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The Week Ahead—10 Things To Watch, Read and Listen To: April 2–April 8
Every Monday, we lay out the week ahead in entertainment. You're welcome.
Reading While Eating for April 5: Great Debates
Ditch the Jacket: If the Augusta National tournament continues to ban women, the PGA ought to abandon it entirely. (BuzzFeed) Music’s Meaning: Is Nicki Minaj a...
Can IMAX Save the Movie Business?
The decline in movie theater attendance can’t be denied. The majority of people say they rarely or never go to the movies nowadays, and last year saw the fewest...
Did the Moon Help Sink the Titanic? A New Theory Says Yes
There's never been any mystery about why the world's most famous luxury liner plunged to the bottom of the frigid North Atlantic on a moonless night during its...
Now There’s a Daily Deal Site for Underwear
The site's name, which may seem either catchy or cringe-worthy depending on one's POV, is CheapUndies.
Has Newt’s Challenge Hurt Romney or Made Him Stronger?
Penn: Newt Gingrich has been a great candidate in the way that the Titanic was a great ship. It has been very attractive to board, but we know where it’s headed...
Is Valve’s Steam Hack as Bad as the Sony PlayStation Debacle?
When Valve revealed last night that its Steam online gaming service had been hacked and a database with user login and credit card info gutted, was anyone...
Party Time: China Pushes 'Red Tourism'
Shaoshan, a small town in the mountains of Hunan province, is the heart of red tourism in China. As the birthplace of Chairman Mao, it attracts millions of...
Hollywood's Highest Paid Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio
We'll always think of him as the penniless Jack Dawson of Titanic fame. But DiCaprio won't be riding steerage class anytime soon. As the star of two major hit...
Living and Dying with Russia's Soviet Legacy: Sinking Ships and Falling Planes
Russians have started calling the incident the "Titanic of the Volga." On Sunday afternoon, during a cruise in a reservoir adjoining the Volga River, a ship...
Mined to Death: Why Bolivia's Cerro Rico Mountain is Collapsing
Ricardo Morales started mining Bolivia's Cerro Rico when he was 12, and he's proud of the mountain's majestic history. "It's said that the silver taken from here...
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GOOD WEEK/BAD WEEK The Hobbit fans After several delays, Peter Jackson has finally begun filming the Lord of the Rings prequel. Wolverine fans Now that Black...
"James Cameron's" Sanctum: All Wet
The ads show lots of water and one prominent name: James Cameron. So you'd be forgiven for inferring — as you are damn well expected to — that the Avatar auteur...
Q&A: Artists and Entertainers
CHARLIE ROSE: Welcome to the broadcast, we're at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, here in a room full of interesting people, to talk about who has had the most...
Gloria Stuart, '30s Film Star with a Titanic Comeback
The Femms of The Old Dark House are ancient and deranged — not suitable hosts for a dazzling damsel whose car has broken down in an awful rainstorm. When slim...
Gloria Stuart
In a way, Gloria Stuart's early lack of fulfillment was her ultimate good fortune: one of the reasons director James Cameron cast the actress in Titanic was that...
Box Office: Inception Gets an Immaculate Reception
Christopher Nolan's dream came true. Inception, the writer-director's deviously complicated action-adventure movie, more than satisfied Nolan's and Warner Bros.'...
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No Place Like Home As demonstrated by Krista Mahr's well-balanced report, "Living in Limbo," the root causes of today's refugee problem are no longer...
No Place Like Home
As demonstrated by Krista Mahr's well-balanced report, "Living in Limbo," the root causes of today's refugee problem are no longer ideologically driven, as they...
Avatar on DVD Review: Pandora's Skimpy Box
The top-grossing film in movie history is No. 1 again. The James Cameron epic Avatar, which has earned more than $2.7 billion in theaters worldwide since its...
