PEOPLE's movie critic weighs in on the Twilight sequel and finds her interest waning
On a recent afternoon along Church Street in Burlington, Vermont, young aspiring actors recited passages from Shakespeare's Henry V as jugglers, break-dancers, and blowers of didgeridoos displayed their skills nearby, creating a visual and aural cacophony. Just another day in a thriving college town -- this one happening to be home to the University of Vermont.
Let's all pretend to be the astrologer Walter Mercado for a moment. Say we predict that the Obama administration's master plan to engage people of Latino/Hispanic/Spanish origin proves to be effective.
Let's all pretend to be the astrologer Walter Mercado for a moment. Say we predict that the Obama administration's master plan to engage people of Latino/Hispanic/Spanish origin proves to be effective.
Hugh Jackman, Daniel Craig and Jude Law prove "the play's the thing"
A sneak peak at an upcoming documentary in which stars talk about their faith
Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire catches.
Surprise casting news for Twilight's third installment aside, vote for Bryce or Rachelle in Eclipse
• Hours before her big opening in the Shakespeare in the Park production of Twelfth Night, Anne Hathaway was busy walking her pup Esmeralda in downtown New York City. But the actress also enjoyed the company of beau Adam Shulman, who gave her a smooch on the street. That evening, a dressed-up Shulman cheered on Hathaway at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park and, yes, gave his girlfriend a congratulatory kiss at the gala afterparty.
Where do you begin in a city of this size? How about at the lively South Bank of the Thames, near Waterloo Station? Start with a spin on the London Eye, a colossal Ferris that will take you up 130 meters for an unmatched view of the city.
PEOPLE's movie critic weighs in on the Twilight sequel and finds her interest waning
On a recent afternoon along Church Street in Burlington, Vermont, young aspiring actors recited passages from Shakespeare's Henry V as jugglers, break-dancers, and blowers of didgeridoos displayed their skills nearby, creating a visual and aural cacophony. Just another day in a thriving college town -- this one happening to be home to the University of Vermont.
Let's all pretend to be the astrologer Walter Mercado for a moment. Say we predict that the Obama administration's master plan to engage people of Latino/Hispanic/Spanish origin proves to be effective.
Let's all pretend to be the astrologer Walter Mercado for a moment. Say we predict that the Obama administration's master plan to engage people of Latino/Hispanic/Spanish origin proves to be effective.
Hugh Jackman, Daniel Craig and Jude Law prove "the play's the thing"
A sneak peak at an upcoming documentary in which stars talk about their faith
Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire catches.
Surprise casting news for Twilight's third installment aside, vote for Bryce or Rachelle in Eclipse
• Hours before her big opening in the Shakespeare in the Park production of Twelfth Night, Anne Hathaway was busy walking her pup Esmeralda in downtown New York City. But the actress also enjoyed the company of beau Adam Shulman, who gave her a smooch on the street. That evening, a dressed-up Shulman cheered on Hathaway at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park and, yes, gave his girlfriend a congratulatory kiss at the gala afterparty.
Where do you begin in a city of this size? How about at the lively South Bank of the Thames, near Waterloo Station? Start with a spin on the London Eye, a colossal Ferris that will take you up 130 meters for an unmatched view of the city.
How are the elements of the charming, traditional romantic comedy "The Proposal" like the checklist of a charming, traditional bride? Let me count the ways ...
Hast thou been patterning thy parlance to evoke the vernacular of William Shakespeare?
A portrait painted 400 years ago and kept anonymously in an Irish home for much of the time since is now believed to be the only painting of William Shakespeare created during his lifetime.
One was a theater, another, a church, and at varying times over the past century all have provided inspiration and refuge to both great literary minds and harried shoppers.
In December, CNN Business Traveller brings you "A Christmas Carol -- Books of the Past, Present and Future."
Since receiving the Ivor Novello award for best film theme for his work on Kenneth Branagh's "Henry V" in 1989, Patrick Doyle's compositions have been a sought after commodity in the film world.
In this ragged Steve Coogan comedy about a struggling actor's hapless high school production, satire goes south
Writers can be notoriously prickly about new technology.
Italian rider Riccardo RiccÒ is thrown out of the world's most famous cycle race after testing positive for a banned blood booster
Baz Luhrmann is the type of director for whom the word innovative was invented.
The Super Bowl has grown so big that we could think of only one man to cover it: William Shakespeare. The Bard was in Arizona when the two teams met the media yesterday and filed this exclusive play.
In a folktale that has been retold for centuries in many variations (one of which is Shakespeare's "King Lear"), an elderly king asks his three daughters how much they love him. The two older sisters deliver flowery speeches of filial adoration, but the youngest says only "I love you as meat loves salt."
In a recent interview with The Buffalo News, newly minted NHL Players Association boss Paul Kelly was asked about the 600-plus page Collective Bargaining Agreement, a document forged in the wake of the season-long lockout of 2004-05 and one that both the union and the league are still trying to comprehend fully.
It's a common theory that, given enough time (and food ... and ink ribbon), a million monkeys on a million typewriters will eventually bang out the works of Shakespeare. But that only goes for average monkeys.
Why shoes are called "pumps" and other strange-but-true stories behind the clothes and accessories you know and love.
Hopes were high, with the likes of Kenneth Branagh, Harold Pinter, Michael Caine and Jude Law at the helm. But the result's a disaster.
"Neither a borrower, nor a lender be," Shakespeare advised. But after last week's half-point cut of the federal funds rate, savers are the ones who might be taking a hit.
A ridiculous amount of time and energy has already gone into picking the next President, which would lead you to suppose the matter is of some consequence. Of course the person who serves as leader of the Free World matters (ask anyone in Baghdad), but over the long sweep of history it counts for less than we may think.
A new initiative revives one of the great literary controversies: that the Bard was not who we think he was
Summer heat is winding down on the Lake Michigan lakefront and winter's cold wind is still months away, making this a great time to visit Chicago. And a few minutes on the Internet will show you there's more than enough going on to keep you entertained.
Not just your basic, average everyday, ordinary, run-of-the-mill, ho-hum fairy tale, "Stardust" is a dazzler very nearly from first to last, a live action film that rivals the best recent animated features for imagination and wit.
With apologies to William Shakespeare, Beverly Hills (Calif.) junior Romeo Miller has not yet found his Juliet, but he has embraced his first love.
EVER since I took my meds this morning, I've felt strangely qualified to serve up some expert opinion on drugs in sports. Of course, that might just be the drugs talking, but it seems to me that for centuries, some of our greatest minds (and apparently bodies) have been influenced by the kinds of herbs and vices that make human growth hormone look like a vitamin supplement. Thou dost take issue with that view? Perhaps thou hast forgotten that Shakespeare, Byron and Shelley were opium fiends, Charlie Parker chased more dragons than St. George, and Elvis went tits-up on the growler because narcotics make you feel like there's a 50-pound pineapple stuck in your doggie-door.
Creativity is the buzzword in many a modern boardroom, yet some in business still complain that too many newly-minted MBAs are competent but uninspired, well-versed in the technical theory but lacking in imagination.
Movies about inspirational teachers never go out of style.
How would you like to get in on the ground floor of...some guy in Maine who needs $500 to fix his car? The latest venture from Chris Larsen, 45, co-founder of online loan giant E-Loan, lets you do ...
Get ready to tidy up your stock of pithily relevant quotes. A new book has been published that exposes many of history's favorite one-liners as inventions.
He is a powerful but flawed leader who ignores repeated warnings about his vulnerability and is eventually murdered by plotters including his closest friend.
Bloggers are the new opinion-shapers and trendsetters, according to... well, bloggers, mainly. Here's how to set up your own virtual soapbox and get heard amid the cranks and loudmouths of that online Speakers Corner, the "Blogosphere."
(CNN) -- How to start your own country.
Apart from recruiting executives with an MBA or EMBA, companies around the world spend millions every year on management and leadership courses for existing employees.
Once upon a time, retirement meant one thing: uprooting yourself to a warm locale where crime was low and doctors were abundant, and then living happily ever after playing bridge and bacci ball.
It's a vexing decision every dog owner must make: When going on vacation, do you board your dog at a kennel, leave it at home and hire a pet-sitter, or, gasp, dare to bring it with you?
When Shakespeare asked "What's in a name?" he was talking about doomed love, not political debate. But if you look at the argument over immigration, you can see how just about every word we use is packed with powerful meaning.
One of the most powerful leaders of Congress is leaving under fire. It's not only a big story in itself; it's also a sign of a striking change in our political process.
An advertising executive once noted, "People forget how fast you did a job -- but they remember how well you did it." Columbia University professor James Shapiro is reminding us how quickly a certain job was done.
During a wild chase that lasted some 20 hours, New York City's finest met their match in an elusive coyote nicknamed Hal.
(CNN) -- "The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life," so said Oscar Wilde.
(CNN) -- It's the festive season and the perfect opportunity to reflect on a 2005 that has seen six very different episodes of Quest.
In 1975, Frederick Brooks published The Mythical Man-Month. It had no right to succeed. The book detailed Brooks' experience managing IBM's bet-the-company System/360 computers and OS/360 software,...
I've never seen the stage musical "Rent," but the movie had me at hello.
A San Francisco antiques dealer dies under suspicious circumstances days before she is scheduled to lead a group of rich American tourists through Southeast Asia.
This summer thousands of theatergoers will gravitate to an open tent at the Boscobel Restoration, about 50 miles north of New York City, for a few hours of greed, envy, jealousy, and power struggle...
Few are born gray, some achieve grayness and many others have grayness thrust upon them.
As the financial world awaits the Federal Reserve meeting today, and frets over whether or not the Fed will drop the phrase "measured pace" from its policy statement, suddenly it's not the yield curve but Shakespeare that pops into my head.
SHAKESPEARE GOT IT wrong when his Othello said, "Who steals my purse steals trash ... but he that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him, and makes me poor indeed." Wer...
If you thought Dustin Hoffman was a riot in "Meet the Fockers," the inevitable sequel to "Meet the Parents," wait till you see him acting even less restrained in the outtakes.
A car bomb exploded at a theater near a British school in the Qatari capital of Doha on Saturday night, killing a British national and wounding 12 others, said the Qatari Interior Ministry.
There's a scene in Gus Van Sant's warped buddy road flick in which River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves, playing male prostitutes in search of their respective pasts and futures, sit alone at a campfire.
Contrary to popular perception, Shakespeare didn't really suggest that killing all the lawyers might be a good thing. But that hasn't stopped some people from wishing they would just go away.
The 9/11 Commission Report is one of the finalists for the prestigious National Book Awards, a rare appearance for a government report.
Former President George H.W. Bush is the only person on this planet who can casually prowl by jet, ship and train the upper reaches of power from London to Beijing, dine intimately with heads of state, call the President of the U.S. when he wants, e-mail any of 14 grandchildren about school and baseball ("Astros might go to the World Series"), talk details with a handyman making repairs on the house that has been his spiritual home for eight decades, track menacing chipmunks in the flower beds and then turn and embrace a visiting billionaire.
Today's the day for forking over your taxes to the U.S. government, if you haven't already.
Ken and Carol Adelman like nothing more than to see a CEO in tights. They aren't voyeurs; rather, the two former Republican politicos run Movers & Shakespeares, which uses lessons from the Bard to ...
Ever since Wess Roberts' Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun hit the bestseller lists back in the 1980s, writers have drawn business lessons from an unlikely assortment of historical figures, from...
"Man is but an ass" if he speaks of his dreams. --Bottom (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act IV, Scene 1)
Hi, my name is Arlyn, and I'm an online shopaholic. My addiction began last year when I, like 30 million other Americans, whittled down my Christmas shopping list mouse click by mouse click. Browsi...
The Oxford Book of English Verse edited by Christopher Ricks Oxford University Press, 690 pages
One man's synergy is another man's mirth. To boost its new auction business, Amazon.com has introduced a feature on its Website that suggests auction items whenever you search for a book, CD, or an...
IN PRAISE OF COMMERCIAL CULTURE By Tyler Cowen Harvard, 278 pages
Theater fans may talk about the lullaby of Broadway, but there's nothing soothing about paying as much as $100 for an orchestra seat on the Great White Way, $199 a night for a hotel room in Times S...
If anyone ever decides to heed that advice in Shakespeare's Henry IV and "kill all the lawyers," a good starting place would be U.S. Business Litigation's annual survey of America's 1,000 largest l...
Looking for stock quotes? Recipes? Tax forms? Sports stats? The latest TV guide? What you hear over and over is "you can find that on the Internet." But how many times have you routed that suggesti...
"THE FIRST THING WE DO, LET'S KILL ALL THE lawyers," Shakespeare wrote. You may be tempted to second that emotion, with the O.J. lawyer madness and the cost of hiring an attorney now ranging $100 t...
One weekend in college, I read Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, getting ready for a lecture that followed a few days later. "Tiny steps for tiny minds" seemed to be the professor's philosophy. O...
Madonna may not seem like she belongs in the same halls as Shakespeare and Plato, but in recent years she has become one of the hottest items in academia. In classrooms from Houston to New York and...
Staffs at several supermarket stores around Britain have taken to renaming packets of gingerbread men . . . ''gingerbread persons'' in a bid to take away references to gender. The move in branches ...
IN CORPORATE AMERICA'S campaign to tame wayward costs, one smug, overstuffed item still cries out for discipline: the bill for legal services. A thriving economy and proliferating lawsuits in the E...
Caesar divided all Gaul into just three parts, and Shakespeare summed up a man's life in only seven ages. So how come MONEY needs 11 separate categories to define fixed-income funds? After all, as ...
Far more fun than collecting stamps in the present period are noting and cataloguing the succession of dopey ideas that suddenly get to be rated politically correct. For example, the idea that the ...
We have lots of national problems: the plight of blacks and the homeless, AIDS, poverty. But the ignorance of the intellectual class is our greatest problem. Radical egalitarianism and the doctrine...
When Jean-Marie Descarpentries, the burly boss of French packaging group Carnaud, paid $1.4 billion for Britain's Metalbox Packaging last October, he acquired more than just a business. He bought h...
If one of your grandmother's sterling silver forks gets mangled by the garbage disposal, don't despair. The following services can replace anything from a piece of silver to a Model T carburetor. C...
Ever since the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis opened 25 years ago with a production of Hamlet, regional theater has been a powerful cultural force in America. Such hits as Agnes of God, Crimes of t...
It's hardly a new idea. Shakespeare's characters are constantly put to crashing around in the forest, sorting out identities, gaining insights. In times of crisis North American Indians would retre...
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