At 25, Adrian Sudbury was living life like most of us are. He was a burgeoning journalist planning a future with his girlfriend, playing football and generally living out his young days in the U.K. Two days into a fresh promotion, he called in sick. A few days later he drove himself to a hospital [...] Read More >

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Does anyone else remember the days when excited baby announcements and photos of fresh newborns were a private affair? I walk past newsstands and there’s no doubt, those days are long gone. Celebrities are going from maternity ward to magazine cover with their little bundles of joy poking out of monogrammed baby blankets. What gets [...] Read More >

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Hope. It means to put trust in, to believe in, to desire. It is someone or something that carries your expectation. You can hope for peace, for change, for a better time. Some place hope in a person, in an ideal, or in God. It’s a word we hear often, especially at Christmas time. So [...] Read More >

Tags: believe, better day, boyfriend, change, Christmas, christmas season, deity, desire, expectation, holiday, hope, ideals, Jesus Christ, Money, peace, promise, the future, trust
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The words “he’s just not that into you” originally started out as a line in episode 78 of the 6th season of Sex & the City. Carrie’s boyfriend, Jack Berger, listens to Miranda unravel the events of a date she’s just been on and when asked his opinion, he simply hands her the infamous line. [...] Read More >

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What is the last movie you watched that genuinely stirred your soul? The most recent film that left you with concrete wisdom to put in your hands long after the final credits rolled? I thought about that this week as I popped in a classic, Dead Poets Society. The film debuted nearly two decades ago, [...] Read More >

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Mo Ibrahim, 61, opened his eyes a decade ago and saw what few others recognized. That sub-Saharan Africa was the true growing grounds for the cellphone market. He acted on his premonition, created Celtel and went on to sell it for 3.4 billion in 2004. The Sudanese businessman now wants to open his wallet, take [...] Read More >

Tags: achievement in african leadership prize, africa, african leaders, cellphone, celtel, corruption, fortune, million dollars, mo ibrahim, newsweek
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Apparently that Matthew McConaughey movie Failure to Launch wasn’t just fiction, it was a 2-hour reality showcase. In a Newsweek article titled, “Why I Am Leaving Guyland“, Tony Dokoupil chronicles why the staples of “becoming a man” are being shirked by this generation more than any other in history. “Peter Pans” are running rampant and [...] Read More >

Tags: failure to launch, generation, guyland, isolation, kidults, living at home, man, marriage, matthew mcconaughey, newsweek, peter pan, single, society, this generation, tony dokoupil, tradmark, trend
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Apparantly, Joaquin Pheonix is quiting acting. Best known for his role in films like “Gladiator”, “The Village” and his Oscar-nominated turn as Johnny Cash in “Walk The Line”, the younger brother of the late River Pheonix is retiring at 34. His last performance will be in “Two Lovers, opposite Gwyneth Paltrow. At a premiere of [...] Read More >

Tags: american film institute festival, farewell, film, gladiator, goodbye, gwyneth palrow, joaquin pheonix, johnny cash, movie scripts, music, musician, oscar-nominated, pop culture, premiere, publicity stunt, retirement, river pheonix, the village, two lovers, walk the line
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I read a recent article on the New York Daily News called, “Films on porn & sex addiction are now in pop culture’s mainstream”. Reading the title there’s no guessing what it was about, and from reading it there seems to be some definite emergence of sexual taboos in the media. It’s not just about [...] Read More >

Tags: craving, dr. david eigen, explicit entertainment, films, fulfillment, intimacy, lewis beale, media, new york daily news, pop culture, porn, r-rated, racy, satisfy, sex, sex change, sexual content, sexual taboos
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Free speech is one of the fundamental rights that is highly valued in our society. But people also know that when you drop religion, politics or family trees into a conversation like an anvil, the dirt can fly. This particular anvil is a documentary called Religulous, dropped from none other than Bill Maher, an American [...] Read More >

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