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Steve Coll on Exxon Mobil's oil empire |
2012-05-03T09:09:27Z
 (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil's vast size and massive profits have often put the oil giant in the crosshairs of critics, and its strict adherence to company protocols and philosophy has created an image of the company as impervious to outside pressure. Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Steve Coll's new book "Private Empire: Exxon Mobil and American Power" sought to delve inside the Irving, Texas-based company to see how it thinks and what drives its decisions. The heavily-researched and reported story of the U.S. ...
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Review: "The Perfect Family" is far from perfect |
2012-05-03T22:27:22Z
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - As sure as the Pope resides at the Vatican, the Catholic Church won't be organizing busloads of parishioners for fieldtrips to go see "The Perfect Family." That's because this slight satirical comedy has as its center a woman so slavishly devoted to the church that she has worn blinders for years that keep her from seeing that her own family is falling apart. The film's title, "The Perfect Family," is meant to be ironic with a neon yellow highlighter through it. ...
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Review: "Smash" soundtrack comes up skimpy |
2012-05-02T18:33:00Z
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - There's an old adage that goes "Leave ‘em wanting more," and although that may not be a specifically Broadway or TV adage, it's been adopted for the "Smash" soundtrack album, which solves the problem of whether to fill the disc up with pop covers or musical-comedy originals by not offering enough of either. Another five-letter S-word would seem to apply: s-k-i-m-p. ...
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"The Avengers" is a satisfying superhero sandwich |
2012-05-01T21:35:27Z
 LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Assembling a team of superheroes is no doubt like putting together an all-star cast - you've got to deal with a lot of clashing egos in a small space and make sure that everyone has his or her moment to shine. Writer-director Joss Whedon pulls off both in "The Avengers," an exhilarating ode to what mainstream comics do best. In my childhood (and, admittedly, parts of my adulthood), I read the "Avengers" comics because they were equally concerned with character interactions and the old biff-bam-pow. ...
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Review: 'Dark Shadows' retread sucks out the fun |
2012-05-10T18:05:48Z
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The original idea of a Tim Burton-directed "Dark Shadows" certainly must have seemed like a good one on paper, with the master of mass-market Goth applying his imagination and a Hollywood budget to the infamously on-the-cheap, Dan Curtis-created cult soap opera that ran from 1966 to 1971 on ABC before spawning various film and TV follow-ups. ...
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Book Talk: Memory and re-invention with Alison Winn Scotch |
2012-05-10T04:09:02Z
TOKYO (Reuters) - A fear of flying inspired bestselling author Alison Winn Scotch's latest book, centering on a woman who awakes in a hospital with total amnesia, one of two people left alive after a massive plane crash. "The Song Remains the Same" follows Nell Slattery as she tries to piece together her former life even as her nearest and dearest - her husband, mother and sister - all feed her information about who she was in line with their own personal agendas and issues. Scotch spoke with Reuters about her book, identity and who we are without our memories. ...
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Review: Underwood's "Blown Away" is a breeze |
2012-05-01T20:45:13Z
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - It's a good thing that you can't judge a book by its sleeve art, because Carrie Underwood's fourth album, "Blown Away," arrives this week bearing one of the tackiest country music album covers of all time - a ludicrously airbrushed portrait that dares you not to focus on Underwood's gleaming, Angelina-like right gam while the star gazes into the distance like a fembot on a romance-novel jacket. It's a relief to find the music inside is better... sometimes, much better. ...
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Review: Harrison's "Early Takes" is beautifully bare |
2012-05-01T21:59:18Z
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Back in 2003, the surviving Beatles authorized the release of "Let It Be... Naked," an album of remixes that stripped away the most outlandish production flourishes producer Phil Spector had added to the original "Let It Be" album in 1970. In a way, the new George Harrison release "Early Takes, Volume 1" does the same thing for the former Beatle's Spector-produced 1970 solo debut, "All Things Must Pass," as, among other selections, it offers up six songs from that landmark effort in completely unvarnished form. ...
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Spoofs take steam out of "Fifty Shades of Grey" |
2012-05-01T19:07:48Z
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Spanking, sex and submission are raking in profits for erotic novel "Fifty Shades of Grey", reinvigorating marriages and sparking anguished debates among feminists, but there has been one unintended result of the novel - laughter. The best-selling book by British writer E.L. James that has taken pop culture by storm also has become ripe for spoofs and parodies, even as Hollywood is agog over who will play the leads in an upcoming movie. ...
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Johnson biographer Caro says political genius is his subject |
2012-04-30T04:13:47Z
 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Robert Caro has spent almost 40 years writing his monumental prize-winning biography of President Lyndon Johnson, but says it is not the 1960s leader that held his fascination for so long, but how political power works in America. With the long-awaited fourth volume of his Johnson biography "The Passage of Power" due out on Tuesday, Caro said he never wanted to write just about the life of the president who rammed through civil rights and welfare laws that transformed the nation but then was destroyed by the Vietnam War. ...
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