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Box Office Shocker: Movie Attendance Falls to Lowest Level in 16 Years

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December 29, 2011 Box Office Shocker: Movie Attendance Falls to Lowest Level in 16 Years Preliminary estimates show that 1.28 billion people went to the movies in North America in 2011, down 4 percent from 2010 and the lowest number since 1995; the good news: foreign box office revenues are at an all-time high. More news: Top Stories | Movies | TV | Music | Tech | Style | The Business | Awards

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Contender Castoffs: What Happened to These 13 Would-Be 2011 Awards Contenders?

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December 29, 2011   Contender Castoffs: What Happened to These 13 Would-Be 2011 Awards Contenders?   More news: Top Stories | Movies | TV | Music | Tech | Style | Awards | Business

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News Corp. Raises Phone-Hacking Cash Pool; 'War Horse's' Jeremy Irvine Q&A; BBC Faces Sexism Accusations

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December 29, 2011 News Corp. Raises Phone-Hacking Compensation Cashpool to $156 Million How to Become a Star in 1 Easy Lesson: 'War Horse's' Jeremy Irvine (Q&A) BBC Faces Sexism Accusations After Female Panda Makes Top 12 Female Faces of the Year List Canadian Tributes Pour in for Former 'Saturday Night Live' Writer Joe Bodolai Jose Maria Irisarri Steps Down from Spain's Vertice 360 MOVIES 'War Horse's' Jeremy Irvine: What's Next for the Actor 'The Paperboy' Poster with Zac Efron and Nicole Kidman Revealed Chimp-gate: 7 Developments in the Cheetah Death Conspiracy Paramount Asks Judge to Toss John Singleton's Fraud Claim in 'Hustle and Flow' Lawsuit Key 'Dark Knight Rises' Scene Revealed 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo's' Rooney Mara: David Fincher is 'Wildly Misunderstood' (Video) TV 'Game of Thrones': New Chapter from 'Winds of Winter' Debuts David Letterman Extortionist Lands New Gig on Crime Show 'Battlestar Galactica' Reunion '17th Precinct' Pilot Surfaces Online (Video)

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Arts: Iron Deficiency

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Movies Iron Deficiency Not even Meryl Streep can rescue this dreadful biopic. By Dana Stevens Posted Thursday, Dec 29, 2011, at 11:46 PM ET Reviewing Steve McQueen's sex-addiction drama Shame, I remarked that that movie's lead, Michael Fassbender, deserved the year's award for outstanding performance in a mediocre movie. After seeing Meryl Streep play Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, I'm wondering if the category might not need to be divided by gender: Streep would take Best Actress in a Bad Movie in a walk. This hokey, scattered biopic, directed by the actor Phyllida Lloyd (who also directed Streep in the ABBA jukebox musical Mamma Mia!), was scripted by Abi Morgan, who also, as it happens, co-wrote Shame. In a strange way, Shame and The Iron Lady have a lot in common: Both feature a driven, single-minded protagonist who manages to impress us as complex and larger-than-life thanks to the sheer force of personality of the actor playing him or her. And both films seem to take place in a context so thin, it's as if their bullheaded main characters—Shame's self-loathing poon hound and The Iron Lady's indestructible battle-ax—were acting against a painted backdrop. At least in Shame's case that insubstantial backdrop was elegantly rendered. The Iron Lady is, to put it kindly, a shambles. There are a lot of cinematic problems presented by the form of the biopic: How exact an impression of the famous subject do you want to coax from your lead actor? How do you structure the story temporally: chronologically or using flashbacks of some kind? How best to ease ... To continue reading, click here. Join the Fray: our reader discussion forum What did you think of this article? POST A MESSAGE | READ MESSAGES Also In Slate Can You Really Make a Bomb Out of a Cupcake? Yglesias: Maybe Average People Should Avoid the Stock Market Entirely Is the Guy From Bon Iver the Worst Poet in the History of Pop Music?	Advertisement
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Dear Prudence: A Marriage Hits a Rough Patch

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Dear Prudence A Marriage Hits a Rough Patch Hubby's new beard rubs me the wrong way, but he refuses to shave! By Emily Yoffe Posted Thursday, Dec 29, 2011, at 11:33 AM ET Get Dear Prudence delivered to your inbox each week; click here to sign up. Please send your questions for publication to prudence@slate.com. (Questions may be edited.) Next week's live chat at Washingtonpost.com will be on a special day: Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012, at 1 p.m. Submit your questions and comments here before or during the live discussion. Dear Prudence, I have what seems to be a petty problem, but it's really becoming an issue in my marriage. My husband and I have been together for almost 20 years and have three kids. We are well-educated, have satisfying jobs, and still enjoy each other's company, with one exception. He has recently grown a beard. In years past he has occasionally had a beard for a short while, and each time after a few weeks he's gotten rid of it, to my relief. I hate it. I don't find it attractive, and more importantly I hate the way it feels on my skin when we kiss or do anything more intimate. This time, he's refusing to shave and has made this beard into a "love me, love my beard" situation. I finally told him not to even try to kiss me until he shaves. This led to a huge fight, and we're barely speaking. I can't help the way his beard physically makes me feel! Help! —Close Shave Dear Close, Where are those crazed Amish beard cutters when you need ... To continue reading, click here. Join the Fray: our reader discussion forum What did you think of this article? POST A MESSAGE | READ MESSAGES Also In Slate Can You Really Make a Bomb Out of a Cupcake? Yglesias: Maybe Average People Should Avoid the Stock Market Entirely Is the Guy From Bon Iver the Worst Poet in the History of Pop Music?	Advertisement
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Politics: The Santorum Surge

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Politics The Santorum Surge How his rising poll numbers in Iowa change the race. By David Weigel Posted Thursday, Dec 29, 2011, at 05:14 PM ET CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa—Rick Santorum has been telling you, and telling you, and telling you, and now, finally, you're listening. He paces in front of 60-odd conservatives in a room of the TrueNorth Learning Center, wearing a brown sweater vest, gesticulating, describing how he's been proven right. "People say, well, when are you gonna get your surge?" says Santorum. (Some of the "people" are the reporters in the back of the room; some are the Iowa conservatives who keep doubting him.) "Everybody in this race has had their surge, and their bump. Why haven't you had it? I say, I'm gonna get mine the old fashioned way. Actual people who know the candidates coming on board and helping us. Not some media creation. Not some clever line. But actually folks who are taking their time to look at the records, to look at the vision, to look at the character, to look at the courage." Santorum has been saying this all year. It stopped sounding ridiculous on Wednesday. A CNN/Time/ORC poll taken before and after Christmas showed Santorum at 16 percent support with registered Iowa Republicans. He'd been in high single digits or low double digits for a while, but 16 percent put him in third place, behind Romney and Paul. Third place meant that the media would take him seriously. So excuse Santorum for gloating. "People say, when are you gonna get your surge?" Santorum repeated. "I say, January 3." If Santorum ... To continue reading, click here. Join the Fray: our reader discussion forum What did you think of this article? POST A MESSAGE | READ MESSAGES Also In Slate Can You Really Make a Bomb Out of a Cupcake? Yglesias: Maybe Average People Should Avoid the Stock Market Entirely Is the Guy From Bon Iver the Worst Poet in the History of Pop Music?	Advertisement
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Daily Newsletter       29 December 2011  Best of the Moment Marginal Revolutionaries Anonymous | Economist | 27 December 2011 Economic debate abandons academy for blogosphere. Dissenters and radicals thrive there, helped by "massive disillusion with mainstream economics" after 2008 crash. Austrians, market monetarists, neo-chartalists gain ground Comments Apocalypse City Colin Thubron | NYRB | 22 December 2011 Many have tried to write about Jerusalem; few have really succeeded. Too often the result is either partisanship or pallid tact. Not so with Simon Sebag Montefiore, whose recent biography receives Thubron's admiring attention Comments Obituary: Sir Michael Dummett A.W. Moore | Guardian | 28 December 2011 Analytical philosopher: "The philosophy of language is the foundation of all other philosophy." Follower of Frege. Other passions: backward causation, immigration, Catholicism, voting procedures, tarot cards, English grammar Comments Clear Lines Jenny Hendrix | LA Review of Books | 27 December 2011 On the comic-book artist Hergé, and his creation Tintin. Instructive, precise, enduring stories. "An aesthetic prototype of the 20th century. A forerunner of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Indiana Jones and John Le Carré". Comments The Big Lie Michael Thomas | Newsweek | 26 December 2011 Wall St has fallen back on a lie as old as capitalism itself. "This time, however, I don’t think the argument that 'Washington ate my homework' is going to work. This time, a firestorm is going to explode about the Street’s head" Comments The Case For Enhancing People Ronald Bailey | New Atlantis | 20 December 2011 Fascinating essay defends use of biotech, nanotech to enhance human capabilities - physical, intellectual, emotional. "People who don’t want enhancement for themselves should allow those of us who do to go forward without hindrance" Comments  FiveBooks Interview Best of FiveBooks on History Our end-of-year run collecting gems from the archives continues with history books – from when Anabaptists got violent to the story of Cromwell’s decapitated head  Featured Special Report Revolution In Libya After 42 years of brutality and repression, the era of Gaddafi is over. Here's what his rule meant for Libyans, how they ended it, and where the country is headed now      Reader Recommendations @polit2k The social benefit of pension funds | Felix Salmon t.co/wip9ejMq #browsings #gfc2  Book of the Day Chronicles by Bob Dylan Greil Marcus says: “It's a marvellous, eyes-wide-open partial-autobiography. It's also wonderfully written – the words are alive on the page”  Video of the Day Dealing With Slow Walkers Only one idea here, and it's played out in the first 40 seconds, but it's a lovely idea  Quote of the Day Roger Ebert, on "Armageddon" "No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out" | Homepage | Mobile Apps | RSS Feeds | Twitter | Facebook | Privacy Policy | Contact Us | Having trouble reading this email? View it in your browser. You are receiving this email because you signed up for the Best of the Moment newsletter on thebrowser.com. Click here to unsubscribe The Browser Ltd, 106 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 6PF