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...iPhone sure isn't revolutionary. It is not an innovation in technology, just packaging. How can a company make more money? Combine more things into one product and charge more. And accessorize, accessorize, accessorize. If I bought all the stuff that Apple makes for the iPod, I would be broke. I guess Jobs is a genius-a marketing genius. Jeff Simon New Haven, Connecticut...
...huge influence on the early history of rap (that's him as DJ Double R on the Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill), but his formative experience as a producer came during a long-ago session with the Bangles. "Just before recording, one of the girls completely broke down," Rubin recalls. "She said, 'I don't think I can do this. I've never played on one of our records before.' Someone made her believe she wasn't good enough to play on her own records. It just made me realize that the music business is lousy at nourishing creative people...
...dictator falls, a country is set free and in the inevitable spasm of liberation, some folks get wistful about the bad old days. It happened in Yugoslavia and to an extent in Iraq, and it broke out like a sweet fever among East Germans after the Wall came down in 1989. They called it Ostalgie--Eastalgia--and in 2003 it suffused the hit film Good Bye, Lenin! But for the imposingly named writer-director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Ostalgie is a sickness in need of treatment. His urgent, exceptional first feature, The Lives of Others, is the ideal antidote...
...performance, collected serious kudos for the early-May-late-December-romance dramedy “Venus.†However, his lack of attendance at the Globes and SAG awards could hurt his chances, as the Academy often rewards those who show up. Whitaker, a character actor who first broke onto the scene in “Fast Times at Ridgmont High,†has been labeled the favorite and, like Mirren, has won every major award so far. But his long and monotonous acceptance speeches and lack of star power could work against him.Best Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin...
...destroyed.I first encountered Albom’s work in high school. A well-intentioned world geography teacher decided to read “Tuesdays with Morrie†out loud to our class in the hopes of imparting wisdom and decreasing the number of knife-fights that broke out each month. I may still have difficulty locating Namibia on a map, but that class imparted something more lasting than cartographical knowledge: a passionate hatred for the insipid, as embodied in the literature of Albom.For those fortunate enough to be unacquainted with his work, Albom has found a niche writing inspirational...