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...everything old is new again? In Hollywood, it always has been. In the dream factory's prime, when the major companies cranked out 40 to 50 movies a year and there were no TV or video markets to extend a movie's shelf life, studios briskly recycled many of their properties. RKO filmed Raymond Chandler's novel Farewell, My Lovely as an episode of the low-budget Falcon series in 1942 and then remade it as an A picture (Murder, My Sweet) two years later. In predigital days, directors like Cecil B. DeMille, Leo McCarey and Alfred Hitchcock didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Once More, With Feeling | 5/9/2005 | See Source »

...sociology professor at Rutgers University. "How are they going to spend the second half of their life? They know they're going to have lots of healthy years, so I think it's a period of making choices to live out one's dreams that got put on the shelf during younger years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Midlife Crisis? Bring It On! | 5/8/2005 | See Source »

...thing about it. I Summon You involves a guy, a girl and a long drive. It's played at a wistful but assured mid-tempo on guitar, bass, drums and keyboards. The chorus goes, "Aww no, where are you tonight?" If your record collection takes up more than a shelf, you already own a dozen variations of this song--and you'll need this one too. It sounds old and feels new, and it's a reminder that in the right hands the most familiar things in rock 'n' roll--three chords, four instruments and an aching heart--still have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Minimalism and Melody | 5/8/2005 | See Source »

...says. In their spare time, they went out to local clubs to find strippers and started their own business. Eventually, the men committed full-time and rented an office. They bought out Shamrock, one of the oldest stripping agencies, and a slew of smaller ones with names like Top Shelf and Best Buns of Boston...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What Her Skin Doesn’t Show | 5/5/2005 | See Source »

...attended Campus Life Committee (CLC) event “Havana on the Harbor,” Harvard’s Undergraduate Council (UC) is in the red for a near-five-figure sum. But although the negotiation fees were unavoidable expenses as the UC sought to secure a top-shelf act, Havana on the Harbor was an unmitigated waste of student money. The UC, and especially the CLC, must eschew overly risky endeavors as they attempt to provide Harvard students with alternative social events...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Hapless on the Harbor | 5/2/2005 | See Source »

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