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	<title type="text">PopMatters: PopWire</title>
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<title type="html">'Chill' out over the chair, says 'Brothers' star Mitchell</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/news/23.115868</id>
		<published>2009-11-06T23:06:46Z</published>
		<updated>2009-11-06T23:06:46Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>Rick Bentley</name>
		</author>
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		LOS ANGELES &#8212; Daryl "Chill" Mitchell's life changed nine years ago when a motorcycle accident left him paralyzed from the waist down.

He uses a wheelchair to get around the set of his new Fox...		]]></content>
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<title type="html">Craig Ferguson's autobiography is a testimony to America's eternal appeal to immigrants</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/news/23.115866</id>
		<published>2009-11-06T23:00:49Z</published>
		<updated>2009-11-06T23:00:49Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>Richard Pachter</name>
		</author>
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		"American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot" by Craig Ferguson. HarperCollins. 268 pages.

Acknowledged that this may seem to be a left-field choice for a biz book review...		]]></content>
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<title type="html">'Dawn' of the new millennium: High-profile remake of a 1980s cult favorite</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/news/23.115865</id>
		<published>2009-11-06T22:00:37Z</published>
		<updated>2009-11-06T22:00:37Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>Julie Hinds</name>
		</author>
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		DETROIT &#8212; It's a quiet afternoon in downtown Detroit as an invasion is in progress.

Soldiers and shabbily-dressed civilians are standing at a cordoned-off area around Griswold and Michigan...		]]></content>
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<title type="html">Chicago band The Academy Is &amp;#8230; shakes up its sound once again</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/news/23.115867</id>
		<published>2009-11-06T21:03:11Z</published>
		<updated>2009-11-06T21:03:11Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>Glenn Gamboa</name>
		</author>
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		The Academy Is ... isn't afraid of taking chances.

Each of the Chicago band's albums features a different approach to pop-leaning rock, and its new EP, "Lost in Pacific Time" (Decaydance/Fueled by...		]]></content>
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<title type="html">Jeff Bridges abides, and works like crazy</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/news/23.115864</id>
		<published>2009-11-06T20:00:51Z</published>
		<updated>2009-11-06T20:00:51Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>Steven Rea</name>
		</author>
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		TORONTO &#8212; In "The Men Who Stare at Goats," Jeff Bridges plays Bill Django, a military man who returns from Vietnam to embrace the '60s counterculture headlong &#8212; the whole Aquarian Age,...		]]></content>
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<title type="html">'Unmistaken Child' a must-see documentary</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/news/23.115863</id>
		<published>2009-11-06T19:00:54Z</published>
		<updated>2009-11-06T19:00:54Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>Robert W. Butler</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		One of 2009's most intriguing documentaries played so briefly that you probably missed it.

But thanks to the eternal life promised by DVD, you can see "Unmistaken Child" in the comfort of your own...		]]></content>
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<title type="html">Sit down and shut up: Don Rickles is in the house</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/news/23.115854</id>
		<published>2009-11-06T17:30:43Z</published>
		<updated>2009-11-06T17:30:43Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>Nicole Brodeur</name>
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		You call him Mr. Rickles because he deserves it. He's a legend. Honorary member of the Rat Pack. The guy Johnny Carson tossed into a hot tub. And a performer who has as much respect for the term...		]]></content>
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<title type="html">Roland Emmerich's latest big-budget doomsday extravaganza is his 'darkest film' to date</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/news/23.115858</id>
		<published>2009-11-06T16:30:18Z</published>
		<updated>2009-11-06T16:30:18Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>Roman Deininger</name>
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		CANCUN, Mexico &#8212; Roland Emmerich has an ongoing project: destroying the world. In 1996's "Independence Day," the German director sent aliens to wipe out the White House. In 1998, he unleashed...		]]></content>
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<title type="html">In concert, Jewel remains a diamond in the rough</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/news/23.115856</id>
		<published>2009-11-06T16:00:44Z</published>
		<updated>2009-11-06T16:00:44Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>Madeleine Marr</name>
		</author>
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		There's nothing fancy about Jewel's concerts. That's not the way she rolls.

"It's just me and my guitar," says the country-folk-pop singer from Durham, N.C., a stop on her tour. "I don't do set...		]]></content>
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<title type="html">Hit repeat with Steely Dan and 'Aja'</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/news/23.115855</id>
		<published>2009-11-06T15:24:44Z</published>
		<updated>2009-11-06T15:24:44Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>Jon Bream</name>
		</author>
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		Bruce Springsteen is doing it. So are Van Morrison, the Pixies and Steely Dan. Playing a classic album in its entirety in concert &#8212; along with random favorites, of course.

On tour this year,...		]]></content>
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<title type="html">Lily Tomlin has had an extraordinary career being ordinary</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/news/23.115852</id>
		<published>2009-11-06T13:57:58Z</published>
		<updated>2009-11-06T13:57:58Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>Dana Oland</name>
		</author>
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		The most surprising thing about Lily Tomlin is that she's really not that funny.

At least, that's what she says.

"I'm quite in earnest as a person. I could imitate funny things or people who were...		]]></content>
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<title type="html">Film changes student's course: 'Precious' star pursuing acting</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/news/23.115859</id>
		<published>2009-11-06T06:00:15Z</published>
		<updated>2009-11-06T06:00:15Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>Lauren Viera</name>
		</author>
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		CHICAGO &#8212; You'd never guess it from meeting her on the street, but Gabourey Sidibe makes an incredibly convincing troubled, abused teenager.

The 26-year-old New Yorker plays the jarring...		]]></content>
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<title type="html">Richard Kelly hopes to push moviegoers' buttons with 'The Box'</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/news/23.115824</id>
		<published>2009-11-05T21:42:59Z</published>
		<updated>2009-11-05T21:42:59Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>Rene Rodriguez</name>
		</author>
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		<img	src="http://www.popmatters.com/images/news_art/e/enter_movie-box_2_mct.jpg" />Filmmaker Richard Kelly's initial encounter with Richard Matheson's fiendish little short story "Button, Button" &#8212; about a cash-strapped couple offered a million dollars to push a button on a...		]]></content>
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<title type="html">Season finale of 'Mad Men,' Sunday on AMC</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/news/23.115820</id>
		<published>2009-11-05T18:45:41Z</published>
		<updated>2009-11-05T18:45:41Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>Verne Gay</name>
		</author>
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		REASON TO WATCH: Don's big sit-down (or showdown) with Conrad Hilton (Chelcie Ross) and much else.

CATCHING UP: A pall has spread over the world, and the offices of Sterling Cooper, in the wake of...		]]></content>
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<title type="html">'Goats' director Heslov and star George Clooney go way back</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/news/23.115821</id>
		<published>2009-11-05T18:19:21Z</published>
		<updated>2009-11-05T18:19:21Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>Robert W. Butler</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		Nearly 20 years ago Grant Heslov met fellow struggling actor George Clooney at an audition.

Clooney was too poor to purchase a set of head shots, so Heslov lent him the money.

It was the beginning...		]]></content>
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<title type="html">It's a 'Wonderful World' for Matthew Broderick</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/news/23.115819</id>
		<published>2009-11-05T18:07:57Z</published>
		<updated>2009-11-05T18:07:57Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>Madeleine Marr</name>
		</author>
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		MIAMI &#8212; Like his old pal Ferris Bueller, Matthew Broderick may need a day off. The former teen star, 47, is getting slammed for his performance in Broadway's "The Starry Messenger."

Meanies...		]]></content>
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	<entry>
<title type="html">Pop 20: What's next for paranormal pop culture</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/news/23.115815</id>
		<published>2009-11-05T16:31:08Z</published>
		<updated>2009-11-05T16:31:08Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>Aaron Sagers</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		When "New Moon," the second film installment of "The Twilight Saga," premieres on Nov. 20, the weekend and possibly a couple weeks after, will belong to vampires and werewolves. Immediately following...		]]></content>
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	<entry>
<title type="html">Celebrating the memoir, fiction's day is done?</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/news/23.115768</id>
		<published>2009-11-05T01:00:08Z</published>
		<updated>2009-11-05T01:00:08Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>Dianna Marder</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		When browsing online or in a bookstore, one might easily conclude that every third person in the country is actively engaged in writing or reading a memoir.

The rest have it on their to-do...		]]></content>
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<title type="html">Live from New York: Previously unreleased Sinatra</title>
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		<published>2009-11-05T00:04:15Z</published>
		<updated>2009-11-05T00:04:15Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>Howard Reich</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		For those who believed that every note Frank Sinatra ever sang already has been released, reissued and repackaged, brace yourselves: There's new material to come. The man recorded and performed so...		]]></content>
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<title type="html">A handful of CDs feature women singing traditional country standards</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/news/23.115767</id>
		<published>2009-11-04T22:00:37Z</published>
		<updated>2009-11-04T22:00:37Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>Mario Tarradell</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		Tanya Tucker put her inimitable stamp on a dozen country songs originally popularized by men on "My Turn," which was released in late June. Patty Loveless offered haunting interpretations of classic...		]]></content>
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