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Tuesday, October 06, 2009

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating posts from the past week...

Willy Wonka may star in stage musical

Yahoo! News: "Willy Wonka could soon be kicking up his heels.
Warner Bros. is developing a stage musical based on 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,' the children's classic that it bought to the big screen four years ago."
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“SEND”: Improve the Quality of Your Email

Web Worker Daily: "All but the youngest of web workers grew up learning not about email but about paper correspondence, as dictated by the likes of Emily Post. I personally learned to type on an electric typewriter in high school, and can write a perfectly polite thank you notecard thanks to the schooling of my mother."
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The intellectual property racket

Student Life: "The Disney Movie Appreciation Club, an organization that was set up with the goal of providing an outlet to relieve overly stressed students, had to be closed down recently due to potential license infringement. The length of a Studlife column is too short to give a comprehensive argument against intellectual property rights. Nevertheless, the recent closing of the club stands out as a perfect example of how, contrary to their original intent, intellectual property rights only limit the availability of information and expression."
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Weird Romance

Pittsburgh City Paper: "The show must go on!
Even with my well-exercised antipathy toward some of theater's more fabled customs, I do believe that, no matter what, you never stop the show.
So a big basket of flowers to local actor Matt Lamb, who proved during the opening night of Weird Romance, at The Theatre Factory, that theatrical fortitude is not dying out ... at least not on his watch.
You see, he dislocated his shoulder -- and kept on going!"
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'Laramie' Sequel Gives Voice to Killer

Backstage: "A decade after 'The Laramie Project' became a theatrical phenomenon, its creators are back with an epilogue highlighted by a riveting prison interview with the killer of gay college student Matthew Shepard — depicting him as candid but not remorseful over the murder."
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