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Once Upon A Time: Silly Is For Survivors

Olivia Rosewood | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Adversity, Laughter, Shakespeare, Humor, Children's Books, Children, India, Titanic, James Cameron, Happiness, Living News
Olivia Rosewood

Could it be that some parents deprive their children of silly stories mistakenly believing that silly is counterproductive? Could they believe that the world is a harsh place with no room for laughter and goofiness?

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Leo and Kate: They Didn't Go Down With The Ship

John Farr | Posted 10.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The Aviator, Kate Winslet, Patrick Wilson, Titanic, Sense and Sensibility, Martin Scorsese, Best Movies by Farr, Infernal Affairs, Robert DeNiro, Ellen Barkin, Todd Field, Ang Lee, Gangs of New York, Jackie Earle Haley, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Jennifer Connelly, The Departed, James Cameron, Revolutionary Road, Catch Me if You Can, Johnny Depp, Leonardo Dicaprio, Sam Mendes, Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Entertainment News
John Farr

Here's hoping Leo and Kate do many more films together. But for now, let's celebrate their careers to-date with a sampling of their more interesting, lesser-known work, both pre-and post-Titanic.

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Titanic Memorial Cruise To Mark 100th Anniversary

Posted 10.06.2009 | Home

Read More: Titanic Cruise, Titanic, Titanic Memorial Cruise, Titanic Anniversary, Home News

(AP) NEW YORK - A trans-Atlantic cruise is being offered in 2012 to mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. The Titanic Memorial C...

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How Heavy is Your Fitness Footprint?

Carole Carson | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Lifestyle, Longevity, Environmental Footprint, Fitness, Green, Green Living, Fitness Footprint, Carbon Footprint, Nutrition, Exercise, Childhood Nutrition, Physical Exercise, Outdoor Exercise, Childhood Obesity, Exercise Tips, Titanic, Dr. Andrew Weil, Healthcare Debate, Obesity Crisis, Obesity Epidemic, Food-Production, Healthcare Reform, Living News
Carole Carson

We need to figure out how to reduce lifestyle-related diseases that trigger the need for expensive medical care in the first place. We need to lighten our fitness footprint.

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Why Would Anyone Want to Be Governor of California?

Matt Littman | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Meg Whitman, Los Angeles Clippers, Los Angeles Lakers, Gavin Newsom, Ronald Reagan, General Motors, Titanic, Jay Leno, Tom Campbell, Hugh Grant, Jerry Brown, Northrop-Grumman, Disney, Eliot Spitzer, Politics News
Matt Littman

The next leader of our state should be so lucky as to be caught picking up a prostitute -- that appears to be a better career path than the dead-end job of Governor of California.

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Bachmann: "Gangster Government" Turning U.S. Into "Sinking Titanic"

Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Auto Bailout, Michelle Bachmann, Chrysler, Titanic, Auto Industry Crisis, MIchael Barone, Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, Bachmann, Auto Industry, Barney Frank, Politics News

Congresswoman Michelle Bachman took to the floor of the House of Representatives on Tuesday to call out the "gangster government." She also likened Am...

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Twittering Through American History

Ben Fractenberg | Posted 07.10.2009 | Comedy

Read More: George Soros, The Alamo, Titanic, George W. Bush, Twitter, Facebook, OJ Simpson, Cold War, Lsd, Tweet, Barack Obama, Andy Warhol, Disco, George Washington, Martin Luther King, Richard Nixon, Joseph McCarthy, American History, General Custer, Abraham Lincoln, Truman Capote, Neil Simon, Jfk, Fatty Arbuckle, Prohabition, Comedy News
Ben Fractenberg

"The British are coming! OMG! Wake up the militia! Sound the church bells! Update your Facebook status!"

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More Than One Way to Bang That Can

Jan Herman | Posted 07.03.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Titanic, Gavin Bryars, Bill Frisell, Bang on a Can, Kevin Volans, Music, The Smith Quartet, Lionheart, Phil Kline, Ethel, Entertainment News
Jan Herman

Spent a few hours listening to the performances at the BANG ON A CAN Marathon 2009 with a friend of mine who has little patience for la sonorité artistique.

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Millvina Dean, Titanic's Last Survivor, Dies At 97

AP | MEERA SELVA and JILL LAWLESS | Posted 07.02.2009 | World

Read More: Rms Titanic, Titanic, Millvina Dean, Millvina Dean Dies, Southampton, Titanic Last Survivor, Millvina Dean Titanic, Titanic Survivors, The Titanic, Millvina Dean Bio, Milvina Dean, World News

LONDON — Millvina Dean was the youngest passenger on RMS Titanic, just nine weeks old when she was wrapped in a sack and lowered from the sinkin...

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Millvina Dean, Titanic

AP | Posted 06.12.2009 | World

Read More: England, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Millvina Dean, Titanic, Millvina Dean Titanic, Leonardo Dicaprio, Kate Winslet, Kate Winslett, World News

LONDON — "Titanic" stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet have pledged to help the last survivor of the sinking of the ocean liner. The stars ...

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Kate And Leo Help Last Titanic Survivor

AP | Posted 06.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Millvina Dean, Kate Winslet, Leonardo Dicaprio, Titanic, Entertainment News

LONDON — "Titanic" stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet have pledged to help the last survivor of the sinking of the ocean liner. The stars ...

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You and I Hate My Name

Dave Astor | Posted 04.15.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Paris, Layoffs, TV Converter Coupons, Rome, Financial Meltdown, Kathy Bates, John Jacob Astor, Eugene Debs, Titanic, Gilded Age, Hedge Funds, Bailout, Paul Robeson, Comedy News
Dave Astor

At a time when financial bigwigs have made a mess of the U.S. economy, the deserved scorn heaped upon these greedy "masters of the universe" poses a problem for people with blue-blood monikers like mine.

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A Word To Hollywood: In Recessionary Times, Smaller, Better Films, Please -- And More Of Them!

John Farr | Posted 03.31.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Jim Carrey, Cleopatra Digitally Recreated, King Kong, Media-and-the-Recession, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Superman Returns, Titanic, The Lives of Others, Pulp Fiction, Little Miss Sunshine, Lord of the Rings, Terminator, Classic Stars, American Beauty, Star Compensation, Tom Hanks, Waterworld, Studio System, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Harry Potter, Hollywood Budgets, Harvey Milk Movie, Entertainment News
John Farr

This year's gimmicky Benjamin Button cost $150 million, the superlative Milk cost just $15 million. Why not fund ten more Milk-type films and forego one Button?

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Best Movies By Farr: When Oscar Screws Up

John Farr | Posted 03.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Edward G. Robinson, The English Patient, The Exorcist, Tom Hanks, History of the Academy Awards, Julie Andrews, Milk, Fred MacMurray, John Wayne, The Wrestler Stanley Kubrick, As Good as It Gets, Capote, The Great Ziegfeld, Traffic, L.A. Confidential, Driving Miss Daisy, Dr. Strangelove, Fargo, High Noon, Million Dollar Baby, Joan Allen, My Left Foot, Around the World in Eighty Days, Slumdog Millionaire, The Academy Awards, The Sting, Rocky Balboa, Letters From Iwo Jima, Double Indemnity, Shirley MacLaine, Rex Harrison, Little Miss Sunshine, Ed Harris, Life Is Beautiful, Peter Finch, Shakespeare in Love, Charles Chaplin, James Dean, Giant, Crash, My Man Godfrey, Barbara Stanwyck, The Contender, Network, Imelda Staunton, Academy Awards, Titanic, Louis B. Mayer; Daryl Zanuck; Samuel L Goldwyn, Hotel Rwanda, The Apartment, The Departed, Peter Sellers, Pulp Fiction, Burt Lancaster, Gladiator, Vera Drake, Sean Penn, Modern Times, Elizabeth Taylor, Chicago, Field of Dreams, Billy Wilder, Pollock, Al Jolson, Forrest Gump, William Powell, John Travolta, Carole Lombard, Singin' in the Rain, Taxi Driver, Cecil B. DeMille, My Fair Lady, Jack Lemmon, The Searchers, The Hours, Robert De Niro, Entertainment News
John Farr

2005 -- for Best Picture, give me Capote over Crash any ol' time. Another uninspiring year, I thought.

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Obama's Economic Paradox: Can You Have "Bailout" and "Stimulus" at the Same Time?

Randall Amster | Posted 03.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Free Market Capitalism, Obama Stimulus, Titanic, Obama Administration, Bailout Plan, Subsidies, Capitalism, Stimulus Plan, Obama Stimulus Plan, Economic Stimulus Package, Bailout, Stimulus Package, Tax Cuts, Hurricane Katrina, Green Economy, Free Market, Stimulus Bill, Business, Financial Crisis, Politics News
Randall Amster

Perhaps the centerpiece of the current bill (at least for people's pockets in the short-term) is an actual weekly paycheck bump to the tune of about eight bucks.

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More Britons Than Americans Died On Titanic 'Because They Queued'

The Independent | Kathy Marks | Posted 02.21.2009 | World

Read More: Titanic, The Independent, England, Titanic Research, British Passengers Titanic, Europe, British Manners, The Titanic, Titanic British Queued, British Passengers Titantic, World News

British passengers on the Titanic died in disproportionate numbers because they queued politely for lifeboats while Americans elbowed their way on, an...

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Down That Revolutionary Road Towards Many Award Accolades

Brad Balfour | Posted 02.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: 1960s, Actors, Kate Winslet, Corporate Life, Titanic, Golden Globes, Film, 1950s, Richard Yates, Kathy Bates, Oscars, Revolutionary Road, Sam Mendes, Michael Shannon, Love, Rebellion, Kate Winslet Leonardo Dicaprio, Levittown, Leonardo Dicaprio, Entertainment News
Brad Balfour

In Revolutionary Road, audiences see the destruction of a relationship never really fated to be, somewhat thrown together by expectations they have for each other but are never realized.

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Revolutionary Road's Not So Revolutionary: But Thanks to Leo and Kate, It's Worth the Watch

Michael Russnow | Posted 01.03.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Kate Winslet, Russnow, Titanic, Deborah Kerr, Body of Lies, Movies, Richard Yates, Paris, Kathy Bates, Justin Haythe, The Departed, Blood Diamond, Michael Russnow, Kathryn Hahn, Revolutionary Road, Leonardo Dicaprio, Sam Mendes, Wga, Michael Shannon, Suburbs, David Harbour, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Entertainment News
Michael Russnow

Revolutionary Road plods ever forward to the final fade out, but it still encompasses some wonderful moments and makes us look forward to the next pairing of Leo and Kate.

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Thomas B. Edsall

The Next RNC Chair: Captain Of The GOP Titanic?

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 12.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Titanic, Rnc Chairmainship, Gop, Gop Nightmare, Republican National Committee, Republicans, Politics News

The steadily growing number of prospective candidates for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee share a collective dream: that 2008 wi...

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Life Cycle: The Birth and Death of Your Bootleg DVDs

Simran Sethi | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Muggles, Banned, Polycarbonate, Bootleg, Green, Titanic, Aluminum, Co2, Dvds, Lord Voldemort, Dvd, Green Living, #7, Rihanna, Fda, Bisphenol-A, Mother Earth, Environment, Waste, Bpa, Plastic, Carbon Dioxide, Sarah Smarsh, Netflix, Harry Potter, Mia, Simran Sethi, Green News
Simran Sethi

Your cinematic experience leaves its mark not only on your heart, but on the planet.

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Secret Memo From Bush: "Don't Throw Up Just Yet!"

Steven Denlinger | Posted 10.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Leadership, Comet, Cheney, Titanic, Liberal, Mccain, The Way of the World, Bleach, Experience, Bush, Pulitzer Prize, Brits, Paulson, 2006 Election, Conservative Democrat, Ron Suskind, Republican Party, Character, Economy, Economic Crisis, Business News
Steven Denlinger

I think it's very possible the Bush administration might be willing to make bad financial decisions in the short run just to keep the Republican Party in power.

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Dark Knight Mania: It Ain't Heath; It's The Batman

Michael Giltz | Posted 07.29.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Titanic, Et, Star Wars, Dark Knight, Box Office Grosses, Heath Ledger, Batman, Jack Nicholson, Batman: The Dark Knight, Movies, Batman Reviews, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

Four movies out of six in the Batman franchise have set or reclaimed the title for Biggest Opening Weekend Of All Time. No other franchise in history comes close to that record.

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Tales From The Rescue! Video And A Firsthand Account Of The "Explorer" Ship Disaster

The Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Explorer Sinking, Ship Sinking Antarctic, Pictures of Explorer Sinking, National Geographic Endeavour, Antarctica Ship Rescue, Explorer Rescue, Nord Norge Rescue, Explorer Ship Disaster, Titanic, Rescue Video Explorer, Video of Explorer Sinking, Living News

This morning the TODAY Show interviewed an Explorer passenger who videotaped the sinking of the ship and the rescue of all 154 passengers on-board. Wa...

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Last Titanic Survivor In U.S. DIES

AP | Posted 04.20.2009 | World

Read More: Last Titanic Survivor, Titanic, World News

BOSTON - Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, has died, a funeral home said Sunday. She was 99. ...

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