L. Ron Hubbard began Scientology’s “Project Celebrity” in 1955, offering a list of 63 high-profile targets and a “small plaque” as a reward to anyone who successfully brought the likes of Bob Hope and Ernest Hemingway into the church. “There are many to whom America and the world listens...” Scientology’s blustery…
@LauraClawson @DemFromCT Im saying world is much more nuanced than partisans and people on Twitter give it credit for.
— Michael Barbaro (@mikiebarb)
April 1, 2015
Nicole Krauss, author of the The History of Love and ex-wife of famous vegetarian Jonathan Safran Foer, has done what few literary writers can do: procured a two-book deal for an impressive sum of money—more than four million dollars, our sources tell us.
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Facebook, a dull and endlessly scrolling record of personal propaganda and content headlined in two or more sentences, isn't satisfied with the way its 1.4 billion users (most non-sentient) consume the news. According to the New York Times, it takes an epic eight seconds for the average Joe Facebook User to load an…
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Canadian entertainer Jessica Paré and her husband, Asexuals member John Kastner, welcomed their first child together last week. They have named him Blues Anthony.
What would Princess Diana be doing if she were alive today? Would she be on a reality show? Would she wear peplums? Would she have solved global hunger? Admittedly I think about this more often than I should, because so much potential, so much intrigue, so much gossip was lost when Lady Di, the Queen of Peoples'…