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Here are the 10 most annoying Christmas songs of all time

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What Kanye has in common with Bret Easton Ellis

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt in "Looper."

Eight best time-travel flicks

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Christina Hendricks poses for a photo at the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards. (AP/Chris Pizzello)

Cleavage’s coming out party

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Nine TV shows that skewer the right

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Six movies that will make you never want kids

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Are online nudie pics an art form?

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Five things we learned from “The Office”

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Eight dance movies with great politics

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Nicki Minaj’s retroactive feminism

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America’s apocalypse obsession

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Skrillex performing live earlier this year. (gillyberlin at Flickr Creative Commons)

Are Mega-Corporations and Wall Street Killing Electronic Dance Music?

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Jenny McCarthy’s Playboy spread hurts older women

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Hip-hop foodies

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Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Lena Dunham and Zosia Mamet in "Girls"

“Girls” still racist

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Battle of the senses

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