Cormac McCarthy

Viggo Mortensen's intense, Oscar-worthy journey down The Road

In The Road, Viggo Mortensen delivers an award-winning performance as a father desperate to keep he and his son alive in a dying civilization. Viggo talks about preparing for his part, nudity, co-star Charlize Theron and rating...

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"The Twilight Saga: New Moon" takes in over $140 million in opening weekend

Examiner.com "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" takes in over $140 million in opening weekend ... Examiner.com its three-day opening this weekend. It is now number one at the box office. There is no doubt about it. "The Twilight...

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Doomsayers see disaster in our growing debt

Marc Faber, a contrarian investor who writes a monthly newsletter called The Gloom Boom & Doom Report, predicts that the United States is ultimately heading for hyperinflation, where the dollar ends up worth very little. And he...

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Nick Cave Up For “Bad Sex” Award…

Nick Cave only writes about bad sex. Nick Cave’s second novel, The Death Of Bunny Munroe, has been shortlisted for the annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award. The book details the sexual exploits of a traveling salesman named Bunny....

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'The Road' sets out faithfully and earnestly, but doesn't lead anywhere

The stuff is everywhere. It infiltrates the lungs of the protagonist we know only as The Man, who is shepherding his young son (The Boy) across a doomed landscape where most of the earth's few survivors are marauding cannibals....

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Viggo Mortensen: Modern Renaissance Man

The Many Faces of Viggo Mortensen, the Eternal Optimist in the Face of the Apocalypse Viggo Mortensen is a real-life Renaissance man whose abilities transcend his chiseled leading man looks. Actor tells of rough conditions on...

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Best bets: ‘Dancing’ to crown a winner

TV Donny Osmond, Mya or Kelly Osbourne? At least one of those three — Miss Osbourne — wasn't expected to be in the "Dancing With the Stars" finale, and now one of them will take home the most joked-about trophy of all time, the...

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Mark your calendars: The world will end on Dec. 21, 2012 -- or will it?

Tony Williams, a pastor at Aphesis Apostolic Ministry in Fresno, believes the rapture is at hand and people need to prepare by accepting God. Although end-of-times prophecies have bubbled up from the Bible to Nostradamus, the...

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Mount St. Helens lands starring role in movie 'The Road'

for scenes in John Hillcoat’s film “The Road.” Production crews spent a day in July 2008 filming scenes from the post-apocalypse movie on the east side of the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument. While the devastation...

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BrotherSisterIncest: Literature

though not present in the main narrative, is an important part of Estraven's backstory and love life (which is... complicated.) Vladimir Nabokov's Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle chronicles an incestuous family with a focus on...

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