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Krugman: Romney's JPMorgan Stance 'Completely Clueless'

The New York Times | Paul Krugman | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Banking Regulations, JPMorgan Chase, Mitt Romney, Aig, Jimmy Stewart, Jamie Dimon, Paul Krugman, Dodd-Frank Regulations, Financial Regulations, Business News

Sometimes it’s hard to explain why we need strong financial regulation — especially in an era saturated with pro-business, pro-market propaganda. ...

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A Death in Bozeman

Doug Bradley | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Writing Inspiration, Bozeman Montana, Rocky Mountain News, Jimmy Stewart, Harvey Movie, Alzheimer's, Editors, Culture News
Doug Bradley

My wife was glancing at the obituaries in today's newspaper and started to read aloud about the passing of an old, dear friend of mine. And then the goosebumps started and the memories came cascading.

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"Rear Window" Timelapse Will Blow Your Mind

Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Alfred Hitchcock, Video, Rear Window, Viral Video, Hitch, Jeff Desom, Hitchcock, Jimmy Stewart, Rear Window Timelapse, Timelapse Video, Arts News

The only thing creepier than a neighborhood voyeur is a voyeur with Photoshop. Jeff Desom has created an intensely cool single timelapse video from Al...

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Yeti Finger Points To Humans

Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Sasquatch, Cryptozoology, Video, Hidden Monsters, Abominable Snowman, Yeti, Nepal, Unexplained Beasts, Jimmy Stewart, Peter Byrne, Slidepollajax, Bigfoot, Weird News News

An alleged Yeti finger -- after residing in a London museum for decades -- has turned out to be, alas, just a human finger. The finger in question ...

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Bizarre Christmas Movie Trivia: Jim Henson's Ghost, Jimmy Stewart's Censored Kiss & More

Huffington Post | Jordan Zakarin | Posted 02.23.2012

Read More: Miracle on 34th Street, Holidays, Christmas Movies, Home Alone Gangster Scene, A Muppet Christmas Carol, It's a Wonderful Life, Elf, Christmas 2011, Will Ferrell, Christmas, The Santa Clause, Jimmy Stewart, Home Alone, Slidepollajax, Entertainment News

This Christmas, gather your family around the fire... and then bring your TV and place it right next to the burning yule log. You've got a lot of movi...

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'It's A Wonderful Life' Honored On 65th Anniversary

AP | By JOHN ROGERS | Posted 02.23.2012

Read More: It's a Wonderful Life Day, It's a Wonderful Life 65 Anniversary, Video, It's a Wonderful Life, Int's a Wonderful Life Anniversary, Los Angeles It's a Wonderful Life, Jimmy Stewart, Los Angeles News

LOS ANGELES -- George Bailey can rest easy. He really did make a difference in the lives of people, including all 3.8 million in Los Angeles. Bailey,...

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Nursing Angels and an Update to 'Its a Wonderful Life'

Don McNay | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Medical Malpractice, It's a Wonderful Life, Don McNay, Dr Fred Hadley, Joe McNay, Angels, Wealth Without Wall Street, Prostate Cancer, Dr William Rogers, Cincinnati, Urology, Jimmy Stewart, George Bailey, Personal Health, Healthy Living News
Don McNay

I've spent my life chasing fame and glory, trying to achieve great things. I've never been one to stop and smell the roses. This forced me to. I've been stunned by the outpouring of love, prayers and support.

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It's A Wonderful -- Newt?

Paul Stoller | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Political News, Myth, Newt Gingrich 2012, Presidential Politics, Poverty, 2012 Election, It's a Wonderful Life, Elections 2012, Jimmy Stewart, Newt Gingrich, Social Darwinism, Classic American Films, Lionel Barrymore, Politics News
Paul Stoller

If the glut of corporate money continues to poison our political system, it is possible that we could elect Newt "Mr. Potter" Gingrich to the presidency. How would someone who seems to know and care so little about poor people govern our country?

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Jimmy Stewart's Ode to His Dog Beau

Cyrus Saatsaz | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Jimmy Stewart, Beau, Dog, Johnny Carson, Dogs, Video, Entertainment News
Cyrus Saatsaz

The video clip below is from an episode of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Hollywood legend Jimmy Stewart was Carson's guest that evening.

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It's (Still) A Wonderful Life: A Remake

Richard Barrington | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Personal Finance, Banking, Loans, Refinance, Interest Rates, Fdic, Debt, It's a Wonderful Life, Jimmy Stewart, It's a Wonderful Life Remake, Business News
Richard Barrington

With remakes being so popular in Hollywood, and with banks being so much in the news this year, it begs the question: Could this film be adapted for today's banking environment?

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Stars Who Served In World War II

Posted 12.08.2011

Read More: Video, Pearl Harbor, Pearl Harbor Day December 7th, Ronald Reagan, Pearl Harbor Day, Greatest Generations, Mel Brooks, Julia Child, Jimmy Stewart, World War II Veterans, World War II, Veterans, Celebrity News

When the bombs rained down on Pearl Harbor, Americans immediately went to work. In addition to a homefront that saw citizens plant victory gardens, bu...

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Socially-Conscious Banking: End to Foreclosures & Occupy Your Home

Mitchell J. Rabin | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Socially Responsible Investments, Foreclosures, Foreclosure Crisis, Children, Robo-Signing, Mortgage Crisis, Real Estate, Foreclosure Fraud, Muhammad Yunus, Barack Obama, Home Foreclosures, Child Abuse, Subprime Mortgages, Grameen Bank, Values, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Occupy Wall Street, Banking Crisis, Foreclosure Moratorium, Foreclosure, Jimmy Stewart, Mr. Potter, Corporate Greed, Children's Health, Healthcare, Family, Business News
Mitchell J. Rabin

Remove foreclosure as an outcome of non-payment and an entirely fresh vision of borrower-lender relationship is put in place, now as cooperating partners, as in a business deal, because that's really what it is.

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Michael Jackson's "The Immortal Megamix," Plus Chatting With Chris Isaak and Phil Manzanera

Mike Ragogna | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Robert Wyatt, Chrissie Hynde, Roy Orbison, Enrique Bunbury, Eurythmics, Also Lopez Gavilan, Roxy Music, Gorillaz, Buddy Holly, Carlos Santana, Carl Perkins, Chris Isaak, David GIlmour, Paul Thompson, Buena Vista Social Club, Sun Records, Phil Manzanera, The Beatles, Brad Pitt, Stevie Wonder, David Lynch, David Bowie, Jimmy Stewart, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Costello, Frank Zappa, Steve Winwood, Bryan Ferry, Red Dwarf, Johnny Cash, Lucho Brieva, Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, Doctor Who, Elvis Presley, Sam Phillips, Cheech & Chong, Brian Eno, Héroes Del Silencio, Annie Lennox, Video, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

"I've made a lot of records because that's what I do, and I've listened to a lot of records, and I have to tell you the truth--it wouldn't have mattered if The Beatles had recorded "A Hard Day's Night" on Silly Putty. It would have sounded good."

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Movie Review: Blackthorn

Marshall Fine | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Bolivia, Sam Shepard, Stephen Rea, Western, Eduardo Noriega, Padraic Delaney, George Roy Hill, Blackthorn, Pinkerton, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Dominique McElligott, Movies, Sundance Kid, Movie Reviews, Marshall Fine, Butch Cassidy, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Jimmy Stewart, Gabby Hayes, Mateo Gil, Blackthorn Movie Review, Nicolaj Coster-Waldau, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

The cowboy - rugged, stoic and resourceful - will always be a cinematic archetype, though the western has all but disappeared as a commercially popula...

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Hymns, Harrows, Harvests & More: Chatting with John Hiatt, Gillian Welch and Umphrey's McGee's Joel Cummins

Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.02.2011

Read More: Eric Clapton, Bonnie Raitt, Jim Keltner, Alison Krauss, O Brother Where Art Thou, The Lost Boys, Norman Blake, Queen, Hall & Oates, The Blue Sky Boys, John Hiatt, The Stanley Brothers, The Louvin Brothers, Tim O'Brien, Rosanne Cash, The Habit of Being, Joe Clark, Ryan Stasik, Jimmy Stewart, Dave Rawlings, Roger Taylor, Elvis Costello, B.B. King, The Monroe Brothers, Umphrey's Mcgee, The Delmore Brothers, The Jeff Healey Band, T-Bone Burnett, The Artist's Way, Ralph Stanley, The Everly Brothers, Paul Newman, Little Village, Molly O'Brien, Ry Cooder, Brendan Bayliss, Flannery O'Connor, Gillian Welch, Nick Lowe, Mike Miro, Richard Thompson, Jimi Hendrix, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

John Hiatt's new album Dirty Jeans And Mudslide Hymns kicks off with a pretty universally themed song, "Damn This Town." It's true, no matter what town you grow up in, every kid can't wait to get out of it.

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PHOTOS: Who Is The Greatest American Film Actor Ever?

Posted 09.02.2011

Read More: Tom Hanks, Dustin Hoffman, Clint Eastwood, American Actors, Jimmy Stewart, Marlon Brando, Sean Penn, Buster Keaton, John Wayne, Movies, Gregory Peck, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, Robert De Niro, Actors, Entertainment News

The number of American-born all-time greats in the field of writing, painting, and composing is legion, but given the nation's relative inception (con...

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Good Time Charlie: The Sheen of Hollywood's Restored Rogue Archetype

Carl Sferrazza Anthony | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Diamond Lil, The Little Tramp, Lindsay Lohan, America's Sweetheart, Hollywood, Mary Pickford, Mae West, Colin Farrell, Charlie Chaplin, Errol Flynn, Aphrodite, Anna Nicole Smith, John Barrymore, Jimmy Stewart, Richard Burton, Comic Hero, Chris Farley, .Charlie Sheen, Brittany Spears, Dionysus, Entertainment News
Carl Sferrazza Anthony

In repossessing his previously successful persona, Charlie Sheen is now tweaking it into a narrative only Hollywood's long-gone "Rogue" Archetype can ...

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Valentine's Day Special: Top Ten Letter-Writing Movies

Samara O'Shea | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Keanu Reeves, Ryan Gosling, Sandra Bullock, Gerard Butler, Barbara Hershey, Juliet Capulet, Movies, Tom Hanks, Letters, Hilary Swank, Channing Tatum, Bette Midler, Amanda Seyfried, Jimmy Stewart, Rachel McAdams, Valentine's Day, Meg Ryan, Entertainment News
Samara O'Shea

This Valentine's Day, curl up and watch a flick that commemorates the timeless art of putting prose on paper. Here are some top-notch letter-writing movies celebrating love.

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HuffPost Review: Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, Jack Abramoff, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer Movie Review, Morgan Spurlock, Enron, Claude Rains, Alex Gibney, Joseph Bruno, Kenneth Langone, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Eliot Spitzer, Aig, Bush Administration, Toronto Film Festival, Jimmy Stewart, Michael Moore, Roger Stone, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Alex Gibney's film makes the case is that, while Spitzer absolutely did the things he admitted, he was the target of right-wing-powered federal investigations into relatively minor tax infractions.

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Movie Review: Middle Men

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Forster, Kelsey Grammer, Gabriel Macht, James Caan, George Gallo, Daffy Duck, Paypal, Giovanni Ribisi, Middle Men Movie Review, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Kevin Pollak, Rade Serbedzija, Boogie Nights, Luke Wilson, Jimmy Stewart, Paul Thomas Anderson, Internet Porn, Our Gang, Gary Cooper, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Middle Men" wants to be Boogie Nights for the Internet. Two crucial problems: Writer-director George Gallo isn't nearly the storyteller that Paul Thomas Anderson is. And this film stars Luke Wilson.

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How to Do It: An Open Letter to President Obama

Steven G. Brant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tom Hanks, Walt Disney, Bp, Steven Spielberg, Obama, Jimmy Stewart, Gulf Oil Spill, Addicted to Oil, Von Braun, Barack Obama, Politics News
Steven G. Brant

Americans are creative problem-solvers, and I believe the lack of creativity in the government's response to the Gulf oil spill is what's making so many people angry.

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Vanity Fair's Coverage of the White House State Dinner: A Namedropping Guide

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deepak Chopra. David Geffen, Carlos Allen, Katharine Graham, Michael Ovitz, Jane Fonda, Michaele Salahi, Mark Rothko, Leonard Bernstein, Claudette Colbert, Brooke Astor, Anne Cox Chambers, Jeffrey Immelt, Indra Nooyi, Ted Turner, Jennifer Granholm, Bob Colacello, Mort Zuckerman, Julie Harris, Peter Jennings, David McCullough, Steven Spielberg, John Kerry, Bob Casey, Nancy Pelosi, Katie Couric, Edward Albee, William Paley, Jimmy Stewart, Richard Trumka, Richard Lugar, Saul Bellow, Colin Powell, Bobby Jindal, Robin Roberts, Diana Vreeland, Vanity Fair, George Balanchine, Tareq and Michaele Salahi, Washington DC, Barbra Streisand, Tennessee Williams, State Dinner, Brian Williams, Robert Lowell, Arthur Miller, David Rockefeller, Tareq Salahi, Oprah Winfrey, Charles Lindbergh, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Salahis, Judith Jamison, Sanjay Gupta, Media News
Danny Groner

The author was obviously trying to put the 2009 dinner in context with how previous years' affairs went. But he may have gotten a bit carried away in including quite so many characters, even as afterthoughts.

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Wall Street and the US Government: Where's Jimmy Stewart When We Need Him?

Steven G. Brant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Tarp, Wall Street Bailout, Barney Frank, Maureen Dowd, Chris Dodd, Dylan Ratigan, Frank Rich, Chris Matthews, Barack Obama, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street, Glenn Greenwald, Henry Paulson, Jimmy Carter, Timothy Geithner, Jimmy Stewart, Wall Street Bonuses, Ralph Nader, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Politics News
Steven G. Brant

With all the interest in the damage Wall Street has done, activity that's the opposite should draw some attention. But coverage of the corporate social responsibility movement is not yet an idea whose time has come.

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Four Must-See Christmas Movies of the 1940s

Kathryn McGarr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cary Grant, Moss Hart, You've Got Mail, The Shop Around the Corner, Christmas in Connecticut, George S. Kaufman, Nora Ephron, It's a Wonderful Life, The Man Hwo Came to Dinner, White Christmas, Jimmy Stewart, The Bishop's Wife, Christmas Movies, Entertainment News
Kathryn McGarr

The Bishop's Wife is the best Christmas movie ever made because it's the only one with Cary Grant. As a dapper angel at Christmastime, Grant does that marvelous, unattainable Edward Cullen thing, except not as a vampire.

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Summer Reading on a Sunny (Doris) Day: David Kaufman's The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door Part I

Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James Garner, Louis Jordan, James Cagney, Terry Melcher, Clark Gable, Norman Jewison, Love Me or Leave Me, David Kaufman, Rock Hudson, Hollywood, Martin Melcher, Pillow Talk, Judy Garland, Ethel Barrymore, Alfred Hitchcock, David Niven, Doris Day, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Jack Lemmon, Films, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Jimmy Stewart, Patrick O'Neal, Biographies, Michael Curtiz Ethel Barrymore, Thelma Ritter, Charles Ludlam, Storm Warning, Anita O'Day, Ella Fitzgerald, Spring Byington, Calamity Jance, Animal Rights, Kitty Foyle, Paul McCartney, Helen Forrest, Ginger Rogers, Janis Paige, Peggy Lee, The Great American Songbook, Oprah Winfrey, A Streetcar Named Desire, Linda Eastman McCartney, Table, Entertainment News
Penelope Andrew

There are certain actors we encounter as children having grown up on classic film who have a profound impact on us, and no one knows this better than David Kaufman, author of Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door.

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