New York has lost its edge'

By: dustgeer

There is always a tinge of sentimental pride in my friend Roger’s voice when he recalls the story of how he was humiliatingly mugged as a teenager in his home town of New York. Roger, a paradigm of that species of neurosis-laden, neophytic, obnoxious intellectual that used to inhabit the city in droves, was at the time 13 and hanging out ...

15 days ago

Winslet wins libel pay out

By: jonnalagadda3

Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet accepted 25,000 pounds in libel damages on Tuesday over a British newspaper’s claim that she had lied about her exercise regime. The 34-year-old star had sued over an article that appeared in the ‘Daily Mail’ in January entitled “Should Kate Winslet win an Oscar for the World’s most ...

about 1 month ago

Coco Before Chanel

By: winger52

The name Chanel has long been synonymous with simple elegance; this film tells, who she is and how she came to be, as comic origins stories like to put it. We first see little Gabrielle, or Coco, as she's being dropped off at an orphanage by her widowed father. Dad never even looks back at her, and she seems to realize at that moment that she'...

about 1 month ago