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Notes on an evening with Dan Harmon, and the myriad ways in which you can enchant and disappoint the ones you love (or, at least, who love you).
Prince's new albums fit in with his recent output: variations on conventional songcraft spelled by stretches of self-quotation. And yet, there's still every reason to look forward to what's next.
Like Sarah Palin and the Fords before her, Paula Deen's new video network is ostensibly a platform to engage directly with fans unperturbed by certain scandals. It's also a way to avoid reality.
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