Books Are Healthy

from Real Clear Politics A Healthy Culture Remains In Dialogue With The Past By Lee Oser I take a “healthy culture” to mean one in which the relationship between books enjoys a certain autonomy. In the minds of readers, books enter conversation with each other in many...

Pokémon Pilfery

from The Wall Street Journal A Pokémon-Card Crime Spree Jolts Japan The birthplace of Pokémon battles a frenzy for characters such as Squirtle the turtle By Miho Inada In the wee hours, thieves hacked through the shutters of CowCow Luca, Hosaka’s store. PHOTO: COWCOW...

Black List Blackout

from Deadline Black List Suspends Studio Memberships, Lowers Scribes’ Fees In Support Of WGA Strike By Dominic Patten WGA, The Black List EXCLUSIVE: The skies are cloudy over LA and still thick over NYC today, but for over 1,000 studio and “struck companies”...

The Iron Sheik Gone

from Deadline The Iron Sheik Dies: Wrestling Star Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri Was 81 By Greg Evans The man born Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri but known to millions of pre wrestling fans as The Iron Sheik has died. He was 81. His death was announced on his official...

Fight For Your Rights

from The Los Angeles Times via MSN Editorial: A Hollywood mess: Writers are striking, and actors may too, over the future of the industry Opinion by The Times Editorial Board Screen Actors Guild members take part in a Writers Guild rally May 22 outside Warner Bros....