The pitch: An oil company lobbyist (Leonardo DiCaprio) is shaken after his girlfriend, a local meteorologist, breaks up with him over reservations of his contribution to global warming. The split is hastened by a massive hurricane ...READ»
State media masters in Iran are running a Lord of the Rings marathon to keep people occupied. What other movies could work? And which ones to avoid?READ»
J.J. Abrams warps Time at will. Past, present, and future coexist as a kind of fluid that cannot be contained. The camera jumps back and forth in time. Characters age and grow younger again. Time itself accelerates, then slows. ...READ»
We’re in a recession. That’s the phrase many of us have been hearing and reading over the last few weeks. Yep, it’s official. However, this news didn’t really come as a surprise to many Americans. As an HR professional for a ...READ»
In spite of its litany of failed innovations and squandered opportunities, AOL still delivers some of the Internet's best entertainment and services. Its instant messenger and finance site both lead their categories. Here are four more winners.READ»
Mark February 14th, 2007 as the day that destroyed JetBlue. Not because the airline massively screwed up, stranded 1,000 planes, and turned passengers into captives. But because David Neeleman, JetBlue's founder and CEO, was unable ...READ»
On the day after Christmas, the The New York Times published an Op-Ed piece by guest columnist Orlando Patterson, a professor of sociology at Harvard. Patterson's piece discussed the issue of authenticity versus sincerity. ...READ»
There was an article in the New York Times this morning about Mel Gibson's Mayan epic, Apocalypto. The writer, Sharon Waxman, discussed some early praise for the film, alongside Hollywood criticism for the actor/director/producer's ...READ»
Amid all the sturm und drang over the drunken, anti-semetic MELtdown in Malibu last weekend, Disney, which is supposed to distribute Mel Gibson's next movie, "Apocalypto," has been conspicuously silent, according to the L.A. Times. ...READ»
Today's recommended reading, from various sources:
$3 a Gallon? Not at Fuel Banks: A central Minnesota retailer cracks the code on high fuel prices, organizing a futures market-like fuel co-op in which members prepay for fuel, ...READ»
Earlier this week, I was in Chicago for the first-ever M2W national conference on Marketing to Women, and I'm here to tell you, the secret's out -- marketers now know Freud (and Mel Gibson) were on to something: figure out what women ...READ»
Remember when people you knew watched ABC? Yeah, me neither. If there's any doubt as to why the network is in trouble, has dragged down Disney for much of the last seven years and emperiled Michael Eisner's job, just take a look at ...READ»
It's 1993. Tom Hays, a family friend, is holding a 6-inch length of white PVC pipe over my dining room table as we sit down for dinner. "I call it the 'Bobbitt Guard!'" he says. Hays had purchased a truckload of pipe, printed out ...READ»
