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Alone at the movies

From The American Scholar, alone at the movies: Mark Edmundson on his days in the dark with Robert Altman and Woody Allen. Smoke Screens: A look at how Hollywood really made cigarettes cool. Was Hollywood’s famed censor Joseph I. Breen an anti-Semite? A review of Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration by Thomas Doherty. Lights! Camera! Collective Action!: The Writers Guild of America strikes to secure a piece of the pie in the Digital Age. First it was music, then it was porn — now it's television's turn to feel the wrath of the web: Is anything safe from the burgeoning attraction of amateur-hour doodlings? Who's the fairest of them all? Here's a comparison of all of the women's television networks. Found: A map of the island in "Lost".