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How Nicolas Cage Really Went Broke

Actor 'spent money
like it was water,'
friends say

4 hours, 16 minutes ago

 Boyle to Sing on 
 Dancing With the Stars 

Scottish sensation flying to LA next week

7 hours, 54 minutes ago
SIT, STAY, KNEEL

 LA Church Adds Dogs to Flock 

First service attracts quite a pack

13 hours, 7 minutes ago
YES, THOSE ARE UDDERS

 The World's 10 Weirdest Eats 

From chicken knees to grub guts, someone considers them a delicacy

14 hours, 12 minutes ago
OPINION

 Hit 'Pause' on 
 Rock and Roll 
 Hall of Fame 

Clueless cabal turns landmark into a joke

Nov 6, 09 2:45 PM CST
movie review

 Fourth Kind: Not Real, Not Scary

Alien-abduction mock-doc delivers lame premise with laughable framing device

Nov 6, 09 2:30 PM CST

 Man Pops Question 
 During Gay Marriage 
 Hearing 

See, Kanye, this is an interruption the crowd actually liked

Nov 6, 09 2:15 PM CST
MOVIE REVIEW

 Motion-Capture 
 Christmas Carol 
 Hits Wrong Notes 

Spirit's there, but critics split on wow-factor of evolving tech

Nov 6, 09 1:30 PM CST

16 Tips for Cheeseburger Eating

Skip the mundane (ketchup, lettuce) and the overly fancy (brie, Kobe)

Nov 6, 09 1:15 PM CST
MOVIE REVIEW

 Inside The Box, 
 a Muddled Surprise 

Film is wayward, most critics agree, but for some it's interesting

Nov 6, 09 12:11 PM CST
RACE TO THE BOTTOM

Retailers Sell Flicks Online at Less Than Cost

Big-box giants drop price of 10 hottest
DVD titles to $10

Nov 6, 09 10:42 AM CST
MOVIE REVIEW

 Precious: Gritty Candor 
 or 'Poverty Porn'? 

Harlem drama brutally honest, some say manipulative

Nov 6, 09 8:52 AM CST
MOVIE REVIEW

 Goats Fun But Unfocused 

Clooney turns in top performance in military farce

Nov 6, 09 8:11 AM CST

'Everything But Marriage' Law for Gays Passes in Wash.

Referendum 71 expands benefits for same-sex couples

Nov 5, 09 8:20 PM CST
NIKKI FINKE

 Oprah Sets Date for 
 Cable Launch, 
 Show Move 

Discovery Channel to media mogul: 'Move it or lose it'

Nov 5, 09 1:50 PM CST
CHECK, PLEASE

 Biggest Restaurant 
 No-Nos, Part 2 

Owner offers another 50 ways to please guests, keep job

Nov 5, 09 1:30 PM CST
BLOG POWER

 Emma 
 Thompson 
 Drops Support  
 of Polanski 

Web petitioners change actress' mind about case

Nov 5, 09 12:17 PM CST

 Hottest Hollywood Star: Toys 

Transformers raked it in; expect more of the same from Tinseltown

Nov 5, 09 12:07 PM CST

 New Site 
 Decodes 
 Rap Lyrics 

Rap Exegesis breaks down Jay-Z, Ghostface Killah, and more

Nov 5, 09 11:42 AM CST

 'Naughty' Mickey Hits the Wii 

Disney dares to reimagine him for new generation

Nov 5, 09 11:14 AM CST

 Beatles Break Free of CDs 

Pricey USB drive holds band's remastered studio albums

Nov 5, 09 11:10 AM CST
CITY OF SLEEP?


 Au Revoir, Paris Nightlife 

Noise ordinances strangle once-legendary music and party scene

Nov 5, 09 10:33 AM CST
TINY COURT FILINGS

 Ex Slaps 
 Mini-Me With 
 Restraining Order 

Beauty queen ex says Verne Troyer threatened her

Nov 5, 09 9:22 AM CST

Beck Pulls an Oprah, Pushing Thriller Writers

'It's almost conservative porn,' Fox host says
of one novel

Nov 5, 09 7:43 AM CST


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Off the Grid a Michael Wolff Newser Column

Galleon Scandal: Shocked, Shocked by Insider Trading

5
Nov 6, 09 | 9:26 AM BY Michael Wolff

How is it that we get a major insider trading scandal every two decades or so? The last big one, which ultimately ensnarled Michael Milken, the legendary junk bond king, happened in the late eighties. The current one, with a mass of arrests yesterday, threatens the hedge fund industry. It seems reasonable to assume from the intermittent decades of prosecution that this particular sort of financial larceny is quite a rare bird and when it rears its head the Feds pounce.... More »

Rupert Murdoch Is Mad but Cute

9
Nov 5, 09 | 8:41 AM BY Michael Wolff

The Wall Street Journal was a great paper. It is still a pretty great paper but it is not the great Wall Street Journal.... More »

Skype Lives!

13
Nov 4, 09 | 8:33 AM BY Michael Wolff

I follow entrepreneurial dramas the way other people follow sports (did somebody win the World Series?). In these comedies, tragedies,... More »

Why the GOP Will Rise Again

24
Nov 3, 09 | 9:11 AM BY Michael Wolff

The strange business that is going on in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, which occupies some other universe than the one... More »

Sarah Palin and Levi Johnston: How They Took America

20
Nov 2, 09 | 8:40 AM BY Michael Wolff

Of all the outcomes of the 2008 presidential election, the strangest, beyond the rise of Sarah Palin herself, is the success of Levi Johnston.... More »

Why the Media Is Taking So Long to Die

15
Oct 30, 09 | 9:21 AM BY Michael Wolff

I participated the other night in an oddly formal, anglophilic, Oxford-style, for-and-against-the-proposition debate on the topic of (you... More »

How the Internet Got Lost and Why Google’s GPS Won’t Show Us the Way Out

11
Oct 29, 09 | 8:58 AM BY Michael Wolff

I had lunch yesterday with my old friend and former colleague, Chip Bayers, who, 15 years ago this week, after having left my fledgling... More »

Pot Will Save Us

39
Oct 28, 09 | 11:10 AM BY Michael Wolff

Wow. Pot. Just like that, on its way to being legalized. Well, just like that after 50 years or so. In order to save itself from financial... More »

Is Obama a Sleaze?

31
Oct 27, 09 | 8:58 AM BY Michael Wolff

So it turns out there’s a reason the president hasn’t wrapped up health care or Iraq, figured out Afghanistan, closed Guantanamo,... More »

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