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The Art of Movie Stunt Driving

Movie stunt drivers are also known as precision drivers because they work in synch with the movie camera vehicles that occasionally travel as close as one or two feet away from their stunt car's bumper. While top notch stunt drivers make six figure ...

From ELLIOT FELDMAN, Associated Content,  26 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Steve McQueen,  Steven Spielberg,  William Friedkin,  Gene Hackman,  James Bond

Rolls-Royce Fun Factoids

Since 1904, the Rolls-Royce has been Britain's iconic luxury automobile and the ultimate standard of engineering quality. Living proof is that three-quarters of all Rolls-Royces ever built are still on the road. The oldest surviving road-ready ...

From ELLIOT FELDMAN, Associated Content,  19 Feb 2009
Related Topics: General Motors,  BMW,  John Lennon,  Vladimir Lenin

Is the Chevy Volt a PR Ploy for GM?

In 2008, GM asked the US federal government for financial protection as they faced bankruptcy. While the Senate voted down their request, President George W. Bush overrided them and granted funds to t he ailing auto company on December 20, 2008. ...

From ELLIOT FELDMAN, Associated Content,  9 Feb 2009
Related Topics: General Motors,  U.S. Senate,  George W. Bush,  Barack Obama,  Energy Conversion Devices, Inc.

The Red Cars of L.A.

Red Cars stacked in an LA junk yard In the 1988 animation classic "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?", the plot revolves around a corporate conspiracy to dismantle the Red Car street trolley line that ran through Los Angeles in the 1930 s. While this made for ...

From ELLIOT FELDMAN, Associated Content,  31 Dec 2008
Related Topics: General Motors

Ford THINK and Other Electric Cars

I'm from Detroit. I've seen the short-sighted hubris of the Big Three never solving their automotive energy problem after an over 30 year clarion warning that started with the infamous gas lines during the Jimmy Carter Administration. I've seen The ...

From ELLIOT FELDMAN, Associated Content,  26 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Ford Motor Company

Season Two of Mad Men Ends but Its Fashion Influence Continues

The sleek yet buttoned-down look of the early 1960s is back thanks to "Mad Men," the acclaimed AMC network period-piece television series about Madison Avenue advertising hucksters. Thin ties and lapels for the men, and bullet bras and poofy ...

From ELLIOT FELDMAN, Associated Content,  1 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Michael Kors,  AMC,  Peter Som

MTV Games Announces Beatles Music Video Game

Yes, it's true. While remaining Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have been dragging their feet for months on allowing their music to be sold on Apple's iTunes Store, it was announced on Thursday, Oct. 31, that Apple Corps (that is, the original ...

From ELLIOT FELDMAN, Associated Content,  31 Oct 2008
Related Topics: The Beatles,  Paul McCartney,  Ringo Starr,  George Martin,  Alex Rigopulos

Two Arrested for Hanging Barack Obama Effigy on Kentucky Campus

On the morning of Wednesday October 29, an effigy of presidential candidate Barack Obama was found hanging by a noose from a tree on the University of Kentucky Lexington campus. The next day, the Secret Service and campus police arrested 22-year-old ...

From ELLIOT FELDMAN, Associated Content,  31 Oct 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  Sarah Palin

Famous People Whove Been Homeless

Times are tough right now and they may wind up even tougher. In fact, any one of us at any point in our lives may only be one humiliating step away from homelessness. For most of us, all it might take is a job loss, a serious illness, or any other ...

From ELLIOT FELDMAN, Associated Content,  17 Oct 2008
Related Topics: Halle Berry,  Jim Carrey,  Don Imus,  Hilary Swank,  William Shatner

The Palins and the Alaska Secession Movement

"Alaska First - Alaska Always" is the motto of the Alaska Independence Party. AIP chairperson Lynette Clark often says, "I'm an Alaskan. I don't identify myself as an American." The Alaska Independence Party basically wants a vote that includes ...

From ELLIOT FELDMAN, Associated Content,  4 Oct 2008
Related Topics: Sarah Palin,  Todd Palin,  U.S. Republican Party

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