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Coal Mining Meets Reality TV Scott McDermott for Spike TVA few of the miners from Cobalt Coal who are featured in Spike’s new series “Coal.” There are two classic American folktales about coal. The first tells of greedy rednecks who blow virgin mountains to smithereens. Artist Nic Rad On His James Franco Manifesto The only person who may be meditating more on the concept of “James Franco” than the actor himself is New York artist Nic Rad. His performance piece “The Celebritist Manifesto” is an ode, a study, and a satirical performance to the actor who defies all conventions of what it means to be “Hollywood.” Originally written for a group show called “Hashtag,” organized by William Powhida and Jennifer Dalton, Nic plans to stage a second showing of “Manifesto” in New York before the end of February.

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog Plot[edit] Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog consists of three acts of approximately 14 minutes each. They were first released online in July 2008 as individual episodes, with two-day intervals between each release. Instagram Rises as Social Web Embraces Photo Sharing Photographs posted to Instagram by these users, clockwise from top left: alligatorgar, imoments, thatoneguyyoulike, zoelcholid, sourcruncher, tsana, reynhornwood and funky_shin. Peter DaSilva for The New York Times Mike Krieger, left, and Kevin Systrom, the founders of the photo-sharing service Instagram, at their office in San Francisco. The rising star of these is Instagram, a start-up in San Francisco with just four employees. Internal Memo: James Franco Who am “I”? And why do “I” have to be one person? Is it just because the letter “I” looks like the number “1″? Too many people are devoted to their own singularity. “I” am not a monad.

What Rotten Tomatoes data tell us about the best, worst, and most bizarre Hollywood trajectories. - By Christopher Beam and Jeremy Singer-Vine When M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbendercame out in July 2010, critics competed to see who could muster the most scorn. Shyamalan's seventh film was "dull, boring, poorly acted, limply written, and thoroughly unappealing" (San Francisco Chronicle), and "[s]tiff, fuzzy-looking, cloddish and disastrous in nearly every way" (Detroit News). In the Wall Street Journal, Joe Morgenstern called it "a form of Chinese water torture in which tin-ear line-readings take the place of drips." "The current national priorities should be as follows," wrote Cliff Doerksen in the Chicago Reader.

David Thomson on James Franco Time magazine has already called James Franco "the coolest guy alive", and the evidence piles up until you wonder: is that "evidence" or hype? Is he running a little too fast? Yes, in a few weeks' time he will be presenting the Academy awards show, along with Anne Hathaway, in the clearest sign yet that Oscar will do anything to get young viewers. And yes, he will be up for an Oscar himself for his performance in Danny Boyle's 127 Hours, where his character has to hack off an arm to get out of a tight squeeze in a Utah canyon. And no, people have not run to see that film.

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