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The man behind the trillion-dollar "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise (and, more recently, the high-profile "Lone Ranger" flop) has been characterized as a hack, a purveyor of standard-issue Hollywood dreck. But, asks Tucker Johnson, is there art buried in the films of Gore Verbinski?
Read MorePixar's latest is a prequel: the story of how Mike and Sully from "Monsters, Inc." first met
Read MoreSanta Claus ... the Easter Bunny ... the Sandman ... the Tooth Fairy ... figures out of children's story-time band together with Jack Frost to fight an evil that threatens childhood itself
Read MoreSteve Jobs, the visionary predator who founded Apple and forged a new way of thinking about technology, wasn't a particularly nice man (as even his dutiful biographer must occasionally concede) - but was he a genius?
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