J.K. Rowling's the seventh and final Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, will be split into two movies. Part I will be released during the holiday season in November 2010, and Part II will follow in May 2011. Link
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Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography
Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography is a book written by the Princess Diana biographer Andrew Morton. The book that sets for publication in the U.S. on Jan. 15, is so explosive that it claims:
- Suri, the daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, was "conceived like Rosemary's Baby" and "the product of a sperm donation from Scientology's late founder L. Ron Hubbard"
- Tom Cruise is the second-in-command of the Church of Scientology (the church leader is David Miscavige, pictured above, via)
- Nicole Kidman "feared blackmail" over sex tapes made with Scientologists
- Scientologists "planted meadown of flowers for Tom and Nicole to run through"
- Cruise's next mission is to recruit David and Victoria Beckham
Click here to check out Dailymail's world exclusive story. #Tags: tom cruise, suri, katie holmes, scientology, david miscavige, david beckham, victoria beckham, nicole kidman
Bell Steals Elisha Gray's Telephone Patent Idea?
In a new book "The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret," due out January 7, journalist Seth Shulman, claims to have definitive evidence of a long-suspected technological crime - that Alexander Graham Bell [picture left] stole ideas for the telephone from a rival, Elisha Gray. Author Shulman believes that Bell — aided by aggressive lawyers and a corrupt patent examiner — got an improper peek at patent documents Gray had filed, and that Bell was erroneously credited with filing first. Alexander Graham Bell- Patent Thief? on Slashdot well summarized the main contents of Shulman's book
...Author Seth Shulman shows that Bell's notebooks contain false starts, and then after a 12-day gap during which he visited the US Patent Office, suddenly show an entirely different design, very similar to Gray's design for multiplexing Morse code signals. Shulman claims that Bell copied the design from Gray's patent application and was improperly given credit for earlier submission, with the help of a corrupt patent examiner and aggressive lawyers. Shulman also claims that fear of being found out is the reason Bell distanced himself from the company that carried his name. And if Gray Telephone doesn't seem to roll off the tongue, Shulman also noted that both of them were two decades behind the German inventor Johann Philipp Reis, who produced the first working telephony system."
Click here to read the full report on Smh.
#Tags: bell, telephone, elisha gray
Funky Winkerbean Character Lisa Moore Dies in the Comic Strip
Lisa Moore
, one of the central characters of the newspaper comic strip Funky Winkerbean by Tom Batiuk, has lost her fight with breast cancer and died in today’s installment of the daily strip. It can't say is is not a grim end as many readers required Tom not to let her die.
Lisa's odyssey has been compiled in a book, Lisa's Story: The Other Shoe (Kent State University Press, $19.95 in paperback), that went on sale Tuesday as part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Royalties will go to Lisa's Legacy Fund for cancer research at University Hospitals Ireland Cancer Center.
Link to Elsanto//Rooktopia and NYT and Chron.com
Alan Greenspan: Bush's Iraq War Is Really for Oil
From Timesonline:
AMERICA’s elder statesman of finance, Alan Greenspan
, has shaken the White House by declaring that the prime motive for the war in Iraq was oil.
In his long-awaited memoir, to be published tomorrow [September 17], Greenspan, a Republican
However, it is his view on the motive for the 2003 Iraq invasion that is likely to provoke the most controversy. “I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil,” he says.
Picture in If Alan Greenspan Were A Realtor
Book: To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird, the twentieth-century’s most widely read American novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Harper Lee, has sold thirty million copies and still sells a million yearly. The quote below from Cape Girardeau: United We Read '07 is a summary of the book
To Kill A Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story of Scout Finch and her brother, Jem, in 1930's Alabama. Through their neighborhood meanderings and the example of their father, they grow to understand that the world isn't always fair and that prejudice is a very real aspect of their world no matter how subtle it seems.
The summer when Scout was six and Jem was ten, they met Dill, a little boy who spent the summer with his aunt who lived next door to the Finches. Dill and Jem become obsessed with the idea of making Boo Radley, the neighborhood recluse, come out of his home. They go through plan after plan, but nothing draws him out. However, these brushes with the neighborhood ghost result in a tentative friendship over time and soon the Finch children realize that Boo Radley deserves to live in peace, so they leave him alone.
Scout and Jem's God-like father, Atticus, is a respected and upstanding lawyer in small Maycomb County. When he takes on a case that pits innocent, black Tom Robinson against two dishonest white people, Atticus knows that he will lose, but he has to defend the man or he can't live with himself.
The case is the biggest thing to hit Maycomb County in years and it turns the whole town against Atticus, or so it seems. Scout and Jem are forced to bear the slurs against their father and watch with shock and disillusionment as their fellow townspeople convict an obviously innocent man because of his race. The only real enemy that Atticus made during the case was Bob Ewell, the trashy white man who accused Tom Robinson of raping his daughter. Despite Ewell's vow to avenge himself against Atticus, Atticus doesn't view Ewell as any real threat.
Tom Robinson is sent to a work prison to await another trial, but before Atticus can get him to court again, Tom is shot for trying to escape the prison. It seems that the case is finally over and life returns to normal until Halloween night. On the way home from a pageant, Bob Ewell attacks Jem and Scout in the darkness. After Jem's arm is badly broken, their ghostly neighbor, Boo Radley, rescues Scout and her brother. In order to protect Boo's privacy, the sheriff decides that Bob Ewell fell on his own knife while he was struggling with Jem. Boo Radley returns home never to be seen again.
Through the events of those two years, Scout learns that no matter their differences or peculiarities, the people of the world and of Maycomb County are all people. No one is lesser or better than anyone else because they're all people. She realizes that once you get to know them, most people are good and kind no matter what they seem like on the outside.
If interested, one go to purchase at Amazon.com
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