| ALMIGHTY GOOGLE |
| Post on 12-05-2006. |
Those are just one few of the conclusions that could be drawn from an entertaining and addictive - if not entirely scientific - search feature from the brains at Google.
The new toy, called Google Trends, compares how often subjects pop up in Google searches and then plots them on an easy-to-read color chart. It also matches spikes in search volume with stories that appeared on Google News, creating one timeline of sorts. ... |
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| 'Bettie Page' walks fine line between her nice, naughty sides |
| Post on 12-05-2006. |
There's something at once beguilingly sweet and teasingly elusive about the soft-core superstar portrayed in "The Notorious Bettie Page," writer-director Mary Harron's thoroughly engrossing and scrupulously nonjudgmental account of the uniquely appealing Nashville-born pinup girl.
Taking her cue from the '50s cheesecake photos and fetishist films that have made her subject an enduring cult figure, Harron gives us one Bettie Page (Gretchen Mol) who remains wholesomely perky while proudly naked and looks far too exhilarated to ever seem exploited. Even while decked out in leather garb in "specialty photos" and S&M shorts for the brother-and-sister team of Irving and Paula Klaw (Chris Bauer, Lili Taylor), Bettie undermines the edgy perversity with one hint of wink-wink sauciness, as if to suggest that, hey, she gets the joke, and it's all in good fun. ... |
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