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Review: 2005's Overlooked Performances (AP via Yahoo! News) - Forget Oscar, these were the year's most fun and lively performances — the ones we actually can't wait to watch again. Please, no costumes, no accents.

Review: Sequel For 'Cheaper By' Doesn't Work (The WBAL Channel) - A bad movie in "Cheaper by the Dozen" gets an equally dumb sequel. Find out why with our @ The Movies review.

Year in review (Newsday) - 1. Which former presidents were tapped to head the tsunami relief effort in January? 2. Which team lost in the 2005 Super Bowl? 3. To what post was Michael Chertoff confirmed in February?

Review: Dumber by the 2nd 'Dozen' (CNN.com) - (AP) -- "Cheaper by the Dozen 2" is an argument for the cinematic equivalent of condoms. Something's got to come between audiences and Hollywood's incessant desire to sequelize bad movies, or in this case, do a bad remake of a family classic, then follow with an equally dumb second chapter.

Relatively speaking, love story is just too icky (Lexington Herald-Leader) - Review: Rumor Has It MPAA rating: PG-13 (for mature thematic material, sexual content, crude humor, a drug reference) Running time : 1:37 mins. Release date: Dec. 25, 2005 Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner, Shirley MacLaine, Mark Ruffalo, Richard Jenkins, Mena Suvari Directed by: Rob Reiner

A year on, a father seeks to close the circle (Sydney Morning Herald) - AS THE first anniversary of the devastating Asian tsunami approaches, bereaved Sydney father Richard Nott has a simple ambition - to wear his late son's wedding ring. -

Elder murder case hearing on hold (Portsmouth Herald) - BRENTWOOD - A hearing to review the mental competency of Helen Garland to stand trial for the murder of her 85-year-old sister has been postponed six months, allowing Garland time to take a prescribed cognitive enhancing medication.

Sacramento News & Review (Sacramento News & Review) - ©Copyright 2005 Chico Community Publishing, Inc.

Miller, Pryor Among Artists We Lost in '05 (AP via Yahoo! News) - With Willy Loman, playwright Arthur Miller created a universal symbol of the struggles of the ordinary man and the fading of his dreams. Willy was not the toiler in the fields so often portrayed in the arts, but a worker with a frayed white collar. A salesman. "Death of a Salesman" made Miller famous in 1949 as an artist of the theater. By the time he died in 2005 at age 89, he was hailed as one

We love 2005! (Guardian Unlimited) - GU Sport's review of the year: Ladies and gentlemen, your attention please as Guardian Unlimited rounds up all the best bits of 2005.