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...Harris Interactive and Nielsen//NetRatings, online purchases during the first six weeks of the holiday season have spiked 28 percent over previous years. While last year online shoppers spent $13 billion, this year they have dished out $16.7 billion during the same period, with much of the growth driven by music, video, DVD and jewelry sales...
...credit to HBO's The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (Dec. 5, 9 p.m. E.T.) and its star, Geoffrey Rush (Shine), that this TV biopic sometimes makes you want to know. We meet Sellers as a young radio comic supported by a loyal wife (Emily Watson) and driven to want more by his lovingly pushy stage mum (Miriam Margolyes). After starmaking film work with directors Blake Edwards (John Lithgow) and Stanley Kubrick (Stanley Tucci), he sheds wife No. 1 and lands bombshell bride Britt Ekland (Charlize Theron...
While part of that may reflect an uncertain economy, some appears to be driven by a desire for sanity. "Most people want a season less rushed and less pressured, where they wake up feeling a little more magic," says Betsy Taylor, president of New American Dream, a nonprofit that runs a website called SimplifytheHolidays.org A 2002 survey by Taylor's organization found that 77% of adults polled said they wanted a "more simplified" holiday season. "We went through a period where everything had to be Martha Stewart perfect," Taylor explains, "but now there's a countertrend where people want...
...trips (Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends). The real growth industry in the past few years, however, has been the puffed-up comedy monologue, from the traditional stand-up of comics like Jackie Mason, Bill Maher and Rob Becker (Defending the Caveman) to the more crafted, character-driven monologues of such performers as Lily Tomlin and John Leguizamo...
...Jeunet is a bit of the temperamental “arteest” and finds it hard to speak about his style, which is known for having every frame look like a painting. He explains his process as driven simply by instinct, though he does admit to finding inspiration in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange and Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane, two classics by notoriously perfectionist auteurs...