Seth Rogen and James Franco recreate Kanye Wast's 'Bound 2' with 'Bound 3' parody

No doubt about it, Seth Rogen and James Franco have a great sense of humor. The two actors decided to recreate Kanye West's music video for "Bound 2," which features his reality star girlfriend Kim Kardashian riding on motorcycle with him-- topless.  West's video got plenty of attention from fans and critics alike when it was posted on YouTube last week.  Franco and Rogen's version, titled "Bound 3," was made while the two were on...

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You Win or You Die: The Ruthless Beauty of Boardwalk Empired's finale

The natural comparison for Boardwalk Empire is to other mob- and crime-based dramas like The Sopranos, but watching the season 4 finale, I realized that it actually has a lot in common with Game of Thrones. There’s the sprawling story, of course. (The show could just as well open with a map showing little clockwork towers of booze and guns rising from Chicago, New York, Florida, and Atlantic City.)  There’s the wide range...

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Family Guy's Brian Griffin killed off

Family Guy fans reacted in shock, dismay and anger Sunday night after Brian, the Griffins' family dog and a fan-favourite regular character, was killed off and replaced with a new pet in short order. In the episode titled "Life of Brian," the talking dog voiced by show creator Seth MacFarlane is hit by a speeding car while crossing the road. A lengthy hospital scene shows Brian pass away surrounded by the rest of the Griffin family. Brian has...

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'The Mentalist': Serial Killer Red John is Finally Revealed

After more than five seasons, we finally met the man who murdered Patrict Jane's wife and child on 'The Mentalist' and to say that it was a shock would be an understatement. The Mentalist and its lead Patrick Jane (Simon Baker) have been searching for the elusive serial killer Red John for the better part of five years, and during the series' explosive Nov. 24 episode. Patrick finally identified the man who murdered his family, then promptly made...

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Fried Turkey from Bojangles

For many of us who’ve spent time living below the Mason-Dixon line, the chicken-and-biscuit chain Bojangles’ symbolizes a lot of what’s great and also awful about the South. The stores’ ubiquity, especially in North and South Carolina, demonstrate how easy it’s been to transform the delicious cuisine of a region that’s long been fiercely proud of its food into bastardized, processed, unhealthy fast-food simulacra. It’s partly because...

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Kobe Bryant signs 2-year extension

Kobe Bryant signed a two-year contract extension with the Los Angeles Lakers on Monday. The Lakers did not announce financial terms, but a source told ESPNLosAngeles.com's Ramona Shelburne that the deal is worth $48.5 million. Bryant, 35, will maintain his status as the NBA's highest-paid player over the course of the extension, the source told Shelburne. The 2007-08 league MVP will receive $23.5 million in the first year and...

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Malcolm Gladwell runs out of tricks

One day not too long ago, Malcolm Gladwell defended himself. He'd been accused of promoting claptrap in the form of the "10,000 hour rule," the primary subject of his book Outliers. He posted a response on The New Yorker's Web site that included this sentence: "There's a reason the Beatles didn't give us 'The White Album' when they were teen-agers." Well, yes. Before the Beatles could give us The White Album, they had...

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