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...about the fantasy tournament from her husband and won $100,000. The million-dollar winner, a Minnesota man named Michael Thompson, had been out of work for more than a year before fishing saved him. Now he's the face of fantasy fishing: Thompson says he just saw a cardboard cutout of himself at a boat show...
...theaters that have been equipped with a device that fits over a digital movie projector, converting its image to 3-D. Moviegoers will get disposable Polaroid glasses that look like sunglasses, making the 3-D effect far more engaging than it was with the old-fashioned red-cyan anaglyph cardboard glasses of the 1950s and '60s. That said, the Super Bowl commercial (as well as Monday night's episode of the NBC sitcom Chuck) is designed for TV broadcast and requires a setup that's similar to anaglyph - a newer, higher-quality version called ColorCode. "It doesn't bleed colors...
...from? Wilson blames attempting to host an Oscars party while living in the Pacific Time Zone. "The Oscars come on at five and are over some time around nine, and when you have that many people over, you have to have something to do, so I set up a cardboard podium and invited people to offer up nominees for the worst film of the year." The first Razzie statues were sculpted pieces of foam, and the inaugural Worst Picture award went to Allan Carr's Can't Stop the Music, a musical comedy that fictionalized the story behind the Village...
...Running outside, the editors realized the top breaking news item had come straight to them. The pops were bullets sprayed from Kalashnikov automatic rifles directly into the façade of their offices. The blast was from a fragmentation grenade. Next to the debris was a message scrawled on cardboard: "Stop just broadcasting us. Also broadcast the narco politicians," it said...
Shiri Java hopes not. Last year, the Mauritanian man found work in Jaén, but 2008 is different. At 8 a.m. he has joined the line at the shelter waiting for breakfast. Balancing the piece of cardboard he uses for a bed under his arm, he takes a sweet roll and plastic cup of milky coffee. "I can't go back; there's no work in my town," Java says. "I came here to work. If I lose this season, I'm finished...