Rachel McAdams joining Woody Allen film
Rachel McAdams is in negotiations to star opposite Owen Wilson and Marion Cotillard in Woody Allen’s untitled movie scheduled to shoot in the summer. ● More from: hollywoodreporter.com
Sarah Palin Shopping Around Reality Show
Is Sarah Palin about to go Hollywood?
The former Alaska governor and Republican Vice Presidential candidate is taking meetings in Tinseltown to produce a TV docudrama about her home state, Entertainment Weekly reports. Palin’s partner in crime is Mark Burnett, the successful TV producer behind Survivor, The Apprentice and other blockbusters. One source claims the show would be a “planet-Earth type look” at the chilly state. ● More from: UsMagazine.com
At least 36 die using Washintong state’s new Death with Dignity law
In the first 10 months of Washington’s Death with Dignity Act, allowing doctors to prescribe lethal medication for terminally ill patients, 63 patients filled the prescription for the lethal dose, but not all who later died had taken it, according to a report released Thursday by the state Department of Health.
Of the 47 patients who received the medication and later died, 36 had taken the lethal dose and 7 died without taking it. Four others died, but it’s not known whether they took the medication. ● More from: Seattle Times Newspaper
Northwest warm weather downside: drought worries
Through his hotel window in one of the state’s top winter playgrounds, a man who roams the state measuring Washington’s mountain snows saw little beyond a brown sea of dirt and mud. ● More from: Seattle Times Newspaper
Getting the Most Out of Twitter, No Posting Necessary
A COMMON reason given by those who have yet to try Twitter: “I have nothing to say.”
The truth is, you don’t have to post a message to get the most out of Twitter. ● More from: NYTimes.com
Bullock, Bridges other nominees join Oscar crew
Academy Awards front-runners Sandra Bullock and Jeff Bridges and at least four other nominees are hitting the Oscar stage as presenters. ● More from: omg! news on Yahoo!
YouTube Launches Auto-Captions For All Videos
I’m here at YouTube’s office in San Bruno, where the company is holding a press conference to discuss the launch of auto-captions. YouTube Director of Product Management Hunter Walk kicked off the event by discussing some of YouTube’s goals through the years — one of which is accessibility. ● More from: techcrunch.com
How much caffeine do you need to get you through the day?
A study conducted last year showed Tampa loves its caffeine.
Now, regulars at Starbucks can super-size that love. ● More from: www2.tbo.com
The Man Who Was Allergic to Radio Waves
Your cellphone does not in itself cause cancer. But in the daily sea of radiation we all travel, there may be subtler dangers at work, and science is only just beginning to understand how they can come to affect people like Per Segerbäck so intensely ● More from: Popular Science
And the Gender-Neutral Oscar Goes To…
MANY hours into the 82nd Academy Awards ceremony this Sunday, the Oscar for best actor will go to Morgan Freeman, Jeff Bridges, George Clooney, Colin Firth or Jeremy Renner. Suppose, however, that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented separate honors for best white actor and best non-white actor, and that Mr. Freeman was prohibited from competing against the likes of Mr. Clooney and Mr. Bridges. Surely, the academy would be derided as intolerant and out of touch; public outcry would swiftly ensure that Oscar nominations never again fell along racial lines. ● More from: Op-Ed Contributor – NYTimes.com
Tiger Woods’s Caddy: I Would Have Blown the Whistle
Tiger Woods’s secrets would not have been safe with his longtime caddy, Steve Williams, had Williams known about the golfer’s string of affairs. ● More from: People.com
The Best Jokes You Won’t Hear at the Oscars
Hosting the Oscars is no easy task. Just ask David Letterman. (Remember the “Uma…Oprah” bit?)
Keeping the show moving and the audience laughing for as long as four hours requires a lot of humor. But not just any humor – OSCAR humor.
To help out this year’s co-hosts Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, Fox411 was has come up with some award-worthy jokes. We think they’re pretty funny, and bet that the Academy (and Oscar audience) will, too. ● More from: FOXNews.com
James Cameron Okays Avatar Oscar Skit
On Tuesday, we told you about the Avatar-themed Ben Stiller–Sacha Baron Cohen skit that was cut from Sunday’s Oscars to spare James Cameron’s feelings. But now the HMFIC swears to E!’s Christina Gibson that he’d have been okay with it: “I don’t know anything about that … I don’t produce the Oscars. If they want to poke fun at Avatar Sunday, that’s okay by me.” ● More from: nymag.com
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Like the selection as usual. Hello Rachel. Goodbye Scarlett. On paper Baldwin and Martin should kill at the Oscars. I Agree with Kim Elsesser of the Center for the Study of Women on gender-neutral Oscars and dividing competition between drama and comedy/musical categories. I loved the Twitter piece. I may check out local apps..