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Topic: Our Picks (page 26)

Bale and Wahlberg soar in champion "Fighter"

Clockwise from lower left: Jimmy Fallon, David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel, Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien and Jimmy Kimmel

Heather Havrilesky

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"The Killing of Crazy Horse" by Thomas Powers

Unraveling the myth of Crazy Horse

Matthew Battles

Natalie Portman

A still from "Night Catches Us"

"Casablanca" for the Black Power era

Ewan McGregor and Jim Carrey in "I Love You Phillip Morris"

The Jim Carrey comedy that's too gay for Hollywood

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Scott Bakula, Andre Braugher and Ray Romano in "Men of a Certain Age"

Heather Havrilesky

Colin Firth and Helena Bonham Carter in "The King's Speech"

Colin Firth's Oscar-bound performance

Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal in "Love and Other Drugs"

Gyllenhaal and Hathaway's surprisingly good comedy

Fran Lebowitz in "Public Speaking"

A vicious wit defends the cultural elite

Heather Havrilesky

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How vapid celebrity took over the world

Jane Bright from "Survivor: Nicaragua"

Heather Havrilesky

Elizabeth Banks and Russell Crowe in "The Next Three Days"

Russell Crowe's gloomy, powerful jailbreak

Isabelle Huppert

A devastating, intimate African nightmare

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Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1"

"Deathly Hallows": Harry Potter goes dark

Two cookbooks that might make you a better person

Louie Zamperini

The new triumph from the author of "Seabiscuit"

Lily and Mitchell

Heather Havrilesky

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A still from "Cool It"

A climate-change heretic repairs his image

A still from "Disco and Atomic War"

How David Hasselhoff won the Cold War

"Sunset Park" by Paul Auster

Lena Dunham and David Call in "Tiny Furniture"

A rising star dares to make herself ugly

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