Here's the trailer for John Turturro's latest movie, Fading Gigolo. Turturro wrote and directed this endeavor, which stars him as a dude who is paid to pretend to love various women, so now I guess it's kind of a true story.
AAAAAAAAAAAH! A crazy person appears to have broken into X-Men actress Famke Janssen's apartment on Saturday and left a creepy old old doll book on a shelf next to her bed OH MY GODDDDDDDD! Or maybe her apartment is haunted by a lonely doll that loves reading books about itself WAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Or maybe her carpet has begun spontaneously vomiting up copies of obscure children's books EEEEEEEEEEEEEP!
The Department of Defense recently posted a call for proposals—due by September 25—to combat “the national security threat posed by public data available either for purchase or through open sources.” For its only example, the DoD pointed to a 2009 lawsuit against Netflix for allegedly outing a lesbian after programmers reverse-engineered the site’s famously robust recommendation engine:
A new study says that reports on "hook-up culture" have been exaggerated. Although college-aged people aren't having more sex than their predecessors, they're more likely to do so with a casual partner, and the phrase "hook up" is more likely to be used to describe it. Hook-up culture is dead, long live hook-up culture.
"Like anyone I'm afraid of being arrested but also I'm not afraid of being arrested... If it takes me getting arrested for people to pay attention and for people to lobby against this law then I'm willing to take it." — Bad-ass figure skater Johnny Weir on competing in the Sochi Olympics in anti-gay Russia
A Colorado family says it is being hounded by neighbors to remove a handicap ramp outside their Fountain home because of concerns that it could negatively impact property value.
Alex Pareene urges Democratic voters in New Jersey to cast their ballots against "an avatar of the wealthy elite, a camera-hog, and a political cipher" in today's special Senate primary: "Cory Booker became a millionaire because this is how the economy works for people of his class: Rich people give other rich people money to do nothing, simply because they 'deserve' it. He is the worst sort of Democrat, and Democrats should be doing everything in their power to wrest control of the party away from people like him."
For the most part, corporate America is still a boy's club. The vast majority of top corporate executives are men. Oh, they let in some women, of course. They just don't pay them as much as everyone else.
As the series gets further into its second season, it is broadening, deepening, and becoming even more thought-provoking. There has been no diminution of its trademark sharp scripts and superior acting, which combine for superior story-telling. All television dramas strive for this; few achieve it. Among current or recent offerings, Mad Men does. So does The Good Wife and a few others, but the list isn't long. My opinion for some time now has been that The Newsroom is the best of the current lot and has the potential to be one of the better television series ever. Nothing in this latest episode gives any pause in that opinion, much less any change.
This may not have been the most exciting episode but it was among the most interesting. As the chapter title suggests, the anchorman's character is further developed and filled-out, as he is seen having to balance family tragedy with professional duties. One of the main story lines of the season—how the news network got in trouble with a big story that proved to be wrong—gets considerable new development. As with every episode, plenty of romance is interwoven.
Best line of this installment: When the anchorman, irritated by a Twitter twit, is reminded of an ancient truth: "Relatively small people will try to raise their profile by standing on your neck."
Small nit: I didn't think the frog joke worked.
I liked this episode—a lot. It holds your attention and builds considerable interest for
They called him the "Miracle Priest" of Missouri 19 — but it turns out the mystery man of the cloth who "appeared out of nowhere" to pray by the side of accident victim Katie Lentz wasn't her "guardian angel," but an ordinary clergyman who acknowledged doing very little to actually rescue the badly injured young woman.
When Hurricane "Superstorm" Sandy hit New York, a large part of Manhattan— the wealthiest place east of the Taj Mahal— was without power for weeks. At least it wasn't unfashionable. According to a new report, blackouts are becoming the new normal.
