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Unlike Pixar, its chief rival in CGI animation, DreamWorks usually casts big names to supply the voices for its lead roles and promotes the stars as if they were to be seen, not just heard, on screen; that's one key to its movies' financial success. No question that the names of Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman, Seth Rogen and Jackie Chan helped 2008's Kung Fu Panda reach its $60.2 million opening weekend, or that Reese Witherspoon, Rogen, Paul Rudd, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Colbert lent heft to last spring's Monsters vs Aliens ($59.3 million). Dragon...
...Meanwhile, the hunt is on for a household name to edit the Independent. Those who have been considered include Greg Dyke, the former director-general of the BBC, who hasn't worked in newspapers in 40 years; Jeremy Paxman, the host of the late-night television program Newsnight; and Rod Liddle, the outspoken former editor of BBC Radio 4's Today program, whose candidacy faltered recently amid a controversy over a blog he wrote blaming black men for crime in London. What the hunt for a famous name shows is that Lebedev does not plan to conduct business as usual...
When Harvard nanotechnology researcher Michael P. Stopa went to the polls in 2008, there was only one name on the ballot for the Third District of Massachusetts’s Congressional seat—incumbent Democrat Jim McGovern...
...word to the wise, his name is pronounced "wah-lay," saving him from what could be a very unfortunate rhyme...
...earlier verison of the Mar. 26 post "Wale To Be Third Artist at Yardfest" incorrectly stated that hip-hop artist Wale's name rhymes with Yale. In fact, his name is pronounced...