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A tall pile of bags sat in the middle of 16-year-old Ellen Popejoy's living room floor. There were green checks and rainbow polka dots and brown patchworks and purple beads....

For 19 years, Salvador Murillo Cabrera has welcomed tourists to the Lake Tahoe basin. He's served them sandwiches, cleaned their slot machines, emptied their trashcans, vacuumed the carpets of their...

Who's in it: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, Seann William Scott, Josh Peck, Jay Leno, Will Arnett What it's about: Manny the mammoth (Romano), Sid the sloth...

Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter For: XB 360/XB/PS2 From: Ubisoft Price: $59.99 ($49.99 Xbox, PS2) The Ghost Recon squad must get to the bottom of a plot to hijack a gathering...

Her name is Pattie Boyd, but to many, she will always be "Layla." Not that most people make the connection -- Boyd has kept a relatively low profile -- but...

Who's in it: Amanda Bynes (right), Channing Tatum, Laura Ramsey, James Kirk, Jonathan Sadowski. What it's about: Soccer star Viola (Bynes) decides to dress as her brother, Sebastian (Kirk), so...

So Oscar snubs Jack and Ennis on Sunday night and--as quickly as you can hit the "send" key--controversy erupts in the blogosphere, where conspiracy theories about everything abound. On the...

It looks as if the nerds are inheriting the world -- or at least the entertainment world. From television to movies to music, there are more references to role-playing games...

Ryan Seacrest stood in front of the 24 people recently anointed the best singers in the country. He stretched his jaw, licked his lips and read his lines perfectly into...

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