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After finishing a drama series in which he played a devoted bachelor, Park Geon-hyeong goes back to his roots – musicals – this time as a transgender rock singer.

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The actress praises President Barack Obama’s support for women’s rights and says he “needs to stay in office”

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In response to an email from Planned Parenthood pleading with lawmakers not to throw women’s health under the bus through massive budget cuts, Pittman refused to be moved, calling for abolishing Planned Parenthood …

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Rupert Murdoch , often depicted as a nefarious figure by the papers that he does not control, is seeking to buy out BskyB with an £8bn bid.

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Upon news that the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) commissioners had approved a four-team playoff to determine college football’s national champion Tuesday evening, media outlets were quick to report that the BCS was on its deathbed.

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In our age of anti-heroes and fabulous villains, niceness has often fallen along the wayside as an embodiment of dull virtue, evidence of a distasteful unwillingness to commit to strong emotion or decisive action. It’s no mistake that Steve Carrell’s emerged as a surprisingly significant movie star during this past decade.

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Republican vs. Republican on the payroll tax cut… Kristen: The GOP is playing into Obama’s hands… After Kim’s death, what should our North Korea policy be?… Is Hitchens in Heaven?… Why many on the left could never forgive him… Announcing a Newt-related TWiB hiatus…

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In the last two weeks, we’ve pointed out that Fox News’ graphics department stunningly failed to accurately portray the fact that the unemployment rate dropped from 9 percent to 8.6 percent in November. But Fox’s graphics woes apparently aren’t limited to misrepresenting the unemployment rate. Tonight, the network’s premiere “straight news” political program, Special Report with Bret Baier , did a segment on possible paths to victory for President Obama’s re-election campaign. And in one graphic, Fox mislabeled Utah as Nevada: Soon afterward, Fox mislabeled Vermont as New Hampshire: It seems that Fox’s 2009 pledge of “zero tolerance for on-screen errors” has not worked very well. (h/t Twitter user DiagnosticsCT )

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There were a ton of photos snapped of first lady Michelle Obama’s visit to the U.S. Open in New York today. But here’s the one the Drudge Report chose to go with to accompany its caption of “Tennis, Anyone?” Michelle Obama as the angry, black female — and this time with what could be considered a weapon. Where have we seen that before? During the 2008 presidential campaign, this is the image the right-wing media tried to cultivate of Michelle Obama, painting her as someone who “sometimes uses” a “kind of militant anger.” Bill O’Reilly accused her of looking “like an angry woman,” and Sean Hannity said that she “sounds angry.” John McLaughlin asked of her: “You don’t think she’s a black militant?”

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The gossip press is squarely on Jennifer Lopez’s side in her split from Marc Anthony.

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