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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; ENTERTAINMENT SPOTLIGHT</title>
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		<title>Tokyo Ballet&#8217;s top principal readies a final dance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Kosaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On his second-ever professional tour in Europe, dancer Naoki Takagishi fought through injuries as he worked with modern-dance choreographer Maurice Bejart for the first time. &#8220;I was only 22 years old,&#8221; Takagishi tells The Japan Times. &#8220;Mr. Bejart first saw me dance before the performance in a rehearsal. I was not yet accustomed to his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jackson brothers to visit Michael&#8217;s &#8216;second home&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Immortal,&#8221; the new Michael Jackson-themed Cirque du Soleil show touring North America may sound grandiose but the self-proclaimed &#8220;King of Pop&#8221; was undoubtedly a larger-than-life character. While immortality was out of Jackson&#8217;s reach, the singer&#8217;s family are doing their best to keep his memory alive with musical extravaganzas. Two &#8220;Michael Jackson Tribute Live&#8221; concerts will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proud love pervades NHK&#8217;s &#8216;Madame Butterfly&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Well, little Chrysanthème, let us part good friends; one last kiss even, if you like. I took you to amuse me; you have not perhaps succeeded very well, but after all you have done what you could: given me your little face, your little curtseys, your little music; in short, you have been pleasant enough [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An audience with Kyoko Kagawa</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kyoko Kagawa is among the fast dwindling number of living witnesses to Japanese cinema&#8217;s Golden Age of the 1950s and &#8217;60s. In a career that started in 1949 with the Shintoho studio, Kagawa worked with the giants of the era, including Akira Kurosawa, Yasujiro Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi and Mikio Naruse. And she appeared in films [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overcoming disaster via cinematic therapy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in May, the rumor among cinephiles in the Japanese media was that the Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) wouldn&#8217;t happen this year. The mood was that it was too soon after the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11 to hold anything festive, especially in the visual-arts scene. All over Japan, souls were aching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Average Joes become champions on &#8216;Sasuke&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Pole dancer! Pole dancer!! Pole dancer!!!&#8221; From the bellowing announcement thumping through the speakers, you might think we&#8217;re in a night club. We&#8217;re not. But, without doubt, the location is just as fabled as many nocturnal haunts, and the atmosphere is just as electric. Welcome to what has become known in more than 150 countries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pitt, Penn heap praise
on Malick&#8217;s &#8216;real world&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terrence Malick kicks off his new film, &#8220;The Tree of Life,&#8221; with a bang. The Big Bang, actually. Over the next 138 minutes, the viewer witnesses a journey through history that ends up in a small town in Texas. Critics seem to agree that you&#8217;ll either love it or hate it. &#8220;Terrence Malick has vision,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local galleries move to fore at Art Fair Tokyo</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On the Japanese cultural calendar, visual-art events tend to take place in the more pleasant seasons of spring and autumn. Classical music and ballet have winter sewn up, with dozens of performances of Ludwig van Beethoven&#8217;s Symphony No. 9 or &#8220;The Nutcracker&#8221; being held over the Christmas-New Year period, and, of course, the only cultural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orchestrating a ska paradise for the summer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 00:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a standard response for bands to say they are surprised by their longevity and accomplishments, but Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, Japan&#8217;s best-known ska act, are unlikely to be overly humble. &#8220;When we first came together I knew this band would last for a really long time,&#8221; baritone saxophonist Atsushi Yanaka says matter-of-factly. &#8220;Every member [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will heartthrob Mukai shine as the shogun?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This year&#8217;s NHK Sunday evening drama has already entered the history books for one, perhaps inauspicious, reason. On March 12, a day after the Great East Japan Earthquake, NHK announced that the following day&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;Go,&#8221; as the show is titled, would be canceled to make way for news coverage. It was the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Director Ishii brings style to family drama</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japanese directors with any kind of ambition usually end up making a family drama, which is to Japanese cinema what the Western used to be to Hollywood: the core national genre. Of course, plenty of bad-to-mediocre directors here have made family dramas, just as plenty of bad-to-mediocre Hollywood directors once made Westerns. But in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Superfly takes a heavy trip</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hang on a minute, how did this happen? Somehow hippie-loving 1960s-throwback pop songstress Superfly has got, like, totally heavy, man. While her previous studio album, 2009&#8242;s &#8220;Box Emotions,&#8221; featured a couple of belters, new release &#8220;Mind Travel&#8221; does away with soppy ballads almost completely, favoring instead a sound that takes as its starting point classic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aronofsky&#8217;s footwork faultless in &#8216;Black Swan&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We liked Darren Aronofsky when he was the scrappy young filmmaker from Brooklyn (via Harvard) who financed his debut, &#8220;Pi,&#8221; in 1998 with &#36;100-loans from friends and relatives, and relied on promotion that consisted of tagging Tokyo&#8217;s streets with the film&#8217;s logo. We liked him when he cited photos by Nobuyoshi Araki and Hiromix as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Go&#8217; tackles Sengoku years from a female perspective</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not surprising that NHK senior producer Yotaro Yashiki was pleased when he and his team came across a little-known princess named Go. Born in 1573, Go predates television by a good three centuries, but almost everything about her life suggests she was made for the medium, and, in particular, the Japanese national broadcaster&#8217;s annual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan makes Beethoven&#8217;s Ninth No. 1 for the holidays</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Sunday afternoon at Tokyo Geijutsu Gekijo, where the Japan Philharmonic is performing Ludwig van Beethoven&#8217;s Symphony No. 9, one of dozens of performances of the piece that take place throughout Japan during the month of December. The house is virtually sold out, and the audience appears to be mostly made up of older people, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shock-rock act Dir En Grey snub cartoons for cred</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Robson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s no secret that, in recent years, certain styles of Japanese music have benefited massively from a surge of interest in anime and manga in the West. J-pop acts such as Puffy and AKB48 and visual-kei artists including Miyavi and L&#8217;Arc-En-Ciel have enjoyed exposure where before there was none. That&#8217;s in no small part thanks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Class of 2010: Japan&#8217;s playwrights head west</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nobuko Tanaka</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan&#8217;s young dramatists are increasingly shrugging off their medium&#8217;s long-standing, self-imposed national isolation and are setting sail in search of new audiences, and critical praise, overseas. This year was especially successful for a handful of freshmen as theater lovers from the West picked up on the Japanese scene and traveled here as well. The trend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Odani&#8217;s mixed message</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edan Corkill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hollywood films, comedians, monsters: Judging from the topics Motohiko Odani covers in conversation, you would never guess he&#8217;s an artist &#8212; least of all a sculptor.]]></description>
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		<title>Radcliffe, Watson prepare to graduate from Hogwarts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 00:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Hadley-Garcia</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HOLLYWOOD, California &#8212; W hen asked about longtime &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; costar Emma Watson, with whom he stars in the penultimate film of the blockbuster movie franchise, actor Daniel Radcliffe says: &#8220;She&#8217;s great. She&#8217;ll go far, professionally and educationally.&#8221; Radcliffe is referring to Watson&#8217;s current studies at Ivy League Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. &#8220;In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joan of Arc takes center stage</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomoko Otake</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Though widely known in the West, St. Joan of Arc is an obscure historical figure for many people in Japan. Maki Horikita, who portrays the 15th-century French war heroine in the upcoming TBS stage production &#8220;Jeanne d&#8217;Arc,&#8221; rises to the challenge of making Joan&#8217;s tragic life story relevant for a Japanese audience. It is also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preaching to the converted</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Curran</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Nicky Wire is reminiscing. For the self-professed &#8220;nerdy historian&#8221; of Manic Street Preachers, the wistfulness is not misplaced. New album &#8220;Postcards From a Young Man&#8221; is Manic Street Preachers&#8217; 10th: a landmark under any criterion, but Wire is keen to accentuate what a milestone it is for a group of childhood friends from a deeply [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Portrait of the artist&#8217;s mother as a young woman</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Even today, you&#8217;d have to go far to run into a radical individual like Leonie Gilmour. But in America in 1901, to meet a young woman like her must have been on par with witnessing a comet. Raised in New York by a single mother, Gilmour studied at Bryn Mawr, a liberal-arts college in Pennsylvania, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing it for laughs the understated way</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yung-hsiang Kao</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It is 3 p.m. in a quiet, residential neighborhood in Tokyo. A lady in a red dress stands by the side of a narrow street in front of a house, her hair held back and her face shielded from the sun by a woman holding a parasol. A man wearing a baseball cap says, &#8220;Honban [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here be Vampires</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Curran</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[V ampire Weekend bassist Chris Baio exudes a happy demeanor, albeit a slightly weary one. Weary thanks to an unyielding touring schedule that finds him traveling to San Diego midway through an extensive tour of the United States; happy because there can be no reservation that his band have dominated 2010 from its very first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A modern twist for Japan&#8217;s National Ballet</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Mcinnes</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It doesn&#8217;t seem quite right to mention hirsute, mustachioed actor Tom Selleck and baseball legend Bobby Valentine in the same breath as David Bintley, the new artistic director of The National Ballet of Japan. However, if you&#8217;re unlucky enough to have seen Selleck&#8217;s 1992 film &#8220;Mr. Baseball&#8221; or know of Valentine&#8217;s experiences when he was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movie program offers some Japanese gems</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For foreign residents, monolingual or no, Tokyo International Film Festival offers a good chance to see new Japanese films with subtitles, especially in three of the main sections: Competition, Special Screenings and Japanese Eyes. In the Competition section this year, two Japanese films will vie for the Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix, TIFF&#8217;s biggest prize: Kaneto [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tokyo celebrates a wide world of cinema</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Brasor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Because it offers few world premieres of high-profile films, the Tokyo International Film Festival is not the world&#8217;s most significant. European and American festivals get all the good premieres, and South Korea&#8217;s Pusan International Film Festival, the region&#8217;s best, has a wider selection of Asian premieres and sponsors Asian filmmaking. TIFF&#8217;s real value is local, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For artist Tokumaru, music is but a dream</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Robson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Shugo Tokumaru&#8217;s music is a dream come true &#8212; literally. &#8220;I couldn&#8217;t write lyrics, so I came up with the idea of using phrases from a dream diary I was keeping,&#8221; explains the acclaimed multi- instrumentalist singer-songwriter. Since the age of 14 (he&#8217;s 30 now), Tokumaru has kept a small notepad by his bed. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hard-knock life leads to magic music</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Hadfield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2004, Renaud Barret and Florent de la Tullaye ditched their respectable jobs in France and headed to Kinshasa. In the ruined capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country just emerging from one of postcolonial Africa&#8217;s worst conflicts, they felt strangely at home. &#8220;We were like mad dogs in a mad city,&#8221; says [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Firth on playing it gay by playing it straight</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Hadley-Garcia</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. &#8212; Colin Firth was nominated for an Oscar for best actor this year for &#8220;A Single Man.&#8221; As we know, Hollywood insider Jeff Bridges took home the Oscar, but Firth was &#8220;genuinely thrilled at the nomination and genuinely relieved when it was over. The stress is something else. So are the questions [...]]]></description>
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