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In a blow to the cable industry, an appeals court upheld the Federal Communications Commission's so-called program access rules that prohibit cable operators from withholding programming they own from rival distributors such as satellite tv services.
Cable giants Comcast Corp. and Cablevision had been fighting with the FCC to get the ...
In a cost-savings move, Walt Disney Studios is shutting down director and producer Robert Zemeckis' ImageMovers Digital studio in Marin County, which employs 450 people. Those employees will be phased out over the course of the year until the facility closes by January 2011.
Zemeckis' San Rafel-based company, which Disney has been ...
At war’s end, the cabbie won’t take money from the Marine returning home from the Pacific. “I might have jumped into Normandy but at least I got some liberties in London and Paris,” the driver, a veteran of D-Day, states pityingly. “You gyrenes, you got nothing but jungle rot ...
Beginning with the paranoid, conspiracy-mongering brother on the alien-attack series “Invasion” and continuing with the slacker ideal friend of the soul-hunting hero on “Reaper,” Tyler Labine has made a specialty of playing lovable misfits who rise to the occasion.
You might wonder then whether it was a good idea to take ...
For that column, I interviewed two dozen boomers. Given recent reports from the federal government and Manpower, the employment agency, that the hiring outlook is beginning to improve, I thought it would be worthwhile to go back to those highly motivated people. Among them are Jo Fagan, a former vice ...
Many fashion designers, you may have noticed, are squeamish about breasts. They prefer boyish waif bodies or a tolerable B-cup — largely on the grounds that the clothes hang better. With obvious exceptions like the body-conscious designs of Azzedine Alaïa, their clothes nearly seek to neutralize the female form.
Meanwhile, the ...
The paparazzi who hunt Lindsay Lohan have wrecked the actress’ Los Angeles social life because they are too “aggressive” and she can no longer enjoy a night out. The actress was once one of the most well-known party girls in Tinseltown but she now prefers a night at home to clubbing ...
Film funnyman Tom Arnold has defended his pal Charlie Sheen – insisting the star is a “target” for false allegations due to his controversial past. Sheen was arrested on Christmas Day after a bust-up with wife Brooke Mueller.
He was charged with third-degree assault, menacing, and criminal mischief, and is ...
(March 11) — A British journalist was freed this day after being held in the Gaza Strip for a month by its Hamas rulers on reported allegations that he spied for Israel.
Paul Martin, a London-based freelance writer for tv and newspapers, stated he had gone to a Gaza military court ...
(March 11) — The United States took a fresh swing at China’s human rights record Thursday at a time when the Obama administration is wooing Beijing for support against Iran, highlighting the tension between the idealistic side of American diplomacy and its pragmatic need for geopolitical bargaining.
The State Department’s annual ...