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...done a lot of research showing that baby boomers don't want to get old, but that if it's going to happen, they want to emphasize the positive side of aging," says Rachel Bolton, a spokeswoman for Hallmark. But Hallmark missed one tiny yet telling psychological detail: no self-respecting boomer wants to be seen shopping in the "old-people's cards" section. Faced with a choice between regular greeting cards and the 50-plus corner, potential customers avoided the cards as if they were a window display of geriatric diapers. In 2002 the Time of Your Life line...
Posner elaborates in startling detail how U.S. interrogators used drugs--an unnamed "quick-on, quick-off" painkiller and Sodium Pentothal, the old movie truth serum--in a chemical version of reward and punishment to make Zubaydah talk. When questioning stalled, according to Posner, CIA men flew Zubaydah to an Afghan complex fitted out as a fake Saudi jail chamber, where "two Arab-Americans, now with Special Forces," pretending to be Saudi inquisitors, used drugs and threats to scare him into more confessions...
...brilliance and waywardness of Hughes' hectic, high-flying movie career were surely part of what fascinated Scorsese and screenwriter John Logan (who scripted RKO 281, about the making of Citizen Kane). But if Hughes had been a homebody, they would have far less to tell. So The Aviator will detail this rich and randy bachelor's dalliances with Katharine Hepburn (played by Cate Blanchett ), Ava Gardner (Kate Beckinsale) and Harlow (Gwen Stefani of the band No Doubt). The film teems with other Hollywood potentates, from MGM mogul Louis B. Mayer to supercensor Joseph Breen, and promises to be a loving...
...This family outing was meticulously planned. Police say Hanif, Fahmida and Farheen had even made a trial run in the same taxi the previous day, with Ansari. They overlooked just one detail: while Ansari's driver was blown up along with his taxi at Zaveri Bazaar, the Hanifs' cabbie stepped out of his cab for a bite and so lived to provide the police with a sketch of a family that an informant would later identify as the Hanifs...
Several told of Byrne’s arrival outside Davis’ 2021 Commonwealth Ave. apartment the night before Trombly’s arrest, working overtime on a detail sponsored by BC to break up parties and discourage underage drinking...