“Iron Man” is an adventure around the globe, and Tony Stark is involved in the whole geo-political landscape, which really opened up our world. I wanted to set this film on the West Coast even though the Iron Man comic is set in New York, because I wanted a different look, so instead of having Iron Man flying between New York City buildings, we have the ocean and mountains of the West Coast. Shooting in L.A. tied in with the roots of the Howard Hughes influence and the history-of-flight aspect–Director Favreau

Marvel Studios?¢¬Ä¬ô Hollywood renaissance has been nothing short of spectacular, with record-breaking franchises such as ?¢¬Ä¬úSpider-Man,?¢¬Ä ?¢¬Ä¬úX-Men?¢¬Ä and ?¢¬Ä¬úThe Fantastic Four,?¢¬Ä resulting in a string of eight consecutive #1 box office openings. Since 1998, Marvel films have grossed over $4.9 billion worldwide at the box office, firmly establishing itself as one of the top entertainment brands in Hollywood.

It's hard to overestimate the importance of the Rolling Stones in rock ‘n roll history. The group, which formed in London in 1962, distilled so much of the music that had come before it and has exerted a decisive influence on so much that has come after. Only a handful of musicians in any genre achieve that stature, and the Stones stand proudly among them.

March 27, 2008–The Los Angeles Times apologized for using documents that were fabricated in a story implicating associates of Sean “Diddy” Combs in a 1994 assault on rapper Tupac Shakur.
“The bottom line is that the documents we relied on should not have been used,” Editor Russ Stanton said in a story posted Wednesday on the newspaper's Web site. “We apologize both to our readers and to those referenced in the documents and in the story.”

When “Oliver Twist” first appeared in serialized form in the monthly magazine “Bentley's Miscellany,” in 1837, its subtitle was “The Parish Boy's Progress.” For the first installments, Dickens described to his readers what it was like to be a “parish boy” after the passing of the new Poor Law Act of 1834. Dickens saw the bill being hotly debated when he was a parliamentary reporter for the “Morning Chronicle,” and he continued to attack it in his fiction and journalism for the rest of his life.