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		<title>Top X Titles For The New Britney Spears Album</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Britney Spears has asked her (remaining) fans to vote for the title of her new album.  Possible titles include &#8220;Integrity&#8221; (stop laughing) and &#8220;Dignity&#8221; (no, I mean it, stop laughing).  The Top X crew had some different ideas:
15. Songs In The Key Of Suck
14. You Wanted Slutty, You Got Slutty
13. The Rise And Fall Of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top X Smartass Comments To Make To Britney Spears If You See Her Out on the Street Now That She&#8217;s Bald and Has a Tattoo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh, who cares about the openers? There&#8217;s exactly one funny thing that happened this week, and we would be remiss indeed if we did not present the Top X Smartass Comments To Make To Britney Spears If You See Her Out on the Street Now That She&#8217;s Bald and has a Tattoo.
15.  &#8221;Hey, Brit, you know, when they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Top X Things People Say When Their Skull Keeps Catching on Fire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ghost Rider is coming out this weekend, which features Nicolas Cage with his hair on fire, which is a big improvement over him hollering &#8220;Put the bunny back in the box&#8221; in Con Air.  But we at Top X wondered about the practicality of turning into a spirit with a flaming skull all the durn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top X Alternate-Universe Super Bowl Halftime Shows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So the Super Bowl is over for another year, and Prince is still a freak, but we knew that.  What we don&#8217;t know is how the big game would play out in any of the billions of other alternate universes &#8212; like the one where Tony Romo led the Dallas Cowboys to victory over the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theampersand.net/?p=147</link>
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		<title>Top X American Idol Ice Cream Flavors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Top X list, that staple of American humor, is revived here for your amusement.  The Top X crew noted that, apparently, American Idol ice cream is on sale at a store near you.  Why, we can&#8217;t say.  Whether it&#8217;s tasty, we don&#8217;t know.  All we know are the Top X American Idol Ice Cream [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reaction to the Academy Award nominations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By now you’ve seen the Academy Award nominees (and if you haven’t, why not?).

I hate to say it but I quite like the list. It would have been nice to see films like Children Of Men or Pan’s Labyrinth get more notice, of course, but those films simply opened too late to have any impact. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One of the great questions of this year&#8217;s Oscars: can Borat get nominated?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before I get into Lead Actor, here is a small addendum to the previous entry:

One actress who I forgot to mention as a dark horse candidate is Maggie Gyllenhaal for Sherrybaby. I don’t think it will happen. Her film made no money (just over 100k back in October) and only critical types are even mentioning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They say that the Lead Actress category is locked up&#8230; I think they&#8217;re wrong.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Perusing all of the various Oscar prediction websites (OscarWatch, GoldDerby, etc.), I have found one category where there is almost universal agreement over who is to be nominated: Best Actress in a Lead Role. The experts have spoken, and they say that it will be the following five women, no exceptions, and no way that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theampersand.net/?p=142</link>
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		<title>The downfall of The Clint</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Previously, I looked at the apparent frontrunners for the Best Director Oscar and separated the “locks” from the vulnerable. Now comes the hard part: figuring out which filmmakers, if any, can find the support to push their way in.

Guessing the dark horse is hard because there are no trends or indicators to use as guides. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theampersand.net/?p=141</link>
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		<title>And the Oscar goes to&#8230; ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three days, folks. That’s all the time that remains for directors and their corporate backers to push for some attention from Oscar (The Golden Dude, as Robin Williams memorably tagged him). Because even though the nominees aren’t announced until January 23rd, those ballots are due by Saturday morning. So for all of you Children of [...]]]></description>
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