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...According to director Allen Coulter, it wasn't easy. Hollywoodland was produced by Focus Features, a division of GE's Universal Pictures, but rights to the original Superman TV show are held by a competing studio, Warner Bros. (a sister company of this magazine and website). "It was difficult dealing with Warner Bros., because they were extremely protective of their ownership rights," says Coulter, a first-time film director who previously helmed episodes of The Sopranos and Sex and the City...
...That last comment was interpreted by several analysts as a reference to News Corp.'s purchase of MySpace.com, a deal that Viacom was seen as having missed. Though Redstone was equally impatient with Viacom's lagging stock price, which is down 10% this year - compared to sister company CBS, which is up more than 10% - his muscle-flexing didn't immediately cheer investors. Just after the announcement, Merrill Lynch's Jessica Reif Cohen, an influential entertainment industry research analyst , issued a critical report downgrading her rating on Viacom to "neutral" from "buy" because she said "significant uncertainty" remains about...
...first time Barack Obama came home to his father's village of Kogelo in western Kenya, it was as a 26-year-old backpacker exploring his family roots. In 1987, he and half-sister Auma rode a dilapidated old bus from Kisumu, the provincial capital, 60 miles away. As they lurched along dirt roads, a couple of chickens nestled in Obama's lap and mothers passed wet babies back and forth to the two young visitors. Obama spent his time in Kogelo, a small rural village where people grow maize and raise cows, getting to know his grandmother Sarah Hussein...
...sponge-on paints. Cool, huh? You have no idea. According to the box, the nifty gift "provides children with an opportunity to do original planning and thinking while creating expressive art." Original planning? Expressive art?! Well, color me happy! And I thought the boy just liked painting his sister purple...
...DIED. Sister Mary Luke Tobin, 98, indomitably progressive Catholic nun; in Nerinx, Ky. A former ballet teacher, she was the only American woman to participate in the Second Vatican Council. Over the years, she spoke out against the Vietnam War and nuclear stockpiling and for female ordination. She was a close friend of monk and diarist Thomas Merton...