Wednesday, June 2, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Wednesday, June 2, 2010)
(1)- ART AND MONEY -- This month, a painting by Picasso, “Nude, Green Leaves and Bust,” became the most expensive painting ever sold at an auction when it exceeded expectations to fetch $106.5 million at Christie’s.

(2)- MARK TWAIN, FINALLY -- The great American writer left instructions not to publish his autobiography until 100 years after his death, which is now.

(3)- WHO'S AT FAULT -- A business inadvertently gives you counterfeit money — are you stuck with it? In most cases, yes. But what if that business happens to be a branch of the federal government?

(4)- MUSEUM SCANDAL -- The relocation of the Barnes Foundation to downtown Philadelphia is fueled by ignorance and avarice, not altruism.

(5)- PRESUMED GUILTY -- A Houston man freed last year after spending 23 years in prison for a rape he did not commit cleared another hurdle recently in his quest to be declared “actually innocent.” But he’s not there yet.

(6)- OLD BUT NOT -- When you think of an 87-year-old, do you think of someone running a 100-meter dash? How about making a double play? Can you imagine an 87-year-old pole vaulting? Adolph Hoffman does all that and more.

(7)- UNDERAPPRECIATED -- The Obscure, the Forgotten, and the Unloved is a poll of committed cinephiles who hope to find and highlight films that received critical acclaim but have yet to find their deserved audience.

(8)- NOT SO FAST -- Usually within the first minute of birth, the umbilical cord running between mother and infant is clamped. But this may be too fast, according to an article in the Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine.

(9)- IT’S THE MONEY -- For supposedly being horrified by it and trying to block its release, Kendra Wilkinson sure is making a lot of money from her ought to be censured tape. Her first check from Vivid was for $680,000.

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