LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Time magazine beat out Esquire, New York, The New Yorker and Popular Mechanics on Thursday night to be named "Magazine of the Year" at the National Magazine Awards. The news weekly was honored for its coverage of the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, the death of Apple founder Steve Jobs and its "Person of the Year" issue, as well as for its website. The ceremony in New York City was organized by the American Society of Magazine Editors and Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. ...
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Time wins Magazine of the Year award
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Time magazine beat out Esquire, New York, The New Yorker and Popular Mechanics on Thursday night to be named "Magazine of the Year" at the National Magazine Awards. The news weekly was honored for its coverage of the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, the death of Apple founder Steve Jobs and its "Person of the Year" issue, as well as for its website. The ceremony in New York City was organized by the American Society of Magazine Editors and Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. ...
Time wins Magazine of the Year award
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Time magazine beat out Esquire, New York, The New Yorker and Popular Mechanics on Thursday night to be named "Magazine of the Year" at the National Magazine Awards. The news weekly was honored for its coverage of the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, the death of Apple founder Steve Jobs and its "Person of the Year" issue, as well as for its website. The ceremony in New York City was organized by the American Society of Magazine Editors and Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. ...
Bret Easton Ellis taps Kickstarter for next film
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Bret Easton Ellis and Paul Schrader are tapping into the power of crowdsourcing for their upcoming joint project, "The Canyons." The author-director team made their pitch to the masses via a Kickstarter campaign launched by the film's producer, Braxton Pope, on Thursday. Through their populist appeal, the trio makes a convincing play for movie buffs' lunch money by offering some big perks to would-be donors in hopes of pulling in $100,000 by June 9. ...
Bret Easton Ellis taps Kickstarter for next film
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Bret Easton Ellis and Paul Schrader are tapping into the power of crowdsourcing for their upcoming joint project, "The Canyons." The author-director team made their pitch to the masses via a Kickstarter campaign launched by the film's producer, Braxton Pope, on Thursday. Through their populist appeal, the trio makes a convincing play for movie buffs' lunch money by offering some big perks to would-be donors in hopes of pulling in $100,000 by June 9. ...
'The Avengers' for those who don't read comic books
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "The Avengers" assemble this weekend in what many box office analysts are predicting will be the biggest opening in movie history. It's an event that Marvel Studios, the company behind the superhero films, has been building up to since "Iron Man" opened in 2008, teasing the super-team flick in each men-in-tights film it sends to theaters. But not everybody grew up reading comics or had the time to watch the nearly half-dozen films that led up to the blockbuster hopeful. ...
'The Avengers' for those who don't read comic books
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "The Avengers" assemble this weekend in what many box office analysts are predicting will be the biggest opening in movie history. It's an event that Marvel Studios, the company behind the superhero films, has been building up to since "Iron Man" opened in 2008, teasing the super-team flick in each men-in-tights film it sends to theaters. But not everybody grew up reading comics or had the time to watch the nearly half-dozen films that led up to the blockbuster hopeful. ...
Supermodel Evangelista: French billionaire wanted abortion
NEW YORK (Reuters) - When supermodel Linda Evangelista told French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault in 2006 she was pregnant with his child, he asked her to get an abortion, her attorney charged Thursday on the first day of a child-support trial in Manhattan. Pinault, 49, who is currently married to actress Salma Hayek, denied that charge but testified he told Evangelista that "if she were to have a child (they) might not have a relationship." With that a four-month relationship, in which he said the couple only actually saw each other seven days, came to an end. ...
Supermodel Evangelista: French billionaire wanted abortion
NEW YORK (Reuters) - When supermodel Linda Evangelista told French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault in 2006 she was pregnant with his child, he asked her to get an abortion, her attorney charged Thursday on the first day of a child-support trial in Manhattan. Pinault, 49, who is currently married to actress Salma Hayek, denied that charge but testified he told Evangelista that "if she were to have a child (they) might not have a relationship." With that a four-month relationship, in which he said the couple only actually saw each other seven days, came to an end. ...
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