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Cascading Confessions

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By MAUREEN DOWD - May. 15 (Opinion) - Two of the hot topics trending on Twitter Tuesday were Angelina Jolie and the I.R.S. Beauty and the Beast. Jolie stunned the world with a New York Times Op-Ed article explaining why she decided to have a preventive double mastectomy once she learned that

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Op-Ed Columnist: The Professors’ Big Stage

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 02:52:00 -0800

New York Times - By By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN - Mar. 06 (Opinion) - I just spent the last two days at a great conference convened by M.I.T. and Harvard on “Online Learning and the Future of Residential Education” — a k a “How can colleges charge $50,000 a year if my kid can learn it all free from massive open online courses.

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Oscar Predictions, Election-Style

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By By NATE SILVER - Feb. 22 (Opinion) - Our Academy Awards forecasts are based on the awards that were given out in the run-up to the Oscars, the closest equivalent to pre-election polls. But just as our election forecasts assign more weight to certain polls, we do not treat all awards equally.

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Staffer axed by Republican group over retracted copyright-reform memo

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Ars Technica - Dec. 06 (Opinion) - Log in to track your discussions. The Republican Study Committee, a caucus of Republicans in the House of Representatives, has told staffer Derek Khanna that he will be out of a job when Congress re-convenes in January. The incoming chairman of the RSC,

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Role Reversal: Why TV Is Replacing Movies As Elite Entertainment

Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The Hollywood Economist - By Edward Jay Epstein - May. 13 (News Analysis) - Once upon a time, over a generation ago, The television set was commonly called the “boob tube” and looked down on by elites as a purveyors of mind-numbing entertainment. Movie theaters, on the other hand, were considered a venue for, if not art, more sophisticated dramas and comedies. Not any more. The multiplexes are now primarily a venue for comic-book inspired action and fantasy movies, whereas television, especially the pay and cable channels, is increasingly becoming a venue for character-driven adult programs, such as The Wire, Mad Men, and Boardwalk Empire. This role reversal, rather than a momentary fluke, proceeds directly from the new economic realities of the entertainment business. Consider what happened to Pay-TV. Back in the 1970s, HBO provided something home viewers could not get elsewhere: movies uninterrupted by commercials. It was, as a HBO executive put it, “the only game in town,” so its subscribers paid a monthly fee, no matter how little or often they watch it, to their local cable provider who in turn forked over a share to HBO. As the cable systems grew, so did HBO. By 2010, it had (including its Cinemax unit) over 40 million subscribers, and just the monthly fees produced cash flow of over $1.5 billion a year. Getting new movies was no problem. HBO simply licensed them from a few major studios for an exclusive period (which began a few months after they were released on video and DVD) in so-called “output deals.” To continue to harvest this immense bounty, HBO had merely to stop subscribers from ending their service.

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Inhofe: Global warming too costly to be real

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:23:00 -0700

Grist - Mar. 16 - Did you see the big smackdown Thursday night between MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.)? The dean of disinformation mostly just repeated his well-worn falseshoods about global warming, which Maddow shot down. But there was one remarkab

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Kony 2012: what's the real story?

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Polly Curtis, John Vidal - Mar. 09 (Breaking News) - A 28-minute long film about the plight of children in Africa has been watched more than 21m times on You Tube. But the charity behind it is facing some criticisms for their Hollywood-style campaigning on the issue. Are the criticisms fair? Polly Curtis and John Vidal , with your help, finds out. Get in touch below the line, Tweet @pollycurtis or email polly.curtis@guardian.co.uk . Since Monday more than 21m people have viewed this film, made by an American charity called Invisible Children , about the plight of children in Uganda at the hands of the warlord Joseph Kony , leader of the guerilla group the Lords Resistance Army. His army is said to have abducted 60,000 children. With its slick Hollywood production values the film has been an almost instant viral success, dominating Twitter worldwide and having one of the fastest ever take-offs on You Tube. The hashtag #stopkony has had hundreds of thousands of Tweets. Millions of people now know something about Uganda and what is happening ...

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'The Vow' leads strong pre-Valentine's weekend at box office

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - Feb. 14 - 'The Vow,' starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum, took in $41.7 million at U.S. and Canadian theaters from Friday through Sunday in the biggest domestic opening so far this year, according to studio estimates compiled by Reuters on Sunday. ...

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Shocker: Video of live woolly mammoth not entirely authentic (+video)

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - Feb. 14 - Footage from a Russian filmmaker's personal history project was altered to create a widely discussed – and now thoroughly debunked – sighting of a woolly mammoth. ...

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Phoenix rising: Can “the world’s least sustainable city” go green?

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:35:00 -0800

Grist - By Greg Hanscom - Feb. 13 - What was the most surprising thing that came out of Andrew Ross’s two-year research stint in Phoenix, Ariz.? For my money, it’s this: People who live there (weirdly) don’t expect their desert civilization to collapse around them at any moment. “One of Ne

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Bosnian Serb Film Distributor Won't Screen New Jolie Film

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:44:00 -0800

Radio Free Europe - Feb. 13 - The sole film distributor in the Serb-run part of Bosnia-Herzegovina is refusing to screen a new movie written and directed by Angelina Jolie and set during the Bosnian war of the 1990s. Film distributor Vladimir Ljevak said he did not think Jolie's film

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KO Computer

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Show - By Jon Stewart - Jan. 19 (Comedy News) - Wikipedia goes dark for 24 hours in protest of SOPA, raising the question: do they expect us to go to the library like a common masturbator? ... If SOPA passes, people who stream copyrighted content could go to jail for five years.

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Support for Internet Bill Wanes as Protests Spread

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jonathan Weisman - Jan. 18 (News Report) - Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, announced he would no longer back the anti-Internet piracy legislation he had co-sponsored. Senator John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, quickly followed suit.

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Key Senator Abandons The Protect IP Ship

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Zach Carter - Jan. 18 (News) - Home to the Disney World and Universal Studios theme parks, Rubio's Florida may be the most Hollywood-centric state outside California, and Rubio had been one of the first senators to sign on in support of Protect IP when Sen. Pat Leahy (D-Vt.) introduce

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Jon Stewart Has Some Harsh Words For SOPA And Its Sponsors

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Gawker - By Matt Toder, Jon Stewart - Jan. 18 (Comedy News) - On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart attempted to wrap his head around SOPA and its draconian take on internet piracy. He saved his harshest criticisms for its sponsors in Congress and their inability to truly understand (a) the internet and (b) what their bill will actually do.

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Web Piracy Bills Invite a Protracted Battle

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jenna Wortham, Somini Sengupta - Jan. 16 (News Report) - The Obama administration’s statement of opposition to antipiracy legislation let the technology industry claim a victory, but few in Silicon Valley or Hollywood consider the battle over.

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Sen. Ron Wyden leaps into middle of Internet piracy fight

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Oregonian - Dec. 22 (News) - WASHINGTON -- There's a lot of stealing going on across the Internet's great wide expanse, with movies, music and software all protected by copyrights particularly ripe for the illegal taking. But how to deal with a problem that by one estimate costs pr

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End of the line for fancy Steuben crystal

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - Oct. 24 - In "Risky Business," a 1983 comedy drama starring Tom Cruise, a mother's prized Steuben (stew-'BEN) glass egg goes missing from the mantelpiece only to reappear - imperceptibly nicked - in the nick of time.

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The shot that nearly killed me: War photographers – a special report

Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By The Guardian - Jun. 18 (Special Report) - Attacked by a Haitian mob, kidnapped by Gaddafi's troops, shot in Afghanistan… Who'd be a war photographer? • In pictures: the life of a war photographer (contains some graphic images) Adam Ferguson, Afghanistan, 2009 I was one of the first on the scene. The Afghan security forces normally shut down a suicide bombing like this pretty quickly. I was able to get to the epicentre of the explosion. It was carnage, there were bodies, flames were coming out of the buildings. I remember feeling very scared because there was still popping and hissing and small explosions, and the building was collapsing. It was still very fresh and there was a risk of another bomb. It was one of those situations where you have to put fear aside and focus on the job at hand: to watch the situation and document it. This woman was escorted out of the building and round this devastated street corner. It epitomised the whole mood – this older woman caught in the middle of this ridiculous, tragic event. I wish I ...

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Apocalypse not now: Rapture fails to happen

Sat, 21 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By David Batty - May. 21 (News) - Christian doomsday prophet Harold Camping looks likely to be less than rapturous after his prediction that the world would end on Saturday failed to materialise. The 89-year-old Californian preacher had prophesied that the Rapture would begin at 6pm in each of the world's time zones, with those "saved" by Jesus ascending to heaven and the non-believers being wiped out by an earthquake rolling from city to city across the planet. But as the deadline for the Apocalpyse passed in the Pacific islands, New Zealand and Australia, it became apparent that Camping's prediction of the end of the world was to end not with a bang but with a whimper. Only on Twitter did the supposed armageddon sweep the world, with users expressing their mock disappointment at the lack of dead people rising from their graves. New Zealander Daniel Boerman tweeted : "I'm from New Zealand, it is 6:06PM, the world has NOT ...

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Cannes kicks off with hommage to Bertolucci

Thu, 12 May 2011 11:48:00 -0700

Dawn - By Afp - May. 12 - Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci (L), is awarded with the Honorary Palme d'Or for his career from the president of the Cannes Film Festival Gilles Jacob (C) as President of the Jury Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun,

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The one and only Liz

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Editorial Staff - Mar. 24 (Editorial) - There's no doubt that Elizabeth Taylor defined 'celebrity' for the modern age.

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Dana Goodyear: Barry Michels, the therapist for blocked screenwriters.

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:30:43 -0700

New Yorker - By Dana Goodyear - Mar. 13 - The writer was in despair. For a year and a half, he had been trying to write a script that he owed to a studio, and had been unable to produce anything. Finally, he started seeing a therapist. The therapist, Barry Michels, told him to close his eyes and

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George Clooney: 21st-Century Statesman

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Newsweek - By John Avlon - Feb. 20 (News Report) - In the age of Twitter-shortened attention spans, fame is an increasingly powerful weapon of diplomacy. How George Clooney is helping to bring change—and a hefty dose of hope—to Sudan.

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Avatar story was so true to life | Jonathan Glennie

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Jonathan Glennie - Dec. 24 (Opinion) - Avatar was the biggest cinematic event over the last year. Set in 2154, it tells the story of the violent displacement of indigenous people from their jungle homes on a planet called Pandora, as a ruthless company searches for a precious mineral. But I w

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