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Hunger Games advance tickets went on sale this morning with just a month left to go until the film’s March 23 release — and it’s dominating Fandango, accounting for 83 percent of the site’s total sales today.

If you were hoping to get a ticket to the premiere in L.A., you may be in luck. Lionsgate announced that they will admit 400 fans in to the big night on March 12 — but get there early. Overnight camping will be allowed at “The Hob,” the L.A. headquarters for fans attending the Nokia Theater event, beginning on March 11 at 6am, according to the film’s Facebook page. Make sure you have some groosling ready to roast so you don’t go hungry out there!

For those already set to see the film on opening day with their Peeta or Katniss, enjoy! And for those tributes hoping to spot the stars on the carpet, may the odds be ever in your favor.

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Whitney Houston’s untimely death sells records, AMC could be a huge seller thanks to brain-eating zombies, and Linsanity struts its stuff on Wall Street.

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In a classy move certain to enrage fans while boosting sales, the National Enquirer has published a photo of Whitney Houston’s open casket this week. 

The image of the late pop diva was purportedly taken during a private viewing at the Whigham Funeral Home in Newark, N.J.

The exercise in sensationalism is on par with the photos of Houston’s last meal and the bathtub she died in that TMZ ran in the days immediately after her Feb. 11 death at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.

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There’s some precedent for the Enquirer’s ghoulish glimpse at Whitney’s wake. The tabloid ran similar open casket shots of Elvis Presley after the King of Rock died in 1977. 

Just as it did with Presley, the headline loudly proclaims that it is “the last photo” taken of the singer. 

The Enquirer also teases some other tawdry details about the Houston viewing. The singer was reportedly outfitted in her favorite purple dress, $ 500,000 worth of jewelry, and had gold slippers on her feet. 

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“Shameless brutality” — those are the words the United States chose Wednesday to describe Bashar al-Assad’s all-out military assault on Syria’s freedom movement.

The 40-year dictatorship of the Assad family seems bent on crushing the citizens’ rebellion that began nearly a year ago.

On Wednesday, civilians in Homs — a city of more than one and a half million — suffered through their 19th day of artillery bombardment. An intense morning barrage killed 74, including a French photo journalist and an American reporter, Marie Colvin.

She was a veteran war correspondent, 56 years old, from Long Island, New York. She lost her left eye in an ambush in Sri Lanka in 2001.

“Being a war correspondent to me has never been, y’know ‘Is that T-52 tank or a T-72 tank?’ It’s about people, what people are going through,” Colvin said about her work.

Colvin was killed along with award-winning French photojournalist Remi Ochlik when rockets or mortars struck a building in Homs where reporters were working. Two other journalists, French and British, were wounded.

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On Tuesday night, Colvin told CNN by phone the bombardment of Homs was, in her word, “sickening.”

“Every civilian house has been hit. We’re talking a poor popular neighborhood. The top floor of the building I’m in has been hit, in fact, totally destroyed. There are no military targets here. It’s a complete and utter lie they’re only going after terrorists,” Colvin said.

CBS News correspondent Clarissa Ward has made her way into into Syria twice in recent weeks reporting on the rebels. Most recently she reported, with her producer Ben Plesser, on combat around the city of Idlib.

Ward reports that an international activism organization is saying that nine volunteers went into the city of Homs Wednesday carrying medical equipment, and that they went missing sometime in the late morning. Later on, the bodies of seven of them were found with their hands tied behind their backs and they were executed.

Ward said her experience was challenging and perilous.

“The dangers of reporting inside Syria and the difficulties are innumerable – from the logistics of having spotty telecommunications, to the very real fears of being in constant firefights and shelling, and knowing that you’re there illegally, that the government doesn’t want you to be there and that in fact by virtue of being there you are something of a target,” Ward said.

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