“I wonder if people went through the same thing in the mid-1400s as they sat in coffee shops with their pesky paper books? And how long will it take before e-books are accepted as equals with their paper counterparts?”
Tag: 08.03.10
Movies That Matter – It’s Not All Acclaim
“In today’s media-saturated culture, a film that polarizes its audience is often a film on its way to hitdom. When people argue vociferously about a new movie, the talk alone is the best possible promotion. If you haven’t seen the movie, you’re on the outside, wanting to get in on the action.”
Shakespeare Folio Smuggler Sentenced to Eight Years
Raymond Scott, an unemployed 53-year-old with a lavish lifestyle and a lot of debt, took a copy of the First Folio “which was stolen from Durham University in 1988 to the renowned Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC where he asked to have it verified and valued, claiming he had found it in Cuba.”
Mitch Miller, 99, ’50s Pop Maestro and Grandaddy of Karaoke
After beginning his career as a symphonic oboist, he became the most influential record producer of the 1940s and ’50s, working with everyone from Sinatra to Johnny Mathis to Doris Day to Mahalia Jackson. In 1961 he became a star in his own right with the TV program (old-fashioned even in its day) Sing Along With Mitch.