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High school baseball players kill chicks to improve game

Fri, 04/01/2011 - 16:39 by Jaspreet Virk

Two high school baseball players in Texas are in trouble with the law for apparently killing baby chickens as a part of the superstitious ritual to improve their performance in game.

Nintendo brings affordable 3D gaming to the masses

Tue, 03/29/2011 - 13:59 by Yasser Ali

Nintendo has made affordable 3D gaming a reality with the release of its Nintendo 3DS, which allows you to play 3D games without the need of any special glasses.

Zsa Zsa Gabor still doesn't know she has lost her leg

Mon, 01/17/2011 - 23:47 by NeelamGoswami

Hollywood icon Zsa Zsa Gabor has had much of her right leg amputated in a life-saving surgery late last week. But the aging star still does not know she has lost a leg, it has been reported by several online media outlets.

76 Out of 250 Ain't Bad, Netflix!

Sat, 01/01/2011 - 10:00 by Anders Bylund

 A common criticism of Netflix (Nasdaq:NFLX) and its instant streaming ambitions is the quality of the content. You never find current blockbusters there, and how are you supposed to pull in millions of new subscribers with a lackluster blend of indie flicks and long-outdated classics? Better, then, to swing by your local CoinStar (Nasdaq: CSTR)RedBox or Blockbuster location to pick up the latest and greatest content, or pay something like $5 to watch truly fresh movies in digital format through Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) On Demand, Apple(Nasdaq: AAPL) iTunes Video, or your cable company's on-demand features. Surely, Netflix is doomed!

 

1 More Reason to Hate Comcast

Thu, 12/02/2010 - 12:37 by Rick Aristotle ...

 Winning its bid to be a primary content delivery network for Netflix's (Nasdaq: NFLX) streaming service seemed like a godsend for Level 3 Communications(Nasdaq: LVLT) earlier this month.

 

Rosario Dawson wants to join 'Trek' crew

Sat, 11/20/2010 - 22:48 by Prince damin

Hollywood -- Actress Rosario Dawson says she is playing it low-key as she stalks a role in the next "Star Trek" movie.

The sultry star of "Unstoppable" told The Hollywood Reporter she didn't tell co-star Chris Pine or "Trek" director J.J. Abrams she was a longtime Trekkie with the chops to play "one sexy Vulcan" in the next installment of the franchise.

"I'm trying to be cool about it," Dawson said at an event in Los Angeles.

Dawson said not only did she not pester Pine, who will be playing Capt.

Harry Potter Understands QE2

Sat, 11/20/2010 - 11:20 by Nate Weisshaar

 

Economists, politicians, and taxidermists have been all a-twitter over the past couple weeks with talk about Ben Bernanke's latest gambit to kick-start the U.S. economy, QE2. The general consensus is that Ben Bernanke is out of his mind, blindly driving the U.S. economy off a cliff.




Barbara Billingsley, Beaver's mom, dies

Sun, 10/17/2010 - 16:31 by Prince damin

Santa Monica, Calif. -- Barbara Billingsley, who went from playing bad girls in the movies to starring as an ideal mother, June Cleaver, on television died Saturday in California.

Judy Twersky, a spokeswoman for her family, told The New York Times Billingsley, 94, died at her home in Santa Monica from a rheumatoid disease, polymyalgia.

While she became famous for playing a stay-at-home mom, Billingsley, a Los Angeles native, had a 60-year acting career. In the 1940s and 1950s, she appeared in movie roles she summed up as "the woman who was really the heavy but nobody knew it."

College offers zombie course

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 05:42 by Prince damin

Baltimore -- A University of Baltimore professor said he is basing his English 333 curriculum around zombies.

Arnold Blumberg said his class will involve screening 16 zombie film classics, zombie comic books as required reading and the option for students to write a screenplay or draw storyboards for their ideal zombie movies as final projects, The Baltimore Sun reported Tuesday.

"Zombies are one of the most potent, direct reflections of what we're thinking moment to moment in our culture," Blumberg said.

Jonathan Shorr, chair of the university's school of communications design, said the class is part of a new minor in popular culture.

CDC: Smoking in movies reducing, but still too common

Fri, 08/20/2010 - 15:24 by Natalie James

Several studies in the past have suggested that smoking portrayed in the movies encourages adolescent kids to light up.

Scheider slams Franken

Sun, 08/15/2010 - 00:06 by Prince damin

Los Angeles -- U.S. comic actor Rob Schneider says he doesn't think much of fellow "Saturday Night Live" alumnus, Sen. Al Franken, but his complete comment was bleeped.

The Hollywood Reporter said Schneider appeared on HLN's "The Joy Behar Show" Thursday when fill-in host Shaun Robinson asked him to apologize for creating the SNL character, "The Richmeister."

The character hangs out around the Xerox machine and talks about "making copies."
"People are still doing that when they're going to the copy machine," Robinson told Schneider.

While explaining how he created the character, the Reporter said, Schneider mentioned Franken, now a Democratic senator from Minnesota, saying "You, the Senator Al Franken. You know what a (bleep) he is."

Cable firms to offer movie, show iPad apps

Sat, 08/14/2010 - 22:25 by Prince damin

Philadelphia -- More TV shows and movies will hit tablet computers like Apple's iPad as cable companies seek to compete with streaming Web video services, observers say.

Companies including Comcast, Verizon, Dish and Time Warner Cable will soon offer subscribers TV content, including movies, to compete with streaming Web video services like Hulu and Netflix, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.

The Journal said at least seven of the 10 largest U.S. subscription-TV providers are building tablet-computer applications offering TV shows and movies to subscribers for little or no fee.

Video apps from TV networks and online video services such as Netflix Inc. and have been offering more content and features that integrate with home TV service.