Toyota Shipping Recall Parts This Week
Toyota said Monday it would start shipping parts to dealers for repairing accelerator pedals in 2.3 million cars and trucks this week, vowing to move as quickly as possible. The Japanese automaker said it had designed a steel reinforcement bar for the pedals to keep them from sticking in certain situations, and that the repair [...]
Ex-Astronaut Nowak’s Career Up To Navy
Officials from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service took custody this week of the evidence in the case of former NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak, a Navy captain. Nowak pleaded guilty in November to burglary of a conveyance, a third-degree felony, and to misdemeanor battery, all as part of a plea agreement in her attack on Air [...]
Ready to Take on Super Bowl Week
By BOB KRAVITZ, The Indianapolis Star So I’m packing for South Florida, and sorry, ladies, no Speedo for this guy. When I talk about The Situation, I’m referring to love handles. The madness begins, sort of, with Monday night’s arrival of both teams, which will be accompanied by the required video of the players and [...]
Outlook: ‘Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction’
Russ Fischer: More and more, my primary game geek-out is over narrative. (When I’m not just blowing up everything in sight, that is. Ahem, “Just Cause 2.”) How do games tell stories? How do classic narrative points get integrated into the new and flexible framework of videogames? Staid old cut scenes with distracting subtitles need [...]
Wolf: ‘V’ Has Undergone Needed Retooling
ABC’s “V” returns to the lineup March 30 — with lots and lots of needed changes. Reports Scott Wolf, who stars in the updated remake of the hit 1983 miniseries about advanced aliens who come to Earth, “The people who saw the first four episodes of the show that debuted in November are really going [...]
‘Marriage Ref’ Inundated with Requests
Hard to believe to look at Poppy Montgomery, but the slim, blond “Without a Trace” actress, who’s graced the pages of Maxim in a hot photo spread, now reveals she fought a weight problem that saw her tipping the scales at 200 pounds. She tells us she wishes losing the pounds could be as easy [...]
Esai Morales Wraps Season 1 of ‘Caprica’
Spencer Grammer is hard at work on her ABC Family show, “Greek,” but she tells us she’s certainly open to the idea of branching out and working with her famous father, Kelsey Grammer. “We’ve talked about it. I would love to work with my dad. He’s so talented. I would definitely be nervous, though,” admits [...]
Lachey Denies Rumors of Engagement
Tabloids have claimed that Nick Lachey is close to popping the question to on-again girlfriend Vanessa Minnillo, but we caught up with the actor/singer, who tells us there are no plans as of right now. When asked if he’s looking to settle down any time in the near future, Lachey responds, “I don’t know. Definitely, [...]
Titanic ‘Avatar’ is Gone with the Inflated Dollar
Within a matter of days, Avatar will pass Titanic to become the USA’s highest-grossing film of all time. But are you really the king of films if fewer people saw your movie than, say, The Graduate or Dr. Zhivago? Such is the debate every time a film approaches historic box-office highs. Unlike other forms of [...]
Easy Indoor Grilling
I feel lucky to live in a part of the country where the weather makes it possible to grill outdoors almost year round if you want to. But I also know that many diehard lovers of grilling won’t let a little sub-freezing weather keep them from their favorite cooking method. They’ll put on several layers [...]
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