Entertainment_Culture

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Rhys Ifans portrays Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, who some claim was the actual author of Shakepeare's works, in "Anonymous." (Associated Press)

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Johnny Depp plays a booze-addled reporter with a career decision to make in "The Rum Diary." (Associated Press)

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The Georgetown Theatre Company's annual Halloween reading of Edgar Allan Poe, a man who lived in horror every day of the year, is consistently good.

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British singer Amy Winehouse was found dead in her home on July 23. A coroner said she died of accidental alcohol poisoning when she resumed drinking after weeks of abstinence. (Associated Press)

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President Barack Obama arrives at Los Angeles International Airport to board Air Force One in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011, to head to a fundraiser in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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** FILE ** In this file photo taken May 7, 2011, provided by Harpo Productions Inc., talk-show host Oprah Winfrey rides in a jeep with fashion designer Ralph Lauren at Lauren's RRL Ranch outside Telluride, Colo. (AP Photo/Harpo Productions, Inc. George Burns, FILE)

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Singer and musician Bret Michaels poses in the press room at the 2011 Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas on Sunday, May 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)

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In this Oct. 17, 2011, photo, soccer player Hope Solo, left, and her partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy perform in the celebrity dance competition series "Dancing with the Stars," in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/ABC, Adam Taylor)

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Navy quarterback Trey Miller passed for two touchdowns against East Carolina on Saturday, but the Midshipmen still came up short. (Associated Press)

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Performance artist Marni Kotak has equipped Microscope Gallery in Brooklyn to be a delivery room for the midwife-aided birth of her first baby. Patrons are invited to watch the delivery at the gallery, which Ms. Kotak has furnished with a birthing pool. (Associated Press)

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Performance Marni Kotak and her husband, Jason Robert Bell, are planning to share the birth of their first child with an audience at Microscope Gallery in Brooklyn. Ms. Kotak has set up the gallery to be her delivery room, with a bed, rocker and birthing pool. (Associated Press)

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Comedian Will Ferrell embraces the applause at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington while accepting the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. (Associated Press)

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Actor-comedian Will Ferrell, who on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011, received the Mark Twain Prize, the nation's top honor for humor, blows a kiss to the audience at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

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Quarterback John Beck had a passer rating of 80.8 in his debut as the Redskins starter Sunday. The problem was, Carolina's Cam Newton's number was 127.5 and the rookie from Auburn was the difference in the game's outcome.

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The D.C. Record Fair was created by DC Soul music company founder Kevin Coombe, Neal Becton of Som Records in Northwest, Vinyl District blogger Jon Meyers, and trade associate Chris Knott. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)

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DJ Denman mixes music at the D.C. Record Fair in Arlington on Sunday. There have been about 10 events since the fair began several years ago, including one in February 2010 at the Black Cat music venue in Northwest that attracted about 1,000 people. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)