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The Romance Reader: 'One Heart to Win'
McClatchy-Tribune News Service"One Heart to Win" by Johanna Lindsey; Gallery Books (2013), 384 pages, $26 (hardcover) No one provides readers with a better sense of place than veteran author Johanna Lindsey, and this time she immerses you in the American Wild West, specifically...Tags: Blackmail and Extortion, Animals, India, Authors, Human Interest
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Last stand for the printed page
Bob Katzman of Bob Katzman's Magazine Museum in Skokie first called last summer. He really wanted a story, he explained, because, well, he had such a great story to tell: He had 140,000 magazines and newspapers, flags from around the world, buttons that...
Tags: Nelson Algren, News Media, Human Interest, Museums, The New York Times
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Pilots age 80-plus win active living award
Some seniors take up tennis to stay active. Some take up a volunteer job or new hobby. The United Flying Octogenarians? They take off. This flock of 1,200 private and recreational pilots are all 80-plus and older. Most have been airborne for at...
Tags: Fort Lauderdale, Human Interest, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Stranger Than Fiction
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UFO in Logan Square ... or Photoshop?
RedEyeWas it a mysterious ship in the sky over Logan Square, or just a not-so-clever Photoshop? Most likely, the latter. A photo making the rounds Tuesday claims a saucer hovered low over the north side neighborhood before taking off “in a blink&...Tags: UFO Sightings, Stranger Than Fiction
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“Ghost Hunters” returns with new Season 9 episodes June 12
Channel Guide MagazineGhost Hunters Season 9 will pick up again with new episodes starting June 12 at 9pm ET/PT on Syfy (it had been originally slated to return back in April, but was postponed until June). The June 12 episode of Ghost Hunters marks Amy Bruni's first... -
'The Purge': Why Doesn't Everyone Make $3M Movies That Open to $36M?
ReutersJun 10 (TheWrap.com) - With the $3 million "The Purge" taking in $36 million â or 12 times its production budget â in its first three days at the box office, you may be wondering why every studio isn't releasing micro-budgeted thrillers in hopes of...Tags: Ethan Hawke, Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie), Entertainment, Les Miserables (musical), Insidious (movie)
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'The Purge' and the low-budget genre revolution
Back in 2010, shortly after Paramount Pictures’ "Paranormal Activity" became a mega-hit on a micro-budget, executives at the studio decided to launch a label dedicated to making more movies of this kind. InSurge, as it was known, would produce...
Tags: The Purge (movie), Budgets and Budgeting, Google Inc., Ethan Hawke, Vince Vaughn
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Box Office: Cheap Thriller 'The Purge' Scares Up $36M; 'Internship' Gets $18M Hazing
ReutersJun 09 (TheWrap.com) - The micro-budget home-invasion thriller "The Purge" debuted with an estimated $36.3 million at the box office this weekend, putting the brakes on the two-week dominance of the cars-and-criminals sequel"Fast & Furious 6." The...Tags: Woody Harrelson, Now You See Me (movie), Animation (Movie Genre), After Earth (movie), Vince Vaughn
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Kevin Cannon, Zander Cannon on graphic novels ‘Crater XV,’ ‘Heck’
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesA little over a year ago, cartoonists Kevin Cannon and Zander Cannon separately finished their latest graphic novels, “Crater XV” […]... -
A chatty letter from Texas
Liz Smith"In 2008, citizens of Stephenville gained national media attention when dozens of residents reported UFO's the size of a football field, similar to the historic Arizona mass sighting of March 1997." Says Wikipedia. I received a letter from the one and...Tags: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Liz Smith, Gramercy, Karl Rove, CNN (tv network)
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'The Purge' hopes to make a killing for less
If you're a movie studio with money to burn, summer is bonfire time. Almost every week there's a new $200-million-plus production — Warner Bros.' "Man of Steel" and Paramount's "World War Z" are the next budget-busters — and it costs...Tags: Animation (Movie Genre), Budgets and Budgeting, Advertising, Vince Vaughn, Insidious (movie)
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Wild Bunch Distribution Pacts With Blumhouse Intl. (Exclusive)
VarietyParis-based Wild Bunch Distribution has closed an output deal with Jason Blum's Blumhouse Intl. Blumhouse Intl. is the new foreign sales division of Blum's multi-media company Blumhouse Prods -- the shingle behind groundbreaking micro-budget genre...Tags: Immigration, Entertainment, Joe Carnahan, France, Genres
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