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...uninformed, history's most famous maritime disaster may seem an odd choice for a city looking to put its tragic past behind it, but Belfast stakes a strong claim to the Titanic. After all, it was in the Harland and Wolff shipyard on the city's Queen's Island that the iconic liner was designed, built and launched. And the now rusting shipyard is the proposed site of the "Titanic Quarter," a shiny new residential and business district on the edge of Belfast Lough. The 185-acre development is the biggest regeneration project in Northern Ireland's history and would...
Even some Park City locals welcomed the DGA pact. "I support the arts. I support the writers," said Silver Queen Fine Art gallery owner Timm Hilty. "But if I have to watch reruns of Lost I will need some pharmaceutical help." Hilty is hoping to do strong business this week with like-minded industry folk who see the sign on his gallery door: "Please don't make me watch reruns. End the writers' strike...
...Oscars. He is right: they do need a change. Right now the show is like the drama-club awards in high school. And nobody wanted to hang out with those kids, cuz they were, like, so weird. The Oscars should totally be a popularity contest, like electing Homecoming Queen. Then, finally, some good movies could win Best Picture. Like Norbit. Or Wild Hogs. Or 300. While you're at it, Mr. Corliss, could you jazz up the presidential race? Who cares about all these debates on stuff nobody understands? I think we'd be better...
Before Elvira, before Morticia Addams, there was Maila Nurmi, the pioneering queen of sexy, spooky goth. She developed a following as Vampira, host of a short-lived namesake weekly 1954 TV show in which she introduced horror movies. Nurmi, who had a cameo in the classic Ed Wood film Plan 9 from Outer Space, faded from view, earning money by selling handmade jewelry. In 1989 she lost a $10 million lawsuit alleging that actress Cassandra Peterson, appearing as Elvira, had pirated her character. Nurmi...
...gathering certainly was not short on inspiring talk. Former Irish President Mary Robinson urged attendees to "open ourselves to new ways of thinking," and "to find a way to communicate that is humble." And Jordan's Queen Noor insisted that "there is a fundamental, common humanity that towers above our differences." But there was skepticism about whether the worthy pronouncement could usher in concrete change. Forum participant Mohammed El-Fifi, a spokesman for the Islamic Cultural Center, Spain's largest mosque, summed up a widely held concern: "Talk is talk. Can they transform all this talk into action? That...