Like any city, Los Angeles has its upsides and drawbacks. One major benefit of living in Los Angeles, I’m learning, are the pretty fancy and very free cocktails parties that accompany film screenings.
On October 23, 2001, Steve Jobs launched what he described as a “revolutionary” product known as the iPod, to which many Mac enthusiasts responded: “YOU SUCK, JOBS! WHERE ARE OUR SEX ROBOTS AND TELEPORTATION PDAs?!”
You could call Steve Jobs a filmed adaptation of a book. Or, more accurately, you could call it a filmed adaptation of a book that’s structured like a play. More simply, you could just call it a filmed play. And—if you wanted to get complicated—you could call it a film based on a book based on a man and written in the…
During a Steve Jobs screening on Monday night in New York, the movie’s screenwriter Aaron Sorkin explained his approach to writing female characters, which has long been a major point of criticism against him.
At today’s big Apple event, the tech company unveiled plenty of new toys for its loyal consumers. Among them was a new iPad Pro - a 12.9” tablet with a beautiful screen and powerful processor.
In HBO's upcoming Beyoncéumentary Life Is But A Dream, Beyoncé publicly discusses her pre-Blue Ivy miscarriage for the first time, which Jay-Z referenced in his song "Glory" (recorded days after Blue Ivy's birth).
When this news first broke, people assumed it had to be an April Fool's joke, because that is how much of a stretch it is. But, alas, it appears to be legit. Variety is reporting that Ashton Kutcher has signed on to play Steve Jobs in a new movie called Jobs. You can see how Kutcher could look like Jobs, with the…
After introducing a much-anticipated 12-inch Steve Jobs doll, the company that designed it has said it will not to sell the figurine after all. Bummer. It looked awesome and even had the black turtleneck and could hold onto a tiny apple! The company, In Icons, had originally said that they'd bring the doll to market…
Tyra Banks' YA novel Modelland just débuted at number 2 on the New York Times' best-seller list, children's chapter books section. You can read an excerpt — this is the story with the protagonist named Tookie De La Creme, remember — here. [NewNowNext]
nabbed the cover of Australian 's November issue (cover line:…
Steve Jobs's 2005 Stanford commencement speech was already widely cited before his death — now that he's died, it's shaping up to be one of the most famous graduation speeches in recent memory, second perhaps to David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water" address at Kenyon. I graduated from Stanford in 2005, and I got in…
Apple's iPad announcement earlier this afternoon prompted a score of WTFing across the internet, prompting many to ask, "Are there any women on Apple's marketing team?" Answer: Apparently not. (Period.)
"Thin is the new pink for laptops" proclaims the Wall Street Journal in response to yesterday's MacWorld unveiling of the HUGEST BIGGEST MOST EXCITING SUPERSLIM SKINNIEST $1,799 laptop ever. The MacBook Air, in case you're not a regular reader of the big brother blog that pays all our salaries, is thin. Very thin.…
There's something creepy about a man with his neck half-covered. We were reminded of this fact this past Friday, when the world experienced the one-two punch of the evil Steve Jobs-orchestrated iPhone mania and that 20/20 report on former fashion writer/current felon Peter Braunstein. What do the Apple CEO and a…
Camping out for consumer goods is sort of a boy thing. Boys are always lining up for sneakers and XBox games, but you don't see women camp out at Target and H&M days before the next hotly-anticipated high-low JV. Do you? [Uh, yes. -Ed.] Well whatever. The iPhone is supposed to be insanely coveted among women — …
