Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a man of principle and courage, whatever his own reservations regarding his creation of Sherlock Holmes, his knighthood and other awards made him one of the most influential and respected men of his generation. But he was not without controversy. He held strong beliefs in the occult and in particular he expounded spiri

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Movie posters are cool. When I was just out of high school, I worked for an AMC theater for a good three years and was a projectionist for most of that time. No matter what I do in the future, it really seems like that will always be one of the best jobs I’ll ever have had.

It was at that job where my boss rewarded two of us for a task WEL

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This is a pretty hilarious little video by Conan O’Brien, the host of the Late Night show who is showing solidarity with the writers by not continuing to produce his show (unlike Carson Daly) and paying his staff to keep them employed during it.

He’s also growing a beard, as I guess a number of others are doing on the staff there.

The n

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It’s that time of year where the season turns cold, Santa is getting ready to deliver his gifts and people tend to become a bit more generous than usual. Even in Hollywood. With the WGA strike in full effect, the networks have started laying off employees of shows that wont cross the picket lines.

Yet late night guys like David Letterman a

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The WGA strike isn't stopping some of the top talk show hosts from returning to their shows in this coming new year.

Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert join Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien and Jimmy Kimmel in making the announcement that they will return in January.

Stewart and Colbert will run their first new show on January 7th.

David Letter

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David Letterman is the only late night host that can actually have A-List celebrities on his show during the strike. At least for the moment.

With his company, World Wide Pants, making an agreement directly with the WGA, celebrities can safely come on the show without "crossing the picket lines."

Robin Williams will be the first guest

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A blog I posted in November about Conan O'Brien's beard he grew in support of the Writer's Guild of American has suddenly caught fire, with tons of traffic today with people searching about it.

Why? Did the beard get photographed naked by the Paparazzi? What happened?

Either way, here is a picture of him with his beard and some rando

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Time for the weekly edition of The Friday Question, designed to get your brain working on a day you'd rather it not be!

So this time we look at Lost, since it's been all up in our faces all week, what with Season 4 previews, viral sites, 8:15 recaps and Lost: Missing Pieces.

Also streaming HD episodes!

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To compete with David Letterman and Craig Ferguson on the late night seen, Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel will each guest on each other's shows on the 10th of January.

Letterman and Ferguson both have agreements with the WGA, so they are allowed top stars and their writers back, while Leno and Kimmel have their hands tied.

We'll see if Len

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If you're a fan of the pulp novel author, Robert E. Howard, or of Conan the Barbarian (which was created by Robert E. Howard) you may be interested in learning that another one of his creations, Solomon Kane, is coming to the big screen in an expected trilogy.

James Purefoy has already been cast as the 16th century soldier who seeks to ma

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At last, the answers to the seven questions i set.  But all the answers have an element of doubt - or questioning of belief around them.  Did 12  people really walk on the moon, or was it a hoax? The opening ceremony of the Barcellona Olympics contained a staged piece of television trickery. And, we all know abou

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What happens when Jon Stewart of The Daily Show, Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report and Conan O’Brien of Late Night With Conan O’Brien get together? Mayhem. That is exactly what ensued when Stewart and Colbert from Comedy Central’s popular fake-news shows made a guest appearance on Conan’s show on NBC.

Check out the vide

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Fred Simmons is weird. watching Late Night with Conan O'Brien and closing out his line up of guests was Fred Simmons an invitee that struck me as a little odd. It took me a good minute to figure out that this was a first promotional bit for Paramount Vantage's release of The Foot Fist Way the Jody Hill directed, low budget

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It’s a done deal. Jimmy Fallon will be replacing Conan O’ Brien for Late Night while Conan replaces Jay Leno for the Tonight Show….

While David Letterman remains with the Late Show…..

There was a big controversy sometime back because of Jay Leno and David Letterman for the Tonight Show but thank god there won’t be any o

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Recently, the blogosphere has been discussing the problems in the Age of Conan open beta, with speculation running rampant that an old client was being used, and today Funcom saying that instead, they "broke" their beta client with a patch a few hours before the open beta period began.

Many have been pointing to these prob

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