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...When the Academy did honor famous people - stars who might actually prop up the sinking ratings of what was once the highest-rated TV show except for the Super Bowl - it chose the wrong ones, or the right ones in the wrong films. It's sweet that Angelina Jolie will accompany her beau Brad (Best Actor nominee for Benjamin Button) to the ceremony, but a shame that she was made a Best Actress finalist for her work as the desperate mother in Changeling, a performance so miscalibrated that it yanks the story out of its period whenever...
When asked if he was referring to Palm, Cook said he didn't "want to talk about any specific company." However, Jon Rubinstein, a former Apple star who oversaw the iPod division, went to Palm last summer to spearhead The Pre project, and it's well known in the Valley that the defection rankled Apple...
...even here there is a moment of genius; with the aid of creative costuming, Martinez bends over to appear as both the male and female lower halves of a pair of dancers. Another highlight comes when Aurélia’s head is quite cleverly made the star of a puppet show for...puppets. But the puppets’ appearances extend beyond that vignette and become a little too creepy. Their presence seems random and not as satisfyingly counterintuitive as the Oratorio’s other reversals—like when Aurélia buys an ice cream cone...
...Wire's STRINGER BELL to star as MICHAEL SCOTT'S Office rival; will introduce hilarious heroin subplot...
Cell-phone novels haven't caught on in the U.S.--yet--but we have something analogous: fan fiction, fan-written stories based on fictional worlds and characters borrowed from popular culture--Star Trek, Jane Austen, Twilight, you name it. There's a staggering amount of it online, enough to qualify it as a literary form in its own right. Fanfiction.net hosts 386,490 short stories, novels and novellas in its Harry Potter section alone...