http://www.thesunnews.com/766/index.xml News, sports and entertainment from TheSunNews.com en-us Copyright 2012 TheSunNews.com zzz-Ad Ops Test 60 02/10/12 02:48:02 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys online@MyrtleBeachOnline.com http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/02/09/2650211/vow-co-stars-mcadams-and-tatum.html http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/02/09/2650211/vow-co-stars-mcadams-and-tatum.html Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:08 EST LOS ANGELES - Although they're just co-stars in the new tear-jerker romance "The Vow," if you didn't know any better it'd be easy to think Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams are an old married couple.<p/> The actors laugh at each others jokes, finish each other's sentences and compliment each other like a couple who have been together longer than the weeks it takes to make a movie.<p/> That chemistry helps sell the story of a woman who emerges from a coma with no memory of her marriage. It's up to her husband to find a way to restore those memories. http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/02/09/2650197/watching-tv-is-different-experience.html http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/02/09/2650197/watching-tv-is-different-experience.html Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:53 EST How we watch television keeps changing. It's not only that people are recording shows for viewing later. It's that they can call up the shows from on-demand channels, or watch them on their laptops, phones or tablets. Even the Super Bowl is available as live, streaming video to computers and selected phones.<p/> And our viewing opportunity does not end there. Beyond the shows that have broadcast or cable bases, there is the array of created-for-online video, from big-name productions like the sketches on the Funny Or Die website to the bazillions of cat videos on YouTube.<p/> When I might have been watching one of the hundreds of TV channels I get on cable, I have at times turned to the Internet instead, seeking a live feed from a University of Akron soccer game; even when the video was crude and the audio nonexistent, it was something I wanted to see and was not going to get from a traditional TV service. More often, like many people, my wife and I have sat in front of a program on our big-screen TV set while watching other things on our respective laptops. http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/02/09/2650172/50-cent-visits-famine-victims.html http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/02/09/2650172/50-cent-visits-famine-victims.html Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:43 EST Rapper 50 Cent is teaming up with the World Food Program to see firsthand the effects of hunger in Somalia and Kenya.<p/>The rap star flew to Dolo, Somalia, on Wednesday. Tens of thousands of women and children have fled there over the last year to flee a devastating famine that killed tens of thousands of people across Somalia.<p/>WFP said the rapper, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, has committed to provide 1 billion meals for the hungry, and is donating to WFP 10 cents from every sale of a new energy drink called Street King that he is promoting. http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/02/09/2648762/top-itunes-movie-downloads.html http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/02/09/2648762/top-itunes-movie-downloads.html Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:33 EST Top 10 movies downloaded from the iTunes Store for Feb. 8:<p/> 1. "Drive"<p/> 2. "In Time" http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/02/09/2650081/secrets-revealed-on-the-new-twilight.html http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/02/09/2650081/secrets-revealed-on-the-new-twilight.html Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:33 EST When it comes to driving a speedboat, Robert Pattinson is not nearly as suave as vampire Edward Cullen. And you might think Kristen Stewart is no dummy, but she is, at least in some scenes.<p/> That's just some of what we learned from the extras on the "Twilight: Breaking Dawn - Part 1" DVD, coming out Saturday:<p/> "I went for a lesson and crashed the practice boat," Pattinson admits, sheepishly, when explaining his prep for his character's honeymoon jaunt with his bride. "And then I went to Brazil and crashed the Brazilian boat, too. I am definitely not nautical." http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/02/09/2650076/the-vow.html http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/02/09/2650076/the-vow.html Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:18 EST "The Vow" is like a Nicholas Sparks novel with a dash of wit, a hint of edge and a smidgen less sap. It's a romance in "The Notebook" tradition - "inspired by true events" and scripted by committee. But as such concoctions go, it's not half bad.<p/> Not that there aren't bad, insipid things about it. Start with the narration, and the narrator, Leo, played by Channing Tatum with as much lovesick charm as he can muster. Leo blathers on about "moments of impact" that "turn our lives upside down" and "define who we are." The movie he introduces with that assertion doesn't have much to do with "moments," though. It just sounded good. Well, maybe coming out of someone else's mouth.<p/> Leo's remembering the all-consuming love he shared with Paige, played by the always winsome Rachel McAdams. Leo has to remember, because Paige, as we learn 15 minutes into the film, has lost her memory in a snowy car accident. Not all of it - just the last five years, her years with Leo. http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/02/09/2649990/heather-mills-says-mccartney-calls.html http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/02/09/2649990/heather-mills-says-mccartney-calls.html Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:10 EST She squared off against former Beatle Paul McCartney in divorce court; on Thursday, Heather Mills took on Piers Morgan at Britain's media ethics inquiry.<p/>The ex-model trashed Morgan's earlier testimony, saying that one of her private voicemails, which was played to the CNN interviewer and former tabloid editor, could have been obtained only through phone hacking.<p/>Mills spoke under oath at Lord Justice Brian Leveson's inquiry into the practices of Britain's scandal-hit press, and said two dozen messages left for her by the former Beatle were intercepted by a journalist working for British newspaper group Trinity Mirror. http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/02/09/2649989/jersey-city-clears-jersey-shore.html http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/02/09/2649989/jersey-city-clears-jersey-shore.html Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:49 EST Jersey City taxpayers won't be footing the bill for police assigned to security for the women of "Jersey Shore" and all the attention that comes with them.<p/>New Jersey's second largest city has issued a permit to producers to film a spinoff of the reality series, featuring Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi and Jenni "JWoww" Farley. Filming is expected to begin later this month in the city's Grove Street Path neighborhood.<p/>Police spokesman Edgar Martinez said Thursday the production company in charge of the show will pay for off-duty police officers to provide security and will pay for any additional officers if they are needed. In addition, he said, the production crew won't be taking parking spots from residents but will use pay lots. http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/02/09/2649973/blacks-keys-skrillex-miller-lead.html http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/02/09/2649973/blacks-keys-skrillex-miller-lead.html Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:13 EST The eclectic mix of The Black Keys, Skrillex and Mac Miller lead nominees for the 2012 mtvU Woodie Awards.<p/>All are up for top honor Woodie of the year along with Frank Ocean, Foster the People and J Cole. Awards will be handed out for emerging artists, performance and video. MTV added a category for electronic dance music this year, too.<p/>The awards show will take place March 15 in Austin, Texas, during the South By Southwest Music Festival. The day begins at 2 p.m. EST with the first Woodie Awards Festival, then the show starts at 9 p.m. http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/02/09/2649954/elizabeth-taylor-auctions-raise.html http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/02/09/2649954/elizabeth-taylor-auctions-raise.html Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:18 EST Paintings, jewelry and fashions belonging to the late Elizabeth Taylor have sold for more than $183 million, with all of the more than 1,800 items on offer snapped up, Christie's auction house said Thursday.<p/>Christie's said 1,817 lots were sold at a series of auctions in New York and London, some at 50 times their pre-sale estimates.<p/>The most expensive was Vincent van Gogh's landscape "Vue de l'asile et de la Chapelle de Remy," which once hung in the living room of Taylor's Bel Air home. It sold for 10.1 million pounds ($16 million), including the buyer's premium. http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/02/09/2649752/berlin-festival-opens-with-marie.html http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/02/09/2649752/berlin-festival-opens-with-marie.html Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:03 EST A costume drama set during the French revolution and starring Diane Kruger as Marie Antoinette kicked off the annual Berlin film festival Thursday - the first of the year's major European film festivals.<p/>"Farewell My Queen," from French director Benoit Jacquot, was the first of 18 films competing for the top Golden Bear award at the festival, which runs until Feb. 19.<p/>Set during the first days of the revolution in 1789, it follows events from inside the queen's quarters - from blissful ignorance until Marie Antoinette "finally realizes that things are coming to end," Kruger said. http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/02/09/2649743/horoscopes-for-thursday-february.html http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/02/09/2649743/horoscopes-for-thursday-february.html Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:38 EST <div class="horoscope" id="Aries"> <div class="image"></div> <h2 class="sign">Aries</h2> <div class="dates">March 21-April 19</div> <p/>If you are going on a diet or cutting back on any excesses, take care not to be too Spartan or you will never stick to your program. Find ways to enjoy the things you like in moderation or on special occasions. A current intellectual pursuit will lead to something bigger.</p> <div class="lucky_number"> <h3>Lucky Number</h3> 946 </div> <div class="financial_outlook"> <h3>Financial Outlook</h3> poor </div> <div class="compatible_sign"> <h3>Compatible Sign</h3> Virgo </div> </div> <div class="horoscope" id="Taurus"> <div class="image"></div> <h2 class="sign">Taurus</h2> <div class="dates">April 20-May 20</div> <p/>Your intuition serves you well today as you negotiate your power base within your primary relationship. The results will set the tone for how you and your partner treat each other on an intimate level. If you want this to work, be as open and honest as you possibly can.</p> <div class="lucky_number"> <h3>Lucky Number</h3> 780 </div> <div class="financial_outlook"> <h3>Financial Outlook</h3> fair </div> <div class="compatible_sign"> <h3>Compatible Sign</h3> Aries </div> </div> <div class="horoscope" id="Gemini"> <div class="image"></div> <h2 class="sign">Gemini</h2> <div class="dates">May 21-June 21</div> http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/02/09/2649724/operator-of-radical-muslim-site.html http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/02/09/2649724/operator-of-radical-muslim-site.html Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:08 EST A Muslim convert from Brooklyn pleaded guilty Thursday to using a website he founded to post online threats against the creators of the "South Park" television show and others he deemed enemies of Islam.<p/>In court papers filed Thursday with his guilty plea, Jesse Curtis Morton, 33, admitted that his now-defunct Revolution Muslim website served as an outlet for al-Qaida propaganda and that he used the site to post thinly veiled threats not only against "South Park" creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker but others he considered to be enemies of Islam.<p/>Morton, who also uses the name Younus Abdullah Mohammad, worked closely with Zachary Adam Chesser, who was sentenced last year to 25 years in prison for the "South Park" threats and other crimes. http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/02/09/2649642/tv-producer-lands-in-mexico-to.html http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/02/09/2649642/tv-producer-lands-in-mexico-to.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:20 EST Lawyers for a U.S. reality television producer facing trial for allegedly murdering his wife at a Mexican resort said Thursday they hope to persuade a judge to drop the charges and free their client.<p/>Jaime Cancino Leon, an attorney for former "Survivor" producer Bruce Beresford-Redman, said he had found inconsistencies in the prosecution case, but did not elaborate.<p/>Beresford-Redman appeared for a preliminary hearing, where a judge read the homicide charge filed against him. He did not immediately enter a plea. http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/02/09/2649666/2012-oscar-nominated-short-films.html http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/02/09/2649666/2012-oscar-nominated-short-films.html Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:08 EST The moon is made of tinkling gold stars - and you can reach it by climbing a ladder.<p/> Old books soar aloft like flocks of birds - and they settle on people's shoulders, perching with spindly little legs.<p/> A chicken is right at home walking down a city sidewalk - and seems able to survive a zombie apocalypse, too.