Nicole LaPorte is a West Coast reporter for The Daily Beast. A former film reporter for Variety, she has also written for The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The New York Times, The New York Observer, and W.
"You can never be too rich, or too thin," said the Duchess of Windsor, and LG has taken her adage to heart with its future line of ultra-slim LCD screens, previewed at CES. How skinny is the new HDTV? At 6.9 millimeters, it’s probably too svelte to even have room for the video inputs that get stuck into the current crop of flat screens—which has gadget blogs speculating that this LG set will rely on wireless technology.
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Michael Moore is an Academy Award-winning filmmaker and author. He directed and produced Roger & Me, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, and Sicko. He has also written seven books, most recently, Mike’s Election Guide 2008.
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Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
