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Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones is a dazzling traveling exhibition celebrating centuries of hats Catwalking.com hide caption

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Milliner's Ode To Hats Topped With Timelessness

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Friday

Boy, Wonder: In a Hollywood that's increasingly in the business of telling kids' stories to adults, even an auteur as bloody-minded as Martin Scorsese gave in to the temptation of the childlike in this year's Hugo. Jaap Buitendijk/Paramount hide caption

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'Pina': German filmmaker Wim Wenders' 3-D dance documentary is a homage to influential German dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch, who died in 2009. Donata Wenders/Neue Road Movies hide caption

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Bob Mondello Picks The Year's Top 10 (Plus 10)

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The Book of Mormon features music and lyrics by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone and plays at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in New York City. John Marcus/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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Zooey Deschanel plays Jess on Fox's New Girl. Fox uses the term "adorkable" to describe her. Isabella Vosmikova/Fox hide caption

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Bridesmaids No More: TV's Women Get All The Laughs

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Stephen Colbert and Martha Plimpton perform a song from Company on stage during the 65th annual Tony Awards. Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images hide caption

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Stephen Colbert: A 'Company' Man On Broadway

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Oprah Winfrey talks to reporters during a press tour that followed the launch of her cable network, OWN, in January. Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images hide caption

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Leila Hatami as Simin in Asghar Farhadi's A Separation. Habib Madjidi/Sony Pictures Classics hide caption

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A Complex 'Separation' In Iran

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Thursday

Wills To Power: Meryl Streep plays Margaret Thatcher — and Jim Broadbent her supportive husband, Denis — in The Iron Lady. Alex Bailey/The Weinstein Co. hide caption

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The Great Divides: Simin (Leila Hatami) and Nader (Peyman Moadi) are at odds first about whether to leave Iran for life abroad — and then about more urgent issues yet. Habib Madjidi/Sony Pictures Classics hide caption

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'A Separation': In Tehran, Houses And Hearts Divided

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Twitter

'A Twitter Year' In Review: 365 Days, 140 Characters

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