The Best Oscars Documentary You've Never Seen: Behind the Scenes With Jack...
The members of TVTV (Top Value Television), the 1970s guerrilla video group I cofounded, were among the first to exploit the then brand-new portable video camera. We took them to big events and turned...
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Cheap Devices, Delayed Apologies, Simple Requests and Other Harsh Words We...
Oscars are approaching, but no one wants to give us a gold statue. They are disappointed in us, because we advised them incorrectly, were insensitive, and misrepresented semi-anonymous boyfriends of...
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Condoms, a $12,000 Vacation, and Other Ludicrous Gifts in 9-year-old...
People get into acting for all sorts of reasons. Because they relish exploring the complexities of the human spirit; because they majored in Art History and are otherwise unemployable; because they...
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Newest Drone Base Signals American Military Escalation in Africa
In a letter yesterday, President Obama informed Congress that 40 troops, mostly Air Force logistics specialists, have been sent to Niger to establish a new drone base that will run surveillance in west...
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Time of Trouble: Knocking on the Door of the Jehovah's Witnesses
"Do you want to die?" the man asks me. He stands on the steps leading to my front porch with a stack of literature in his arms. He is wearing a suit that probably looked sharp 15 years ago. Home...
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Pope Linked to Gay Blackmail Scandal
A new report outlining a network of gay Vatican officials might have been behind the Pope's resignation earlier this month, a claim the Vatican neither confirms or denies. Italian newspaper La...
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Homeland Security Took Michael Arrington's Boat Because 'America Is Myspace'
All TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington wanted was a simple life, with a simple boat, so that he might draw out his remaining days in peaceful aquatic seclusion. Chartering retired couples and young...
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Who's Going to Win an Oscar This Year—and Who Deserves to Win One?
Tomorrow night, Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane will take the stage to host the 85th Academy Awards. There are a lot of deserving nominees—and just as many, if not more, undeserving ones. Our own...
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North Korea Tells U.S. Commander His Forces Could 'Meet a Miserable Destruction'
Pak Rim-su, a North Korean delegate to the Korean Demilitarized Zone, warned US General James Thurman on Saturday that a joint American and South Korean military exercise would "meet a miserable...
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Miami No Longer Miserable, Forbes Declares
Forbes released its list of America's Most Miserable Cities this week, with appearances from the usual smattering of former manufacturing towns in the Rust Belt, bankrupt municipalities in central...
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There Are Two Days and 20 Hours Left in the Dennis Hopper Estate Sale
One Kings Lane is currently hosting Dennis Hopper's estate sale, and you have fewer than three days to decide whether or not their price of $15 for a genuine Dennis-Hopper-owned copy of Michael...
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Hilarious Yelp Review Helps Cement Precedent of Not Taking Internet Seriously
"Diana Z.," a former tenant of a building owned by Beal Properties in Chicago, did not have a pleasant experience while living in their building. She was charged late fees on her rent, even though she...
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More Newspaper Layoffs Likely to Follow Journal-Register's Sale
This might sound a little familiar: after filing for bankruptcy for the second time in three years, media company Journal Register Co. is being sold to an affiliate of its current owner. From the...
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No More Working From Home for Yahoo Employees
When Marissa Mayer took over as CEO of Yahoo, she was tasked with turning around a fading Internet giant. Yesterday, she got rid of one of the best perks of a job in the tech world — working from home....
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US Government Allows Work on Insanely Deadly Pathogens to Proceed
Following a brief suspension of research, US scientists can now begin work again on creating even more deadly mutant strains of Avian Flu and other dangerous pathogens. They now simply, before...
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Here's Who's Going To Win the Oscars This Year
For a variety of reasons, the winners in this years Oscars race have seemed clear-cut for weeks. Maybe it's because the nominations themselves this year contained few surprises or because of the...
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This is the Saddest Sentence About Pizza Ever
One of the small and tidy comforts in life is the knowledge that when the latest winter storm sweeps through, trapping you inside your home for days on end, you can at least hunker down with some...
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Vatican Responds to Gay Blackmail Rumors, Embroiled Cardinal Skips Sunday Mass
Before his farewell address this morning, representatives of the Pope in the Vatican strongly condemned yesterday's media coverage of a report by a group of Cardinals that outlined a network of gay...
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Ohio Man Sees Jesus in Bird Droppings on Car Windshield
Christ has finally chosen to reveal himself in the form of bird droppings on an Ohio man's windshield. From ABC's local news bureau: Is it a sign of a possible miracle on the car windshield owned by a...
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Big Banks Going Offshore to Rip People Off
Payday lenders, owners of the ubiquitous check-cashing store and scourge of the working poor, have a new partner when it comes to making sure people pay their outrageous, often illegal interest rates:...
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