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WORCESTER—It was the kind of homecoming heroics usually reserved for Hollywood, but Dominic Randolph’s 52nd pass of the day hit an open Thomas Harrison streaking down the right sideline in perfect stride, and the Holy Cross receiver tiptoed the remaining few feet into the end zone just before a Harvard defender could arrive. The eruption from the home side, and the jubilation of the players on the field, was easily understood—the Randolph-to-Harrison connection with just 19 seconds remaining gave Holy Cross a 31-28 win on Homecoming...
...years just after World War II, Hollywood produced a slew of nostalgic movies using the sing-along music of 40 years before, because the songs summoned a more placid and innocent age. If contemporary filmmakers are digging up the songs of the '60s, maybe it's because they remind us of a bolder, more vibrant time than our own. Kids actually did stuff then. Those who didn't go to war protested it. (The existence of a military draft helped.) They rebelled against their parents' values, political views and choice of recreational drugs - from martinis to marijuana. They marched...
Elberse used the New York Stock Exchange for media conglomerates, as well as the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX), a prediction market in which users buy and trade stock in movies...
Alex Costakis, managing director of the Hollywood Stock Exchange, said that some traders have made near-exact box-office predictions...
...That’s the power of the Hollywood Stock Exchange and prediction market,” he said...