Archive for the ‘Media’ Category
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
"Indeed, some of the movies mentioned would not be out of place on most people’s all-time top 10 films, never mind heist films. So what is it that makes us so fascinated by them? Is it that we wish we had the balls to do it ourselves? Most of the ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
"Here is a subjective list of the 10 best set-in-San Francisco movies and five lesser known flicks. The paperback "Celluloid San Francisco: The Film Lover's Guide to Bay Area Movie Locations" proved indispensable."The top 10 films shot in San Francisco
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
"The survey, which polled 1,569 office workers across the U.S. and Canada, revealed that U.S. women (91 percent) consider themselves more eco-conscious than their male counterparts (86 percent). Age had a noticeable effect on environmental consciousness too. Of U.S. workers aged 18-34, 27 percent ranked themselves as “extremely” or “very ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
"Depending on how long you’ve been following football, you’ve undoubtedly listened to, read or watched hundreds if not thousands of stories about the world’s game. But stop for a moment and think when was the last time one of those stories actually taught you something you didn’t already know about ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
"Founder of the innovative Travel Bookshop that formed the setting for the movie Notting Hill (which she wrote), Sarah Anderson has written several travel books. At the age of 10, Anderson's arm was amputated as a result of a rare but virulent strain of cancer. Published this month, Halfway to ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
"Note: No new songs enter the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 this week. Just the same ten songs, shuffled in a different order. Pathetic. 1 LEONA LEWIS / BLEEDING LOVE - Mariah didn't last long at the top spot at all, thanks to this soft-rock gem with ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
"To avoid repeating the personal favourites of our de facto jury of artists and music lovers, we've selected 10 must-sees of our own that no one picked as a first choice. In chronological order, here goes: 1. Monterey Pop (1968): D.A. Pennebaker's rough-and-ready document of the groundbreaking 1967 festival ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
"I find this ranking kind of depressing though because you would almost assume films didn’t make money before 1977 (i.e., Star Wars). However, the much more interesting ranking is the inflation-adjusted domestic gross ranking:"Top ten grossing movies of all time « Sophistic Miltonian Serbonian Blog ©
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
"While it’s a pretty safe bet that Macs are starring behind the scenes of Hollywood’s greatest creations, Apple’s presence is strong on the other side of the camera, too, as PowerBooks, iPods, Cinema Displays and iPhones appear alongside Academy Award winners, sultry starlets and B-movie hacks. Over the years, Apple’s ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
"I'm genuinely heartened by the fond remembrances of Charlton Heston this week. That he was a political firebrand, there is no doubt, but whether he was the President of the NRA or its most outspoken critic, it doesn't detract from his impressive career and his stature as one of Hollywood's ...
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