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            <title><![CDATA[A Magical Merger?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As NBC Universal and Comcast executives begin the long process of integrating the two companies, they enlist... a magician. Literally. Kim Masters reports.
On Tuesday night, just a couple of days before executives from Comcast and NBC Universal were...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ripping Off Larry Platt's "Pants"]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ General Larry Platt may have a viral hit, but he's not making money off his anthem. Yet. He talks to Kim Masters about being taken to the cleaners-and selling the shirt off his back.
Much is mysterious about General Larry Platt and just how he came...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Anger at NBC]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Now that NBC has paid Conan O'Brien to leave, staffers grumble, "We're not allowed to buy mechanical pencils!" Kim Masters looks at the network's future, as well as O'Brien's. 
"I have chosen to stay on the Titanic."
With those words in his monologue...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[NBC Chief: 'No Press is Bad Press']]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  How does NBC expect fans to stay loyal after this month's chaos? Its top TV exec tells Kim Masters he hopes the battle was more closely followed in Hollywood than elsewhere, and that Jay's "big fan base" will rally for him.
Following his agreement...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tallying the NBC Damage]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[With a deal nearly done for Conan O'Brien to leave NBC, Kim Masters assesses the cost to the network-both in dollars and in the reputations of those who remain.
From the start, there was only one logical outcome: NBC was going to have to pay Conan...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:26:42 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Conan's Exit Confirmed]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The late-night nightmare is almost over. Conan O'Brien is leaving NBC and receiving a payout-and he'll be free to appear on another network before his contract expires, Kim Masters reports.
The NBC-Leno-Conan war is close to ending, according to a...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Conan Fights Back]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Tonight Show host is refusing to host at midnight, but he hasn't quit yet. Kim Masters on what Conan wants as a parting gift from NBC, where he's headed-and the depth of the network's epic late-night debacle. 
It's still not entirely clear how...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:48:03 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Can Spider-Man Survive Without Tobey?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Paging Zac Efron. Sony is scrapping the next installment of the Spider-Man franchise in favor of rebooting the brand with a prequel and a younger star. Kim Masters on the billion-dollar bet.
It appears that Tobey Maguire has slung his last web. But...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fighting for Conan]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Conan O'Brien "would be happier" off the peacock network, a source tells the New York Post. Kim Masters on NBC's race to keep him-and the "back to basics" plan following Leno's failure.
After long boasting of plans to reinvent television, embattled...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:51:14 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Conan's $45 Million Dilemma]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[With Leno reportedly moving back to 11:35, NBC has humiliated Conan O'Brien. Will he get a $45 million payout for his troubles? Kim Masters reports on the latest latenight ripples. 
You could say Conan O'Brien is now The Biggest Loser on NBC. If you...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Will Leno Stay at NBC?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ NBC scrambles to return Leno to his late-night throne. Can the network keep both Leno and Conan O'Brien in the fold? (If Leno's monologue from Thursday's show is any indication, the answer may be no.) The Daily Beast's Kim Masters reports.
After a...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Life After Avatar]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The billion-dollar success of James Cameron's epic has Hollywood scrambling to make more films in 3-D. Kim Masters on the next movie gold rush.
As promised, Avatar is huge. Worldwide, the film boomed to more than $1 billion worth of box office in 17...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:32:39 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Jeff Bridges' Crazy Inspiration]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[T-Bone Burnett talks to The Daily Beast's Kim Masters about the late songwriter Stephen Bruton, whose wild life and soulful music influenced Crazy Heart.
When Scott Cooper set out to write and direct his first movie, he felt he had to have two key...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:26:01 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Genius of Avatar]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[After attending a show-and-tell with James Cameron, Kim Masters says the groundbreaking project has leapt from a giant question mark to a must-see film. Plus, view an exclusive photo. 
Game over.
After James Cameron's long-gestating Avatar premiered...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:55:28 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[5 Comcast-NBC Game Changers]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[From Leno's future to the fate of NBC as a broadcast network, Kim Masters reports five questions looming over the Comcast-NBC Universal deal that could change how Americans watch television. 
The announcement of Comcast's deal to acquire control of...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:59:22 -0400]]></pubDate>
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