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After 16 years of showbiz party gossip, the Mirror’s daily 3am column is no longer. Instead of running six days a week, the column has now been scheduled for weekly Saturday round-up and is being replaced by a new TV column. Even The Sun’s Dan Wootton, tweeted his condolences over the weekend saying, ‘Genuinely so…
Looking for a little inspiration this afternoon, but don’t actually want to be uplifted? Well, then get a boost from the solemn Teutonic prose of legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog via the genius Tumblr project Herzog Inspirationals. Take comfort and advice from the man for whom getting shot in the gut was NBD as you learn…
I was kind of dreading Neighbors 2. Yes, the first Neighbors was a refreshing surprise. But at first glance, the sequel looked dispensable and derivative. By replicating and gender-swapping the original movie’s premise, Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising seemed like worrisome territory for stereotyping and villainizing young women, ridiculing them for cheap laughs, and subjecting them to dick jokes. But Neighbors 2 turned out to be…
Apple#tbt.Apple sent two engineers to a customer’s house to troubleshoot after he wrote about how iTunes deleted swathes of his music collection, and his story subsequently went viral. The Cupertino, California-based company is now rolling out an update to iTunes in an attempt to solve the issue. James Pinkstone had detailed his frustrating experiences with…
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“It’s all anyone can talk about in the newsroom,” a person close to the situation says about New Yorker veteran’s sudden exit Acclaimed music and culture writer Sasha Frere-Jones has abruptly exited the L.A. Times after less than a year amid allegations of expense-account shenanigans involving a strip club and accepting expensive freebies from sources….
cache hit 299:single/related:bcd62fd312e218d5ea84b1cdc3cb2a80 empty BitTorrent Inc., the company behind the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing protocol, is planning to launch a live streaming TV service with both free and paid options. The company claims it will have better performance than existing services that broadcast live channels over the Internet. Unveiled today, BitTorrent Live is “a multichannel, live, and linear video streaming…
Step back in time two, three, four, or even 10 years and take a look at the development decisions you made then. What do you notice about them? Unless you are a one-in-a-million statistic, you probably look at those past decisions and say to yourself what was I thinking?! Why did I do it that way?! Welcome…
We can quibble about where it stands in the TV canon, but “Sex and the City” has seven Emmys and a suite of Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild awards. It ran 94 episodes through six seasons on a premium cable network. Any reasonable person should concede that “Sex and the City” was an above-average…
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