So this was the deal: For US$50 (NZ$65), you got to see Brad Pitt’s hotly anticipated zombie thriller World War Z before all your friends.
Would you pay $65 for to see a movie?
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The National talk life on the road
The National’s Matt Berninger talks to VICKI ANDERSON about their new album and a documentary about life on the road with the band made by his heavy-metal loving brother. Matt Berninger, lead singer of acclaimed Brooklyn indie rock band The National, apologises that he has just abandoned a family dinner and is standing outside on a street somewhere in lower Manhattan
Paltrow embarrassed by own sex tips
Gwyneth Paltrow once told a friend to perform a sex act instead of getting angry at her partner.
A Tale of Two Indias
There are few finer views of the new India than from the cliff-top terrace of manufacturing magnates Parmeshwar and Adi Godrej. At night on the horizon, like a diamond necklace, streetlights trace a shoreline curve past the high-rise bank offices and apartment blocks of downtown Bombay, skirt the bars, gyms and boutiques of Marine Drive, and encircle Chowpatty Beach, ending in the rocky surf below
Extinction in a Bowl of Shark-Fin Soup
The first time I tried shark-fin soup was at Time Warner’s annual dinner in Hong Kong, a few weeks after I had moved to the city. A server came to our table with a cluster of small white bowls, which a few of my colleagues politely declined.
Sport: Courting Eighth-Graders
Little kids still ring ryan Boatright’s doorbell, wondering if the future University of Southern California point guard can come outside to play.
A Letter To The Year 2100
Dear America, Are you wearing pajamas? I do not mean to begin this letter by getting personal
Could the White House Party Crashers Go To Jail?
Tareq and Michaele Salahi were hoping for reality TV stardom when they strolled uninvited into a Nov. 24 White House state dinner.
Could White House Party Crashers the Salahis Go to Jail?
Tareq and Michaele Salahi were hoping for reality-TV stardom when they strolled uninvited into a Nov. 24 White House state dinner
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee: Robin Wright Penn’s Moment
Public interest in “The Real Housewives” of hither and yon notwithstanding, the well-behaved trophy wife is not, generally speaking, a character we’re dying to know more about. And beautiful Pippa Lee is a trophy wife of the highest order