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Chris Weitz talks about New Moon DVD details
After this weekend’s record-shattering opening, “New Moon” is now officially the biggest film of 2009. In a few months, it will inevitably become one of the biggest DVD releases of 2010. So what can we expect from the “New Moon” DVD?UN Budgets and Follow the Money
UN Budgets and Follow the Money Kenneth Anderson • November 8, 2009 9:01 pm The New York Times reports on budget season at the UN and various battles hotting up. It’s a good piece by Neil MacFarquhar, dated November 7, 2009. As the article says, that fact that it costs the United Nations an average of $2,473 per page to create every single document in its six official languages, while outside contractors complete the same work for around $450, prompts diplomats to accuse the organization of running amok during a global financial crisis.transcript of rob interview from new moon press conference
In The Twilight Saga: New Moon, the second chapter in Stephenie Meyer’s phenomenally successful series, the romance between mortal and vampire reaches an intense and dangerous new level, and reveals a conflict that will haunt Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) as the story continues. Delving into the age-old rivalry between the Quileute tribe and the vampires, which comes to a head with her best friend, Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner), and her love, Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), Bella quickly learns that the supernatural world that she longs to become a part of will put her at more peril than ever before.As the reluctant vampire who has millions of females swooning all over the world, Robert Pattinson has been working non-stop since signing on for the first Twilight film. Having just wrapped filming on The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, the actor also hopes to make Bel Ami and Unbound Captives, before returning for the final chapter, Breaking Dawn, tentatively set to film in the Fall of 2010.At the film’s press day, Robert Pattinson talking about getting used to life with the world watching your every move.Q: What has this past year been like for you?mage in her own - wow power leveling
It was a peasant ritual, sprung up from time immemorial. Arthas suspected that few nowadays truly believed that tossing a branch into a re would really solve their problems; even fewer believed that contact with the dead was possible. He certainly didn’t.Claude Lévi-Strauss, Anthropologist, Dies at 100
By David Henry
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aY43vBHLDM6I
Nov. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Claude Levi-Strauss, the French social anthropologist who influenced generations of intellectuals with his ideas on culture and said the human species would become extinct, has died. He was 100.
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Beauty Quotes and Proverbs Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, From Chaos to CoherenceAs any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.Tara GradyA person is only beautiful, when their own beauty, is reflecting on to others.UnknownThose who look for beauty, find it.Margaret Wolfe HungerfordBeauty is in the eye of the beholder.Mary Baker EddyThe recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony.Marlene Dietrich[The lover says:] How beautiful you are, now that you love me. VallyBeauty lies in the specific looks of a person, rather than the object, because different people feel beauty in differnt things.John ConstableThere is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, -- light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. Remy de GourmontThe ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.John Fitzgerald KennedyI look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty. Virginia WoolfThe beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. Cliff RichardOnce in a lifetime a really beautiful song comes along ... Until it does, I'd like to do this one. ChazalThe beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.Eleanor RooseveltThe future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.Lucille S.Sanjaya - Human Art Project?
Has anyone seen this video? Is it really Sanjaya claiming to be a fake? From TMZ.com: TMZ received a hilarious video of Sanjaya explaining that his "real" name is Bill Vendall, and that he is an art student at the Rhode Island School of Design.The DORF Matrix: Towards a Theory of NPR's Taste in Black Music
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Posted Monday, October 12, 2009 4:07 PM | By Jody Rosen
In August, National Public Radio's flagship music program All Songs Considered published "The Best Music of 2009 (So Far)," a rundown of the top 30 songs and albums of the year-to-date as voted by the show's listeners.
The results of the survey suggest that the All Songs Considered audience has a fuzzy understanding of the word "all." "The Best Music of 2009 (So Far)" consists almost entirely of indie-rockers: acts like The Decemberists, Wilco, Grizzly Bear, Neko Case, Andrew Bird, Regina Spektor, and Animal Collective, the Brooklyn art-rock group that took the top spot in both the best songs and best albums tallies.
Madonna's Message: Pop's Reigning Queen in Her Own Words
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You and Michael were born in the same month, August of 1958. What was it like to witness a kid your age do what he did?I was madly in love with him, totally smitten. He was mind-bogglingly talented.
Brandon Flowers on the Cover of Papermag!
An artist and her muse. Elizabeth Peyton on Brandon Flowers.
The Killers' Brandon Flowers is one of pop music's reigning front men.
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