"Gere escapes Indian courts
India`s top court has suspended an arrest warrant against Hollywood star Richard Gere, for breaking public obscenity laws by kissing Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty at a public Aids awareness event last year.Read More..."
War is not a romantic sacrifice by fresh faced young patriots who take their last few breaths praising the purpose of the war they died in, as Hollywood would have you believe. It is a sordid, filthy business,...
Jim Mitchell, more recently famous for the shooting of his brother Artie in 1991, has died at his home in Northern California. The Mitchell Brothers ran the O'Farrell Theater in San Francisco, pushing the limits of...
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I had a story in the Globe earlier this week about a new linguistic study of obscenity. The story ran a bit long and some of it ended up on the cutting room floor, so I thought I would reconstitute it here. Call this the "director's cut." In keeping with previous postings on...
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"The National Science Foundation is paying more than $200,000 for a study whose results may be unprintable.The grant's title, "Expressive Content and the Semantics of Contexts," doesn't sound exciting, until you figure out what "expressive content" means.Christopher Potts , a...
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A contrite Richard Gere has apologized for causing such a fuss by kissing superstar Shilpa Shetty, redirecting public attention towards the AIDS awareness and prevention program he was there to promote in the first...
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