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POPSMost Popular Movies Of 1967 (IMD) I thought I would end the day's ampligistics with a reflection back on the movies that were most popular the year the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that bans against inter-racial marriage were unconstitutional. Interestingly enough, "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner" made the list, according to Internet Movie Database. Enjoy your weekend, everyone.
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POPSPost Script - The Lovings Short Time Together I had forgotten this bit of history about the life of Richard and Mildred Loving, an unfortunate post script but their life was well-lived together nonetheless inasmuch as they expanded the freedom of all of us. This blog post from Slate also has an interesting link to the Loving's case.
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POPSIs Harry Potter Star Dating Twilight Star ? Now a day two popular hollywood franchises “Harry Porter” and “Twilight” may have a romantic link as Bonnie Wright is dating Jamie Campbell Bower together. They are recently seen in an event at London’s Saatchi Gallery together. A source told “Wenn”: “They seemed very close, very intimate. They were definitely together.”
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POPSSquidoo and RocketMoms Session 3 of RocketMoms is just beginning. Only Moms can participate in this squidoo lens building challenge.
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POPSFun with Dick and Jane | tea leoni alive and amplified, richard jenkins, tea leone, indicted, liar liar, angie harmon, george segal, tea leoni, alec baldwin, dharma and greg, dumb and dumber, globodyne, gloria garayua, jim carey, téa leoni, spanglish, bonnie and clyde, me myself and irene, jim carrey, enron, Fun with Dick and Jane
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POPSI'm in this week's Spoonflower fabric contest! Mine is the purple spiral leopard pattern. As of right now, I'm totally bloody losing. Big surprise there! (sarcasm, well duh.) Winning is the so-very-not-great hedgie-somethingsomething pattern. Clearly, Smells_Fishy is the best pattern of the choices, and yet half the votes that the hedgie-nonsense has. What is wrong with most of these people voting?! I made my easily, without a lot of work, but Smells_Fishy obviously took some brains and yet it doesn't appear that it will win. I'm happy to say that I'm obviously out of touch with the people voting.
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POPS 'Harry Potter' Strikes Gold With Midnight Show There was pent-up demand for "Harry Potter" after that last movie. The two-year lag since "Order of the Phoenix" was the longest fans have had to wait for a new "Harry Potter" flick since the first movie arrived in 2001. Warner originally planned to release "Half-Blood Prince" last November but bumped it to 2009 to take advantage of an open weekend in Hollywood's busy summer schedule. "We're sorry that it caused some angst with our fans, but they're troopers, and they came out and supported the movie," said Dan Fellman, head of domestic distribution for Warner. The new movie has Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) trying to pry loose a hidden memory from one of his teachers, who holds key information about the wizard world's darkest enemy, Lord Voldemort.
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POPSLeonard Pitts, Jr. – "You don't really know me" More: So I was not surprised (it was just another day at the office) last week when a white woman from suburban Philadelphia called police from her cellphone, claiming she had been locked in the trunk of a Cadillac by two black men. Nor was I shocked (it was just another day in the life) when police said Bonnie Sweeten was actually holed up in a luxury hotel at Walt Disney World, and there never was a kidnapping, much less by two black men… University of Florida law professor Katheryn Russell-Brown, author of The Color of Crime, has documented 92 such incidents between 1987 and 2006. She cautions that white men are sometimes victims of racial hoaxes: witness the cases of Tawana Brawley and the Duke lacrosse team. But she says the overwhelming majority of the time -- 67 percent, to be exact -- it is the other way around: white liars blaming black men for things that did not happen