| Voice cast of "The Simpsons" gets new contract Following several months of negotiations the voice cast of "The Simpsons" has reached a new four-year agreement with producer 20th Century Fox TV. Under the pact, the top actors will be paid nearly 400,000 U.S. dollars per episode. W ... english.people.com.cn |
Zimbabwean Kirsty Coventry wins women's 200m backstroke gold, shatters world record &$ &$Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe reacts after finishing the women's 200m backstroke at the Beijing Olympic Games on Saturday. Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe broke the world record of the event.&$&$ Versatile Zimbabwean Kirsty Coventry won the Olympic gold medal by shattering the world record 0.85 seconds in the women's 200m backstroke final at Beijing Olympics on Saturday morning. With a solid start, Coventry ... english.people.com.cn |
Sothebys to Offer Rare New York Photo In March, Sotheby’s plans to sell a daguerreotype of the Upper West Side. The image is believed to have been taken in 1848. nytimes.com |
Schedule Complete for TriBeCa Festival A new movie written by Adrienne Shelly will make its debut at the Tribeca Film Festival, which announced its remaining feature selections on Wednesday. “Serious Moonlight,” written by Ms. Shelly, who was killed by a worker in her apartment building in 2006, stars Meg Ryan, right, as a lawyer who discovers her husband (Timothy Hutton) is having an affair with a younger woman (Kristen Bell); it is directed by Cheryl Hines (of “Curb Your Enthusiasm”), who starred in “Waitress,” a film Ms. Shelly d... nytimes.com |
A Vanished San Francisco, Black, White and Colorful Photographs by Gerald Ratto poignantly recall the vanished landscape of the Fillmore district of San Francisco in 1952. nytimes.com |