[Full disclosure before I start this post: I know the authors of Beautiful Bastard, I like them very much and I'm pumped to read this book.] Yes, another Twilight fan fiction story will be making the leap from the web to the shelves of your local independent book seller (and, sigh, Barnes & Noble) on February 12, [...]
The 16th Annual Hollywood Film Awards gala at The Beverly Hilton Hotel last night and we have some bonafide A-Listers who kept the fashion flag flying very high. Marion Cotillard can always be counted to hit it out of the ballpark and she did just that in a gorgeous, edgy midnight blue Christian Dior dress [...]
On-again couple Katy Perry and John Mayer were spotted out and about in New York yesterday having lunch and dinner to celebrate Mayer’s 35th birthday. It seems like a happy enough occasion, and it was an absolutely gorgeous fall day in the city. So why were the pop and rock stars frowning in every single [...]
Vulture released it’s 25 Most Devoted Fan Bases list today, and you know we immediately clicked through to make sure they had Twihards on there. Of course they did, as well as Mad Men, Harry Potter and a host of other pop culture entities that turn fans into drooling, trembling puddles of love. We couldn’t [...]
The more we think about this story, the more we’d really like to live in a world where Eric and Tami Taylor could run for president (not sure which should be POTUS and which should be VP; maybe they could alternate?). But right now, we live in this world, a world in which Mitt Romney [...]
Are you stuck on what to write for your business blog content? It happens to everyone. Sometimes that sweatshop in the back of the brain pops a gasket, throws some smoke and then grinds to a halt. Question is: How to you break through the associated writer’s block? A business blog can generate a new [...]
Are you stuck on what to write for your business blog content? It happens to everyone. Sometimes that sweatshop in the back of the brain pops a gasket, throws some smoke and then grinds to a halt. Question is: How to you break through the associated writer’s block? A business blog can generate a new [...]
On 666 Park Avenue, which premieres tonight on ABC, Terry O’Quinn and Vanessa Williams play a pair of Manhattan landlords who seem to have some shady dealings with their tenants — which may or may not involve buying up their souls for the man downstairs. Transformers‘ Rachael Taylor and Brothers & Sisters alum Dave Annable [...]
Katy Perry has always been way ahead of the nail game. We know Kelly Osbourne tried to usurp her with her with a $250,000 black diamond manicure. Seriously, she had black diamonds on her nails at the Emmys this weekend, which had a fair amount of people balking at the indulgence of it all. Not [...]
In this article you see the single strategy that, relentlessly engaged, lifts you from where you are now to speaking business success and then to significance. 1. THE PREREQUISITE There’s a prerequisite before you can be a success as a paid public speaker. You first make yourself a success as a marketer of your speaking [...]
In this article you see the single strategy that, relentlessly engaged, lifts you from where you are now to speaking business success and then to significance. 1. THE PREREQUISITE There’s a prerequisite before you can be a success as a paid public speaker. You first make yourself a success as a marketer of your speaking [...]
Humina humina! Is it gross to refer to the new Les Miserables first look video as “musical movie porn”? It is, isn’t it? Very gross? Ah, we see. Forget we said anything! Let’s just watch it a dozen more times on repeat. “It’s going to be different for sure. It’s the first time anyone’s tried [...]
Can anyone ignore the reality of subliminal persuasion, subliminal stimulus and subliminal mind in advertising? Marketing can be a shifty enterprise. Subliminal perception is a method used to produce changes in a person’s behavior through the sensory stimuli that are present just below the threshold of conscious perception. In other words, you may be influenced [...]
Can anyone ignore the reality of subliminal persuasion, subliminal stimulus and subliminal mind in advertising? Marketing can be a shifty enterprise. Subliminal perception is a method used to produce changes in a person’s behavior through the sensory stimuli that are present just below the threshold of conscious perception. In other words, you may be influenced [...]
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing my literary manager, Emmy-nominated film producer and writer Kenneth Atchity about his new thriller, “The Messiah Matrix,” the writing life and the many misconceptions aspiring novelists have about the business of writing. Here’s what he told me. YOU’VE AUTHORED SEVERAL BOOKS OVER THE YEARS, BUT ALL NONFICTION WITH [...]
