Magic Mike: The Sexy, Sad Lies We Tell Ourselves

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Channing Tatum, Matthew McConaughey and boyish Brit Alex Pettyfer bare more than their bottoms in Steven Soderbergh's morality tale

Good-bye, Ann Curry: Today Show Host Joins List of Famous Contract Buyouts

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Ann Curry bid farewell on the Today show this morning, reportedly pocketing $10 million to step down. How does her severance stack up against other big celebrity payouts?

The Non-Believer’s Guide to Creation Festival: 8 Things You Need to Know

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The biggest Christian music festival in the country is going on now. TIME has your top questions answered

People Like Us: Your Father's Daughter

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Chris Pine discovers Elizabeth Banks is the cool sister he never knew he had, but the terms of endearment in Alex Kurtzman's family drama are a little too twisted

Russell Brand on His New Show, Television Sidekicks and All That Salty Language

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Brand X, premieres tonight on FX. TIME talked to Brand a few days before the first taping about conquering comedy news, fighting the tabloids and finding spirituality in L.A.

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TV Tonight: Anger Management

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Anger Management is about a former baseball player whose career was ended by anger issues and who in turn became a therapist. Anger Management is about the motley group of ragers and court-remanded cases who meet for group sessions in his office. Anger Management is about a divorced man trying to maintain his relationship with his daughter and stay on reasonable terms with his ex-wife.

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Programming Note

I’m on vacation starting Thursday through next week, but fear not: my colleagues at TIME Entertainment will continue plugging away in my absence, and I’ve armed your friendly android overlord Robo-James with a few posts to put up in my absence. (You can also find me blathering away, as usual, on Twitter, though a higher proportion of my tweets may be about the fine rest stops of the ohio Turnpike.) Please don’t set off any Fourth of July fireworks in his vicinity—you don’t want to set off his automatic perimeter defenses—and I’ll see you back here July 9.

Denis Leary on Why Louis C.K. is the Future of Comedy

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The 'Amazing Spider-Man' actor spoke recently about his fellow comedian's game-changing plan to save fans money

Adventures of a Rare (and Not Very Rare) Book Collector

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A tour through the highlights of my collection—which almost has value

Scandal in the Second City: Two Remarkable Shows From Chicago

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A new musical—based on little-remembered ship disaster—and a play about a corrupt police unit make for captivating theater

Nora Ephron: Remembering Everything

image: Writer and film director, Nora Ephron, poses during a 1978 Los Angeles, California, photo portrait session.

Remembering the essayist, humorist and fillmmaker who wrote and directed iconic modern romantic comedies and served as the wry voice of multiple generations

Heath Ledger Joker 2.0 Action Figure Is the Perfect Toy for Movie Geeks

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The detailed action figure has two different heads and tons of accessories — perfect for recreating Ledger's memorable performance in 'The Dark Knight'

Richard Florida on How to Keep America's Artists From Starving

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As his 'The Rise of the Creative Class' reaches its tenth anniversary, the controversial urban theorist has a plan to keep the artists from starving. It involves a lot more than art

The Bachelorette Watch: Let's Czech Out Prague

iamge: Emily and John on a date during episode seven of season eight of The Bachelorette.

Everything gets really real as The Bachelorette sits on the brink of hometown dates

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Test Pilot: Vegas

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Test Pilot is a semiregular feature sharing my first impressions of the pilots for next season’s shows. These aren’t reviews, since these pilots can be rewritten, recast and retooled before airing, and the shows that eventually get on the air can prove much better or worse. But premature opinions are why God invented the Internet, so let’s get on with…

The Show: Vegas, CBS