What’s a tubby English actor doing in a salsa romcom Nick Frost talks about burgeoning fame, avoiding being typecast and why you don’t need to be smokin’ hot to get the girl.
The unusual career of Nick Frost
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The origin of the latest Hollywood formula
If you’ve gone to the movies recently, you may have felt a strangely familiar feeling: You’ve seen this movie before. Not this exact movie, but some of these exact story beats: the hero dressed down by his mentor in the first 15 minutes (Star Trek Into Darkness, Battleship); the villain who gets caught on purpose (The Dark Knight, The Avengers, Skyfall, Star Trek Into Darkness); the moment of hopelessness and disarray a half-hour before the movie ends (Olympus Has Fallen, Oblivion, 21 Jump Street, Fast & Furious 6)
Woman Holding Her Child Walks Off Subway Platform
A woman, who thinks she is stepping onto a train, walked off a subway platform while holding her daughter and fell to the tracks below. A Good Samaraten is seen on the surveillance footage risking his own safety to rescue the mother and daughter.
Hero pit bull rewarded for saving his owner’s life twice
Oh, your dog brings you your slippers? Yeah, cute, great trick. A pit bull from Lawrenceville, Ga., has saved his owner’s life twice, and has now been honored by the Humane Society for his heroism.
Boy saves kid from drowning in swimming pool, becomes hero at age 8
Cooper Davis is proof that swim lessons pay off. When the 8-year-old was playing in a swimming pool on a vacation near Disneyland earlier this month, he saw a boy face down on the bottom.
Box Office: Green Lantern’s Superhero Fatigue
How many comic-book “origins” movies will audiences pay to see in seven weeks?
The Navy Says ‘I Do’ to Same-Sex Marriages
Last Monday, the Navy was the hero across America, for the exploits of its SEALs in bringing Osama bin Laden to justice. This Monday, the sea service was zero in certain quarters for saying it will permit same-sex marriages within its hallowed chapels
Elie Wiesel
I remember the icy snow crunching beneath our every step, the subzero wind biting at our bare faces, the quiet utter stillness.
Sport: Grand National, Apr. 6, 1931
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Tea Party Protesters Shout The N-Word At
Tea Party Protesters Shout The N-Word At, Spit On Passing Legislators Tea Party protesters have once again descended upon Washington, D.C., and this time, in addition to carrying their obnoxious, misspelled, and vaguely racist signs, they’ve decided to spout hateful epithets at passing lawmakers as well: According to Rep. Andre Carson, the protesters “were shouting […]