“From the author of FIGHT CLUB, CHOKE is a wickedly colorful dark comedy about mothers and sons, sexual compulsion, and the sordid underbelly of colonial theme parks, starring Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston. See CHOKE In theaters on September 26.”

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill T. Jones, Vernon Jordan, Toni Morrison, Chris Rock, Al Sharpton and Slash are some of the rich, famous and powerful black Americans who tell their tales in The Black List, by NYT film critic Elvis Mitchell and director Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. Watch it tonight on HBO, part of the cable channel’s summer documentary series. Grab the HBO Documentary Films Series widget and stay up to date on the complete series.

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In Australia, all the party kids go to Bali, where they surf and maybe smoke a little marijuana. Ganja Queen is the terrifying tale of Aussie gal Schapelle Corby, accused of being a a drug smuggler when the Bali cops found pounds of pot in her surf bag. This is the biggest Australian story since Ned Kelly killed all those policemen, with her Indonesian trial broadcast live on Aussie TV. You can see Ganja Queen tonight on HBO, as part of the summer documentary series. Grab the HBO Documentary Films Series widget and stay up to date on the complete series.

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Roman Polanski has a weirder, richer and much more fun life than, say, you do. But he’s also been on the run from American Justice since 1978, when he was about to be convicted for raping a 13-year-old girl, who he was shooting for Vogue, in Jack Nicholson’s house. Also, he made Chinatown. You can see Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired tonight on HBO, as part of the channel’s summer documentary series. Grab the HBO Documentary Films Series widget and stay up to date on the complete series.

Say what you will about John McCain — for example, that he’s mentally deranged old lobbyist whore with a Robert Jordan complex — but he actually means it when he talks about certain quaint old-fashioned notions like “honor.” So when the North Carolina Republicans announced they were going to run this stupid race-baiting “Did you know Obama is black, and angry?” ad, John McCain fired off a furious email to the state party chairwoman lamenting the degradation of Our Civics and defending the honor of the Process. Read his honorable fulminations after the jump! MORE »

Three Girls and Their Brother is a sharp, perceptive, and brilliantly written debut novel from acclaimed playwright Theresa Rebeck. “In her first novel, playwright Theresa Rebeck satirizes the publicity-driven world of instant celebrity. Three Girls and Their Brother is pointed and funny, an entertaining, cautionary story about the powerful and the preyed upon.” -Boston Globe
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Read the bestselling first novel critics are calling “One of the best books of the year” (New York Times Book Review, Time, Boston Globe). Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris. Finally in paperback. $13.99/$15.50
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