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“Eastern Promises” (R, 96 minutes). One of David Cronenberg’s finest films with Viggo Mortensen as a driver for the Russian Mafia in London, and Naomi Watts as a midwife determined to protect the life of newborn infant. A diary leads her to the sealed world of the Russians, led by Armin Mueller-Stahl as the patriarch and Vincent Cassel as his son; the result into exactly a crime story, but a thriller about human nature. Scenes of startling violence. Rating: Four stars.

“Across the Universe” (PG-13, //// minute). Here is a bold, beautiful, visually-enchanting musical where we walk (ital) into (unital) the theater humming the songs. Julie Taymor’s “Across the Universe” is an audacious marriage of cutting-edge visual techniques, heart-warming performances, 1960s history, and the Beatles song book.

Kevin Everett has slightly moved three fingers on his right hand, potentially another positive sign in his recovery from a life-threatening spinal-cord injury.

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Bidding for Barry Bond’s 756th home run ball has failed so far to fetch much interest among collectors, with the high bid well below expectations.

A stunning six-hole stretch that Tiger Woods played in 7 under par gave him control of the Tour Championship on Friday. He followed that with nine holes of mediocrity, which gave everyone else a chance.

A state appeals court threw out the only remaining conviction against one of the black teenagers accused in the beating of a white schoolmate in the racially tense north Louisiana town of Jena.

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I got a tip-off earlier today (from someone who should know) with some info on when to expect the INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL trailer. Take it as a big rumor, but it looks like it’ll hit with BEOWULF, which comes out in November. Sure, that’s a pretty obvious target… it’s a big Paramount movie and Lucas dropped a hint earlier in the year saying the first trailer would hit around Thanksgiving… but rumor also has it that John Williams is currently working on the music for the trailer… New John Williams INDIANA JONES music… or a new arrangement of old John Williams INDIANA JONES music… either way, I’m getting giddy as a schoolboy just thinking about it.

After much soul-searching and the realization that we really have nothing better to do on Sunday night, we decided we’ll probably* be liveblogging the Emmys. If watching the show with a computer on…

· Britney Spears: The performance of her career. The critical consensus. Sympathy comes from the least likely of places. The post-mortem. An Emmy apology?

· All it takes is some HGH…

A television writer and producer paid $10,200 for what an animal rights group said are notes from football star Michael Vick’s speech apologizing for a dogfighting scandal.

· When the above sketch runs on Talkshow with Spike Feresten> tomorrow night, it will probably represent the filthiest reference ever made on television. (Do some internetting of the term…