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Despite her Hollywood pedigree, Isabella Rossellini has sought decidedly novel roles. Famous for acting turns in Blue Velvet, Cousins and 30 Rock (where she has played Jack Donaghy's Big Beef and Cheddar-loving ex-wife), Rosellini's latest role has her appearing in homemade costumes-as an expiring bee, an orgasmic snail or an angst-ridden limpet...
...form of humor that doesn't assuage but assaults. If we can get it on The Daily Show, which truly does observe and report, we ought to see it once in a while on the big screen. Comedies of the '70s turned the trick, but the people running the Hollywood laugh factory don't even try. Why'd you stop, malefactors...
...Angeles and New York. Their findings are somewhat surprising: The buzziest neighborhoods aren't blossoming ones like the Lower East Side or Los Feliz, but rather the stalwarts on every basic tourist itinerary: Times Square, Broadway, or Rockefeller Center in the Big Apple, and Beverly Hills and Hollywood in L.A. These locales stay on top because of infrastructural advantages (time-tested venues) and name recognition (or what the authors call "place-branding"). They also benefit from the media's imprimatur. Each time the press shows up to Lincoln Center or the Sunset Strip - and hacks gravitate toward people and places...
...media's role in determining what's buzz-worthy: "The images of particular places being displayed time and time again through major information channels indirectly sell a certain image of a place ... the recording of mainstream cultural hubs (Times Square, Hollywood) resonates more with a larger market and thus are a safer bet than the unique and infrequent events happening in more localized and unrecognized spots in the city...
...Clint Eastwood films and Hollywood action flicks, Prabhakaran is considered to have practically invented suicide bombers. His "Black Tiger" bombers - almost half of them women - have killed thousands, including former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President Ranasunghe Premadasa. The elite Black Sea Tigers perform underwater suicide bombings to sink enemy ships. (Read "A Brief History of the Tamil Tigers...