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Sunday, November 22, 2009
They do not come in peace. This year's holiday movies include apocalyptic visions such as "The Road," featuring Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee, based on Cormac McCarthy's Pulizter Prize-winning novel.

No peace on earth: Holiday films go to battle Holiday movie preview: Viggo Mortensen isn't roasting chestnuts but trying to keep from getting roasted in the cannibal-crazy "The Road." Earthlings aren't exactly welcome when they visit Smurf-colored aliens in James Cameron's "Avatar." Even Daniel Day-Lewis can't find any peace in "Nine." Hopefully for Hollywood all this strife will result in what they really want under their collective Christmas trees: A big box of envelopes that say: "And the nominees are ..."

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Susan Boyle's debut doesn't deserve hype it's getting
Jim DeRogatis: When it comes to tragic spectacles in this sorry age of reality television, beyond even the pathetic sight of Patti Blagojevich eating bugs on "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!," falls the obnoxious exploitation of Scottish homebody Susan Boyle.

An 'Uncensored' look at 'The Simpsons'
When author John Ortved began researching his unauthorized oral history of “The Simpsons,” television’s longest-running prime time comedy that just entered its 21st season, co-executive producer James L. Brooks reportedly asked current and former staffers to clam up. According to Ortved, who lives in Toronto and New York, Brooks did so by sending a letter “specifically asking them not to speak to me.”

Adam Lambert embraces his retro roots
Adam Lambert, the runner-up on season 8 of "American Idol," has a song on the "2012" film soundtrack, is performing on Sunday's American Music Awareds and his debut album, "For Your Entertainment," comes out Monday.


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