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Wisconsin Woman Charged With Selling Fake Facebook Stock
While most of us learned of Facebook’s planned initial public offering yesterday, Marianne A. Oleson of Oshkosh, Wis., has been allegedly selling shares in the popular social networking site since last 2011. Now the police have …
Is Aaron Sorkin Going to Write the Steve Jobs Biopic?
The world’s greatest screenwriter may be taking on the toughest task of his career
Broadway’s ‘Book of Mormon’ Might Hit the Silver Screen
This year’s breakout Broadway musical, The Book of Mormon, is expected to hit the silver screen, according to an Entertainment Weekly interview with its creators.
Cinematic Cursing: How the ‘F’ Word Became Common in PG-13 Movies
No f___ing way, we did not see this coming.
‘The Social Network’ Is Such an Award-Magnet, Even Its Trailer Gets Trophies
It’s already received award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor, but The Social Network just added one more triumph to the list: Best Trailer.
The Social Network: Up There with Citizen Kane? The Top 10 Best Picture Snubs
And the Oscar for Best Snub goes to …
From Hitchcock to Watchmen: See the 50 Greatest Movie Opening Sequences
The Oscars may be days away, but we’re years yet from one of the little gold men going to best opening sequence.
Unauthorized Zuckerberg Biography Released — In Comic Book Form
Mark Zuckerberg may be richer than almost everyone, more powerful than world leaders and able to make friends and enemies in a single bound. But can he be a comic book hero, too?
Just What the Oscars Need: A New Envelope
And the winner of Best New Envelope goes to…
Presidential Friend Request: Obama and Zuckerberg to Sit Down
The key question on everyone’s lips after the world’s most powerful man and — yes! — President Obama meet in San Francisco Thursday? Will they ‘like’ each other?
The King’s Speech Sweeps the BAFTA Board
“Two men in a room” it may be, but Tom Hooper’s movie starring Colin Firth as King George VI overcoming a stammer looks unstoppable this awards season. Next and final stop: The Oscars. (via TIME)