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Spanglish In Theaters Friday - Exclusive 10 Minute Sneak-Peek Now
Academy Award®-winning director James L. Brooks, the man responsible for Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, and As Good As It Gets, has a new film, Spanglish out on Friday (12/17). Adam Sandler plays John Clasky, a chef who is dealing with the sudden glare of celebrity and the difficulties of parenting with his wife (Téa Leoni). Only his new housekeeper, Flor, played by the gorgeous Paz Vega, seems to understand John's approach to his kids and his hectic life. Check out the photos and the official site, which has an online, exclusive, 10 minute sneak-peek of the film. Spanglish opens Friday.

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2004 DVD Gift Guide
Need help finding the perfect gift? Our 2004 DVD Gift Guide has a spectrum of DVD choices sure to please any movie lover. We've separated them by category to assist you, starting with the big hits on the small screen, Blockbusters. Special Editions has expanded editions of movies you love. Box Sets tickle a collector's fancy. Classics has the must-haves for your library and that's just the start. There's also Kids and Family Fare, Foreign Affairs, Contemporary Classics, Cult, Television, and our Non-Fiction sections to help you find sure-to-please stocking stuffers. Happy shopping!

IMDb Movie of the Day
Former model Tamara Dobson stepped off the runaway long enough to create one of the most name-checked female characters of the 1970s. Effortlessly, her beauty, icy delivery and penchant for silk and furs made Cleopatra Jones into a much better movie than it intended to be. As a special government agent, Cleopatra first supervises the destruction of a Turkish poppy field before heading back to Los Angeles to deal with some shady related business. Her mission involves a raid on a drug rehab facility, the po-lice and Shelley Winters, who, as a lesbian drug trafficker named Mommy, helps Cleopatra achieve a certain mythical status. With her J.J. Johnson-penned theme song (he also wrote movie theme "Across 110th Street", later used fabulously in Jackie Brown) emanating from her black Corvette, Cleopatra crimebusts with style and detached cool. Though this is no Coffy, Dobson's on Pam Grier's level; her karate skills alone are enough to make any man crumble, but it's her 6'2" frame that turns them into dust. Small roles and a string of cameos help tie Cleopatra together, including Antonio Fargas, ex-footballer Bernie Casey and Esther Rolle -- even Don Cornelius makes an appearance. Naturally, there's no question that Cleopatra will emerge victorious, the point is to marvel at her while she's all embattled. So popular she became that less than two years later she'd jet off to Hong Kong for a sequel, Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold. - Arno Kazarian

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Truly Trivial In what film does one of the main characters make a disparaging remark about The Lord of the Rings to Ian McKellen's character? (answer)

Movie/TV Quote of the Day

             GRACE
 

It's the one advantage to being universally despised: you get to say whatever you want.