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Important Entertainment

What is your idea of important entertainment?

A movie that's worth ten bucks and two hours of air conditioning? Or a movie that once looked like a dream and still haunts like a ghost, even now, years after it was made, chopped up on TV or seen on a computer screen?

If there's anything important in the smash up of art and commerce, it's hard to find in what passes for entertainment news. Most of it looks a lot like this:

http://www.panopticist.com/archives/the_magazine_covers.html
sendup by Andrew Hearst.

I promise I will do better than that.