The Way We Were | Newsweek Entertainment
newsweek.com 12/17/2008 — If artists depend on angst and unrest to fuel their creative fire, then at least in one sense the 43rd presidency has been a blessing. Eight years is an eternity in the life of a culture, and when we look back on an era, we do it through pinholes: a ...
Movies Are Your Best Entertainment Value
bighollywood.breitbart.com 1/15/2009 — As a professional filmmaker, I have to say I was as stunned as you when I read that the film industry suffered through another lackluster box office year in 2008. The chief reasons for this appear to be the economy and Internet pirates, or possibly ...
For Entertainment Purposes Only
fivethirtyeight.com 2/21/2009 — As some of you may have seen, I have a feature in this week's New York Magazine in which I use a database of the last thirty years of Oscar history to predict the recipient's of this Sunday's Academy Awards. This is fundamentally not all that ...
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sideshow.me.uk 2/23/2009 — Personally, I want DC to have two Senators, too, but in the meantime, the League of Women Voters is saying today is the day to call your Senators and tell them to vote for representation for DC - support S. 160, the DC House Voting Rights Act of 2009. ...
Adult Entertainment Industry Wants a Bailout
foxbusiness.com 1/7/2009 — With the financial industry, auto makers and more getting assistance from the federal government to stay afloat during the recession, the adult industry decided it would try to get something as well. Girls Gone Wild CEO Joe Francis and “Hustler” ...
Needed: Network bailout? - Entertainment News, TV News, Media
variety.com 11/24/2008 — Bad economy slows ad sales It's D-Day for the broadcast networks. They've been living on borrowed time for the better part of two decades, thanks to advertisers willing to toss in more cash each year even as ratings slowly trended ever lower. But with ...
The Wrestler | Movie Review | Entertainment Weekly
ew.com 2/22/2009 — Certain movies about losers have a special, desperately moving appeal. By showing us men whose lives have fallen dramatically short of their dreams, they speak to and for all of us. Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler , with Mickey Rourke as a ...
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Ahmadinejad show 'causes offence'
news.bbc.co.uk 12/25/2008 — Allowing Iran's president to deliver Channel 4's Alternative Christmas Message will cause "international offence", the UK government has said. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was shown telling viewers of the British TV channel "the general will of ...