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Classic fashion queen remains a beautifully dressed enigma

There seems to be no end of interest in Coco Chanel: much more than you would have suspected could have been generated by a collarless white jacket or a little black dress. Coco has come to mean something: female liberation,, or the gritty self-determination that takes one from an orphanage to one's own fashion house. Or maybe it's that she's a great movie subject because the costumes are sure to be sensational. PRINT | 7/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0

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Who needs bullets when you can bend spoons?

When you get right down to it, we're all freaks. Every one of us suspects we might be special in some way, whether it's a persistent Cinderella complex that makes us believe we're lost heirs to a large fortune, or maybe gifted with some talent that could save the world. PRINT | 6/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0
Want a rewarding Box? Stick with Justin Timberlake's

Cameron Diaz and James Marsden have a terrible moral dilemma in Richard Kelly's The Box: Press a button on a mysterious container, they'll get $1 million, and someone they don't know will die. PRINT | 6/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0
Close (encounters) but no cigar

THE Fourth Kind is a "found footage" horror movie with a few new tweaks, though not enough to escape a certain clunkiness. PRINT | 6/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0
We're done for! We're done for!

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING -- The world is ending in 2012. PRINT | 6/11/2009 1:00 AM | 1