Joan Rivers, Legendary Comedienne, Dies at 81

The breakthrough standup comic, writer, actress, fashion critic, red-carpet doyenne, gossip and businesswoman died Thursday at 1:17 p.m. local time at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, her daughter Melissa announced.

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Cinematic Cuts Exploit How Your Brain Edits What You See

It’s amazing that film editing works, because it’s so disruptive to the visual information coming into the brain, says Jeffrey Zacks, a neuroscientist at Washington University in St. Louis. On the other hand, Zacks says, our brains do quite a bit of editing of their own—and we’re every bit as oblivious to that as we are to the film editor’s cuts.

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The Man Behind the Most Iconic Movie Posters of the ’80s and ’90s

 Any art-collecting movie nerd worth his or her Reese’s Pieces owns at least one John Alvin creation. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Blade Runner, The Gremlins,Jurassic Park—Alvin designed poster art for all of them. By hand. They are among the most enduring images of recent film history, even if his name isn’t is as recognizable as, say, Saul Bass.

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75 years worth of Batman’s cowls

Artist Salvador Anguiano has created a tribute to comicdom’s most famous bit of headgear with this poster, created as part of Poster Posse’s 75th anniversary celebration of the character, showing more than seventy different varieties of Batman’s cowl.

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R.I.P. Elaine Stritch, brassiest of the old broads

Most recently, Stritch deployed her withering tongue on "30 Rock," playing Jack Donaghy’s perpetually unimpressed mother, Colleen. Stritch was also the subject of a documentary, Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me, that was released earlier this year.

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Marvel Announces New Captain America on 'The Colbert Report'

The announcement, long-rumored in comic book fandom, was made by Marvel CCO Joe Quesada on Comedy Central’s "The Colbert Report" on Wednesday night.

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Emmy Nominations: The Complete List

"Game of Thrones" and FX miniseries "Fargo" scored the most mentions with a respective 19 and 18 nominations a piece.

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