Sep 30th, 2008 · The shaky financial picture has everyone thinking about their own personal predicament, wondering what to do to make sure their budgets and financial plans are in place. Money coach Alvin Hall gives advice on personal bailouts, and ways to handle them.
Sep 28th, 2008 · NPR's Tom Goldman speaks to host Andrea Seabrook about the end of Major League Baseball's regular season and the playoff picture.
Sep 18th, 2008 · In 1923, four brothers formed a motion picture studio that still thrives today: Warner Bros. Film reviewer Richard Schickel has written a book and produced a documentary for PBS, You Must Remember This, to celebrate 85 years of Warner Bros. movie history. Schickel walks through the famous WB back lot with Renee Montagne. Many of the studio's most famous movies were shot on that lot.
Sep 15th, 2008 · Markets have tumbled after the investment bank Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, and the brokerage firm Merrill Lynch agreed to be bought by Bank of America. Financial experts explain what's happening on Wall Street today and discuss the larger picture for the U.S. economy.
Sep 12th, 2008 · In Hollywood, it's not true that "you're only as good as your last picture." Some movie stars who don't fill seats are still highly sought after and highly paid. Forbes magazine is out with its list of the most overpaid stars. Oscar winner Nicole Kidman gets top billing for 2007. She earned studios just $1 for each dollar she was paid. By comparison, Vince Vaughn brought in nearly $15 for each dollar he was paid.
Sep 1st, 2008 · Forty years ago, the best picture nominees signaled a stirring in Hollywood — an appetite for revolutionary realism, socially conscious stories and movies targeted at the long-ignored youth audience.
Aug 28th, 2008 · There must have been a giddy moment in a Chinese factory that makes iPhones. A British customer bought a phone from the factory and found that it had already been used. Three pictures on the phone show a smiling factory worker. She's wearing a pink striped outfit and white gloves with yellow fingertips. The customer posted the photos on a Web site. The hundreds of comments include: "She is so fired."
Aug 22nd, 2008 · Los Angeles is well-known as a center for motion pictures, but for decades it's also been a reliable producer of oil. Now that the price of crude is beyond $100 a barrel, it is cost-effective to start drilling in Los Angeles again. But some residents near the proposed new wells aren't happy.