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For moviemakers, the luxury trend is nothing less than a godsend. "I don't want to be sacrilegious, but theaters are like churches," says Craig Brewer, writer and director of Hustle & Flow. The ramped-up sound systems and huge screens of a great theater convey the experience in ways a...
DIED. ABE HIRSCHFELD, 85, oddball real estate tycoon and publicity hound, who offered $1 million to Paula Jones to settle her sexual harassment suit against President Bill Clinton in 1998; in New York City. The irascible eccentric amassed his fortune developing semi-enclosed parking garages in Manhattan, and his increasingly...
Just as they reinvented their justifications for going to war in Iraq when no weapons of mass destruction were found, Administration officials have begun to sound more nimble about when the job will be done. When the insurgency came to life in the months after the March 2003 invasion, the...
FOO FIGHTERS, FEATURING NORAH JONES
A Dave Grohl-Norah Jones duet shouldn't really work, and for a few bars this ballad doesn't. Grohl sounds like a punk kid in a tuxedo, unsure if he's ready to get beyond irony. But with Jones' earnestness to guide him, the awkwardness melts away, giving the...