Movie theaters posted their worst attendance since 1994 last year, but Hollywood is poised for a big comeback — with the help...
<em>Epic</em> Fantasy Book Excerpt: Read 'Bound Man' in Full
Label: Technology Epic fantasy has become the literature of more. We equate it with more pages than the average book, more books than the average series. There are more characters, more maps, more names and more dates. The stories and the worlds are bigger to contain all of this more. And when all the books have been devoured, the fans want more.For my just-released anthology, Epic: Legends of Fantasy, I compiled...
“Hunger Games” star Jennifer Lawrence will not diet for role
Label: Lifestyle
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – “The Hunger Games” star Jennifer Lawrence will not be dieting for a role any time soon.Lawrence, 22, who plays the famished Katniss Everdeen in the life-or-death thriller series, told Elle magazine in an interview to be published on November 13 that dropping a few pounds will not be part of her script.
“I’m...
The New Old Age Blog: The Emotional Aftermath of Hurricane Sandy
Label: HealthLet’s talk about the emotional aftermath of the storm that left tens of thousands of older people on the East Coast without power, bunkered down in their homes, chilled to the bone and out of touch with the outside world.Let’s name the feelings they may have experienced. Fear. Despair. Hopelessness. Anxiety. Panic.Linda Leest and her staff at Services Now for Adult Persons in Queens heard this...
DealBook: In Unusual Move, the Delaware Supreme Court Rebukes a Judge
Label: BusinessAs the chief judge of the Delaware Court of Chancery — the country’s most influential court overseeing business cases — Leo E. Strine Jr. has been called an activist. He has also been called an iconoclast, a genius and a humorist.But this week, Delaware’s highest court called him out of bounds.The Delaware Supreme Court issued a stinging rebuke of Judge Strine on Wednesday, criticizing him for what...
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Lakers fire Mike Brown as coach
Label: World The Lakers have fired Mike Brown as coach after the team's 1-4 start, according to a person familiar with the situation but...
Can Nate Silver Be Open Sourced?
Label: Technology Nate Silver is yet another example of data reinventing the world we live in. The day before the presidential election, Silver’s FiveThirtyEight blog drove 20 percent of the traffic to the New York Times website, according to The New Republic. Some said the methods of this new-age political forecaster were bunk, but people certainly paid attention. And in the end, he was right, predicting the...
Andy Summers film documents surviving the Police
Label: Lifestyle
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Police guitarist Andy Summers has always been a multifaceted artist – musician, songwriter, photographer and author. Now he can add filmmaker to his extensive resume.“Can’t Stand Losing You: Surviving the Police,” Summers’ 90-minute documentary film that chronicles his musical career and life with supergroup, has its world premiere...
Well: Can Foods Affect Colon Cancer Survival?
Label: HealthA new study suggests that what you eat may affect your chances of surviving colon cancer.The research is among the first to look at the impact that specific nutrients have on the likelihood of disease recurrence in people with colon cancer, one of the leading causes of cancer death in the United States. It found that people treated for Stage 3 disease, in which tumor cells have spread to lymph nodes,...
Your Money: After the Storm: Managing Your Homeowner’s Claim
Label: BusinessTom Mihalek/ReutersMark Baronowski shoveled sand from the living room of a beach front property in Bay Head, N.J., last week. Many victims of Hurricane Sandy are novices when it comes to catastrophic insurance claims. There is a sort of honeymoon period that occurs after a big storm like Hurricane Sandy, when insurance executives appear on the local news offering reassuring words. Their brightly...
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