The Steelers (8-3) bring the NFLs top-ranked defense to Foxborough for a late-season clash for the second straight season. This year, the Pittsburgh defense has allowed the league’s fewest yards and fewest points, while the Patriots (7-4) offense is coming off of back-to-back 500-yard games for the first time in franchise history.
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NFL 2008 Week 13: AFC North-leading Steelers Face Patriots in Foxborough
After impressive back-to-back road victories over the New England Patriots and Tennessee Titans, the Jets head home to face the AFC West division leading Denver Broncos. The Denver Broncos suffered a 31-10 loss at home to the Oakland Raiders last week.
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The New York Giants (10-1) and Washington Redskins (7-4) meet for second time this NFL 2008 season at FedEx Field in Washington DC. Heading into NFL 2008 Week 13, both teams are in good shape. The Giants considered the class of the NFL this season. The Redskins are strong playoff contenders
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NFL 2008 Week 13: Giants Travel to DC – NFC East Division Matchup versus Redskins
En route to love, and to save his ranch from the clutches of a rival, a cattleman known as “The Drover” (Hugh Jackman) guides a prim Englishwoman (Nicole Kidman), a crew of mixed-race outcasts and 1,500 head of cattle across thousands of miles of Australia during World War II. The second half of director Baz Luhrmann’s first project since “Moulin Rouge!” develops some momentum. But you have to pass through the first half to get to the second, by which time you may find yourself drowning in high-fructose Aussie corn syrup.
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Movie Review: Australia Starring Hugh Jackman & Nicole Kidman
The story of Harvey Milk is a tragedy, but not since Jeff Spicoli in “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” has Sean Penn played such a serenely happy individual. Penn is superb as the martyred San Francisco city supervisor, America’s first widely acknowledged openly gay elected official. He was killed by Milk’s former colleague, Dan White (Josh Brolin, also excellent), minutes after White’s fatal shooting of Mayor George Moscone in 1978.
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Christmas itself will survive this acrid, wince-worthy holiday film, but barely. Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn (who both need new agents) play a carefree couple who routinely lie to their respective divorced parents about being unable to visit around the holidays. But bad weather ruins their trip to Fiji and strands them in an airport, they’re interviewed on TV, and their families see it, so to save face they speed-visit all four sets of caricatures. The cast, which also includes Sissy Spacek and Robert Duvall, is far better than its material.
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Four Christmases Movie Review Starring Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn
Overnight-delivery specialist Frank Martin (Jason Statham) must once again move dangerous cargo. His wrist is strapped with a bracelet that explodes if he strays 75 feet from his car, which holds the package. The best sequences involve Frank’s inventive ability to stay close to his vehicle, but otherwise, it’s Frank’s charismatic, unruffled dexterity in the face of impossible odds that rivets.
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You can imagine that, by the time the weekend is over and I’ve worked my way through all those leftovers, I’ll be very tired of turkey and of all the cooking that went into it. I bet you’ll feel the same way. So I thought I’d share with you a recipe you can really enjoy once all that turkey boredom has set in.
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Forget “seconds.” How about “thirds”? That is the appetizer on the NFL Thanksgiving menu this week – three Turkey Day servings of NFL football, followed by a whole lineup of NFL games on Thanksgiving Sunday and Monday.
Even the players will be in their easy chairs. “I remember watching Thanksgiving games as a kid,” says Indianapolis Colts quarterback PEYTON MANNING. “Even in high school and college, and now in the NFL, you practice, you come home and you watch Thanksgiving football.”
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NFL 2008 Week 13: Time for Turkey with All the Trimmings & NFL 2008 Week 13 with All the Excitement
Kurt Warner is a two-time NFL MVP, having won the awards in both 1999 and 2001 as a member of the Saint Louis Rams. Can Kurt Warner win the NFL 208 MVP honor becoming only the second player in NFL history to be a three-time MVP? The answer is yes and heading into NFL 2008 Week 13, Kurt Warner is the leading candidate.
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The Cardinals and Titans can become the first teams this NFL 2008 season to clinch playoff berths on Thanksgiving.
12 teams in the NFC are within one game of .500 or better entering NFL 2008 Week 13. The Eagles & Panthers have the toughest remaining schedule of the contenders. In the AFC, the NFL 2008 playoff picture is becoming clearer as 9 AFC teams are at least one game above .500.
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Ashley Dupre
Ashley Dupre, the 23 year old former escort whose escapades forced Eliot Spitzer to resign as New York State Governor appeared in her first television interview with Diane Sawyer on ABCs news magazine show 20/20. The interview aired Friday November 21, 2008.
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Spitzer Call Girl Ashley Dupre First TV Interview (ABC 20/20 with Diane Sawyer)
This highly anticipated, surprisingly low-key vampire movie is a film of intelligent strengths and avoidable weaknesses, a modest adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s publishing phenomenon.
It’s faithful to its source material, and it’s better written than Meyer’s frothy book.
Teen Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) relocates from Arizona to Washington, where she falls for tortured, sensitive vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson). Director Catherine Hardwicke was right to concentrate on getting the smoldering down between her stars, but her film lacks visual magic.
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This lovely, vinegary holiday film from French writer-director Arnaud Desplechin is a simple picture about complicated people, the members of the extended Vuillard family. Taking place over a few days around Christmastime, the film’s narrative may be more conventional than Desplechin’s earlier work (“Kings and Queen,” “My Sex Life … or How I Got Into an Argument”), but it’s as juicy and tonally unpredictable as anything he has made. Catherine Deneuve heads a fine cast.
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A Christmas Tale (Un Conte de Noel) Written & Directed By Arnuad Desplechin
Voiced by John Travolta, the chief asset in a bland ensemble struggling with its material, Bolt is a canine who headlines a TV show co-starring his longtime owner, Penny (Miley Cyrus). Bolt has never been told that his life-or-death adventures are fake, so he’s the star of his own depressing version of “The Truman Show.” Complications separate Bolt from Penny, sending him to New York City, where his superpowers, which he believes to be real, are useless. This animated Disney feature is stingy on wit, charm, jokes and narrative satisfactions.
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Through the first 10 games of the NFL 2008 season, two quarterbacks have Dan Marino’s milestone NFL record in their sights – New Orleans Saints QB DREW BREES, who is on pace for an NFL-record 5,201 passing yards, and Arizona Cardiinals QB KURT WARNER, who is on pace for 5,048 passing yards.
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The Arizona Cardinals (7-3) and undefeated Tennessee Titans (10-0) find themselves this NFL 2008 week 12 on the cusp of clinching a playoff spot. That’s great. But the real assignment this NFL 2008 week 12? Just beat the next opponent. The rest will take care of itself.
The Cardinals vs. the Giants and Titans vs. the Jets are the two NFL 2008 Week 12 games that pit division leaders against each other. Group these four teams together and you get a 33-7 won-loss record and an .825 winning percentage.
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The Tennessee Titans scored 21 unanswered points in the second half to erase a 14-3 halftime deficit in Jacksonville and defeat the Jaguars by a final score of 24-14.
Justin Gage career-high 147 receiving yards against Jaguars in Titans 24-14 Victory
The Tennessee Titans, the NFLs only remaining undefeated team (10-0), head home after consecutive road wins to take on the New York Jets.
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Titans Beat Division Rival Jaguars 24-14. Up Next AFC Game of the Week Titans vs. Red-Hot Jets
Chilly-eyed, bullet-shaped Daniel Craig is the right man for the James Bond franchise, and his second outing confirms it.
At their wussiest, Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan seemed determined to fulfill creator Ian Fleming’s fleeting, facetious description of 007 from the novel “Casino Royale” as “an expensive gigolo.”
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“Slumdog Millionaire” is a ruthlessly effective paean to destiny, leaving nothing to chance. It also has a good shot at winning this year’s Academy Award for best picture, if the pundits, Allah, Shiva and Fox Searchlight Pictures have anything to say about it.
Each life-or-death cliffhanger and meticulous splash of color, every arrow plucked from director Danny Boyle’s sari-wrapped quiver takes aim at the same objective: to leave you exhausted but wowed.
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“JCVD” is an unexpectedly droll game of three-card monte disguised as an action film that turns into a (fake) reality-TV-style documentary and then into a hostage thriller.
At one point — a crazy high point — Jean-Claude Van Damme, the star of “Bloodsport,” delivers a wrenching confessional monologue straight to the camera for nearly 10 minutes, fighting back tears when he’s not actually weeping.
For real. It’s fake, but the pain, self-pity, belligerence and pathos are real.
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Heading into NFL 2008 Week 11 against their AFC South-rival Jacksonville Jaguars, the Titans quest is for 10-0. Two of the hottest rivals, the New York Jets and New England Patriots battle for first in the AFC East this NFL 2008 Week 11. A battle of number ones between Giants and Ravens. NFL’s top-ranked rushing offense squares off against the league’s top run defense. After their bye weeks, NFC East rivals Redskins and Cowboys are back at it big-time, with lots of scenarios.
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NFL Football 2008 Week 11: Titans go for 10-0 & Big Division Clashes Highlight NFL Week 11
This Sunday at Lambeau Field, the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers will meet for the 175th time, the most regular-season games ever between two NFL franchises.
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NFL Football 2008 Week 11: Bears Packers Historic 175th Meeting Most Series Games in NFL History
The animated “Madagascar” (2005) made a mint, but this sequel is a better film — less manic, more easygoing. Marooned on Madagascar, Alex the lion (Ben Stiller), Marty the zebra (Chris Rock), Melman the hypochondriac giraffe (David Schwimmer) and hippo Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith) yearn for home in the Central Park Zoo. The penguins rig up an old, busted plane and zing the quartet (plus stowaways) not to Manhattan, but to Africa. PG (some mild crude humor). 1:28. 3 stars
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Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott mentor a medieval-fantasy-prone teenager (the invaluable Christopher Mintz-Plasse, who played “McLovin” in “Superbad”) and a trash-talking preteen (Bobb’e J. Thompson) in this sloppy but diverting comedy. The last 20 minutes, climaxing with a Dungeons & Dragons-type battle re-enactment, redeems much of what comes before. R (pervasive language, and sexual content including nudity). 1:43. 2-1/2 stars.
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Samuel L. Jackson and the late Bernie Mac play a couple of estranged backup singers who uneasily reunite for a tribute concert dedicated to their recently deceased front man. Crass but not without laughs, and Mac gets most of them. Too much of “Soul Men” relies on violent slapstick and Viagra jokes, but the two stars are having fun, and the fun translates when the script loosens its straps. Mac and Jackson transcend this hopped-up version of “The Sunshine Boys.” R (pervasive language, and sexual content including nudity). 1:43. 2-1/2 stars.
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This fascinating brain-bender comes from writer-director Charlie Kaufman, whose earlier scripts (such as “Being John Malkovich” and “Adaptation”) don’t prepare you for the conundrums here. Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a theater director who dedicates his fraught life to an autobiographical performance piece he never seems to finish. Is it a dream? A death wish? It’s a movie worth seeing, even though a solid percentage of any audience will hate it. R (language and some sexual content/nudity). 2:03. 3-1/2 stars.
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Pittsburgh residents Zack (Seth Rogen) and Miri (Elizabeth Banks) find themselves strapped for cash and decide to make a porno to pay the rent. The verbal raunch is extreme, though this is essentially a sweet-natured “Let’s put on a show!” ensemble comedy. Rogen and Banks are great together in writer-director Kevin Smith’s latest. R (strong crude sexual content including dialogue, graphic nudity and pervasive language). 1:41. 3 stars.
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Except for Tom Wilkinson’s steely turn as a London mobster, this elaborately plotted bore from Guy Ritchie goes nowhere slickly. Ritchie, who shoots and cuts everything like an ad for a particularly greasy brand of fragrance for men, delivers the beatings and killings in his trademark atmosphere of morally weightless flash. R (pervasive language, violence, drug use and brief sexuality). 1:54. 1-1/2 stars.
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The High School Musical series is not aimed at high schoolers, who presumably know by now that grades 9-12 are not a candy-coated wonderland. It is aimed at preteens willing to bet high school will be the best thing ever. The first two HSM movies, made for TVs Disney Channel, broke cable viewership records, and the first films soundtrack was 2006s top-selling record. HSM 3 may be shallow, but what it lacks in narrative ambition, it makes up for in dazzling choreography that is certain to leave its target audience transfixed. Consider it is harmlessly fluffy fun. G. 1:52. 3 stars.
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In our fast-paced world, it can be a relief to come across something that’s better for being slower. And that can certainly be true for preparing meals, with some of the most delicious, satisfying cold-weather main dishes resulting from slow, gentle stewing or braising.
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Braised Beef Short Ribs with Tomatoes & Red Wine Recipe by Wolfgang Puck
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