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Just as the Internet has developed legitimacy over the years, the activities created through it have also become validated. As a result, Web series have become one of today's most popular entertainment forms. The popularity of Web series first swelled during the 2007-08 Writers' Strike.
Films about government conspiracy have run rampant as of late, and exhausted audiences often dread seeing the same actors play the same parts over and over. When a movie is able to break the mold and make this tired concept work in a new and interesting way, audiences rejoice with this breath of fresh air.
All that time you spend on Facebook and following your buddies on Twitter will finally pay off. According to Dan Schawbel, a personal branding expert, this may actually not be so farfetched. In his new book Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success, he claims that the power of social media such as Facebook, blogging, MySpace, Twitter and LinkedIn can be used to our advantage.
Tangled Alphabets is a bizarre exhibit that has recently opened at the Museum of Modern Art and is going to be turning heads while on display from April 5 to June 15. The exhibit was put together by Latin American conceptual artists, León Ferrari and Mira Schendel.
Since 1962, there have been three things certain in life: death, taxes, and a new Bob Dylan studio album every couple of years. And next week will see the release of Dylan's latest studio recording - his 33rd, to be exact - entitled Together Through Life. The album, thrown together in far less time than 2001's Love and Theft and 2006's Modern Times, serves as a musical departure from those aforementioned masterpieces.
The sports film genre is a dangerously tricky one. Any sport can provide a great, heart-wrenching tale if you look hard enough. But when it comes to capturing that story on film, it is very easy for the story to fall victim to severe melodrama, or simply be too complicated to be told well.
Seven years ago, in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks, Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro developed a film festival to help New York City celebrate the culture that it is famous for. That was the beginning of The Tribeca Film Festival, which is now recognized as one of the most important film festivals in the world.
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