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California investigators searched Monday for thieves who made off with an estimated $2 million in precious gems and gold from a mining museum in the Sierra Nevada foothills during a brazen daytime robbery.
via Yahoo! News – Latest News & Headlines http://news.yahoo.com/2-million-gems-gold-stolen-calif-museum-173840038.html
Lena Dunham’s literary agents are shopping her first book for over $1 million, Slate reports. Dunham has written and submitted a detailed proposal and sample chapters and will meet with the top five bidders on Friday. Inspired by late Cosmo editor Helen Gurley Brown’s Having It All, Dunham’s book, tentatively titled Not That Kind of Girl, is billed as a collection of self-deprecating personal essays that double as advice/cautionary tales, which is a little alarming because up until now I’d just been living my life according to her hit HBO series, Girls. Is that not how you’re supposed to do it?
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via Vulture http://nymag.com/thecut/2012/10/lena-dunhams-advice-worth-at-least-1-million.html
Two sequences from Dr. Strangelove done in Lego.
This is really well done. (via bb)
Tags: Dr. Strangelove  Legos  movies  Stop-motion  video
via kottke.org http://kottke.org/12/10/stop-motion-lego-dr-strangelove
No Republican candidate this season seems safe from being tagged as an extremist.
via POLITICO – TOP Stories http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/81885.html
In Switzerland, where cows are under stress to be more productive and are showing fewer signs of being in heat, a new device lets farmers know when the time is right.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/world/europe/device-sends-message-to-swiss-farmer-when-cow-is-in-heat.html
Robert Lustyik, an F.B.I. agent in New York, is charged with participating in a multimillion-dollar international plot that involved an Army lieutenant colonel and a defense contractor.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/nyregion/lured-by-promises-of-wealth-fbi-agent-was-drawn-into-fraud-scheme-prosecutors-say.html
During the last pilot development season, 5 actors bonded while shooting Downwardly Mobile for NBC, a sitcom starring Roseanne Barr. Now Jason Antoon, Mary Birdsong, Greg Cromer, Tricia O’Kelley, and Romy Rosemont come together on YouTube for Bitter, Party Of 5. Here’s Episode 1 where they start out calling NBC Entertainment honcho Bob Greenblatt’s office to learn whether their pilot was picked up and, well, you can guess the rest. But I applaud the pluck:
via Deadline.com http://www.deadline.com/2012/10/actors-from-rejected-nbc-tv-pilot-start-youtube-show-bitter-party-of-5-video/
Victoria White is seeking a producing credit and compensation for the adaptation.
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via Hollywood Reporter http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/lifetime-steel-magnolias-lawsuit-375548
Some of New York City’s actions against the demonstrators, who were marching during the Republican National Convention, were upheld in federal court.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/nyregion/protesters-arrests-during-2004-gop-convention-are-ruled-illegal.html
The Relativity Media CEO tells THR that the magazine had “an agenda” to “inflict serious harm” to his company.
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via Hollywood Reporter – THR, Esq. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/ryan-kavanaugh-relativity-lawsuit-ron-burkle-new-yorker-375528