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The big difference between Friendster and thefacebook.com, though, was that Friendster was essentially a dating network—albeit a more socially acceptable one than most. There was that little white lie that was implicit in its warm ’n’ fuzzy title, that this was about...
India's commercial-film factories have a creaky tradition of taking the premises of Hollywood blockbusters?Ghost, Reservoir Dogs and Species?and twisting them into virtually interchangeable, all-singing-all-dancing musicals. In the past, Shakespeare might have been just another vein of material. But in Maqbool, Bhardwaj has jettisoned...
Elizabeth Biondi wants to be a matchmaker. After a devastating breakup with a boyfriend last summer, the Detroit social worker decided to channel her romantic energy into something constructive. She had always enjoyed setting friends up on dates--why not strangers? So late last month Biondi, 25, hopped on a...
If chicks have chick lit, what do guys have? There's a clever answer out there--which unfortunately is just the other side of printable in a family magazine--but it is a serious question. So-called chick-lit authors like Helen Fielding and Candace Bushnell are writing smart, incisive...
Of course, Bridget Jones isn't the only flavor of chick lit around. Though it's non-fiction, Harry Stein's The Girl Watchers Club (HarperCollins; 315 pages) takes its cues from Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and Rebecca Wells' Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: it...