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...Austrian fashion journalist shoves his flamboyant gayness in the faces and other body parts of unsuspecting Americans, won the weekend with $30.4 million, a bit above most industry expectations for an R-rated provocation whose star was unknown to the mass audience until his Borat became a surprise hit in 2006, earning more than $260 million at theaters worldwide on an $18 million budget. Yet Brüno's box-office decline from Friday to Saturday indicates that the film's brand of outrage was not the sort to please most moviegoers - and that their tut-tutting got around fast...
...asinine, predatory homosexual. Baron Cohen probably figured that if anyone can take a joke, it's gay people. But the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation was not amused. The film "decreases the public's comfort with gay people," GLAAD president Jarrett Barrios said, adding that some scenes "hit the gay community pretty hard and reinforce some damaging, hurtful stereotypes" - an observation that was recirculated in the Twitterverse. Barrios noted that GLAAD staffers had seen an early cut of the film, and "unfortunately, the scenes that we had the biggest concerns about remained in the film," including...
That may seem dismal to anyone waiting for a housing-market rebound, but there is also some cause for cautious optimism in the Trulia analysis, which plumbed listings from brokers, agents, third-party aggregators and multiple-listing services on July 1. Some markets that were hit early and hard in the housing bust have been seeing a declining percentage of markdowns the past few months. In late April, for instance, 33% of houses in Los Angeles had been reduced in price. In early June, that figure inched down to 32%, and in the most recent analysis, it had dropped...
...gives a sense that the market is starting to stabilize in these hardest-hit areas, that sellers are having more reasonable expectations," says Trulia CEO Pete Flint. Though with the percentage of markdowns increasing in most other parts of the country, the deals aren't likely to go away anytime soon...
Another country bristling with freelance hackers happens to be South Korea. Hackers in Seoul have been known to attack U.S. and international networks. Several U.S. servers were hit after the disqualification of a South Korean skater at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics allowed Apollo Ono to win the 1,500-m speedskating event. (See pictures of South Korean video gamers...