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Harry Potter may have been filmed at Oxford, but students at Hogwarts have it much better than the typical student here. With steeply climbing costs and the recent poor performance of the Rhodes endowment—which translates into a lower stipend—just living in one of the Oxford colleges might bust your budget...
...picture needed to be shown in at least one theater for at least one week to qualify for the special wages paid to actors who are involved with a low-budget film. This is to ensure that producers don't fast-talk eager actors into accepting lower pay for what they are told is a legitimate feature, but is actually a direct-to-video project. Although Zyzzyx's filmmakers had always planned to seek a distributor for a large, domestic release, they first rented out the small Texas theater in order to fulfill the SAG requirements...
...League’s automatic bid has dwindeled down to two. Penn remains the odds-on choice, as it has been all year. The Quakers hold an 8-1 record in league play and their remaining games are either at home, or against teams making up the lower half of the league, or, in the case of Brown next weekend, both. Right behind them in the standings is Yale, although to catch Penn, the Bulldogs must win in Philadelphia next weekend, somthing they have not done since the 1996-97 season. Cornell stands only one-and-a-half game behind...
...celebrity’s life seriously when it’s printed in the National Enquirer alongside “Leading Experts Charge: Lovelorn Astronaut Intended to Leave Victim BURIED ALIVE or Even kill Her.” Books bestow a certain legitimacy on their subject matter, giving lower-rung celebrities the validation they lack. Authordom and celebritydom have always had a thriving relationship. It used to be that the literary stars were part of the glittering social elite. Authors like Truman Capote gained access to a whirlwind life of cocktails, beautiful women, and beautiful men because of their writing...
Studies have shown that blood levels of the hormone melatonin are stifled by contact with bright light boxes. High melatonin levels may be responsible for lower body temperatures, which can cause a person to feel less energetic...