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"Deception" a dud for Jackman and McGregor 28 Apr 08, 21:40 ET Reuters - "Deception" will deceive very few viewers as an all-too-obvious setup leads to a foregone conclusion featuring forgettable characters. When the best thing about a movie is its cinematography and art direction, you know you're in trouble. more Music Review: British singer/rapper Estelle's sassy debut 28 Apr 08, 17:18 ET AP - Estelle, "Shine" (Home School/Atlantic) more Music Review: Carly Simon scores with Brazilian album 28 Apr 08, 17:01 ET AP - Carly Simon, "This Kind Of Love" (Hear Music): After four decades as one of the world's top singer/songwriters, with a truckload of hits that have helped shape pop music, you might think there's little new ground that Carly Simon could plow. And you'd be wrong. more Music Review: Santogold's debut shows she's no M.I.A. clone 28 Apr 08, 16:53 ET AP - Santogold, "Santogold" (Downtown): Philadelphia's Santi White - who performs as Santogold - has enough things in common with Sri Lankan-Brit MC M.I.A. to make the comparisons inevitable. Both employ Diplo and Switch as producers. Both women have oodles of hipster cred. And both deal in hybrid music that's simultaneously retro and futuristic. more Music Review: The Roots keep it serious on CD 'Rising Down' 28 Apr 08, 16:41 ET AP - The Roots, "Rising Down" (Def Jam): Over the course of 15 years and seven studio albums - "Rising Down" being their eighth - The Roots have shown they're not here to party. more Music Review: 'Mudcrutch' a time capsule 28 Apr 08, 15:34 ET AP - Mudcrutch, "Mudcrutch" (Reprise) more Music Review: Lil Mama offers more than lip gloss on debut 28 Apr 08, 14:20 ET AP - Lil Mama, "VYP - Voice of the Young People" (Jive/Zomba) more Thomas Perry ironically calls new book 'Fidelity' 28 Apr 08, 13:36 ET AP - "Fidelity" (Harcourt, 357 pages, $25), by Thomas Perry: Emily Kramer bolts awake in her eerily silent house. Her husband, Phil, is not in the bed beside her. He never came home last night. more Halberstam elevates sports to lit 28 Apr 08, 13:00 ET AP - "Everything They Had" (Hyperion, 448 pages, $24.95), by David Halberstam: even if you have no interest in sports you can enjoy Halberstam's graceful writing about them. more Music Review: 11-year layoff hasn't diminished Portishead 28 Apr 08, 12:04 ET AP - Portishead, "Third" (Mercury) more REVIEW: 'Grand Theft Auto IV' delivers more than mayhem 28 Apr 08, 07:23 ET AP - Eight hours into "Grand Theft Auto IV" (Rockstar Games, for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, $59.99), I've stolen 17 cars, run over 20 people and killed another 15 (some of whom had it coming). I've shaken down a couple of store owners and beaten up an old lady. I've driven while drunk and, perhaps worse, while talking on a cell phone. more Downey flies high in "Iron Man" 28 Apr 08, 03:06 ET Reuters - You gotta love a middle-aged wreck as a superhero. Iron Man may not make the A-list of Marvel Comics' stable -- home to Spider-Man, X-Men and the Hulk -- but he may be the cinema superhero for the rest of us. more Billboard single reviews: Fall Out Boy, Alanis 28 Apr 08, 01:24 ET Reuters - Pete Wentz and company appeared to betray a crush on Michael Jackson when last year's post-emo blockbuster "Infinity on High" opened with a song called "Thriller" and surprised with clever shots of soul and R Fall Out Boy's cover of "Beat It" boasts massive, 3-D guitars that lock in a dark and delicious nu-metal groove. more

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