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SNL's Zooey Deschanel Episode: 5 Best Scenes NBC

SNL's Zooey Deschanel Episode: 5 Best Scenes

Clint Eastwood's Third Quarter in America, cameos by Jean Dujardin and Nicolas Cage, remembering Whitney Houston, and more...

Whitney Houston Has Died Reuters

Whitney Houston Has Died

The 'I Will Always Love You' singer was 48.

Will the Grammys Remain as Bizarre as Always This Year? AP Images

Will the Grammys Remain as Bizarre as Always This Year?

Predicting what will happen at Sunday's awards show.

Queering the NFL, Losing Liz Lemon: The Week's Best Pop-Culture Writing AP Images

Queering the NFL, Losing Liz Lemon: The Week's Best Pop-Culture Writing

Our weekly roundup of the most intriguing articles about entertainment we've come across in the past seven days

Who Should Be College Basketball's Player of the Year? Reuters

Who Should Be College Basketball's Player of the Year?

Nominations from Kansas, Kentucky ... and Creighton

How Did Bill Parcells Not Make the Pro Football Hall of Fame? AP Images

How Did Bill Parcells Not Make the Pro Football Hall of Fame?

The snub highlights the many flaws in the HOF selection process.

The Second Lives of Pro Football Players Reuters

The Second Lives of Pro Football Players

On NFL athletes staring into the abyss of retirement

Listen to Loudon Wainwright III's New Song, 'Over the Hill' Ross Halfin

Listen to Loudon Wainwright III's New Song, 'Over the Hill'

The legendary songwriter premieres a plainspoken meditation on age.

Kanye West Actually Should Throw a Fit at the Grammys This Year AP Images

Kanye West Actually Should Throw a Fit at the Grammys This Year

The rapper's nominations for Sunday's ceremony show how screwed up the Recording Academy's priorities are.

How to Map Time: A Visual History of the Timeline Princeton Architectural Press

How to Map Time: A Visual History of the Timeline

A journey through man's attempts at visualizing time itself

RIP John Christopher, Unsung Young-Adult Sci-Fi Writer Simon Pulse

RIP John Christopher, Unsung Young-Adult Sci-Fi Writer

The author, who died last week, wrote books that linked a familiar past with an unrecognizable future.

Eli Manning Hugs Michael Vick, and Other Portraits of NFL Tenderness AP Images

Eli Manning Hugs Michael Vick, and Other Portraits of NFL Tenderness

A brief glimpse at the softer side of America's most violent sport

Track of the Day: 'I Belong In Your Arms' The Atlantic
America's Best Literary Journalist Katherine Boo

America's Best Literary Journalist

The Times profiles the intrepid Katherine Boo.

Linsanity: How the Internet Made Jeremy Lin a Star in Less Than a Week AP Images

Linsanity: How the Internet Made Jeremy Lin a Star in Less Than a Week

The Knicks point guard's lightning-fast journey from benchwarmer to phenom could only have happened in 2012.

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