Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | yesterday
NEW YORK — For those hard-to-please people on your holiday gift list this year, consider some unusual presents: the chance to hang out with Bill O'Reilly, sing with Aretha Franklin or tour the Capitol with Nancy Pelosi.
Fresh Visual (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
The lucky winners of the eleventh British Independent Film Awards were announced yesterday with Danny Boyle, his film Slumdog Millionaire and Steve McQueen’s Hunger leading the proceedings. Slumdog won Best British Independent Film, with Dev Patel winning Most Promising Newcomer and Danny Boyle picking up Best Director whilst Hunger also helped itself to three awards [...]
Silicon Valley Moms Blog (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
Once a month, for an hour and a half, I get to be a thinking adult again. Of course, I use my brain when I work, but that's a very part-time arrangement and this is different. When my hubby and...
Puadkee (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
Who Killed the Electric Car ? (DVD)By Martin Sheen Buy new: $9.9965 used and new from $7.82 Customer Rating: First tagged ''industry'' by Greenstone ''TL Farley'' Customer tags: documentary(68), electric cars (64), environment(49), e
BuddyTV (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
The FX network is trying to make a groundbreaking hit by plotting a revolution on TV. The cable network is currently developing a new show called AR2 from Thomas Schlamme, producer on The West Wing, and Prison Break creator Paul...
Allie Is Wired (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Drew Barrymore and her lineage of family in showbiz starts with her grandfather John Barrymore. She is also the great niece of Academy Award-winning actors Ethel and Lionel Barrymore. Her parents, Jaid and John D. Barrymore, also spent time in the spotlight. Charlie Sheen has an entire family of actors of his own. He is the [...]
Advertising Age - Digital (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
CHICAGO (AdAge.com) -- Thanksgiving staples are going high tech this year, as marketers look for new ways to ingratiate themselves to a new generation of consumers. Shoppers can now get turkey advice on their mobile phones in the grocery store and get a free pizza through Facebook on Thanksgiving Eve.
Pajiba (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
All-Time Television Breeding Grounds A Seriously Random List XXII / Dustin Rowles...
Film Forno (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
TCM has done it again, screened a somewhat obscure film I’ve never seen. The Little Girl Who Lived Down The Lane is a stylish thriller (sort of), a psychological fairy tale chess game, the board pieces consisting of a precocious blonde angel, sexy, innocent brilliant, deadly, an evil Prince, sadistic, pederast, coward, bully, with pretensions [...]
The Inquisitr (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
Celebrity fashion designer Anand Jon has been found guilty by a Los Angeles Court 16 counts of rape, possession of child pornography and other sex charges. The crimes included lewd acts on a child, rape and sexual battery between 2001 and 2007 against nine models aspirants aged between 14 and 21. According to Reuters, prosecutors [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
Like the law in Oregon that was passed ten years ago, Initiative 1000 allows doctors to prescribe lethal drugs requested by competent dying patients who want the right to die quickly, when they choose.
Walt at Random (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
I may exercise to the oldies, but once a week we watch a reasonably-current movie–and once in a while we run across a pleasant surprise. If you haven’t seen Bobby, I strongly recommend it. It came out in 2006 (hey, I never said we were up to date). We were surprised by how the good the [...]
New York Post (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
FORGET about Hollywood types. The real star of last weekend's sixth annual Queens International Film Festival was Pablo Escobar Jr., the son of the infamous Colombian drug lord gunned down in 1993. Escobar, who flew in from Miami, was spotted at...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Brothers CHARLIE SHEEN and EMILIO ESTEVEZ are to team up on the small screen for an episode of hit U.S. sitcom TWO + A HALF MEN. Estevez will play a drinking buddy of ...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif., Nov. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Universal Pictures Executives today announced that Scott Stuber and Universal have extended Stuber's producing pact with the studio through 2013. A key producer with a long history at Universal, Stuber recently expanded Stuber Productions bringing on Pam Abdy to join key executives Alexa Faigen, Jon Mone, Andy Davis, Rick Solomon and Jared Pfeifer. Universal...
