Spanish director Eugenio Mira, known for his outlandishly plotted films, is teaming up with equally intriguing psycho-auteur Rodrigo Cortés (Buried) to produce a movie starring Elijah Wood about a pianist who can't stop playing the piano or he'll die à la Speed.
Today, Vanity Fair published several excerpts from the romantic correspondence of a young Barack Obama, displaying a penetrating mind and an impressive command of language on the part of the future president, who had just transferred from Occidental College to Columbia. His letters, as biographer David Maraniss writes, "wove [their] way though literature, politics, and personal philosophy"; our own Maureen O'Connor notes that they "reference T.S. Eliot, 'bourgeois liberalism,' and Jacques Derrida."
Is Barack Obama cool? Anyone who is actually cool can tell you that no, the president is not cool. He is old, and he is a dad, and he is president. And yet here we have a political ad claiming the president is cool, and commentators nodding their heads in agreement. The New Yorker's John Cassidy cites the Washington Post, a Politico commenter, and Grantland to conclude that the president has a "dazzling hipness."
Take it for the Sun article that it is, but rumor has it that Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe are set to star as different-aged versions of the same character in a four-part British miniseries that seems to be less a TV show than a diabolical plot by evil librarians to force people to read by causing all TV sets to melt at the same time.
The New York Times Magazine's cover story this week is about Edward Conard, a wealthy private equity titan and former business partner of Mitt Romney's, who has written a book arguing that income inequality is actually good for the middle and lower classes, because the promise of great wealth spurs more investing and risk-taking which eventually benefits all of society.
After UNL student Jessica Robertson had her PBR robbed from her at knifepoint, Pabst Brewing Company sent over a rep to replace the stolen beer.
So it's come to this: the animal kingdom's most notorious mortal enemies, locked in an struggle as immemorial as time itself. Who will reign victorious over the half-eaten yogurt container — the dog, or the parrot?
Whitney Houston's husband of 14 years and the presumed downfall of her career, Bobby "King of R&B" Brown, appeared on this morning's episode of Today in his first televised interview since her death. It was a pretty standard and fairly respectable recap of their tumultuous relationship, and he said nice things like, "God probably just needed her for the choir up there in heaven" in reference to her untimely passing.
A 24-year-old UC San Diego engineering student has come forward with an unbelievable story about being forgotten inside a tiny, filthy DEA holding cell for five days following a drug raid.
St. Camille Donatacci of Jersey has heard your prayers, children, and will return to the Real Housewives a martyr, forced to tarnish her golden shoulders by rubbing them against those sullied by Maloofian greed.
