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Movie Tips: How to Party in High School

The high school party is often at the center of the best coming-of-age films. In fact, when it comes to partying in high school, there’s a lot to be learned from the movies. Here’s a look at what we wished we knew, might have known or (who knows) may need to know again one day…

The Billionaire Box Office Club

This year’s first summer blockbuster, Marvel’s The Avengers, crossed the billion dollar mark in worldwide box office grosses in just two weekends of release. That’s the fastest of any of the twelve films that have made a cool billion, making The Avengers a fair bet to becoming the highest grossing film of all time.

American TV’s Secret Australians

An Australian accent is pretty distinguishable, but hiding it behind a believable American accent? Pretty easy! At least in television, that is, which is overrun with sneaky Aussie actors passing as Americans. Take a look at our list of some current TV stars keeping their mother tongue on the down-low. You might be surprised.

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Western Australia

Does the word Australia bring images of the Sydney Opera House, the majestic Great Barrier Reef, great white sharks or maybe Crocodile Dundee to mind? That’s great (except maybe the shark stuff), but all of those things represent the eastern coast of Australia. Covering half the landmass of Australia, the state of Western Australia is an amazing, diverse part of this country. So let’s take a look at ten things about this unknown part of the world.

5 Reasons Why Dick Clark Was THE BEST!

Hollywood is sad today. Hell, the whole country is pretty bummed out. Dick Clark died this morning. A game show host, radio DJ, television personality, official New Years ringer in-er, Dick Clark seemed to do it all. He was the original Ryan Seacrest, or rather, Seacrest is Dick Clark 2.0. Here are five reasons we think he was the best.

3 Musicians You Really Ought To Know

Let’s face it, your iPod is practically a time capsule from your college years and you’ve had the song from that Mary J Blige Burger King commercial stuck in your head for a week. You need some new music. But it’s okay, we’ll walk you through this. Here are three artists to help freshen your library.

Top 5 Blasphemous Segments from The Colbert Report

Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report calls himself “basically the Pope of Basic Cable.” Amen. Religion provides many of the show’s most hilarious moments. Here’s five favorite segments of the show at its blasphemous best.

Five Awesome Soundtracks

A great soundtrack gives a film depth and dimension. A bad one can be distracting, or even worse, maddening (How Seal’s Kiss From A Rose found its way into Batman Forever we’ll never know!!!) Here are five films that have benefited from their inspired soundtracks.