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"Gluttony is not a secret vice," the corpulent Orson Welles noted.

And being no secret, it also answers a question haunting America at this moment: "Where in hell isimage-1 Jerry Falwell?"

As you can see from the accompanying photo, Jerry porked up hugely in the last few years of his inimitably hate-filled life. That means he is at the very least in the third circle of hell which,...

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To call Sandra Laing an innocent victim of apartheid would imply that any of South Africa's people of color somehow deserved the abuses of the nation's brutal institutional racism. All of apartheid's victims were innocent. Nevertheless, Laing's unusual life, as dramatized in the uneven film Skin, hammers home the cruelties and pernicious effects of bigotry.

Played by Sophie...

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In the Chilean drama The Maid, an upper-middle class family treats the title character like part of the family, but comparable to the way that the appendix is part of the body. Like a vestigial organ, a servant can be removed if she starts causing trouble.

Fears of being replaced bring out the worst in 41-year-old Raquel (Catalina Saavedra), who's spent two decades working for...

First DJ Drama's Atlanta-based Gangsta Grillz mixtape dynasty feels the RIAA pinch. Now Muxtape - 2008's coolest online music-sharing tool - gets squeezed out by the Recording Industry Association of America.

Would somebody please tell this dinosaur of a music industry that every move it makes in the name of self-preservation only brings it one step closer to extinction?

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