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'I Write Like' Website Boosts and Bruises Writers' Egos
By Michelle Ruiz - AOL News(July 19) -- The new website and meme of the moment, "I Write Like," is alternately inflating and bruising the egos of writers everywhere -- and all it takes is a single click. With a simple copy and paste, "I Write Like" analyzes your prose, be it from "your latest blog post, journal entry, comment" or "chapter of your unfinished book." After combing through a submitter's writing style -- including sentence length and punctuation -- "I Write Like" spits out its computer-programmed determination of which of the 50 famous authors in its database you "write like." Like the double rainbow ...
Dan Brown's Sin: No Story
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyI finally saw Angels & Demons last night, a month after it opened – still way ahead of schedule for me – and think Tom Hanks deserves an Oscar for delivering some of its most serious lines without cracking up. No wonder the Vatican didn't bother trashing this sequel (in its print version, it was a prequel) to Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code -- much to Ron Howard's chagrin, I'm sure. A couple of baby thumbs up: Heckuva job approximating St. Peter's Square in a parking lot in L.A. And that Ewan McGregor made one cute camerlengo. But if you're going to make a movie that's all ...
Angels, Demons and Why Dan Brown Needs the Catholic Church
By Elizabeth Lev - Politics DailyROME - On Monday May 4, Rome played host to the world premiere of "Angels and Demons," Ron Howard's new film based on the Dan Brown novel. Days before the launch, promoters were still scurrying about, trying to drum up controversy, to little real effect. A 103-year-old-bishop in Potenza obligingly suggested that Christians boycott the film, and a well-primed anecdote recounted how the Vatican had blocked all filming in churches to thwart the project (fun fact: the Vatican owns fewer than 10 of the 900 churches in Rome and only one featured in the film), but that was about it. Apparently, the ...
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