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31 Days of Horror: Poltergeist

30 October 2009 5:00 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

Poltergeist (1982) Synopsis: A young family are visited by ghosts in their home. At first the ghosts appear friendly, moving objects around the house to the amusement of everyone, then they turn nasty and start to terrorize the family before they "kidnap" the youngest daughter. Left with no other options, the family invites various experts to their home to try and retrieve their daughter and get away from their not-so-safe abode. Killer Scene: As I observed upon watching this film for the first time in a long time (see below for the rest of the story), it is one of the few truly great and terrifying horror films in which no one actually dies. At least, not during the runtime of the film. It involves plenty of dead people, all of whom died a long time ago, but no one actually dies (spoiler alert, straight from the early 80s). However, there is one badass scene in which the »

- Neil Miller

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Exclusive Video: Festive White Christmas Special Feature Clip

29 October 2009 9:21 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

We have a brand new exclusive special feature clip from the brand new anniversary edition of White Christmas, which will be released on DVD on November 3. Click below to take a look at our exclusive special feature clip, which deals with Bing Crosby taking the time to sing for American soldiers.

White Christmas, Paramount's belated follow-up to the 1942 hit Holiday Inn, was the studio's first VistaVision production. A veritable warehouse full of oldie-but-goodie Irving Berlin tunes are woven into the film's simplistic plotline, along with a handful of new songs, of which &"What Can You Do With a General?" is the least memorable. Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye (replacing an ailing Donald O'Connor) play nightclub entertainers Bob Wallace and Phil Davis, while Rosemary Clooney and VeraEllen are cast as singing-sister act Betty and Judy. The foursome travel to Vermont to visit Bob and Phil's Wii commanding officer, General Waverly (Dean Jagger, »

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The Twilight Saga: New Moon Premiere Parties

19 October 2009 10:38 PM, PDT | PopStar | See recent PopStar news »

Gaining access into the Los Angeles premiere of The Twilight Saga: New Moon will be impossible due to popularity of the highly amped Twilight sequel and unless you are a super stealth MacGyver type who can scale the Mann's Theater, your access will be denied. Although the thought of seeing Robert Pattinson sport his skinny black tie on the red carpet makes you want to become Bruce Lee, we are here to tell you that you do have other options. Twilight fans are banning together to hold fun premiere parties filled with New Moon screenings, themed activities, and fun goodie bags. As you can imagine, reservations are filling up fast, so make sure you secure your spot right away. San Francisco Bay Area TwilightAnonymous is calling on all Twilight fans from the San Francisco Bay Area for their New Moon Movie Release Party on November 19, 2009. With purchase you will also »

- cjoyce@corp.popstar.com (Colleen Joyce)

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Hilarious 'SNL' Halloween Costumes

16 October 2009 4:35 PM, PDT | Extra | See recent Extra news »

Halloween is just around the corner -- need an idea for that party? "Extra" brings you entertaining and creative "SNL" costumes that will surely make you the life of the party!

SNL Halloween CostumesDick in a Box

“Dick in a Box” is a Saturday Night Live digital short featuring Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg. You can buy a “Dick in a Box” costume at: ZoogsterCostumes.com.

Blues Brothers

John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd turned an »

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Workshoppe: Stylish Temp Space in the Land of Gourmet Burgers and Bankers

8 October 2009 6:30 PM, PDT | Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news »

Let's say you're based outside NYC. But you come here often enough to need an office. But not so much that it's worth renting one long term. How's someone who's design obsessed supposed to pull that off? You can't very well sell your next high-tech, high-design Ponzi scheme over drinks at the Holiday Inn.

And that's exactly where Workshoppe fits in: The split-level "think tank and loft space" is rentable by the day, week, or month. In other words, just long enough for your to fake having a real, bespoke office while you're in town.

It's situated at 30 Water Street, right above the Burger Shoppe--a favorite haunt for financial types, which also happens to be right around the corner from Goldman Sachs. More pics over at Urban Daddy. The entire building is being converted into something like a clubhouse for the young, rich and hip; as the Web site shows, »

- Cliff Kuang

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How InterContinental Is Redesigning The World's Largest Hotel Chain

22 September 2009 10:00 AM, PDT | Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news »

With more than 3,200 hotels around the world, InterContinental Hotel Group's Holiday Inn is the most recognized and most popular hotel brand in the world--every second, three people check into a Holiday Inn property. This year, the hotel embarked upon a massive global relaunch, the largest in hospitality history. And after conducting extensive research to find out what was important to their guests, Holiday Inn focused on several physical changes in the hotels and rooms. Beginning with a rollout of a new logo and signage, followed by the revamp of every room and property, Holiday Inn then launched a multi-million dollar advertising campaign that reinforced the changes.

The lobby of the recently relaunched Holiday Inn at London Heathrow Airport shows an enhanced check-in experience with a de-cluttered front desk complimented by a signature back wall that communicates the clean and modern values travelers wanted.

A before shot of the exterior of the Minneapolis Holiday Inn. »

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Lots of upcoming horror screenings/fests

18 September 2009 10:10 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

As the Halloween season approaches, all kinds of fright fare past and present will be turning up at festivals and specialty theaters across the country. Here’s a rundown on a bunch of screenings and genre-film events we’ve been alerted to:

The first annual Maelstrom International Fantastic Film Festival launches tonight and continues through this Sunday, September 20 in Seattle, Wa at the Siff Cinema at McCaw Hall (321 Mercer Street). The event is hosting 33 shorts and six features from the realms of horror, science fiction, fantasy and animation; the full-length films are Jim Isaac’s Pig Hunt, D. Kerry Prior’s The Revenant (see our advance rave here), Faye Jackson’s Strigoi, Rustin Thompson’s The Ends Of The Earth, Scott Norwood’s TIMETRAVEL_0 and Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell’s black-metal documentary Until The Night Takes Us. In advance of the Fantastic Fest that begins next week, Austin, TX »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)

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Holiday Inn's Hotel Stacks Up Against the Competition...Literally

18 September 2009 1:00 PM, PDT | Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news »

Would you live in a house made of cards? Probably not. Would you just stay in a hotel room made of one for a night? Well, now is your chance to at least check out your possible accommodations. Check out Holiday Inn's hotel made entirely of stacked key cards in celebration of their hotel relaunch.

InterContinental Hotel Group (Ihg), the world's largest hotel group, celebrated the new logo design and hotel relaunch of 1,200 Holiday Inn hotels yesterday at New York City's South Street Seaport with a ribbon cutting ceremony by VP of Global Brand Management, Holiday Inn Brands, Kevin Kowalski and cardstacking expert, Bryan Berg--along with a phenomenal showing of a replica of a Holiday Inn hotel room and lobby built entirely of Holiday Inn hotel key cards. Bryan Berg, the Guinness World Record holder for the World's Tallest House of Freestanding Playing Cards and the World's Largest House of Cards, »

- Mary-Louise Price

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'Melrose Place' recap: Mommie Dearest?

15 September 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »

It’s week two and the mystery is gone…maybe. It seems Melrose 2.0 has rushed to a few reveals in the second episode without letting characters, and their seedy pasts, reveal themselves more slowly. Oh well, Melrose Place was never about subtlety. In addition to seeing more of Auggie’s abs (thank you, opening shower scene!), we also learned more about his post-aa bedroom romps with Sydney and about a pre-sobriety bar fight in which his then-girlfriend died and Auggie killed a guy in self defense. The other big Sydney revelation in this flashback-rific episode was that Violet had told Sydney she was her mother. If it’s true, that’s not exactly a shocker (they’re both redheads, and Violet had stolen that photo of Sydney in the first episode). But I’m hoping that the theory is just a little too neat – maybe Sydney’s denials will turn »

- Wendy Mitchell

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Max B, Former Dipset Member, Sentenced To 75 Years In Prison

3 September 2009 2:16 PM, PDT | MTV Newsroom | See recent MTV Newsroom news »

Three months ago, former Dipset affiliate Max B (real name Charles Wingate) was found guilty of manslaughter and conspiracy to commit robbery (among other charges) stemming from a 2006 incident in northern New Jersey. Today, the Harlem rapper was sentenced to 75 years in prison.

A jury found Max B guilty of nine of the 11 total counts he faced during his trial, all of which stemmed from an incident wherein the rapper and two other men attempted to steal $30,000 from another pair of men at a Holiday Inn, leading to one of those two getting shot. Max fired his attorney Gerald Saluti shortly before the sentencing and plans on appealing the sentence.

The rapper was first introduced to the rap world as a member of Jim Jones' Dipset offshoot crew Byrd Gang a few years ago and is known best for delivering a scathing verse on a Jay-z dis track called "You Gotta Love It, »

- MTV News

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Etta James versus Beyonce: Divas duel No. 2

5 February 2009 3:12 PM, PST | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »

Etta James must be taking lessons from Faye Dunaway in how to be a diva. Etta James came out swinging against Beyonce for daring to perform her signature song — "At Last" — as the first dance for Barack and Michelle Obama at an inaugural ball. At a Jan. 28 concert in Seattle, the veteran singer let rip: "I tell you, that woman he has singing for him, singing my song, she gonna get her ... whipped. I can’t stand Beyonce, she had no business up there singing ... my song that I’ve been singing forever."

However, that was not the first time Beyonce had sung "At Last." She played Etta James in the December release "Cadillac Records" and performed that tune among many others in the film. And at the premiere of the picture, Beyonce sang her predecessor’s praises: "She’s a living legend and I want her to love the movie, »

- tomoneil

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