“In May, Us Weekly editor Janice Min told the New York Times, ‘When you look at the great celebrity dramas of the last few years, you have Team Aniston, Team Jolie, Team Heidi and Team Lauren. And now we have Team Hillary and Team Barack.'” With a historic election and major issues at stake, it wasn’t so fun to gawk at Amy Winehouse anymore.
Author: Matthew Westphal
How Is Tom Cruise Like Wall Street?
“But note a curious fact about his career: It maps perfectly onto the 25-year bull market in stocks that, like Cruise, is starting to show its age. Nascent in the early ’80s, emergent in 1983, dominant in the ’90s, suspiciously resilient in the ’00s, and, starting in 2005, increasingly prone to alarming meltdowns. For both Cruise and the Dow Jones, more and more leverage is required for less and less performance.”
A Day In The Life Of A Hard-Workin’ Ballet Man
Royal Ballet star Edward Watson describes his typical day at work, from the early morning gym session to class and rehearsals, juggling more than half a dozen roles, living on sweets and McDonald’s, and getting teased by colleagues for his “redhead moments” – “Oh God! Look at how Ed’s acting this out. Has he killed someone before?”
Last Of A Dying Breed: Advertisers
“Yes, traditional media are in the red, in large part because no one’s buying advertising. Except the companies that are. So who’s taking out print ads and making commercials, even now? Who’s left in lean times to sponsor what’s left of television, magazines and newspapers?”
New York, City Of Light
Holland Cotter: “The light on the buildings outside the windows changes, the all-night lights of the city, the shadow of clouds on the river, the light through a rose window, the light through a sculpture, the light in Times Square, where one year will soon be seen out, while another, with a sizzle of light, brought in.”
Yet Another Way The Internet Is Killing The Book Business
“In other words, it’s all the fault of people like myself, who increasingly use the Internet both to buy books and later, after their value to us is gone, sell them… [it’s] about the rise of a worldwide network of amateurs who sell books from their homes or, if they’re lazy like me, in partnership with an Internet dealer who does all the work for a chunk of the proceeds.”
Hillary Waugh, 88, Pioneer Of Police Procedural Novel
“Mr. Waugh started out writing private-detective mysteries before he tried his hand at writing a novel that focused on the details of an unfolding police investigation.” Among his novels were Last Seen Wearing, The Night It Rained, The Con Game, 30 Manhattan East and Finish Me Off.
Pakistan’s First Girl Group
Zeb and Haniya, a pair of US-educated sisters, are getting a lot of attention as the first all-female band in the troubled Muslim nation. Perhaps more noteworthy is the fact that the two young women are Pashtun – the conservative ethnic group that dominates the Taliban.
Leaving Violins Behind On Public Transportation – It Happens Everywhere
Michael Kellet, a 42-year-old British violinist visiting Chennai (Madras) for a music festival, left two instruments behind on the local mass transit system after falling asleep on a train.
Jazzman Page Cavanaugh, 86
“Page Cavanaugh, a veteran pianist-singer whose trio was a popular nightclub and recording group in the late 1940s and ’50s and who became one of Southern California’s most enduring lounge jazz artists, has died. He was 86.”