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Linda Holmes writes and edits NPR's entertainment and pop-culture blog, Monkey See. She has several elaborate theories involving pop culture and monkeys, all of which are available on request.

Holmes began her professional life as an attorney. In time, however, her affection for writing, popular culture and the online universe eclipsed her legal ambitions. She shoved her law degree in the back of the closet, gave its living-room space to DVD sets of The Wire and never looked back.

Holmes was a writer and editor at Television Without Pity, where she recapped several hundred hours of programming — including both High School Musical movies, for which she did not receive hazard pay. Since 2003, she has been a contributor to MSNBC.com, where she has written about books, movies, television and pop-culture miscellany.

Holmes' work has also appeared on Vulture (New York magazine's entertainment blog), in TV Guide and in many, many legal documents.

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Monkey See
8:11 am
Mon March 19, 2012

SXSW Film: 'Brooklyn Castle' And The Looming Threat Of Commercial Success

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Rochelle, one of the kids in Brooklyn Castle, examines a chess board.
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Originally published on Mon March 19, 2012 6:31 am

If I could pick only one film from the South By Southwest film festival and bodily force everyone I know to see it, it would be Brooklyn Castle, a documentary directed by Katie Dellamaggiore that follows the chess team at I.S. 318, a New York junior high school that has become a superpower at national tournaments.

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Monkey See
12:00 pm
Fri March 2, 2012

Kristin Chenoweth On God, Comedy, And Dolly Parton

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Kristen Chenoweth stars in the new ABC series GCB.
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Originally published on Sat March 3, 2012 1:00 pm

Kristin Chenoweth talks to Jacki Lyden on today's Weekends on All Things Considered, and if the only thing you got from the interview was Chenoweth warbling a bit of the first solo she ever did in church, it would be well worth it.

The Emmy-winning actress stars on ABC's new GCB, a sort of Desperate-Housewives-ish dishy, soapy comedy-drama premiering Sunday night at 10. She's come quite a long way since, as she explains, her father negotiated her first contract.

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Monkey See
8:49 am
Tue February 28, 2012

Which Kinda-Famous People Did 'Dancing With The Stars' Cast This Time?

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Judges Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli, and Carrie Ann Inaba will hold up the scoring paddles again this season on Dancing With The Stars.
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Jack Wagner in 2000. You have to extrapolate to how good-looking he was in 1985. (Hey, it was 1985.)
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Originally published on Tue February 28, 2012 7:06 am

Dancing With The Stars made its casting announcements this morning on Good Morning America. And some of them may be people you've heard of!

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Monkey See
10:42 pm
Sun February 26, 2012

'The Artist' Comes Out On Top As The Oscars Regroup And Reminisce

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Jean Dujardin accepts the Oscar for best actor in a leading role for The Artist during the 84th Academy Awards on Sunday.
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Jean Dujardin's Oscar for Best Actor was one of five for "The Artist." It also won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Score and Best Costume Design.
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Meryl Streep's portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady" earned her the Oscar for Best Actress. It was Streep's third win and her 17th nomination.
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Octavia Spencer tearfully accepts the award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Minny Jackson, a housemaid in 1960s Mississippi, in the film adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's "The Help".
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Best Supporting Actor Christopher Plummer, 82, became the oldest Academy Award winner in an acting category in the awards' 84th year. He plays an elderly widower who comes out of the closet in "Beginners."
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Comedian Billy Crystal opened the 84th Annual Academy Awards with a musical medley introducing the Best Picture nominees. It was Crystal's ninth time hosting the Oscars.
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Presenters Jennifer Lopez (left) and Cameron Diaz present the awards for Best Costume (Mark Bridges, "The Artist") and Best Makeup
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In an airborne homage to movie-making, Cirque du Soleil performers flew and flipped for the audience assembled at the Hollywood & Highland Center.
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Beloved "Muppets" stars Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy banter during the awards ceremony. "Man or Muppet" won Bret McKenzie the Oscar for Best Original Song.
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Director Michel Hazanavicius (from left), who won Best Director for the black-and-white silent film "The Artist," poses with stars of the film Berenice Bejo and Jean Dujardin, who won Best Actor.
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Originally published on Wed May 23, 2012 9:00 am

It's perhaps fitting that during a year when Hollywood made even more films than usual about the love of film itself, the two big winners at the 84th Academy Awards on Sunday night were the movies most overtly about cinephilia: The Artist, a silent black-and-white film about silent black-and-white films, and Hugo, the story of a boy who meets a reclusive filmmaker and helps him rediscover his love of his art.

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Monkey See
7:02 pm
Sun February 26, 2012

Oscars 2012: We're Live-Blogging All The Action

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The Oscar statue is seen at the entrance of the Hollywood & Highland Center before the 84th Annual Academy Awards.
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Originally published on Sun February 26, 2012 4:03 pm

Tonight at 8:00 p.m., I will be joined by my live-blog partners Marc Hirsh and Mark Blankenship, and we'll bring you the lowdown on all this year's festivities. If you want to comment, feel free to leave your comments right on this post, just as you normally would — we find that feeding them into the chat stream directly is kind of like a thousand people trying to instant-message each other simultaneously. But do share your thoughts, and do join us to see Billy Crystal sing, George Clooney smile, and Meryl Streep wear something that says, quite understandably, "Not this again."

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