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		<title>Michael Jackson&#8217;s Will!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Last Will and Testament of entertainer Michael Jackson has been revealed.  In it, he names his three children (Prince, Joseph, and Paris) and renounces his ex-wife Deborah Jean Rowe Jackson.  His mother, Katherine Jackson, is given custody of the children, and the Michael Jackson Trust custody of the estate.  If his [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The <a href="http://www.docstoc.com/docs/8016703/Michael-Jacksons-Will">Last Will and Testament</a> of entertainer Michael Jackson has been revealed.  In it, he names his three children (Prince, Joseph, and Paris) and renounces his ex-wife Deborah Jean Rowe Jackson.  His mother, Katherine Jackson, is given custody of the children, and the Michael Jackson Trust custody of the estate.  If his mother were not alive, Michael wanted Diana Ross to take care of the kids!</p>
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<p>Here&#8217;s an OCR scan of the will, if there are any mistakes, please refer to the embedded PDF above:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>LAST WILL OF MICHAEL JOSEPH JACKSON</strong></p>
<p>I, MICHAEL JOSEPH JACKSON, a resident of the State of California, declare this to be my last Will, and do hereby revoke all former wills and codicils made by me.</p>
<p>I</p>
<p>I declare that I am not married. My marriage to DEBORAH JEAN ROWE JACKSON has been dissolved. I have three children now living, PRINCE MICHAEL JACKSON, JR., PARIS MICHAEL KATHERINE JACKSON and PRINCE MICHAEL JOSEPH JACKSON, DL I have no other children, living or deceased.</p>
<p>II</p>
<p>It is my intention by this Will to dispose of all property which I am entitled to dispose of by will. I specifically refrain from exercising all^powers of appointment that I may possess at the time of my death.</p>
<p>II</p>
<p>I give my entire estate to the Trustee or Trustees then acting under that certain Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust executed on March 22, 2002 by me as Trustee and Trustor which is called the MICHAEL JACKSON FAMILY TRUST, giving effect to any amendments thereto made prior to my death. All such assets shall be held, managed and distributed as a part of said Trust according to its terms and not as a separate testamentary trust.</p>
<p>If for any reason this gift is not operative or is invalid, or if the aforesaid Trust fails or has been revoked, I give my residuary estate4o the Trustee or Trustees named to act in the MICHAEL JACKSON FAMILY TRUST, as Amended and Restated on March 22, 2002, and I direct said Trustee or Trustees to divide, administer, hold and distribute the trust estate pursuant to the provisions of said Trust, as hereinabove referred to as such provisions now exist to the same extent and in the same manner as though that certain Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust, were herein set forth in full, but without giving effect to any subsequent amendments after the date of this Will. The Trustee, Trustees, or any successor Trustee named in such Trust Agreement shall serve without bond.</p>
<p>IV</p>
<p>I direct that all federal estate taxes and state inheritance or succession taxes payable upon or resulting from or by reason of my death (herein &#8220;Death Taxes&#8221;) attributable to property which is part of the trust estate of the MICHAEL JACKSON FAMILY TRUST, including property which passes to said trust from my probate estate shall be paid by the Trustee of said trust in accordance with its terms. Death Taxes attributable to property passing outside this Will, other than property constituting the trust estate of the trust mentioned in the preceding sentence, shall be charged against the taker of said property.</p>
<p>V</p>
<p>1 appoint JOHN BRANCA, JOHN McCLATN and BARRY SIEGEL as co-Executors of this Will. In the event of any of their deaths, resignations, inability, failure or refusal serve or continue to serve as a co-Executor, the other shall serve and no replacement need be named. The co-Executors serving at any time after my death may name one or more replacements to serve in the event that none of the three named individuals is willing or able to serve at any time.<br />
The term &#8220;my executors&#8221; as used in this Will shall include any duly acting personal  representative or representatives of my estate.   No individual acting as such need post a bond.</p>
<p>I hereby give to my Executors, full power and authority at any time or times to sell, lease, mortgage, pledge, exchange or otherwise dispose of the property, whether real or personal comprising my estate, upon such terms as my Executors shall deem best, to continue any business enterprises, to purchase assets from my estate, to continue in force and pay insurance premiums on any insurance policy, including life insurance, owned by my estate, and for any of the foregoing purposes to make, execute and deliver any and all deeds, contracts, mortgages, bills of sale or other instruments necessary or desirable therefor, In addition, I give to my Executors full power to invest and reinvest the estate funds and assets in any kind of property, real, personal or mixed, and every kind of investment, specifically including, but not by way of limitation, corporate obligations of every kind and stocks, preferred or common, and interests in investment trusts and shares in investment companies, and any common trust fund administered by any corporate executor hereunder, which men of prudent discretion and intelligence acquire for their own account</p>
<p>VI</p>
<p>Except as otherwise provided in this Will or in the Trust referred to in Article III hereof, I have intentionally omitted to provide for my heirs. I have intentionally omitted tot provide for my former wife, DEBORAH JEAN ROWE JACKSON.</p>
<p>VII</p>
<p>If at the time of my death I own or have an interest in property located outside of the State of California requiring ancillary administration, I appoint my domiciliary Executors as ancillary Executors for such property. I give to said domiciliary Executors the following additional powers, rights and privileges to be exercised in their sole and absolute discretion, with reference to such property: to cause such ancillary administration to be commenced, carried on and completed; to determine what assets, if any, are to be sold by the ancillary Executors; to pay directly or to advance funds from the California estate to the ancillary Executors for the payment of all claims, taxes, costs and administration expenses, including compensation of the ancillary Executors and attorneys&#8217; fees incurred by reason of the ownership of such property and by such ancillary administration; and upon completion of such ancillary administration, I authorize and direct the ancillary Executors to distribute, transfer and deliver the residue of such property to the domiciliary Executors herein, to be distributed by them under the terms of this Will, it being my intention that my entire estate Page 3<br />
shall be administered as a unit and that my domiciliary Executors shall supervise and control, so far as permissible by local law, any ancillary administration proceedings deemed necessary in the settlement of my estate.</p>
<p>VIII</p>
<p>If any of my children are minors at the time of my death, I nominate my mother, KATHERINE JACKSON as guardian of the persftns and estatesjrf such minor children. If KATHERINE JACKSON fails to survive me, or/is unable or unwilling to act as guardian, I nominate DIANA ROSS as guardian of the persons and estate of such minor children.</p>
<p>I subscribe my name to this Will this ___ day of ___, 2002.<br />
MICHAEL JOSEPH JACKSON</p>
<p>On the date written below, MICHAEL JOSEPH JACKSON, declared to us, the undersigned, that the foregoing instrument consisting of five (5) pages, including the page signed by us as witnesses, was his Will and requested us to act as witnesses to it. &#8216;He thereupon signed this Will in our presence, all of us being present at the same time. We now, at his request, in his presence and in the presence of each other, subscribe our names as witnesses.                                                                                                             </p>
<p>Each of us is now more than eighteen (18) years of age and a competent witness and resides at the address set forth after his name.<br />
Each of us is acquainted with MICHAEL JOSEPH JACKSON. At this time, he is over the age of eighteen (18) years and, to the best of our knowledge, he is of sound mind and is not acting under duress, menace, fraud, misrepresentation or undue influence.</p>
<p>We declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Star Trek Movies Posters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 20:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new Star Trek movie has generated an impressive array of movie posters:
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The new Star Trek movie has generated an impressive array of movie posters:</p>

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		<title>Britney Spears: Circus Album Cover</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We scooped Britney Spears&#8216; newest album cover off the web in high-res glory.  Check out the art for her upcoming CD Circus, it&#8217;s Britney like you&#8217;ve never seen her!

The retro look is going to be a big win for her!  Update: here&#8217;s the tracklist:
1. Womanizer
2. Circus
3. Out From Under
4. Kill The Lights
5. Shattered [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We scooped <strong>Britney Spears</strong>&#8216; newest album cover off the web in high-res glory.  Check out the art for her upcoming CD <strong>Circus</strong>, it&#8217;s Britney like you&#8217;ve never seen her!</p>
<p><a href="http://gossip.elliottback.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/britney-spears-circus.jpg"><img src="http://gossip.elliottback.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/britney-spears-circus-449x449.jpg" alt="" title="britney-spears-circus" width="449" height="449" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-833" /></a></p>
<p>The retro look is going to be a big win for her!  <strong>Update:</strong> here&#8217;s the tracklist:</p>
<p>1. Womanizer<br />
2. Circus<br />
3. Out From Under<br />
4. Kill The Lights<br />
5. Shattered Glass<br />
6. If U Seek Amy<br />
7. Unusual You<br />
8. Blur<br />
9. Mmm Papi<br />
10. Mannequin<br />
11. Lace and Leather<br />
12. My Baby<br />
13. Radar</p>
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		<title>Changeling Movie Poster</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Changeling is a Clint Eastwood movie about a mother&#8217;s prayer for her kidnapped son to return home, only to find that the son who came back is not her own.  The movie features LAPD corruption.  Currently rated 7.8 on IMDB, it looks to be an instant classic.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Changeling is a Clint Eastwood movie about a mother&#8217;s prayer for her kidnapped son to return home, only to find that the son who came back is not her own.  The movie features LAPD corruption.  Currently rated 7.8 on IMDB, it looks to be an instant classic.</p>
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		<title>Sacha Baron Cohen as Bruno In Milan Fashion Show</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is hilarious; apparently, Sacha Baron Cohen&#8211;famous for playing comedic roles Borat and Bruno&#8211;invaded the Milan Fashion Show with his own costume, and made it onto the runway before being detained:



Borat irrompe in passerella - 

The comedian caused a security panic when he stormed onto the catwalk Thursday, interrupting designer Agatha Ruiz de la Prada’s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is hilarious; apparently, Sacha Baron Cohen&#8211;famous for playing comedic roles Borat and Bruno&#8211;invaded the Milan Fashion Show with his own costume, and made it onto the runway before being detained:</p>
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<blockquote><p>The comedian caused a security panic when he stormed onto the catwalk Thursday, interrupting designer Agatha Ruiz de la Prada’s show in Milan. Cohen jumped on stage dressed up as his Austrian model character, Bruno, the subject of his latest mockumentary film. He then made his way down the catwalk, past the other models, and was wearing so many layers of clothing he could have been modeling for the Olsen twins’ collection!  And, after he refused to leave, police had to be called in.</p></blockquote>
<p>This is most likely going to appear in his upcoming movie, <em>Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Male</em>.</p>
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		<title>MTV &#8220;The Hills&#8221; TV Actors Salaries</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How much do the unscripted actors of hit TV show MTV&#8217;s The Hills make?  More than you&#8217;d expect for the mindless drivel they put out:
Lauren Conrad:  $75,000 per episode ($1.40 million per year)
Heidi Montag: $65,000 per episode ($1.25 million per year)
Spencer Pratt: $65,000 per episode ($1.25 million per year)
Audrina: $35,000 per episode ($665,000 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How much do the unscripted actors of hit TV show MTV&#8217;s The Hills make?  More than you&#8217;d expect for the mindless drivel they put out:</p>
<blockquote><p>Lauren Conrad:  $75,000 per episode ($1.40 million per year)<br />
Heidi Montag: $65,000 per episode ($1.25 million per year)<br />
Spencer Pratt: $65,000 per episode ($1.25 million per year)<br />
Audrina: $35,000 per episode ($665,000 annually)<br />
Whitney: $20,000 per episode ($380,000 per season)<br />
Brody: $10,000 per episode ($190,000 a year)<br />
Lauren “Lo”: $10,000 per episode ($190,00 for The Hills Season 4)<br />
Stephanie: $8,000 per episode ($152,00 for Season 4)<br />
Frankie: $0</p></blockquote>
<p>Apparently Lauren Conrad, in her original contract, demanded that no one be paid more than her; hence she has the highest salary.</p>
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		<title>Star Wars: The Clone Wars Sucks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Movie reviewer Harry Knowles wrote a negative review of Star Wars: The Clone Wars but it got pulled, probably by request of Lucasfilm.  Since the latest animated episode in the Star Wars universe is opening this Friday, you might be interested in reading this review before you decide to go:


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Movie reviewer Harry Knowles wrote a negative review of <strong>Star Wars: The Clone Wars</strong> but it got pulled, probably by request of Lucasfilm.  Since the latest animated episode in the Star Wars universe is opening this Friday, you might be interested in reading this review before you decide to go:</p>
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<blockquote><p>    Hi, Guys…<br />
    by TheRealMoriarty Aug 11th, 2008<br />
    04:25:38 AM<br />
    … to those asking, I’ll try a new tact in this thread. Harry took his CLONE WARS review down at the request of Lucasfilm, who have chosen to enforce an embargo on reviews on our site. There may, in fact, be other outlets who have reviews up currently. That is not something we can control. Harry will repost his same review when he is able to. I hope that explains it, but if you have further questions, I’ll try answer them. I’d really rather this talkback were about the great Bernie Brillstein, though.”</p>
<p>    Here’s the original review:</p>
<p>    “Harry hated THE CLONE WARS!</p>
<p>    I’ve never hated a STAR WARS film before. I have weathered Jar Jar and any number of Ewoks. I survived Hayden and a wooden Portman. I even accepted Jake Lloyd. I handled all that because it felt like STAR WARS.</p>
<p>    I can accept all of Lucas’ flaws, so long as at its heart it felt like Star Wars. I can deal with politics in Star Wars. I can deal with trade skirmishes in Star Wars. I can deal with musical numbers, breathing in the vacuum of space. Basically – so long as it feels like STAR WARS – I can watch any of it.</p>
<p>    Was I looking forward to STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS (2008)?</p>
<p>    ******** A!</p>
<p>    I was dying. After Genndy’s CLONE WARS – I felt that perhaps Lucas “got it” – and that this new animated series was taking a lead from Tartakovsky’s brilliant assembly of pieces. Genndy’s CLONE WARS got STAR WARS better than anyone has got it since Lawrence Kasdan and Irvin Kershner. Genndy took designs and characters that folks were dissatisfied with and made them cool. He did this by using and adapting the themes created by John Williams, the wholly perfect entity involved with Star Wars along with… the sound effects of Ben Burtt. He understood speed and motion – not just with action, but in editing. He understood classic film composition and iconography. And he knows what BADASS is.</p>
<p>    The folks behind this STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS movie… you could tell, they looked at what Genndy did – but they didn’t understand any of it. There’s a ****load of battles and ***** going boom. There’s noise everywhere – fury everywhere… but none of it is directed. The music by Kevin Kiner is criminally bad. Why they didn’t employ Paul Dinletir and James Venable is beyond me. No, no – let’s hire the composer of WALKER, TEXAS RANGER. Ahem.</p>
<p>    Now – I made excuses for this film as I was watching it. I don’t think you understand how much I love STAR WARS. Maybe you do, maybe you do too.</p>
<p>    Before the movie started I was firing myself up to go out after the film and buy that new $200 Hasbro Millenium Falcon. I really wanted to go buy it, and I wanted this movie to empower my brain to go through with that. Instead, I found myself at home – putting on Genndy’s THE CLONE WARS – to try and rebuild my passion – so I can go get that new Falcon.</p>
<p>    Instead – I’m thinking I’ll just be here at home enjoying this and that’ll be all I need.</p>
<p>    Anyway – as I was watching the film, I was excusing the sloppy shots, the sloppy use of the Clone Troopers and Droids – undoing all the awesome work that Genndy had done – and the droids are silly again. The Clone Troopers are limp. And the Jedi – they’re at 25% power from the mind of Genndy. But I was accepting that. I figured that was Lucas dialing back so that the animated series wouldn’t overpower his features.</p>
<p>    Then they introduced Baby Jabba aka Rotta the Huttlet aka Stinky. At the point of this character’s introduction – it officially became, the worst character in the history of STAR WARS. If you hate George Lucas cutsiepoo bull**** – oooooooh boy. You’re gonna have a field day of venting and hatred directed at this unbelievably ****ing awful little ****.</p>
<p>    Oh – but wait… Little Stinky the Hutt isn’t the worst character in the history of STAR WARS… because Stinky got introduced earlier in the film. As much as I hated lil Stinky… I was weathering Stinky. I seriously was. But later there was a character of such immense **** – offensively bad. The character was so bad, so incredibly awful – that it was a slap to the face. It woke me out of my ****-accepting stupor and made me angry. SUDDENLY my “inner fanboy rage” was awoken.</p>
<p>    As I watched this terrifyingly awful character named Ziro the Hutt. A seemingly female Hutt – with tattoos and make-up that sounds like a racist take on a Black New Orleans Crack-Dealing Whore. Because this Hutt speaks ENGLISH – and it is many times worse than I’m actually describing. This character was actually too much for me. So bad that every flaw I was looking past, was now a road sign to inadequacy and mediocrity. All of a sudden my brain realized that Asajj Ventress’ voice no longer was acceptable – and sure enough – the amazing Grey DeLisle, who originally voiced the character back in 2003 – had been replaced by a Nika Futterman – and that voice was missed. The character didn’t have that snarling menace anymore.</p>
<p>    I realized that nothing in this animated film felt right. I felt time expanding. It seemed that the film was dragging – nevermind that lots of **** was firing all over the place – and stuff was going boom and things were being revealed. I just didn’t care because this wasn’t what I wanted.</p>
<p>    I hated the score, the animation, the shots, the characters and most of all the retarded ******** idiot story.</p>
<p>    I hated the film. HATED IT. REALLY HATED IT.</p>
<p>    Does this mean the whole Star Wars Animated Series is doomed? No – but it isn’t a good sign. So much of this is awful because of the Hutt plotlines and character. I also feel that Dave Filoni must be a hack. His work here is sloppy – and depending on writers and directing talent – individual episodes may be better. This film was several episodes all strung together – my prayer is that the individual episodes will be both great and awful – and we’ll discover which talents are responsible for each.</p>
<p>    That said – the audience did have light applause. My father liked it. My sister felt too much was going on. Me nephew really liked it. That said – Yoko was complaining right along with me. She thought it was **** too. I know Moriarty liked it. Wonder what Quint and Massawyrm thought.</p>
<p>    ****. I hated a STAR WARS. That ****ing sucks.”</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Kristin Kreuk Cuts Her Hair Short</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The star of the upcoming Street Fighter movie has cut her hair short!

For three years I have been wanting to cut my hair. It’s been long for about 15 bloody years. If I had not been working on a television series I would have cut it a while ago. I suppose this is kind of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The star of the <a href="http://blog.girlsbydesign.com/2008/07/28/ummm-i-cut-off-all-my-hair/">upcoming Street Fighter movie</a> has cut her hair short!</p>
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<blockquote><p>For three years I have been wanting to cut my hair. It’s been long for about 15 bloody years. If I had not been working on a television series I would have cut it a while ago. I suppose this is kind of an expression of freedom, haha. Us gals tend to have so much tied up in hair. There is like this emotional attachment to it, and it is apparently a REALLY big deal to cut it all off…in one go. I had a plethora or offers to come with, to document, and I just went in there on my own and Sarah (she is the key hairstylist on Smallville, and is freakin rad) tied it in a ponytail and sawed the sucker off…</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Batman &#8220;The Dark Knight&#8221; Tops IMDB</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you head over to IMDB&#8217;s Top 250 Films of All Time you&#8217;ll notice that the recent Batman adaptation, The Dark Knight has topped the list with a 9.5 rating and 46,915 votes.  I guess we just can&#8217;t trust IMDB anymore:

Note that MetaCritic gives a mere 82 for The Dark Knight, suggesting a good [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you head over to <a href="http://www.imdb.com/chart/top">IMDB&#8217;s Top 250 Films of All Time</a> you&#8217;ll notice that the recent Batman adaptation, <strong>The Dark Knight</strong> has topped the list with a 9.5 rating and 46,915 votes.  I guess we just can&#8217;t trust IMDB anymore:</p>
<p><img id="image822" src="http://gossip.elliottback.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/imdb-the-dark-knight.png" alt="imdb-the-dark-knight.png" /></p>
<p>Note that MetaCritic gives <a href="http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/darkknight">a mere 82 for The Dark Knight</a>, suggesting a good film, but not an instant classic.  Yes, I&#8217;ll agree that now-dead Heath Ledger&#8217;s performance as the joker&#8211;his final performance&#8211;is stunning, it doesn&#8217;t make up for the marginalization of the character of Batman and Keannu Reaves-esque emotional range displayed by the caped Crusader.  It also doesn&#8217;t make up for the terrible ending and the underdeveloped Harvey Dent plot.</p>
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		<title>Andy Dick Mugshot</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So-called comedian Andy Dick finally got arrested for sexual battery and drug possession.  Here&#8217;s Andy Dick&#8217;s mugshot, and the scoop from the AP:

Police were called to the Buffalo Wild Wings in Murrieta at about 1:13 a.m. to investigate a report of &#8220;an intoxicated male&#8221; urinating outside the bar and causing a disturbance, according to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So-called comedian Andy Dick finally got arrested for sexual battery and drug possession.  Here&#8217;s Andy Dick&#8217;s mugshot, and the scoop from the <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080716/ap_en_ce/people_dick">AP</a>:</p>
<p><img id="image821" src="http://gossip.elliottback.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/andy-dick-mugshot.jpg" alt="andy-dick-mugshot.jpg" /></p>
<blockquote><p>Police were called to the Buffalo Wild Wings in Murrieta at about 1:13 a.m. to investigate a report of &#8220;an intoxicated male&#8221; urinating outside the bar and causing a disturbance, according to a police statement.  When they arrived, a 17-year-old girl told police that she was outside when Dick left the bar, walked up, &#8220;grabbed her tank top and bra and pulled them down and exposed her breasts,&#8221; the statement said.  Dick was identified by the teenager and a witness, police said. Marijuana and the drug Xanax were found his pants pockets during a search and he appeared &#8220;extremely intoxicated,&#8221; police said.</p></blockquote>
<p>You can read the <a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0716082andydick1.html">Police Report</a> at TSG!</p>
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