Purposefully or not, Jennifer Lawrence always makes a statement. So when she walked the red carpet at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Tuesday night, the look raised the question: feminism or fashion? To promote her forthcoming film Passengers, which co-stars Chris Pratt, the 25-year-old wore an embellished Altuzarra skirt with a black tank top. And […]
Author Maya Angelou Dies
On this day in 2014, author and poet Maya Angelou, who published more than 30 books, including 1969’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” a best-selling memoir about the racism and abuse she experienced growing up, dies at 86 at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In addition to her celebrated literary career, Angelou […]
Pioneering TV Journalist Barbara Walters Signs Off
On this day in 2014, broadcast journalist and TV personality Barbara Walters retires from ABC News and as co-host of the daytime program “The View.” In a landmark career that spanned some 50 years on air, the 84-year-old Walters blazed a trail for women in TV news. On Walter’s May 16th “View” sendoff, Oprah Winfrey, […]
Mt. Everest Sees Its Single Deadliest Day
On this day in 2014, 16 Nepali mountaineering guides, most of them ethnic Sherpas, are killed by an avalanche on Mt. Everest, the Earth’s highest mountain. It was the single deadliest accident in the history of the Himalayan peak, which rises more than 29,000 feet above sea level and lies across the border between Nepal […]
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Dies At Age 87
On this day in 2014, Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, whose novels include “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and “Love in the Time of Cholera,” dies at his Mexico City home at age 87. The Colombian-born Garcia Marquez, a master of magical realism, a writing style that blends reality and fantasy, was considered a […]
Best Laptops Under $500
Don’t tell the hordes swarming into the Apple Store every weekend, but the days of needing to spend over $1,000 to get a quality laptop passed by while most of them were still in high school. Even before netbooks came along sending manufacturers into a frenzy while chewing their own margins down to pennies just […]
More TV-Fee Fights Loom
Sunday night’s Oscar program almost didn’t happen for millions of TV viewers in the New York City area, in the latest high-stakes battle between media giants over the cost of TV programming. Why are these battles happening now, and who will ultimately win? If you happened to be one of Cablevision’s 3.1 million subscribers in […]
Movies so bad, they’re good
Making a good movie is hard. Making a lousy movie is pretty easy. But making a movie so transcendently awful that viewers watch it with the same rapt awe as watching a train wreck is exceedingly difficult, akin to catching lightning in a bottle. This week’s “Piranha 3D” seemed to aim at that exalted breed […]