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If moviegoers have delivered a message in the last few months, it is that right now they want their films to be a lot more fun than their lives.
Other unions in Hollywood have settled with the studios that employ them, but the actors continue to insist that more be put on their table.
“The Wrestler” shows that, in both movies and wrestling, the line between reality and play-acting may be less clear than we assume.
Daniel Rose, whose tiny Paris restaurant is a runaway hit, reimagined some of the dishes on his menu as recipes for Hanukkah.
It’s worth considering what may be the one silver lining in the incredibly bad run of recent economic news: The cost of living is falling.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 17, 2008, covering December 17, 2008.
Britney Spears
Taylor Swift
Beyonce
Kanye West
Nickelback
2008Sammy Baugh, American football player and coach (born 1914)[†]
Samuel Adrian Baugh was an American professional football quarterback who played 16 seasons with the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the TCU Horned Frogs, where he was a two time All-American prior to being selected by the Redskins in the first round of the 1937 NFL draft. With the Redskins, Baugh won NFL Championships in 1937 and 1942 and led the NFL in completion percentage eight times, passing yards four times, and passing touchdowns once.
2008Freddy Breck, German singer-songwriter, producer, and journalist (born 1942)[†]
Freddy Breck was a German schlager singer, composer, record producer, and news anchor.
2008Dave Smith, American baseball player and coach (born 1955)[†]
David Stanley Smith was an American Major League Baseball relief pitcher, primarily for the Houston Astros, for whom he pitched from 1980 to 1990. He also pitched for the Chicago Cubs.
2008Gregoire, Congolese chimpanzee, oldest recorded (born 1942)[†]
Gregoire was, up until his death, Africa's oldest known chimpanzee. For the last eleven years of his life, he was a resident of the Tchimpounga Sanctuary in the Republic of the Congo. He was observed to have a pair bond relationship with the chimpanzee Clara. Previously he had been confined by himself for more than 40 years in a cage at the Brazzaville Zoo before being rescued by staff of the Jane Goodall Institute and airlifted to the Sanctuary during a time of war.
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]