Time Life Pictures / Getty ImagesO'Toole on the set of the film 'Svengali' in February of 1982
Some film artists are remembered for, and never allowed to forget, their first big movie. Orson Welles, having made Citizen Kane at 25 in 1941, felt trapped by its achievement and notoriety; the rest of his protean career was seen as a frustrating descent from that cinematic peak. Marlon Brando changed the craft of acting when he played Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire on Broadway in 1949 and in the 1951 movie. Read More...
May 30, 2015 10:47 PM EDT
Beau Biden, a former Delaware Attorney General and the elder son of Vice President Joe Biden, died at 46 following a battle with brain cancer, the Vice President’s office announced Saturday.
An Iraq War veteran and recipient of the Bronze Star, Beau was remembered in a statement for his professional accomplishments and as a family man. “Beau measured himself as a husband, father, son and brother,” the Vice President said. Read More...
Blinking ads, flashing banner ads, singing ads. Escaping advertising was already a hopeless endeavor online in the early 2000s when Web browsers introduced pop-up ads, an almost unavoidable trick by websites to generate revenue. Hundreds of angry Facebook groups have been created to deride pop-up ads. Though pop-up blockers were eventually created, you still never know when you're going to click on a link that will bring a flurry of pop-up ads or freeze the computer screen altogether. Read More...
