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Staff Writer wrote a new blog post: Facebook Movie in the Works 4 days, 11 hours ago
Rumor has it that Columbia Pictures is in advanced talks to adapt Ben Mezrich’s newest work, Accidental Billionaires, into a movie about Mark Zuckerberg and the development of Facebook (you knew it was only a matter of time). The word on the street is that the book, which will be released July 14, is a [...]
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Miss Ann Thropy created a new blog: A Touch of Human Frailty 3 months, 3 weeks ago
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Facebook Movie in the Works
Rumor has it that Columbia Pictures is in advanced talks to adapt Ben Mezrich’s newest work, Accidental Billionaires, into a movie about Mark Zuckerberg and the development of Facebook (you knew it was only a matter of time). The word on the street is that the book, which will be released July 14, is a [...] -
Tweet This: Ulysses Descends on Twitter
You know Twitter has finally become mainstream when Irish writer James Joyce’s Ulysses descends on the microblogging service. That’s right: to commemorate Bloomsday on June 16, a chapter of one of the most difficult English novels ever written was condensed to fit Twitter’s 140-character guidelines. Chapter 10, “The Wandering Rocks,” follows 19 Dubliners going about [...] -
Adam Lambert Comes Out on the Cover of Rolling Stone
In the new issue of Rolling Stone, Adam Lambert comes clean about his sexual orientation and his future in music. The interview, “Wild Idol: The Psychedelic Transformation and Sexual Liberation of Adam Lambert,” is now available on newsstands. Here are a few excerpts: • “I realized that I wouldn't be taken seriously as a recording artist [...] -
Boyle Places Second, Then Hospitalized for Exhaustion
After what must have been the most exhausting weeks of her life, Scottish singer Susan Boyle placed second on “Britain’s Got Talent” and was promptly hospitalized for exhaustion at a London mental health clinic. Although she was widely considered the favorite to win the reality TV show, Boyle lost the competition to a male dance [...] -
Church of Scientology Banned from Editing Wikipedia Content
In an effort to regulate biased editing of its content, Wikipedia has banned a series of IP addresses associated with the Church of Scientology, The Register reports. The decision by Wikipedia’s Arbitration Committee marks the first time that the eighth-most-popular website has prevented a major organization from promoting its own agenda through self-serving edits. According to [...] -
Susan Boyle in Final Round of “Britain’s Got Talent”
Susan Boyle, the Scottish frump with the voice of gold who captured the world's attention several weeks ago, is back in the news. After singing "Memory" from the musical Cats in the semi-final round of "Britain's Got Talent," Boyle was pushed through to the final round, where she'll compete for the £100,000 prize and the [...] -
Woody Allen Settles American Apparel Lawsuit for $5 Million
After suing American Apparel more than a year ago for unauthorized use of his image without his consent and reputation damage, Woody Allen has settled the lawsuit for $5 million, Reuters reports. Allen told reporters, "I am told the settlement of five million dollars I am being paid is the largest reported amount ever paid [...] -
PEN/Saul Bellow Award Winners Announced
The PEN/Saul Bellow award winners have been announced, and Cormac McCarthy, author of such novels as The Road, No Country for Old Men, and the Border Trilogy, has been given the lifetime achievement award. This is the second time the award, which recognizes excellence, ambition, and scale of achievement over a career, has been given. Other [...] -
Supreme Court Justice Souter Expected to Retire; No Word on Replacement Yet
Last week, the media announced the upcoming retirement of Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, sparking intense speculation about who Obama will appoint as Souter’s replacement. The president declined to address the issue last Friday, but already several names have been pitched into the fray. Obama, drawing on his legal background, is no doubt considering [...] -
Father of Slumdog Millionaire Child Actor Allegedly Tries to Sell Daughter
The father of child actor Rubina Ali, who played the youngest version of the character Latika in Slumdog Millionaire, allegedly tried to sell his daughter to an undercover reporter for $300,000, claiming, “I have to consider what's best for me, my family and Rubina's future." The Ali family is said to still live in Bandra [...] -
Frumpy Scottish Woman Stuns Simon Cowell (and the rest of the world) with Her Angelic Voice
Google the word “frump” and you’ll mostly likely come across a picture of Susan Boyle, a frizzy-hair, bushy-eyebrow, saddlebagged 47-year-old schlump who makes Janet Reno look like Pam Anderson by comparison. Yet underneath the dowdy exterior are a pure heart and a voice that seems beamed into her expansive chest direct from some gentle, omnipotent [...] -
Piracy Costs Journalist His Job
"You wouldn’t steal a car. You wouldn’t steal a handbag. You wouldn’t steal a mobile phone. You wouldn’t steal a DVD. Buying pirated films is stealing…Stealing...Is Against...The Law...Piracy: It’s a crime." So goes the 2004 MPAA advertisement that precedes the content on many DVDs. But unfortunately for the MPAA, its call to good citizenship has [...] -
Man Fumbles Engagement Ring off Brooklyn Bridge
For most people, the answer to the question “will you?” is the defining moment of the proposal. For Don Walling of New York, however, the image that he will remember forever is not his lovely fiancée Gina Pellicani’s happy agreement but the sight of the diamond ring he’d offered her falling through a crack in [...] -
Dallas High School Students Placed in Cage and Forced to Fight
If you, as an awkward high school student, ever found yourself the unwitting participant in a fistfight, be glad that you weren’t enrolled at South Oak Cliff High School in Dallas, Texas. There, former principal Donald Moten reportedly sanctioned “cage fights” between students. As a way of working out aggression between “troubled” youths, the fights [...] -
The Times, Post, and Postal Service Woes
Each week seems to hold more scary headlines about the poor financial standing of age-old US institutions of vastly different sectors of the economy. The Washington Post and New York Times have to cut staff and extend buyouts to staff members (again). The US postal service just announced that it’s running out of money. I [...] -
George W. Bush—the Author?
If you’ve been wondering what W has been up to since leaving the White House a few months ago, you’ll be interested to know that the former president is reportedly writing a book called Decision Points, which will explain “the environment in which I was making decisions,” Bush said in a phone interview with the [...] -
The Upstairs/Downstairs Double Life of Josef Fritzl
Is there any story more terrifying than that of Josef Fritzl, the 73-year-old Austrian electrical engineer who imprisoned his daughter Elisabeth for 24 years in the family’s basement, fathered seven children with her, and murdered one of them? Fritzl lived a shadowy double life. Well respected in the sleepy community of Amstettten, Fritzl and his [...] -
From the Annals of Eccentricity: Purple Lady Passes
Variety may be the spice of life, but some people prefer to be under seasoned. One of those people was Myrtice McCurdy, whom the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports passed away on March 11 at the age of 100. Besides teaching fourth grade at Stone Mountain Elementary School in Stone Mountain, GA, for 43 years and Sunday [...] -
Barbie Turns 50
50 years ago, Barbie was introduced to the world at the New York Toy Fair. To celebrate her 50th birthday, Mattel teamed up with fashion designer Adler to create a life sized Malibu Dream House located right off the PCH near Zuma Beach, California. The L.A. Times covered the luxurious show which was six months [...] -
Drew Barrymore: “I Have So Much Darkness”
In a new interview with W magazine, perennially happy-go-lucky actress Drew Barrymore talks about her latest role as eccentric American socialite Edith Bouvier "Little Edie" Beale in the upcoming HBO film Grey Gardens and reveals that she has "so much darkness" which she was able to tap into for the role. Barrymore says, "Playing Edie, [...]
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