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Bright moments Bright moments always come back vivid. The fifth great was epic citywide test pressure The pre-crack era! Mr. Schollmen, what a prick, attitude matches wardrobe, uglier then sin. This is Bed Stuy 82′ 9th floor three tiny rooms one view. Buck-town, Roosevelt house They green grass is greenContinue Reading

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Director Ice Cube explores the unlikely marriage between the NFL’s rebel franchise, the Raiders, and America’s glamour city, Los Angeles. In 1982, Raiders owner Al Davis beat the NFL in court and moved his team from Oakland to Los Angeles. With a squad as colorful as its owner, the RaidersContinue Reading

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After a handful of teasers, the first full look at Skyfall (and a first look at Javier Bardem as our latest Bond Villain) has arrived and its looking like director Sam Mendes has got a hugely action-packed Bond flick waiting for us this November.Continue Reading

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Jack Johnson—born in Texas, the son of former slaves—was the most famous black man on the planet. As the first African American World Heavyweight Champion (1908–1915), he publicly challenged white supremacy at home and abroad, enjoying the same audacious lifestyle of conspicuous consumption, masculine bravado, and interracial love wherever heContinue Reading

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A native of Fort Worth, Texas, Mr. Marrs earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from the University of North Texas in 1966 and attended Graduate School at Texas Tech in Lubbock for two years more. He has worked for several Texas newspapers, including the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, whereContinue Reading

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Armstrong was one of the first truly popular African-American entertainers to “cross over,” whose skin-color was secondary to his amazing talent in an America that was severely racially divided. It allowed him socially acceptable access to the upper echelons of American society that were highly restricted for a person ofContinue Reading

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“It’s a must that I bust any mic you’re hand to me, It’s inherited, it’s runs in the family I wrote the rhyme that broke the bull’s back, If that don’t slow ’em up, I carry a full pack. Now I don’t want to have to let off, you shouldContinue Reading

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Ask any woman how many times she’s laid on her back, bored and frustrated, her clit having retreated deep inside her, with some unfortunate, badly educated man between her legs, lapping like a thirsty dog, his tongue aching and almost numb, the only stiff part of him being his neck.Continue Reading

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Superyacht owners have been known to make the world a playground for their luxury boats, but now they are available on charter. This list provides an insight into these superyachts and their specialties, which make them unique for numerous reasons: 1. Seven Seas   Charter Price: $ 1.30 million perContinue Reading

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As you all no doubt have gathered by now, WIJW is on a mission to get people living the best life they can—we share our ideas on what we call “elevated living,” encourage our friends to be aware of the story they are telling themselves, and offer sartorial suggestions on,Continue Reading

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There’s a reason The Big Book of Breasts continues to be one of the most popular things on Cool Material. It’s a giant coffee table book filled with enormous, hi def pictures of huge boobs. Obviously it’s also the only book (other than The Big Butt Book) we’ve read coverContinue Reading

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Based on a gripping, unbelievable true story of money, power and opulent decadence, Lionsgate’s “The Devil’s Double” takes a white-knuckle ride deep into the lawless playground of excess and violence known as Bagdad, 1987. Summoned from the frontline to Saddam Hussein’s palace, Iraqi army lieutenant Latif Yahia (Dominic Cooper) isContinue Reading

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To mark the upcoming release of Carte Blanche, the new James Bond book by top American thriller writer Jeffery Deaver, publisher Hodder & Stoughton has teamed up with Bentley Motors to create an exclusive Bentley special edition. It’s the ultimate luxury edition of the hotly awaited new James Bond adventure.Continue Reading

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In the 1960s men’s fashion witnessed an extraordinary rebirth that led to lasting social, cultural and commercial change – what media commentators came to coin the Peacock Revolution. “The Day of the Peacock” takes a fascinating look at the shops, celebrity photographers, tailors and fashionable dressers who made up theContinue Reading

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The Incredibles – Pixar is so close to bringing their entire collection of films to Blu-ray (the only remaining title is Finding Nemo). The Incredibles is a fantastic movie, but the Blu-ray transfer is even better. Besides an extensive collection of special features, it looks gorgeous and sounds phenomenal. It’sContinue Reading

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2K Czech’s Top Spin 4, with its fancy TV-style cut-scenes, accurate play style animation for some of the sport’s greatest players and scarily well-captured oohs and aahs from the crowd at matches, takes a different route from most tennis games. While Wii Sports distilled the game down to its basicContinue Reading

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Each year after the Oscars, I ask myself the same question: Does wealth love celebrity, or does celebrity love wealth? It’s worth remembering that fame and money haven’t always gotten along. The rich once believed themselves superior, not only financially but also culturally and socially, to their entertainers. Even theContinue Reading

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“There’s a couple of pictures of Sinatra and Dean Martin – I think in the end I always like pictures of Dean Martin the best because he just seems so chummy. Sinatra’s so intense; Dean’s so relaxing. There’s a wonderful picture near the front of the book of the twoContinue Reading

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  Astute observers of upper-class life commonly quote (or at least paraphrase) Balzac’s observation that behind every great fortune there’s a crime. The phrase endures because, independent of historical context, it seems to express a truth both unsettling and undeniable. All too frequently, reaching the very top of any decentContinue Reading

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  Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar lost Charlize Theron two weeks back, but has now replaced her with another refined and undeniably gorgeous blonde starlett in the form of Naomi Watts, who will play lifelong assistant to Hoover himself. How the FBI founder fares in comparison to her King Kong costar…Continue Reading

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Pop star, makes a fortune, retires to the country and lines lounge walls with leather. So far, so cliched. But a passionate knowledge of his estate’s English civil war history? Jay Kay gives Live a guided tour of his home (and oddly compelling life) ‘I think these days a lotContinue Reading

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You can talk all you want about perfect country houses, but it was classic automobiles that Ralph Lauren pined for when he was growing up. Todd Eberle photographs the inner sanctum of his museum-like garage. Plus:Paul Goldberger on Ralph’s collection of the most valuable cars in the world.Continue Reading

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Guy Ritchie helms a new action-packed adventure, following the world’s most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.), and his longtime trusted associate, Dr. Watson (Jude Law), as they match wits with their arch-nemesis, the criminal genius Moriarty (Jared Harris). I’m so glad to see Rapace has hit the bigContinue Reading

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Live it up Don Corleone-style in The Godfather Mansion ($2.9 million). Located on Staten Island and used during the filming of 1972’s The Godfather, this gigantic English Tudor home features eight bedrooms, three and a half baths, a den, eat-in kitchen, and laundry room with chute spread across three floors,Continue Reading

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The Florida bike shop, Parker Brothers Choppers has built 10 of street-legal Tron Light Cycles, each bike features a steel frame, fiberglass bodywork and a V-twin engine from a Suzuki TLR1000, brakes and other functional bits in there required to make them street legal. The bike weighs 474 pounds andContinue Reading

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The natural order of things doesn’t always work, as is demonstrated in this video of a fat-ass rat taking on not one, not two, not three, not four, but five alley cats. Guess who wins?Continue Reading

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“Black Is the New White” is the kind of fiercely uncompromising memoir we might have expected from one of the more unsung heroes of the history of blacks in Hollywood. Fans of a more stylistically measured, chronologically specific style of memoir may be disappointed.Continue Reading

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Remotes can be tricky things. They’re often misplaced when you need them most, and they have a way of always being underneath you when you sit down on the couch. Not comfortable! But this pillow remote control won’t be lost anytime soon, and it’s perfectly comfortable to boot. Yes, it’sContinue Reading

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Girl with the Dragon Tattoo director queries US remake Noomi Rapace plays Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish films of Stieg Larsson’s novels The Danish director of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has questioned why an English-language version is being made of Stieg Larsson’s best-selling novel.Continue Reading

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With a title like, How To Be a Man: A Guide To Style and Behavior For The Modern Gentleman, Mr. O’Brien has my attention. The only unfortunate thing is that this new collection of O’Brien’s words of wisdom on all things gentleman will not be available until April 2011. “HowContinue Reading

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Jay Kay thinks Britain is “the poor man of Europe”. The 40-year-old Jamiroquai singer thinks the UK has “dumbed down” because of popular culture and believes other nations mock his home country because it is inhabited by “chatterers and shoppers”. He said: “The nation is being dumbed down by popularContinue Reading

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(Born April 2, 1939, Washington, D.C., U.S.—Died April 1, 1984, Los Angeles, Calif.) American soul singer-songwriter-producer who, to a large extent, ushered in the era of artist-controlled popular music of the 1970s. Gaye’s father was a storefront preacher; his mother was a domestic worker. Gaye sang in his father’s EvangelicalContinue Reading

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The Revelation of Francis Ford Coppola. Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, October 12, 2010 The term “apocalypse” gets bandied about with such reckless abandon nowadays (especially on such disaster prone cable channels like History) that its meaning has become obscured under the weight of end of the world prophecies and similarContinue Reading

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The Alchemist details the journey of a young Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago. Santiago, believing a recurring dream to be prophetic, decides to travel to the pyramids of Egypt to find treasure. On the way, he encounters love, danger, opportunity and disaster. One of the significant characters that he metContinue Reading

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Men don’t throw around the world “love” a lot, but when we do it’s almost invariably in reference to a car. Ok, maaaaaybe a significant other. Maybe. Long story short: we love cars, they love us. And while our Honda Accord is wonderfully practical, “practical” isn’t what draws us toContinue Reading

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If you believe everything Apple tells you, the iPad is the most revolutionary piece of equipment to come out since the fleshlight. What they don’t tell you is that eventually you’re going to run out of creative things to do with it unless you have no job and a bottomlessContinue Reading

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The Tourist, starring Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie, involves a man visiting Italy and a woman who crosses his path in order to mislead all those following her former lover. Coming in December.Continue Reading

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Monday, hip-hop fans all over the globe marked the fourteenth anniversary of Tupac Shakur’s passing. A larger than life legend in the rap world, Pac has been the subject of numerous documentaries that range from Oscar-nominated to cash grabs. The new one, entitled ‘Tupac Uncensored and Uncut: The Lost PrisonContinue Reading

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by NICOTEXT, Carl-Johan Gadd, Stefan Sjolander, and Fredrik Colting Contains over 700 famous lines from movies. Use it as a perfect bathroom reader, coffee table book, a quick icebreaker, or you know, find out where that one line is from. Not everyone’s a film buff. Buy:Continue Reading

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“I’ve seen horrors… horrors that you’ve seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that… but you have no right to judge me. It’s impossible for words to describe what is necessary to thoseContinue Reading

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For the first time ever, you can own the five genre-defining kung fu classics of Bruce Lee on Blu-ray and in one spectacular collector’s set! The Bruce Lee Legendary Collection offers the five Bruce Lee masterpieces in one nifty boxset, with all films remastered and presented in full high-definition glory.Continue Reading

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Connery starred in the first James Bond film, Dr No, a year later An adaptation of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, starring a young Sean Connery as the title character’s lover, has been rediscovered by BBC archivists 49 years after it was first shown. Claire Bloom played the title role opposite Connery,Continue Reading

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Martial arts expert, actor and philosopher, Bruce Lee was born on the 27th November 1940 in San Francisco. His father, an opera singer from Hong Kong, had moved with his family in the United States in 1939, in search of a new beginning. During his short but active life, he appearedContinue Reading

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“If (The Goonies) where made in the 2000’s it would probably be on its fourth installment by now. The greed and lack of creativity would have killed this film today.” Hey, you guys! Everyone’s favorite teenage treasure hunt is turning 25, and getting a definitive new DVD/Blu-ray release to celebrate. TheContinue Reading

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“With the creation of an exclusive collection of three bottles by the Design Laboratory at Central Saint Martin’s School of Art & Design, Dom Pérignon pays tribute to Andy Warhol, creative genius and one of the most illustrious artists of the 20th century.” Love press releases that start like that.Continue Reading

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“I have a tremendous amount of respect for this man. May His soul rest in peace.” (CNN) — Dennis Hopper, the one-time Hollywood enfant terrible who portrayed such indelible characters as “Easy Rider’s” biker Billy and “Blue Velvet’s” and huffing villain Frank Booth, died of prostate cancer Saturday morning atContinue Reading

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While Jay Kay is best known as lead singer of the band Jamiroquai, he is also fairly well-known in auto circles as a very serious car collector. His well-thought out collection includes among others, a Fiat Abarth 1000, Frua-bodied Maserati A6 G2000, Lamborghini Miura SV, Ferrari 550 and Enzo, AstonContinue Reading

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How Dennis Hopper Became a Multi-Talented American Badass. On March 26th, Dennis Hopper was given a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. On May 17th, he’ll turn 74. On top of all that, the man was recently diagnosed with cancer, so there’s no better time for looking back at aContinue Reading

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 We mourn this truly “remarkable” human being. Encouraged by her mother, Horne joined the NAACP at a young age and later the National Council of Negro Women. She refused to perform during WWII for segregated audiences and later joined Eleanor Roosevelt to abolish lynching. In the 1950s, she was black-listedContinue Reading

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Fela! the Broadway musical about ’70s Nigerian musician and political activist Fela Anikulapo-Kuti scored 11 Tony Award nominations to tie for lead with musical revival La Cage aux Folles. Fela! was a major gamble for producers Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter, and Will and Jada Pinkett Smith. Both Carter and the SmithsContinue Reading

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“The beauty of the booty.” There are two types of guys in this world – the guys that get a rise out of the Big Book of Breasts and guys who get a rise out of butts. If you happen to be a guy best described by the rear partContinue Reading

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PlayStation Move Sony’s got Nintendo square in its sights and they’re not taking this challenge laying down. Sony has officially unveiled their own motion controller dubbed the “PlayStation Move”, which aims to dethrone Nintendo’s “Wiimote” with what they consider to be a much more accurate motion control system. The “Move”Continue Reading

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When a vicious murderer named Lord Blackwood (Mark Strong) is brought to justice and put to death, the men responsible for his capture, famed detective Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) and medical investigator Dr. John Watson (Jude Law), believe the case to be closed. That is until reports surface thatContinue Reading