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HP is suing the German subsidiary of a Korean company for violating its printer ink patents.
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As we enter day two of the strike, news is scarce, hopeful presidential candidates have come out to support the writers and those on strike are turning to Craigslist for new jobs. First off, I'll need to apologize for us not churning out our usual number of posts each day as movie news is pretty slim this week. We're doing the best we can, but don't be surprised if you stumble upon a few random posts as we struggle to come up with content. Oh yes, there are some writers still working. So what's the latest with the strike? Is there a deal yet? And what does Hilary Clinton think of the whole what-to-do? Well, the strike is still ongoing, folks (including writers and actors) were picketing all day yesterday and are expected to do the same today. Here's what Clinton had to say (courtesy of Deadline Hollywood): "I support the Writers Guild's pursuit of a fair contract that pays them for their work in all mediums. I hope the producers and writers will return to the bargaining table to work out an equitable contract that keeps our entertainment industry strong and recognizes the contributions writers make to the success of the industry." Additionally, Barack Obama and John Edwards have both come forward with their support for the writers.
So what are writers doing when they're not on the picket lines? Well, they're on Craigslist looking for new jobs. And it's not just the writers either; check this ad out: "So this is what it has come down to. I am about to become an unemployed executive due to the writers strike. Perhaps my loss is your family's gain. I am a mother of a 5 year old which translates to 5 years nanny experience. I have employed a nanny so I know what's expected." I love the way she finishes her ad: "Email me if you think I might work for your needs. Hopefully we weren't competing for a spec once upon a time." Ha! Nice. Only in LA.
Apart from that ad, there's a couple writers looking to be personal taxis and another ad that claims the WGAW is hiring blacklisted writers to help fill in for late night television shows. In a statement from WGAW President Patric Verrone last night, he said (among other things): "Based on what I saw and heard on the picket lines today, therefore, all bets are off and what we achieve in this negotiation will be a function of how much we are willing to fight to get our fair share of the residuals of the future, no matter how they are delivered." More updates as they come in ...
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Paris Hilton isn't really an heiress. She stands to inherit little from the Hilton hotel fortune and has to work for a living. She was pushed into the spotlight by her mother and maternal grandmother. She makes up stories. She inspired the new word celebutante (and celebutard). Zsa Zsa Gabor and Liz Taylor are among the cast of in-laws. And her wild escapades are firmly in the Hilton family tradition of comic, tragic, amoral, pill-popping, boozing and sexually-athletic lives in a dynasty that began when her great-granddad started a global empire with a backwater Texas fleabag.
Those, in a nutshell, are highlights of the new book, House of Hilton-- From Conrad to Paris: A Drama of Wealth, Power, and Privilege, the definitely unauthorized biography that's published on Tuesday.
Network news divisions got skittish about calling presidential elections following their colossally terrible performance in 2000. In case you forgot, they all called Florida for Al Gore, then uncalled it, then called it for Bush (following in the trustworthy footsteps of Fox News!), then uncalled the whole election. Their newfound prudence was rewarded in 2004 when leaked exit polls said John Kerry has the whole thing in the bag (oops). But this year the TV guys have their swagger back. Here's a CBS News executive telling the Times why California can suck it:
“We could know Virginia at 7,” he said. “We could know Indiana before 8. We could know Florida at 8. We could know Pennsylvania at 8. We could know the whole story of the election with those results. We can’t be in this position of hiding our heads in the sand when the story is obvious.”
Eight o'clock on the East coast is, of course, before most voters in California even get off work.
CBS News is not the only one that's cocky! Slate is refusing to "engage in a weird Kabuki drama that pretends McCain could win California," editor David Plotz told the Times. NBC News said it's an "unfortunate circumstance" that it may be calling the election before polls close elsewhere, but OH WELL.
It's actually true, as we said ourselves, that the whole thing could be wrapped up around 8 p.m. There's really no way California is going for McCain or Texas for Obama. But an early call for Obama could hold down Democratic turnout in California, thus helping anti-gay-marriage Proposition 8 as well as Proposition 4, which imposes certain restrictions on abortion rights.
Not that the nets will or should care about those unintended side effects. Where they should probably be careful is in calling the swing states. With interest in this election so intense, and cable and online competition at new highs, the pressure to extrapolate from early precinct returns in states like Ohio, Indiana and Florida will be high. Exit polls, set for initial release at 5 p.m., will add only add to the pressure.
And the "swing" states only start to matter if the election ends up way closer than is now expected. As things stand at present, it looks like the only real dilemma will be determining when Obama supporters should put their elitist French champagne on ice.
Fuck The Secret! Emily Post, er, Kanye “Mr. Manners” West is dropping a whole book full of his patented scientificalesensce on yo head come this January. Just in time for… Christmas? You’re welcome! Let’s let the man inside the teddy bear costume tell you all about his upcoming $10 dillio:
It’s dope….10 bucks. I teamed up with co-author J. Sakiya Sandifer to make my literary debut with Thank You And You’re Welcome, an entertaining volume of “Kanye-isms “— the creative, humorous and insightful philosophies and anecdotes used in creating my path to success. It captures the same wit, playful irony, and piercing insight found abundant in my lyrics. In Thank You And You’re Welcome! I deliver my personal message uncensored, without any five-second delay or media distortion. I’ll post some sample pages within a week…
His personal message, uncensored? Finally!!! Right!? Oh, and in case you’re wondering, J. Sakiya Sandifer is a black man. You’re welcome! (via nahright)
Some companies kinda want to get sued. Amex Digital must be fully lawyer-loaded with the IT-N501 i Talk Nano. It's a fairly sexy Skype phone that comes in iWhite or iBlack, includes an LCD display, features speakerphone and caller ID, and will still only run you $25.
Seems like a bargain until you remember that the press photos never include the entirely necessary USB cable sticking out the phone's butt. So while Amex Digital claims the phone is "Easy to use like mobile phone," the only way you get a mobile phone is the old fashion way - with about 300 feet worth of cords. We guess it could be a nice Skype introduction for the parents who just got used to their cell phone layout, but we will probably buy it out of pity for the Apple wannabe. We buy a lot of crap. – Mark Wilson
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An astute observer of the realms of both politics and portraiture must by now know that Rudy Giuliani is a man of many faces. He's America's mayor, a gun-hating 'bortion-craving conservative. He frowns on civil liberties. He's married, then unmarried and then married again, sometimes to cousins. And yet Catholic. He had cancer. He's a pupa, a chrysalis and a butterfly! Also he is the World Trade Center. Through the throes of his complex and multi-hued transformations, Philip Burke has captured the man for the pages of the New York Observer and sometimes for the New Yorker. What can these paintings tell us about their subject—and hey, about ourselves?
The first internet-extent Philip Burke Giuliani portrait dates back to a May 29, 2000 Observer piece. It was 12 days after Giuliani had announced that he and his wife had separated. The work features a bespectacled Giuliani, his head cocked slighty. His hawkish features are softened by a certain challenging directness that hovers between confrontation and vulnerability. His gray hair, soon enough to evaporate, still crowds the horizon of his head. His hands are small and red and clasped together like a penitent asking the forgiveness of the city. The painting is available for $30,500.00 through the LB Madison Gallery.
To illustrate Jason Horowitz's article about Rudy's prenatal presidential campaign, Burke drew on the classic 1994 comedy Junior, in which Arnold Schwarzenegger plays an impregnated man. Like Ulysses, allusion and multivalence course through and below the work. The reference to Junior, which starred a liberal Republican Governor of California, underscores what Giuliani had hoped might have been a reputation as a uniter. Sadly, it was not to be! His presidential pregnancy, 
surely showing precociously for its first trimester, was on the rocks. His buffalo stance on abortion—he is "ok" with it and "ok" with not it—raised the question whether his nascent dreams for the White House should be terminated early. In this picture, Rudy still wears the same expression as he did in 2000. But as his presidential star ascended, that would all change.
In the latest representation of Giuliani, accompanying this week's cover story "Rudy's Doin' It," the pear-shaped Giuliani is gone. In fact, leading in the Republican field, Giuliani's legs look like tiny dangling participles unable to support his massive torso. His face has gotten fatter. 
The worried creases of his forehead (a penitent mayor, a worried candidate) have disappeared. Instead, his lipless mouth is parted in a supercilious smile. Farewell Giuliani of Amadou Diallo. Hello America's Mayor! Also, there's a cray-cray looking bitch next to him. That would be his newest wife. This Giuliani borders on Cro-Magnon. His knuckles barely clear the floor. He's wearing clown shoes. As Giuliani becomes a caricature for the public, so too does his caricaturist give free reign to his malevolent dysmorphic pen.
Recently, the New Yorker got in on some Burke action, recruiting the artist to illustrate a piece that is basically just a longer version of the Observer one. 
Gone are the scurvy yellow and gangreens of Burke's work for the Observer. Rudy's skin is ruddy. His cheeks are rosy. The eyes squint but in the New Yorker they glimmer too. His chin, in one publication a crooked grotesque cantilever, is in the other straightened into a comforting gentle "U." But compared to earlier Giuliani's, it's safe to say that his most recent incarnations are looking entirely too presidential.
Just how personal did Tip get on <i>Paper Trail</i>? The MC takes Sway behind the scenes of his latest songs.
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