“Executives say they found a strikingly consistent pattern in the pace at which people binge.”
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Peter O’Toole, 81, Star of ‘Lawrence of Arabia’
“He was a phenomenon and, night to night, moment to moment, you might shift your opinion as he zigzagged in the crosswinds of his own turbulent imagination. He coincided with the method, or realism in acting, but he ignored it.”
Fixing The National Portrait Gallery
“Early in her career, [Alice Instone] wrote to Cherie Blair, explaining her mission to give women the painterly attention lavished on men. She was thinking of women of influence – the National Portrait Gallery, she points out, is overcrowded with paintings of famous men.”
How To Make Money On Broadway
Go into Manhattan real estate, of course.
Youth Culture Plus Creativity Equals Lots Of Music
“In just six years, around 30 homegrown contemporary music festivals have sprung up across India, covering folk to electronica, jazz to indie.”
Honey Waldman, 87, Theatre Restorer And Producer
“Ms. Waldman and Mr. Becker transformed the former German Exchange Bank building, a cast-iron landmark in Manhattan, into the Bouwerie Lane Theater, a 140-seat Off Off Broadway stage at the Bowery and Bond Street that kept the Dutch spelling.”
Can Creative Fashion Help You Avoid Face-Identification Tech?
“Since facial-recognition algorithms rely on the identification and spatial relationship of key facial features, like symmetry and tonal contours, one can block detection by creating an ‘anti-face.'”
By The Power Of Google, Spam Poems Will End
“It was the Penguin 2.1, released in October, that sent spammers to the bitter edge; now they can’t repent fast enough for their spammy sins.”
Bond, James Bond, Impotent Drunk
“Doctors analysing the Ian Fleming novels show James Bond polishes off the equivalent of one and a half bottles of wine every day. They say he is not the man to trust to deactivate a nuclear bomb.”
Apparently, NPR Listeners Like To Read About Sex (On Mobile Devices)
“While people browsing, say, biographies or science books were happy to do it from their desktops, a disproportionate number of you were looking up the sexy sexy books on mobile. Didn’t want the boss looking over your shoulder, huh?”