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Actors union relents in tentative studio deal

Technology / Business

created Apr 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The Screen Actors Guild and the Hollywood studios said Friday they have reached a tentative deal on movie and prime-time TV show productions, capping a yearlong battle that ended with the Guild giving up its fight ...





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Walking, talking and memory

Walking, talking and memory

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- How easy is it to walk, talk and remember what was said? Dr Dee Way studied how actors learn a script and whether walking affects their memory performance.


Robots perform Shakespeare to learn how to save people

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Flying robot fairies are joining human actors in Texas A&M University?s production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, which runs through Sunday (Nov. 15) in the Rudder Forum.


Association marks 20 years of greening Hollywood (AP)

Association marks 20 years of greening Hollywood

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- With local, organic food, minimal electricity use and on-site composting, the Environmental Media Association's 20th anniversary party might be the green standard for future Hollywood awards shows.


Giant alien robots start life as sketches (AP)

Giant alien robots start life as sketches

Technology / Hi Tech

created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 5

(AP) -- Giant alien robots don't actually exist. So the dozens featured in "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" had to be built from the ground up.


Tobacco companies paid movie stars millions in celebrity endorsement deals

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 25, 2008 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (12) | comments 2

Tobacco companies paid the Hollywood A-listers of the 1930s and 1940s millions of dollars in today's money to endorse particular brands of cigarette, under contract, reveals research in Tobacco Control.


Fox adds on-air tweets to `Fringe' reruns (AP)

Fox adds on-air tweets to 'Fringe' reruns

Technology / Internet

created Sep 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Summer reruns are ho-hum television, but Fox is trying out a possible solution: Add Twitter.


High court won't block remote storage DVR system

Technology / Telecom

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Cable TV operators won a key legal battle against Hollywood studios and television networks on Monday as the Supreme Court declined to block a new digital video recording system that could make it even easier for ...


Microsoft says some Windows PCs get 'Black Screen'

Technology / Software

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. says it's not to blame for a problem that is causing a "limited" number of Windows computers to boot up to a blank black screen.


Haptics Jacket

Watch, Listen, and Feel Movies with a Haptics Jacket

Technology / Hi Tech

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 4 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes you may feel a shiver go up your spine as you're watching a chilling movie scene, but a new jacket can actually give you a real shiver. The haptics jacket, designed by scientists ...


Study examines how much is too much visual information when it comes to learning

Study examines how much is too much visual information when it comes to learning

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It’s been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. But with advances in computer graphics capabilities, more recent cognitive theory related to multimedia learning suggests that very ...



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