While 5.3 million viewers tuned into the series premiere of AMC’s new zombie-apocalypse thriller The Walking Dead, the show not only garnered the highest ratings of any AMC premiere in history, but also took the top spot of any …
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Kiwi Can, or Kiwi Can’t: 10 Alternative Places to Film The Hobbit
Rancorous labor disputes threatened the filming of The Hobbit, the prequel to the popular Lord of the Rings trilogy, until an 11th hour intervention by New Zealand’s Prime Minister ensured the movie franchise would continue to …
Mad Men To Publish Roger Sterling’s Fictional Memoir
What could you learn from the life and times of a Mad Men character? We’re about to find out.
Keith Richards’ Life: Sex, Drugs and Mick Jagger
NewsFeed looks at some of the juiciest bits in Keith Richards’ new memoir — or at least the more printable ones.
Unpublished Dr. Seuss Manuscript Drawing All Sorts of Attention
Add another Seuss-driven literary wonder to the world’s most-wanted list of children’s books.
Double Take: Lyndon Johnson Was Nearly Shot By Secret Service? A Day After JFK Died?
Hey hey, LBJ, how many times were you almost accidentally shot by the Secret Service today?
At Last–The Hungover Cookbook is Here
There are a lot of home remedies for hangovers out there and NewsFeed has heard them all–eat a lot, eat nothing, eat bananas (something about the potassium), drink water, start drinking alcohol again. Each works for a while, but …
Tony Blair In The Running For Bad Sex Award
There’s nothing worse than a bad sex scene. At least that’s what the judges for the UK Literary Review’s Bad Sex Awards think.
Quotes: Unfinished Manuscript of Millenium Trilogy Exists
“To make it more complicated, this book number four, that’s book number five, because he thought that was more fun to write than book number four.”
— JOAKIM LARSSON, brother of Girl with the Dragon Tattoo author Stieg Larsson, …
Children No Longer Reading Children’s Books
Children’s picture books that is–which is an even bigger outrage!
Mario Vargas Llosa Wins Nobel Prize For Literature
Some may not have heard of him, but 74-year-old Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa has repeatedly been hailed one of South America’s most influential writers.
Stephenie Meyer To Release Another Twilight Book
Too bad it’s just a reference guide.