Some UK public libraries will be stuffing books with flyers. “The inserts are put in the book at the first page as you’re handed the book to check it out. They’re going to be inserted right next to the panel with the return date on it, which means that everyone will look at them at least once.”
Tag: 11.04.07
Do I Need To Say It? Don’t Dance! Don’t…
“A dentist was dancing to a song on the radio while drilling a woman’s tooth, and the patient wound up in the hospital when the drill bit snapped off and lodged near her eye, a lawsuit alleges.”
The Phone Salesman As Opera Star
“Today, thanks to the Internet and a red-hot CD, Paul Potts is one of the most famous names in music and on Tuesday, he’ll become even more celebrated, courtesy of his debut appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show.”
Of Book Awards And Successful Writers
“For obvious reasons then, the Quill honor hasn’t quite the same cachet as the National Book Awards which still picks winners the old-fashioned way: The vote of judges who have read the books. Still, the ‘people’s choice’ approach has its appeal.”
All Done
“Who has not wondered, when confronting some oddity of modern art, how the artist decided that it was finished?”
Writers Deal Will Lead The Way For Hollywood
“The battle has broad implications for the way Hollywood does business, since whatever deal is struck by the Writers Guild of America will likely be used as a template for talks with actors and directors, whose contracts expire next June.”
Elvis May Be Alive But His Museum Is Passing On
“Bill Beeny, the 81-year-old proprietor of The Elvis is Alive Museum in Wright City, said he has placed his Elvis memorabilia on eBay in hopes that someone else will take up the cause. His collection includes photographs, books, FBI files, replicas of the Cadillac the King drove and of the casket and gravestone from his 1977 funeral, even a painted Elvis head.”
Got Yer Jazz, Got Yer Classical – Discuss
What in classical music interests jazz people, and what in jazz or pop interests classical people? Alex Ross and Ben Ratliff talk about it.
A First Look At Tutankamun
The face of King Tutankhamun, the boy pharaoh whose tomb was discovered 85 years ago, was unveiled in public for the first time today, the Associated Press reported.
The New War Movies
“Filmmakers, apparently undeterred, continue to take on stories about the metastasizing effects of terrorism and the war. A number of these projects feature major Hollywood names.”