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Camping with Qaddafi
Spending quality time with the Libyan dictator is in the realm of living dangerously-Risky Business. Radan Popovic, 45, sits in the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in West Hollywood, a cup of tea in one hand, the other running through his head of thick, black hair. Hes your average, mild-mannered, former Eastern-bloc cinematographer living the Hollywood ...
Skinbook: Facebook for 21st Century Nudists
The rules for Skinbook are clear: No pornographic images or headless torso shots. Don't leave sleazy comments under people's photos. Boot out any “creeps and voyeurs," as site executives call them, who manage to make it past the vetting process for new members. Skinbook.ning.com is a U.K.-based website that proudly touts itself as the Net's only ...
How Computers Know What We Want Before We Do
Here's an experiment: try thinking of a song not as a song but as a collection of distinct musical attributes. Maybe the song has political lyrics. That would be an attribute. Maybe it has a police siren in it, or a prominent banjo part, or paired vocal harmony, or punk roots. Any one of those would ...
Actor Dennis Hopper Dies at 74
Hollywood actor Dennis Hopper, best known for directing and starring in the 1969 cult classic “Easy Rider," died on Saturday at his home in Venice, California, from complications of prostate cancer. Hopper, the maverick director and costar of the landmark 1969 counterculture film classic “Easy Rider" whose drug- and alcohol-fueled reputation as a Hollywood bad boy ...
Chopin: 1 Composer, 2 Centuries, Many Picks
The classical music world, embarked on a bicentennial tour through the Romantic era, is just now preoccupied with the melancholic master Frdric Chopin, born near Warsaw in 1810. Beloved by pianists for his abundant legacy, he is cherished by countless others for the teeming worlds of color and emotion he conjured. The classical music critics of ...
Harry Gregson-Williams Works for Ogres and Princes Alike
It's the life of a film composer: One week you're in a fairy-tale world populated by green ogres and talking donkeys, the next week you're dashing around 6th century Persia with a spunky princess and a magical dagger. “Had the tasks been similar, it would be a very dull life," says Harry Gregson-Williams, composer of both ...
Beethoven May Not Have Died of Lead Poisoning, After All
Scientists began speculating about what really killed Ludwig van Beethoven almost as soon as he was buried in 1827. He had complained of a wretched existence, with a long list of symptoms: abdominal pain, digestive trouble, colic, chronic bronchitis, foul body odors and extremely bad breath. And of course there was the hearing problem. Thirteen years ...
Musicians Differ in Responses to Arizona's New Immigration Law
For the singer Larry Hernandez, the 2010 Billboard Latin Music Awards should have been a moment of pure celebration. But when it came time for Mr. Hernandez to accept his award as new artist of the year, he got drawn into politics, prefacing his remarks with a condemnation of the tough new immigration law that his ...
The 2010 Airstream International RV: Nature, Meet Man-Made Wonder
Like a lot of Angelenos, I like to ditch the city every once in a while and experience nature. Briefly. My last escape involved 1,000 or so Cub Scouts, a battered, borrowed tent and two days of port-a-potties and pump-station water. This time around I was looking to rough it, but rough it “lite," during a ...
Apple-Google Fight is Expected over Future of TV
Another battle is brewing between Apple Inc. and Google Inc., and this time it may come into your living room. One week after Google announced its bid for the hearts and eyes of America's TV viewers with Internet-based Google TV, its Silicon Valley rival is reportedly poised to overhaul its own offering, Apple TV. The stakes ...
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