The Dead Talk, and There's Plenty of Static
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The nominal thriller "White Noise" is worthy neither of Michael Keaton's talents nor even a desperate horror fan's attention.
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IFOTAKA, Madagascar  - Manahira Mahateraka  communicates with the dead.
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About a month ago, writer James Buchan was worrying about his livestock and the intricacies of ghost stories, when the phone rang in his Norfolk, England, farmhouse.
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Ellis Hobbs is aware of the buzz, but he's keeping it in the background. "You feel it, you hear it, but it's just talk right now," he said.
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Speaking with a long-departed love one may be the result of fear or suggestion rather than genuine spirit contact, research suggests.
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A little less conversation and a little more action
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After watching world events unfold, after hearing of too many deaths in too many places, Good Charlotte had something to say.
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The steady exodus in recent years has become a hot topic in a land already saddled with one of the most rapidly aging and shrinking populations of any Western nation.
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The bodies had been whisked away but the dried pool of blood covering the dirt-floor dead end of a twisting alley was a chilling sign of what happened here last week.
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Tycho:  Gabriel and Kara are thinking about moving, but only one of them is approaching things with the correct amount of dread.  It is almost impossible to find a home these days which is not some unholy conduit - a winking anus of evil that acts as a revolving door for hell's starveling dead.  But a hollowed-out ghoul in shredded wedding gown doesn't need to be a dealbreaker.  Don't let a sundered soul turn your dream home into a nightmare charnel house!
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As any cell-phone user knows, background noise, including traffic jams and bustling streets, can be a nuisance. The cacophony becomes even worse when the caller insists on yelling over the noise.
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There are broad talks afoot, according to one participant, who refused to name names or provide any specifics of what's being discussed.
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Imagining hundreds of outage-related micro-dramas unfolding simultaneously.
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From the information booth in Grand Central Terminal it sounded like distant background music: a radio, perhaps, or the sound system in a restaurant.
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Incidents throw harsh light on a culture fed by talk radio and disrespect for authority.
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Long gone are the days when the  Rolling Stones courted controversy with their sex, drugs and  rock 'n' roll antics. Nowadays, the health of the surviving  band members is more often the hot talking point.
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Either the TV gods are playing a very sick joke on CBS and the   makers of its mega-popular TV franchise--or its just a bizarre   coincidence--but for the second time in a week, a real corpse has turned   up near the set of a CSI series.