Indiana Jones. Han Solo. Rick Deckard. They’re some of the most enduring characters in the history of Hollywood and Harrison Ford, who turns 80 on July 13, is responsible for bringing them all to the screen.
Guys, didn’t you hear? Ariel wanted to be a part of our world before it was cool.
When you think “hipster,” what’s the first thing that springs to mind? If it’s a redheaded mermaid, then you’re going to love this. The latest Tumblr meme to circulate is Hipster Ariel, where a bespectacled Ariel exudes hipster-esque anguish at how mainstream everything is.
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It was a goldfish named Freddy. I overfed him. He hung on best he could but in the end, he ate so much he stopped moving. My mother told me the shocking trifecta of news; that this stillness is called death and that everything dies, even people, even people we know. You could say this is how I came to understand death. But it would be more true to say this is how my understanding of death began, with an experience that was decoded and framed by my mother.
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The leak of personal photos of more than 100 female celebrities, nude and otherwise, has tech observers questioning and debating potential vulnerabilities in Apple’s iCloud. But for those of us who don’t intuitively understand technology the questions remain: how could this happen and could it happen to me? Here are some answers:
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An anonymous user posted photos of celebrities like The Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence and model Kate Upton to the site 4Chan.
A growing number of young people are moving beyond the idea that we live in a world where sexuality and gender come in only two forms In Park City, Utah, students are lining up at a local high school to get their locker assignments for the semester. Extracurricular clubs have set up tables to attract new members. It’s only midday, but the Gay-Straight Alliance, a group with outposts at about a quarter of American secondary schools, already has 47 names on its sign-up sheet.
The many dystopian aspects of social media have been well-documented: the flourishing of hate speech and misinformation; propaganda that can incite genocide; the harm it inflicts on body image. This month, after Elon Musk took over Twitter and rapidly changed policies around verification, the platform became flooded with imposters and scams. But there’s another billionaire who thinks he has the answer to curing social media’s woes: Frank McCourt, the CEO of McCourt Global and once-owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
It had been half an hour since Mateo finished singing at a Mexican restaurant in East Los Angeles, and customers were still chatting about him. “We were just saying we should hire him for a party,” says Alfonso Garcia, 29, an airport worker having lunch with his girlfriend. “That was the first time I’ve ever seen anything like that.” Garcia was impressed that Mateo sang old bolero songs — a form of slow-tempo, romantic Latin music — in fluent Spanish with a soft, delicate voice.
The statistics: 187 hours in session during 36 days; 2,000,000 words transcribed onto 7,424 pages; 27 witnesses and a cumulative total of 115,000 spectators in the hearing room; and $1,250,000 in TV costs. The results: much public disgust, some public education, especially on the subject of how Senator Joe McCarthy operates.
Fifteen minutes before the Army-McCarthy hearings ended. Michigan’s Senator Charles Potter made an effort to sum up. He passed a mimeographed statement around the hearing room.
Nicholas Sparks, the author of romantic weepies like “The Notebook,” “A Walk to Remember,” “Dear John” and “The Last Song,” is partnering with Universal Pictures to produce three feature films.
The movies will be based on some of his recent novels, including “The Wish,” an emotional story about first love. During the pandemic alone, Sparks churned out “The Return,” which was published in September 2020 and recently optioned for film, as well as “The Wish,” which came out in September 2021.