 2012, 5:14PM
The shady goings-on at the club El Paradis just keep getting murkier for the team of "The Hour"; David Letterman, Buddy Guy, Zed Zeppelin members and Dustin Hoffman are among the Kennedy Center honorees; and the "Top Chef: Seattle" chefs go harvesting for oysters. Full story »
Steve Carell, Jim Carrey are magicians at war in 'The Incredible Burt Wonderstone' (video): Movie trailer
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December 26, 2012, 4:45PM
The upcoming comedy about Las Vegas magic acts pits Carell as an old-school magician against Carrey as a rock-styled illusionist. Full story »
'Leverage' ends on a high note with 'The Long Goodbye Job'
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December 26, 2012, 1:05PM
The filmed-in-Portland "Leverage" ends its season -- and the series -- on a positive note, with resolution for Nate and Sophie, and a new sense of purpose for Eliot, Hardison and Parker. Full story »
Thunderbirds TV show creator Gerry Anderson age 83, dies
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December 26, 2012, 12:30PM
British creator of the puppet-powered science fiction show Thunderbirds and Space 1999, dies. Full story »
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Ammunition incident on 'Meet the Press': Did NBC News reporter violate D.C. firearms law?
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December 26, 2012, 8:30AM
District of Columbia police say they are investigating an incident in which NBC News reporter David Gregory displayed what he described as a high-capacity ammunition magazine on "Meet the Press." Full story »
Remembering Jack Klugman and Charles Durning, two great character actors
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December 26, 2012, 8:20AM
What a couple of mugs, sporting less-than-perfect physiques in the bargain. But was there anything lovelier than Jack Klugman or Charles Durning doing what they did for an audience? Full story »
'Django Unchained' Review
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December 26, 2012, 8:00AM
Django Unchained is a Quentin Tarantino film. While so many ostensibly serious films explore murky moral ambiguity, Tarantino knows that it can be cathartic to see unalloyed villains, whether Nazis or slave owners, get their comeuppance. Full story »
Box office year in review: Ticket sales thrill Hollywood, not just record $10.8 billion haul
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December 26, 2012, 7:45AM
The big deal for Hollywood is not the record $10.8 billion that studios took in domestically in 2012. It's the fact that the number of tickets sold went up for the first time in three years. Full story »
At Columbia River High School, KATU's Carl Click is known as 'Coach'
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December 26, 2012, 6:00AM
The KATU anchor is turning the girls basketball team around after his earlier stints at Ridgefield and Kings Way. Full story »
Charles Durning dies at 89
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December 25, 2012, 12:35PM
The character actor has a prolific 50-year career, playing everyone from a Nazi colonel to the pope to Dustin Hoffman's would-be suitor in "Tootsie." Full story »
Film Review: Les Misérables
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December 25, 2012, 9:33AM
It was as inevitable as the French Revolution. "Les Misérables," the worldwide smash stage musical based on Victor Hugo's epic 19th-century novel, has finally come to the screen. This lavish production comes equipped with a bevy of movie stars singing their hearts out, but lacks in some crucial ways the cohesion and spectacle of the live performance with which it... Full story »
Film Review: Django Unchained
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December 25, 2012, 9:20AM
In his last movie, "Inglourious Basterds," Quentin Tarantino created his own alternate history, using a title and aesthetic inspired by an obscure B-movie. The fact that he's done the same thing with "Django Unchained" might make one worry that the onetime wunderkind was spinning his wheels. In fact, though, Tarantino's new film is, if not quite as inspired as... Full story »
TV Tonight: 'Leverage' bids farewell with its series finale, 'The Long Goodbye Job'
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December 25, 2012, 6:00AM
Now that TNT has confirmed that "Leverage" won't return for a Season 6, Tuesday night's episode will be the finale for the filmed-in-Portland series. Full story »
Dining in 'Downton Abbey': Planning a menu that's fit for a lord and lady
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December 25, 2012, 6:00AM
The third season of the popular British melodrama is almost here. Be ready for the premiere with a collection of sterling appetizers, canapes and cookies worthy of an English manor house. Full story »
Man seeks museum for huge collection of odd television memorabilia
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December 24, 2012, 10:03AM
James Comisar is one of many people who, after a lifetime of collecting, begin to realize that if they can't find a permanent home for their artifacts those objects could easily end up on the trash heap of history. Full story »
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