FPJ: The death of a legend, the beginning of a myth
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He was at a very young age, 15 in some documents, already a film actor. His father died of rabies brought about by rabid puppies licking his wound, records say.
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The current wisdom in Hollywood tells us the musical biopic is a dead genre. With documentaries all the rage, there&#39;s just not much of an audience for an impersonation anymore, and dramatizations about the
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History books say that The Red Baron, the legendary World War I German flying ace, was shot out of the sky and died in April 1918. But new research suggests that his death spiral may have begun nine months earlier.
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LOS ANGELES  - TV Land is exploring the truth behind more "Myths & Legends."
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An eyewitness account indicates that a death may have been especially tragic.
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A new book examines the reality and the myths surrounding the legacy of Thomas Alva Edison.
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Philippine movie legend Fernando Poe Jr, who came close to defeating Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in May&#39;s presidential race, died on Tuesday after suffering a stroke, his spokeswoman and political supporters said.
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&quot;Legend - famous person or act, especially in a particular area of activity&quot; - Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.
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There&#39;s more to mourn about the death of Christopher Reeve than the passing of a sci-fi icon - or even someone who had publicly grappled with adversity.
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The strength of six men: An echo of classical mythology that apparently applies to Wal-Mart Stores (nyse: WMT - news - people ) Vice Chairman Thomas M. Coughlin.
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Tycho: It's available almost everywhere, actually, but we have it on our own store now if you do not already posess it. I've seen a few out there in The Retail Book Fortresses, so should you desire a copy of Epic Legends Of The Magic Sword Kings, the process will be very straightforward. I think it turned out really well, but I wrote all of it, and I get paid when you buy it. So I might not be the person to ask.  Trivia: The third book is called The Warsun Prophecies, which we already announced. The fourth book is called "Birds Are Weird."(CW)TB
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Obituary: A victim, but also a culprit in a way, of Pakistan's chronic instability
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In life, Johnny Cash was merely a  legend. In death, he is proving immortal.
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Heath Ledger's death engenders blog threads trying to determine the science behind his apparent drug overdose.
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By HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK - The O.J. Simpson project is dead, but the book and the TV interview could turn up in bootleg form in this age of YouTube and eBay, when scandalous information seldom stays secret for long.
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The line between fact and clichÃ© has always been rather tenuous when it comes to movies about famous musicians, considering that so many have tread the same self-destructive path.
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In March 2002, I made a bet with Martin Nisenholtz about the relative importance of weblogs and the New York Times. I was and am a blogger, and Martin worked then, as he does now, for the Times. For the actual terms of the bet, read the piece on the LongNow site, and a story I wrote to announce the bet. A few comments.  1. It seems now is the time to decide who won the bet, if either of us did. 2. The world that I hoped would come about did not. While blogs have broken many stories, they have not, in general, turned into the authoritative sources I hoped they would in 2002. When the blogosphere resembles journalism it's often the tabloid kind.  3. I wouldn't mind losing the bet. That is, I wouldn't mind if the Times fully embraced the web, and I suspect Martin wouldn't mind if blogs rose to the quality of the Times. 4. If the bet had been held a year later, it seems there would be a pretty good chance that Martin would have won the bet because they recently took down the firewall at the Times, allowing search engines to index the full content. In the past, articles would remain visible for a couple of weeks then you'd have to pay money to access them. I believe they have a special deal with Google and other crawlers that allow them to get past the membership wall. For most of 2007 the Times articles were behind the firewall, and were less likely to be pointed to (which is how they rise in rank at Google). 5. It certainly is fun to speculate, but the decision about who won belongs exclusively to the Long Now Foundation. They have to decide who determines what the top stories of 2007 are, and imho they should consult with search experts to determine how to do the queries. Apparently it makes a difference how you do it.  But ultimately it's their decision. 6. Whether Wikipedia has more or less results seems to be a sidebar to the bet, which only talks about blogs and the Times. 7. Another interesting sidebar is rich media. In 2002, before podcasting had taken hold, before YouTube existed, it would have been hard to forsee the story of the South Carolina beauty queen, or the Don't Tase Me Bro guy. Questions about the future are always framed in the context of the past. Did the question Martin and I asked have any value in 2007, or did it just say something about the world of 2002?   Update: Paul Boutin who arranged the bet, apparently in conjunction with Google (I didn't know this) in 2002, weighs in.