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...Golden Globes is part awards ceremony, all party, and the HFPA members have always been smart about nominating the kind of megastar that they need to have access to as interview subjects. So on Jan. 13, 8 p.m. Eastern time on NBC, you're likely to see more celebrities than you can shake an autograph book or a fist at: George Clooney (Michael Clayton), Johnny Deep (Sweeney Todd), Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts (both for Charlie Wilson's War), Jodie Foster (The Brave One) and John Travolta (Hairspray). Angelina Jolie couldn't attract paying customers to A Mighty Heart...
...They're Web-Friendly. If anyone loves lists more than the mainstream media do, it's the non-mainstream media. A Google blog search for "Top 10 list" returns rankings of "ways investing is like sex," "hottest smart girls in Hollywood" and "reasons why you should not stop posting Top 10 lists," from Cornwallseo.com a website about maximizing website traffic. Lists are inherently bloggy. They're bite-size, they're opinionated, and they're a guaranteed spur to conversation, which is to say argument. But hey, clicks are clicks...
...Board, an issue which only concerns a small percentage of the student body. The Willey-Snow campaign ran on bringing cable TV to all the dorms, increasing shuttles, and reinstating party grants, which sound great, but so do free personal Zambonis. Unfortunately, we’re too smart for promises of free ice cream and water fountains filled with Dr. Pepper to guarantee a landslide. Finally, Martel-Zimmermann ran on the only truly exciting idea: a UC Standing Army. But since people still come up to me in the dining hall and ask if her running mate is a real...
Sitting before students sprawled on couches and the floor of a Quincy dorm who snacked on Dunkin Donuts Munchkins and flipped through old copies of H Bomb, Wasserman introduced the magazine as a “great combination of dirty and smart.” She described the content “pretty all encompassing” with topics including science, medicine, and art. Slated for February were pieces about widow burning, sex in Classical societies, and a profile of a porn star...
...quite a precocious toddler. According to his mother, he became a bibliophile at the age of two, frequently going to bed with books under his pillow. Clearly it paid off, and today Morgan is a true Renaissance man. “You never know how smart your child is, but most people who meet him say he’s the most intelligent person they’ve ever met,” says his mother, Rebecca S. Morgan. A rare breed at Harvard, he can serenade you on the piano, make a short film about Beanie Babies, and write...