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Does Twitter give us too much insight into a person? -Roberta Teer, Commack, N.Y. If you're tweeting away all day long about mundane things, yes. Ninety percent of what I post on Twitter is not about me at all. For the most part, I'm sharing other people's information. The stuff that I do share are things like when my dog got skunked. I actually just needed to know what to use to get the skunk smell off of the dog. I probably could've Googled it, but I thought it'd be more fun to share...
...were not acting, which profession would you have gone into? -Jasmine Pal, London Before I moved away from Iowa, I was studying biochemical engineering. My goal was to be a genetic engineer...
Blomkamp, who directed three shorts in the Halo video-game universe, was hired by Jackson to make a Halo feature. That project foundered after a few months, and Jackson proposed that Blomkamp make a different feature right away. He resuscitated the Alive in Joburg idea, expanding and improving it into District 9. Jackson even let Blomkamp cast Copley, a high school pal who had never acted, in the lead. Amazingly, Copley carries the film, bringing to a most demanding role the scheming dimness of Harry Dean Stanton mixed with the dogged, unwarranted optimism of Steve Carell. Jackson, says Blomkamp...
...jazz with Roy Eldridge, Coleman Hawkins, Nat Cole and Art Tatum. He cut his first records in 1936, backing blues singer-pianist Georgia White as she belted out Andy Razaf's raunchy threat, "If I can't sell it, I'll keep sittin' on it, before I give it away." A year later, he formed his first trio, with bass player Ernie Newton and rhythm guitarist Jim Atkins (the elder half brother of Chet Atkins, with whom Paul cut the 1995 album Chester and Lester). They went east, and the Les Paul Trio got a New York City club date...
...there were some creature comforts, from bush showers to sundowners, but the experience of walking and camping with camels was a world away from most safaris, and one that unveiled a very different Kenya. Even Mark Twain would have approved...