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Maurice Sendak Dead at 83; Watch Spike Jonze's Doc Portrait

Maurice Sendak Dead at 83; Watch Spike Jonze's Doc Portrait

Because losing one indelible artist last Friday apparently wasn't enough, the cosmos has now claimed illustrator and author Maurice Sendak. The creator of Where the Wild Things Are reportedly suffered a stroke last Friday and died early today at a hospital in Danbury, Conn. He was 83.
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Avengers Unleashed, Samuel L. Jackson's Twitter Fight, Clooney's Big Obama Fundraiser: Biz Break

Avengers Unleashed, Samuel L. Jackson's Twitter Fight, Clooney's Big Obama Fundraiser: Biz Break

This weekend belongs to The Avengers, which brought out crowds for midnight screenings overnight and sparked a Twitter backlash by Samuel L. Jackson against a NY Times reviewer. Those are among Friday morning's highlights in Biz Break along with a BBC denial it's banning Sacha Baron Cohen from its airwaves, a Clooney cash windfall for Obama and more.
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Watch the Impressionistic U.K. Teaser Trailer for Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights

"This is something of a pointillist Wuthering Heights, a story told more with dots and dashes than with long, bold strokes," wrote Movieline's Stephanie Zacharek after seeing Andrea Arnold's bold take on the classic novel upon its Venice Film Festival debut. Now that the film's first teaser has debuted, you can see for yourself what she meant, windswept longing gazes and foggy moors and elemental snatches of scenery and all.

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