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...pubished a book called How to Be Famous, only sees positives in the 2010 carpet. More media means more words. More photographers means more images. "The red carpet is definitely different and has lost the classic romance in a sense," he says. "Did it lose its mystique? No, I think it's been revolutionized, like Hollywood has always done...
...expected to take a dip Sunday night - at least Hollywood hopes it does, since the industry has labored frantically to jack up the Oscar ceremony's sagging ratings. The show's producers have packed the on-camera guest list with young stars from The Twilight Saga and So You Think You Can Dance. More important, the Motion Picture Academy expanded its list of Big Picture nominees from five to 10, hoping that more hits would be included, since the highest-rated Oscar shows in the past 15 years were when the big prizes went to the megahits Titanic...
...when Army pilot Paul Tibbets dropped an atomic bomb from the Enola Gay on Hiroshima. For Hanks, the U.S. armed forces' island-hopping - Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, among other bloody military engagements - was just a blur on a map that seemed impossibly exotic and faraway. "Strange to think that I've become the World War II guy," Hanks laughs. "All my friends had dads who were on the U.S.S. Nimitz or U.S.S. Enterprise or U.S.S. Coral Sea. They lived in naval housing, and everybody who was like a primary caregiver to me talked about the war. But when...
...reason we're losing natural capital is because it's free," says Ed Barbier, noting that we often think of conservation in terms of its costs rather than its value, and regard manufactured goods in terms of value rather than their environmental costs. Says Barbier: "When we incorporate the services of ecosystems we may start to think: maybe the costs of maintaining [the integrity of] ecosystems aren't that high compared with the benefits. Maybe the gains we get out of converting nature into commodities are not so large in comparison. The point is that we don't see that...
...Navy last month after a 20-year career and visits to some 200 ships. Morale aboard the Churchill, he said, was the worst he ever saw - even on the eve of war with Saddam Hussein, when the Churchill launched Tomahawk missiles from the eastern Mediterranean toward Iraq. "I think the lady is mentally unbalanced," Kaprow said. "I don't believe she ever should have had command." (See more about the rise and fall of Holly Graf...