Han Solo, Disco Dancer
The new Kinect Star Wars video game includes a Galactic Dance Off feature. Now we can see Han Solo do things he was never meant to do.
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Rough Year for French Intellectuals in New York City Hotels
Last May it was Dominique Strauss-Kahn at the Sofitel. Now an esteemed French scholar has passed at the Michelangelo.
Rick Perry to Brits: “We Don’t Need Your Limey Climate Science”
The British goverment spent its own money to educate Texas conservatives about climate change science, and Rick Perry is tetchy about it.
Neil deGrasse Tyson Changed the Ending to ‘Titanic’
Astrophysicist and chatterbox Neil Degrasse Tyson says he got director James Cameron to change the ending of Titanic.
Herb Ritts Photos in ‘L.A. Style’ Exhibit
A new exhibit at the J. Paul Getty Museum provides photographs from Herb Ritts, known for his black and white nudes and celebrity portraits from the 1980s and ’90s.
Is Adele Singing the Next James Bond Theme Song?
Bond fans are reading the tea leaves, as always.
Murray Lender: Obituary of the Day
The Big Schmear of frozen bagels has died at age 81.
Prowling Around Keats and ‘To Autumn’
Poetry lovers from Aberystwyth University are hot on the historical trail of John Keats’s poem “To Autumn.”
Dan Clowes: ‘I’m Always Horrified By How Deeply Personal It Is’
Daniel Clowes talks to The Times about the inner worlds of the cartoonist.
I.K. Kim’s $117,000 One-Foot Miss
Golfer I.K. Kim missed a one-foot putt yesterday and lost the Kraft Nabisco Championship.
Mini-Landslide for Aung San Suu Kyi’s Party
The opposition party of “Mother Suu” claimed at least 43 of the 44 available seats in Parliament.
George Lucas Has Finished His Own Version of ‘Casablanca’
Rick’s Cafe becomes Rick’s Cantina in George Lucas’s new reissue of the Hollywood classic.
No Joke: Jeremy Lin Needs Knee Surgery
Lin-sanity is over! The left lin-niscus needs lin-throscopic surgery.
Aung San Suu Kyi, Member of Parliament?
She’s been elected, say reports. If the vote holds up, it will be an amazing turn of events.
Al Gore is 64 and May Be Tired of Being Right
He was right about the Internet and he was right about climate change. What will he be right about next?
Peter Dinklage Does Not Play Leprechauns
The Game of Thrones star will play a lot of things, but never “the cutesiness of little people.”
Ernest Hemingway Had Swell Handwriting
The manly old scribe had clean, well-lighted script.
Just a Nice Photo: Earl Scruggs
Banjo great Earl Scruggs was still going strong in 2007.
For $3000, You Can Be Buried in Bacon
Or a reasonable facsimile thereof.
Don’t Mess With ‘Foggy Mountain Breakdown’
Earl Scruggs invented banjo pickin’ as we know it today.