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...Royal Tenenbaums Wes Anderson The emphasis at Criterion is on classic foreign films, but the folks there do select U.S. movies, and they do love Anderson--they offer three of his four features. His deadpan comic sense gives his work a retro-European feel that suits the collection. Tenenbaums, his most agreeable offering, boasts a stellar cast and the emotional edginess of a real-life domestic epic. Among the extras is a revealing documentary portrait of Anderson by cinema verité pioneer Albert Maysles...
...Land called--what else?--I Pity the Fool. Turns out he pities the fools so much that he'll help them change their lives, applying his moral "rules for fools" to hapless willing subjects on each episode. Mr. T isn't the only 1980s TV personality using retro-star status to spread his gospel. Here are four more...
Patient zero was Magnolia, a tiny, retro bakery in New York City's West Village, which, in 1996, had some extra batter and made a dozen cupcakes. Soon Magnolia had to institute a limit on cupcakes per customer. Then Sarah Jessica Parker, who lived nearby, put her local phenomenon on Sex and the City, leading tour buses to stop there. At the admittedly delicious Sprinkles in Los Angeles, which Oprah declared her favorite cupcake after getting a box from Barbra Streisand, the line on weekends is more than half an hour long. Which, yes, is longer than it takes...
...already can be used to make other types of books (cookbooks, baby books, poetry books) while the blog-to-book program, temporarily unavailable while 200 selected bloggers test it, makes it public debut in September. We're talking books you can page through and place on coffee tables. How retro...
...broadcast signals invade, they will demand to negotiate the terms of our surrender with Regis. Now the producers of American Idol are hoping he will do for their new Ed Sullivanesque variety competition (one auditioner balances a 300-lb. oven on his face) what he did for another retro summer show called Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. "Every demographic loves him," says Talent executive producer Ken Warwick. "When we bring him onstage, the audience absolutely erupts. He can ask exactly the question that everyone is dying to know and wring as much humor out of it as possible...