by | Jan 7, 2009 | Culture Music Art
from The Sun UK Every day someone would say, ‘weren’t you in the movies?’ By SIMON ROTHSTEIN FOR the best part of 20 years MICKEY ROURKE has been a washed-up has-been — an alphabet away from the Hollywood A-lister he used to be. Then along came a...
by | Jan 7, 2009 | Literary News
from MediaBistro’s GalleyCat Running Advertisements in Novels What if Madame Bovary sold readers her favorite fabric softener? Last year editor Tom Engelhardt wondered why books never utilized advertising, writing: “The ad, after all, has colonized...
by | Jan 7, 2009 | Culture Music Art
by | Jan 7, 2009 | Culture Music Art
from the NY Daily News Ohio boy, 4, blasts baby sitter with shotgun THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tuesday, January 6th 2009, 12:14 PM JACKSON, Ohio – Police say an angry 4-year-old Ohio boy grabbed a gun from a closet and shot his baby sitter. Eighteen-year-old Nathan...
by | Jan 6, 2009 | Culture Music Art
from the LA Times CULTURE MONSTER Is Portland’s Hindu statue a looted antiquity? 10:00 AM, January 4, 2009 The often abstract debate over how strict museums should be about shunning ancient artworks of questionable origins — lest they wind up owning pieces...
