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The latest “Twilight” movie has plenty of daylight left with a second-straight win at the weekend box office. “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1” took in $42 million domestically over the three-day weekend and $62.3 million in the five-day Thanksgiving boom time from Wednesday to Sunday. That raised its domestic total to $221.3 million, while the Summit Entertainment release added $71.5 million overseas to lift the international total to $268 million and the worldwide take to $489.3 million.

The Muppets Take Mountain View. Today, Google’s Bay Area-based imagineers and the Muppets’ digital puppeteers have teamed for a new, interactive “Doodle.” The home-page logo animation — refashioned with six Muppets that the user can manipulate by clicking on “hand” buttons — celebrates what would have been the 75th birthday Saturday of late Muppets creator Jim Henson.

Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video, with that unforgettable graveyard dance, will rest among the nation's treasures in the world's largest archive of film, TV and sound recordings.