Boy A, 2007 (dir. John Crowley)
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Bush, A Suggestive Topiary Street Art Installation by Banksy
Anthony Bourdain's Novel 'Bone in the Throat' to Be Made Into a Film | NY Daily News
‘Throat’ is a food and mob story about an Italian restaurant in Little Italy. The film version will relocate the story to London.
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Reality Bites (1994)
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Beastie Boys fans trying to get New York park named after Adam Yauch
And Adam “Adrock” Horowitz is working on getting another park fixed up in Yauch’s honor. Good stuff.
HBO Developing Comedy Series Starring Catherine Keener And Written & Directed By Charlie Kaufman
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Four climbers died over the weekend as a rush of adventurers tried to reach the top of Mount Everest, creating what Nepali mountaineering official Gyanendra Shrestha described as a “traffic jam.” With so many people crowding the world’s highest peak, many have to spend more time at high altitudes than they should, forcing them to use up their oxygen, and increasing the chances that the notoriously perilous climb will prove deadly. This weekend, another crowd is expected to exploit a narrow window of good weather as they scramble for the summit. Here, a look at the risks of scaling Everest, by the numbers:
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Climbers who died last weekend. They were apparently killed from exhaustion and altitude sickness as they descended from the summit.2
Nepalese guides who died on the mountain last month
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Deaths on Everest in 1996, the most deadly climbing season on record
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Deaths on May 10, 1996, the deadliest day since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to reach the mountain’s summit in 1953. Climbers became vulnerable to a late-afternoon snowstorm.
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Climber who dies for every 10 successful ascents to Everest’s summit
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People who have died trying to climb the 29,035-foot Everest
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Low end of the average temperature range, in degrees Fahrenheit, at the top of Everest. The high end of the range is -4 degrees.
Tina Fey on 7 Minutes in Heaven with Mike O’Brien
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Kay Eiffel: As Harold took a bite of Bavarian sugar cookie, he finally felt as if everything was going to be ok. Sometimes, when we lose ourselves in fear and despair, in routine and constancy, in hopelessness and tragedy, we can thank God for Bavarian sugar cookies. And, fortunately, when there aren’t any cookies, we can still find reassurance in a familiar hand on our skin, or a kind and loving gesture, or subtle encouragement, or a loving embrace, or an offer of comfort, not to mention hospital gurneys and nose plugs, an uneaten Danish, soft-spoken secrets, and Fender Stratocasters, and maybe the occasional piece of fiction. And we must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days, are effective for a much larger and nobler cause. They are here to save our lives. I know the idea seems strange, but I also know that it just so happens to be true. And, so it was, a wristwatch saved Harold Crick.» Stranger Than Fiction (2006) (dir. Marc Forster)
