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Patrick Stewart attends a photo call at the Atlantic Theater Company on Aug. 25, 2010 in New York City.

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Not My Job: Actor Patrick Stewart Gets Quizzed On G.I. Joe

11:59am December 13, 2014

We've invited Stewart to play a game called "G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe, fighting man from head to toe!" Three questions about G.I. Joe, the Hasbro company action figure first introduced 50 years ago.

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Cynthia Thomas puts labels on bottles of moonshine near Union Springs, Ala., Friday, Oct. 25, 2013. Last year, High Ridge Spirits â Alabama's first legal distillery since Prohibition â joined the growing trend of more than 600 craft distilleries

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Getting Your 'Shine On Is Becoming Increasingly Legal

9:31pm December 12, 2014

by Andrew Yeager

Mention moonshine and you might think of an illegal backwoods still carefully hidden to evade authorities. But recently, legal distilleries have been popping up in a white lightning renaissance.

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Even If Torture Doesn't Work In The Real World, TV Has Us Convinced It Does

3:07pm December 12, 2014

by Eric Deggans

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The Afro-Semitic Experience, FaithAction International, Diana Greene, and The Healing Blues

2:27pm December 12, 2014

by David Ford

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Interactive touch screens at the newly redesigned Cooper Hewitt museum let visitors sort through the catalog and create their own designs.

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Please Touch! Cooper Hewitt Creates A Museum For The Internet Age

2:00pm December 12, 2014

by Laura Sydell

The design museum is housed in a historic building, but it has been remade into one of the country's most technologically advanced museums. Officials hope it attracts younger visitors — and donors.

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Filmed Over 12 Years, 'Boyhood' Follows A Kid's Coming Of Age

1:32pm December 12, 2014

Writer-director Richard Linklater says picking the film's star was vital because he had to guess what he'd be like at 18. "I just went with a kid who seemed kind of the most interesting."

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Funny, Dirty, Sad: The 'Holy Trinity' For 'Transparent' Creator Jill Soloway

1:32pm December 12, 2014

When writer Jill Soloway's father came out as a trans woman, Soloway says, it was a huge relief. And it helped her create the series Transparent about "boundaries, legacy, gender, family."

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Depicting An Unstable Era, 'Inherent Vice' Never Jells, But It's Addictive

1:32pm December 12, 2014

by David Edelstein

The film, based on Thomas Pynchon's novel, is set in 1970 in a beach town south of Los Angeles. With wonderful actors, it's like a gorgeous stoner art object: groovy, campy, dreamlike and funny.

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Rosario Dawson (left) plays Chelsea Brown, a New York Times reporter who spends a day interviewing Rock's character, Andre Allen.

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'Top Five': A Good, Not Great, Day In New York With Chris Rock

11:12am December 12, 2014

by Linda Holmes

Chris Rock's new comedy is strong on industry satire, but gets a little watery with the romance.

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The Great 'Parks And Rec' Clip War Of 2014

9:41am December 12, 2014

by Linda Holmes

When critics are anticipating the end of a show they've liked a lot, strange things happen.