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...movie star began by saying he was not in Las Vegas to promote Angels and Demons, the Sony film in which he stars and that is slated for a spring release. No. "I'm here simply because of Betamax regret," he said, referring to the losing video format that Sony infamously backed in the 1970s. "I went VHS - what a fool I was! What a different world this would have been if I had been one of the 600 people who bought Betamax!" (See TIME's Best Inventions...
...jazz is Art Deco on ice. France adored that American musical invention and especially Josephine Baker, the black American singer and dancer who electrified the Paris jazz scene in the 1920s. Her sleek, exotic beauty is on display in Art Deco - influenced posters, paintings, advertisements and fabrics, plus a film loop of her doing an athletic shimmy...
...Where it mostly remains. World War II ended Paris' heyday as the world capital of design, and indeed of the arts generally. Despite a brief renaissance in painting and film in the 1960s, Paris is today a beautiful city with great museums, a glorious past and a lot of visiting New Yorkers...
Lily, for one, is glad that it's the therapy she did try. One of her favorite films used to be James Mangold's 1999 adaptation of Girl, Interrupted, in which Winona Ryder plays a real-life borderline author. When Ryder's character learns she has received a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder, she indignantly asks, "Borderline between what and what?" It's a question that weighed on Lily for years and one that many of us may start asking if borderline diagnoses continue to increase. But today Lily is able to laugh about the film because she knows, finally...
Beyond that, Jobs' Apple has helped right the music, TV and film industries, whose business models had been upended by the promise of free everything on the Internet. His coveted devices gave people a reason--and a way--to pay for media again...