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...says movie88.com, which offers streaming video of recent and classic Hollywood movies for about $1, is his brainchild. He's the Chief Technology Officer of Eternity Italy Limited, a "virtual company" registered in the Virgin Islands to avoid paying taxes. "It is not like a traditional business," says Tan. "We don't have an office and an address. As long as we have people and computers...
...memorable hook. “That Ole Sun” spins hokey lyrics into a mid-tempo tune that would have been at home with tambourine accompaniment back in the Summer of Love. “Hide in the Light” follows this retro motif, a contrast of classic sound and cynical modern sensibility...
Cost: Diesel jeans $120. Louis Vuitton Evening Bag $495. For formal occasions, which are quite frequent at Harvard, men must have a tuxedo. Rental price for a tux for one evening ranges from $89.95 to $200 at Classic Tuxedo. But guys in demand need tuxes up to 10 times a semester, so most purchase their own, costing between $200 and $800. Tuxedo dry cleaning...
...forget, the megamovie Lord of the Rings has a history that predates Elijah Wood's hairy toes. Amid the cultural storm of the 1960s, American hippies put down their bongs, turned down the Hendrix and transformed an obscure three-volume fantasy by an Oxford professor into a counterculture classic. Rings-mania swept U.S. campuses, prompting TIME to comment, in the quaint parlance of the age, "The hobbit habit seems to be almost as catching as LSD." New initiates wore buttons declaring "Frodo Lives" or "Go Go Gandalf," while Ringworms, the trilogy's hardcore fans, learned the fictional languages Tolkien invented...
...Among Us), the versatile blond leading lady went by the name Hildegard Neff in Hollywood, where she starred with Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner in 1952's The Snows of Kilimanjaro. DIED. ASTRID LINDGREN, 94, internationally renowned Swedish author of more than 70 children's books, including the now classic Pippi Longstocking; in Stockholm. Lindgren originally conceived the tale of the feisty red-haired heroine as a bedtime story for her seven-year-old daughter. DIED. HAROLD RUSSELL, 88, American WWII veteran who delivered an Oscar-winning performance in the 1946 film The Best Years of Our Lives; in Needham...