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NEWS ABOUT: villains

villains stories: 5 news summaries

(Newser) - Famed reality TV villain Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth has seen the light, E! reports. The Apprentice anti-hero will enter an Ohio seminary next week for 2 years of religious schooling on her way to becoming a minister. Her ambition is in line with her character, an official at the United Theological... More »

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reality TV • Christianity • Donald Trump • Haiti • villains • minister • The Apprentice • Omarosa • Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth • seminary

(Newser) - Movie heroes may get the girl, the fans, and the happy ending, but villains have all the fun. With the summer lineup under way, moviegoers will see evil in many forms—from a megalomaniacal robot/tank to a sinister British sorcerer. But what performances by their predecessors will they have to... More »

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film • list • Darth Vader • Gordon Gekko • the Joker • movies • villains

analysis

Why Today's
Heroes Are
So 'Effed Up'

'Powerless' America wonders if 'good is
up to the task'

Mar 29, 09 7:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - Heroes and villains have clashed in American pop culture since D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation in 1915, but today's heroes are oddly at war with another foe—themselves, Jeff Jensen writes in Entertainment Weekly. Like Lost's castaways, modern heroes are "flawed or messed up," reflecting... More »

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film • culture • hero • movies • villains

TV REVIEW

 New Season Turns 
 Heroes Into Victims 

Generation Y's 'woe is us' attitude blindingly reflected in NBC's sci-fi drama

Sep 22, 08 3:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - Beginning their third season tonight, the scrappy band of young world-savers of NBC’s Heroes is just in time, Alessandra Stanley writes in the New York Times. The dangers they have to face, from a sinister conglomerate started by their parents to deadly viruses, make a convenient parallel to the... More »

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television • Heroes • reviews • Alessandra Stanley • TV series • villains

obituary

 Screen Tough Widmark Dead 

Gentle actor gained fame as a gangster

Mar 26, 08 4:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Richard Widmark, the American actor renowned for his sinister portrayals of gangsters, has died at age 93. His first film role—as a giggling, sadistic killer in the 1947 Kiss of Death—made him an instant movie star and gained him a Fox contract for 20 parts in seven years—... More »

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film • Fox • Richard Widmark • villains • gangsters • typecasting

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