The Phantom Menace: Dreadful, Calamity, or Just Pretty Bad?
Critics hate the 3D reissue of The Phantom Menace. Let’s enjoy!
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Steve Jobs’ FBI File: Distortion, Drugs and Funny Fax Forms
Even the Feds knew about the famous Steve Jobs “reality distortion field.”
‘On The Whole, I’d Rather Be Eating 337 Chicken Wings in Philadelphia’
Super-glutton Takeru Kobayashi downed 337 chicken wings in 30 minutes at Wing Bowl 20. And lived to talk about it.
Which Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model is Now a Big-Haired $350 Million Mogul?
It’s not Heidi Klum and it’s not Christie Brinkley. But you’re getting warmer.
The World’s Most Expensive Painting
The world’s most expensive painting is The Card Players, by Paul Cézanne. It sold in late 2011 for an estimated $250 million.
Oscar Nominee Michel Hazanavicius Talks About Uggie the Dog
In which a blog post about a celebrated French director is hijacked by a cute li’l Jack Russell terrier.
Literal Titles for Dr. Seuss Books
Good old Dr. Seuss did tend to write “message” books in his later years. What if he’d put the messages right on the cover?
Is God Necessary?
Writer (and atheist) Kenan Malik asks a roomful of theology students: “Who Needs God?”
The Charles Dickens – Amy Winehouse Connection
What do they have in common? Crazy old Camden Town.
60 Years as The Queen
Queen Elizabeth II was in Kenya when she found out her father King George VI had died. That was 60 years ago, and 2012 brings her Diamond Jubilee.