There is a special place reserved in the history of film for the gothic kitsch of “Hammer horror.”
Hammer glamour: A history of horror’s leading ladies
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Liverpool’s beach ball blues
Goals can be scored in a variety of ways but there are few examples in the history of football where a beach ball has been used as an aide, that was until Sunderland’s clash against Liverpool in the English Premier Legaue, of course.
Learning to drink like a local in Qingdao, China
A few drinks in the People’s Republic of China led me to discover European delights and other unexpected finds in modest Qingdao.
Latest rumors point to new Macs in stores soon
Product rumors have been fairly quiet on the Apple front recently, but the tech community has begun exchanging whispers about new Macs due in stores soon. While the world waits for Apple to deliver its highly anticipated touchscreen tablet in early 2010, the nearer future most likely holds upgraded iMacs, Mac Minis, MacBooks and perhaps a new multitouch mouse
Fuming Cannavaro cleared of doping
The captain of the Italian national football team, Fabio Cannavaro, has hit out at his treatment at the hands of the world’s media after being cleared of doping by the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI). The Juventus defender, who led his country to World Cup victory in 2006, failed a drugs test two days after treating a wasp sting with a cream containing cortisone on 28 August
Remembering the First Lady of New York
On Monday, a chapter was closed in the social history of New York City: a great dame, the arbiter of New York society, died without leaving any successors. Brooke Astor, who passed away at age 105, was a combination of the Victorian age, with all its wit and elegance, and of the modern era, with its sharp-minded determination.
Some credit card companies rush to act before new law
If you hold a Discover credit card, you’re in luck — the company has decided to freeze interest-rate hikes until a new credit card consumer protection bill takes effect in February. Bank of America was the first company to freeze its rates.
The Screening Room’s top 10 movie shoots from hell
Budgets spiraling out of control; cast and crew on the verge of collapse; sets destroyed: Just a few of the catastrophes to afflict the ill-fated productions in The Screening Room’s Top 10 movie shoots from hell. From “Cleopatra” to “Apocalypse Now,” these infamous productions have all been struck by extreme weather, tragedy, illness and sometimes death.
Blackface ‘Jackson Jive’ skit shocks Connick
Movie star and singer Harry Connick Jr.
Three held in slayings of indigenous Colombians
Three suspects have been arrested in the August slaying of 12 indigenous Awa people in southwestern Colombia, the military announced Tuesday.