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The Lakers (51-18) survived without Bynum’s services in the fourth quarter.
Kobe Bryant led the Lakers with 22 points on 4-for-11 shooting and had 13 assists, including nine in the first half. Lamar Odom had 18 points, Pau Gasol had 17 points and 14 rebounds and Jordan Farmar scored 12.
Jonny Flynn led Minnesota with 20 points.
The Lakers have been thinking about the playoffs for quite some time, as evidenced by their meandering play to start this month. There were signs they had regained their direction, their momentum and their rhythm recently.
But they needed a victory, No. 51 this season, in order to make it official.
Standing in their way was an old friend, Kurt Rambis The new coach of the Timberwolves had served as an assistant coach for many seasons and had been a key figure as a player with the “Showtime” teams of the 1980s. The Lakers wanted to win, but not by so many points as to embarrass Rambis.
Jackson and Rambis speak frequently and exchange text messages. They met for dinner Thursday night with Jackson acting as a sounding board.
Jackson referred to Flynn, Corey Brewer and Kevin Love, a former UCLA standout Those three are expected to be the pillars of the franchise for years to come.
Love finished with 19 points and 11 rebounds.
It’s been a rough season for Rambis. The Timberwolves are 14-56, last in the Western Conference standings and in the midst of a 12-game losing streak.
His old team, the Lakers, had won for the 50th time when it defeated the Sacramento Kings on Tuesday. The Lakers were No. 1 in the West and hoping to secure the top record in the conference for the third consecutive season.
Larry Wall: My name is Larry Wall and I am variously known as a husband and father and as the creator of the Perl programming language and to some people, sort of a cult leader in the sense that Perl is a culture, a vibrant culture, with many people involved in it, and I feel it's my obligation to help people understand how a culture can surround a computer language and the culture and the language reinforce each other in a positive way.
Question: How would you explain what Perl is to a non-programmer?
Larry Wall: Well, people have ideas of what programming is like from the movies and such, but it's not really much like that. Perl is what we call a scripting language. It's for doing ad hoc things and just one-off things that you really wouldn't almost think of as being programming problems. It's a language that is kind of like, you might think of writing a, you know, a ransom note and you're going to grab a newspaper and clip it into little pieces and so you want to find the right text really quickly and then you want to have some way of gluing it all together in the right order and that's kind of what a scripting language is good at, it's good at taking text and gluing it together.
But more than that, I mean, there's many scripting languages in the world, Perl is a little bit special because it is based more on some ideas from the way natural languages work. My training was in linguistics, as well as computer science, so I've tried to make a language that works on a deep level, like human languages work. You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
How you use the language is really based on things that are external to the language itself. So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that approach. It's kind of like a, well, sometimes Perl has been called the Swiss army chainsaw of the internet, but it's more like a Swiss army machine shop. It really gives you a lot of tools, some of which are dangerous, but it lets you get your job done very quickly.
Question: How is Perl a “post-modern language”?
Larry Wall: Well, the way I think of post-modernism, there's, post-modernism, of course, is about having many different views of something; it's about, you know, some people think of it as tearing down the power structures. But in my experience, the post-modern movement has mostly been about not getting hung up on one particular idea or way of doing things, like modernism tends to do, and instead, sort of picking and choosing from different historical eras—I'm thinking more of architecture, where you can see different architectural features that the architect has used, just because they think they're cool and they can combine, you know, classical and romantic and baroque even, different ideas, and even modern, sure. But you pick things because they're cool and because they'll be useful, not because somebody says this is the only way to do things.
And so Perl is very similar in the way it has collected features from other languages, things that seem to be distinct ways of doing things and finding a way of meshing those in a pleasing fashion—the same way a poet might take words that are very different from each other and mesh them into a coherent poem. Perl, in that sense, is very, very much, it doesn't have an agenda and it really is not trying to tell you how you're supposed to do your job, it just tries to get out of your way as much as possible.
Question: Is Perl a good first language to learn for aspiring programmers?
Larry Wall: In a sense, it's a good first language. I've known people who learned it as a first language successfully, but that's not its primary purpose. There are languages that are designed with the purpose of being a good first language, but they tend to run out of steam about the time your programs get interesting. I think of Perl more as a last language that you would want to learn, that while Perl is like a human language and that you can start with baby talk and you're not expected to, you know, we don't expect a 50-year-old and a 5-year-old to speak with the same diction. That's fine. But we expect that when you need to know something, you can learn a new thing and the resources will be there for you to learn as you go. So, it can be learned as a first language, but we really concentrate on having an expressive language, not an easy-to-learn language. And sometimes an expressive language is a little harder to learn, but we think it's worth it.
Question: How do Perl developers differ from developers of other languages?
Larry Wall: I think by and large Perl developers are more social; they really believe in community in the way that many other developers do not. I'd like to think that I've encouraged some of that by my talks and by trying to show by example.
But really, I think they think of themselves as artists. Perl is not really so much a way of trying to think like the computer, which most other languages tend to encourage, but it's more like an artistic medium, and it's a set of paints and a canvas that you're allowed to sort of do whatever you like and try to please the other people. And the only judge of whether something is good or bad in the Perl community is whether the rest of the community likes it or not. But people are really, really motivated by this and Perl has more shared software, shared modules, that people put out there for other people to use, than any other computer language. There's about 18,000 modules, last I counted—well, I didn't count them, I just looked at the number—and, like any collection of programs or any collection of anything else, they all follow what's known as Sturgeon's Law: 90% of everything is crud. But of that 10%, there's just a wonderful selection of ways to get your job done, things that are just crazy. Let's you program in Latin, they let you program in white space, so you look at your program, and it's just spaces and tabs and you can't see it at all. It's just lots of fun stuff.
The Perl culture is a culture of fun and we really encourage that and do not think that it is in any way counter to the notion of doing good work. Fun seems to be something you're not allowed to have in a lot of modern, corporate culture and we think that—maybe this is another one of those post-modern things—you can have fun and do good work at the same time. We really believe that.
Question: Will you appoint a successor to take over Perl?
Larry Wall: I've thought about that from time to time and generally when I think about who I would appoint as a successor, I don't generally tell anybody and usually by five years later, it would be someone else. And I don't think there's anyone who thinks quite like me, so I think that really has to be something that needs to be figured out by the community if I get run over by a bus.
I think that I have managed to pass along a number of the principles by which Perl has been designed that even if one person emphasizes this aspect of the design and another person emphasizes a different aspect, they'll be able to work that out. Hopefully not the way that the four generals worked it out after Alexander The Great. But I trust the Perl community to do what's good for the Perl community.
Question: Have you made any money from Perl?
Larry Wall: Well, that depends on how you define it. I get a few book royalties, but it's not really enough to make a living. I have received a few grants over my life, but that's also not enough to make a living. I would say that the real way in which I have benefited from Perl is the way in which many open source authors or creators benefit, and that is that some company will be willing to hire them just to work on that. So in a sense, I have my current job because of Perl, and I am mostly expected to work on Perl, and also advise them in things that are related to that.
But in a sense, my job is remuneration for that. They're not going to make a movie out of Perl, this notwithstanding, so I don't expect to have a Harry Potter on my hands. But I'm comfortably well off because of Perl.
There's one other way in which I have actually made some money from Perl. That's some number of years ago, Yahoo was about to go public and they said, "Hey, we used Perl heavily in everything we developed here, so would you like to buy some pre-IPO stock?" And I said, "Yeah, sure." And so I bought a little bit of that stock and that turned out over the years to pay for all my kids' college expenses. So that sort of thing happens every now and then. It was very nice to not have to worry about how to pay for their college.
Question: What are the five programming languages everyone, even non-programmers, should know about and why?
Larry Wall: Oh, boy, that's a really tough question. It's kind of like asking what are the five countries you should know about if you're not interested in geology, or geography, or politics, and the answer varies depending on what your actual interests are, or what are the five companies you should know. And the answer changes over time, too. Back when I was getting started, lo these many decades ago, the answers would've been Fortran, Cobalt, Basic, Lisp, and maybe APL, and those were very formative languages back then and people learned a lot from those, but these days, it might be more important for you to know Java script, even if the only reason you know that is that you know whether or not to click the enable-Java-script button in your browser. But Java script is a nice, lightweight, object-oriented language and that's why it can fit in a browser and do these things such as run little programs that help you input your data and then send it off to a web server somewhere.
There are heavier-weight object-oriented languages and the elephant in the room is sort of Java, you can't really make a list of modern languages without talking about it. Java is sort of the Cobalt of the 21st century, I think. It's kind of heavyweight, verbose, and everyone loves to hate it, though not everyone will admit that. But managers kind of like it because it looks like you're getting a lot done, you know, if 100 lines of Java code accomplish a task, then it looks like you've written 100 lines, even though in a different language, it might only take 5 lines. You know, it's like, you know, you can eat a 1-pound steak or you can eat, you know, 100 pounds of shoe leather and you feel a greater sense of accomplishment after the shoe leather, but, you know, maybe they're some downsides.
But it also, because it is sort of considered an industrial language and programmers are sort of interchangeable parts, managers like it for that reason, and for that reason, a lot of Java jobs have been outsourced from the United States.
Oh, what other languages? I think going in a different direction, coming more from academia, we have a language like Haskell, which we call a functional programming language. That means function in a mathematical sense, not in the sense the other languages are dysfunctional. But a function mathematically has an input and an output and it maps to, you know, with a great deal of mathematical certainty what those are. Haskell is one of those languages that mathematician-type-minded people love; it's sort of a language for geniuses, by geniuses. So you should probably know about it, if only to be able to say, "Well, is this kind of like Haskell?" And if so, then you know you have to hire some really smart people to program in it. Haskell is sort of a modern kind of Lisp in that sense.
What else? Well, we can't leave off modern languages without talking about C. The C language, that’s just spelled with the letter C, is actually about 40 years old, but people have tried to replace C with other languages that are like it and have by and large not succeeded because C is a very minimalistic language and very close to the metal, as we say, on a machine, and lets you get down and do very fine grain stuff, very efficiently, but it's a lot of hard work. But once you've done that work, you can run it pretty much everywhere. So almost all the other languages that you see, Java, Perl, whatever, actually if you look down underneath, they're actually implemented in C, or in a closely related language. So that continues to be a very fundamental language, if only because everyone is trying to reinvent it and not succeeding in doing so.
And finally, for a fifth language, well, you'd probably want to pick one of the scripting languages. There's several to choose from, there's Python, there's Ruby, but of course, I am prejudiced in favor of Perl, because I think it has the liveliest community and because we have intentionally been redesigning it lately to leapfrog all the other languages. For the last number of years, we've been redesigning it to out all the warts that we've noticed over time. And we figured it was just our one chance to break backward compatibility, break the things that need breaking, keep all the things that make Perl, Perl, keep it a joy to use, and with this redesign, make it a language that will be able to be useful and enjoyable for decades. And so I'd recommend Perl, but I'm known to be prejudiced in the matter.
Question: What skills or characteristics do you need to be a great programmer?
Larry Wall: Well, laziness, impatience, and hubris. These originated as sort of a joke in the first edition of what we call the Camel Book, Programming Perl, and in a sense, they are the three virtues of a programmer. A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something; they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion—excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.
But it really was sort of a joke, in the Japanese edition, the translated edition of the Camel Book, they actually had to put "laziness, impatience, and hubris – this is a joke," because they felt that they would take it seriously.
So really what makes a good programmer is much more than those three things. If you've either read the Lord of the Rings or seen the movies, you know about hobbits, and hobbits manifest many of the virtues that you need as a programmer. You know, you need to have persistence, when the going gets rough, to keep slogging through, a kind of innate stubbornness—in a happy way, not in a mean way. You have to be smart enough to outwit your enemies occasionally. And you have to be able to be social, you have to be able to deal with a group, your team members, some of which are like you, they're other hobbits, some of which are elves, and dwarves, or even men, and they think very differently from you. So you have to be able to contribute your part as a hobbit, but also be able to understand other things. So the day is long past when most programming is done individually. Almost all programming is done in teams and so you need to be literate in a sense of, the hobbit sense of knowing your letters. You have to be able to read documentation; you have to be able to write documentation that others can understand. But mostly you have to be just slightly insane in the way that hobbits are, where they can view the long term, you know, the goal is to get back to your comfy burrow, and view all the, everything between here and there, at the same time, forget about all that and just deal with the problem you have at hand.
So in more concrete terms on a computer, you're telling it to do various things by name, and it's going off and doing those. You have to simultaneously be aware of what it's doing down underneath, but if you're always aware of everything it's doing, you go really nuts. So you also have to be able to shut that out and work on the high level abstraction. And doing both of those simultaneously gives the best result in programming. If you ignore either one of those, you end up messing up. So, that's what you really need.
And like a hobbit, laziness, a hobbit is lazy in a very industrious way, and a hobbit is very impatient in a very patient way, and a hobbit is proud in a very humble way. It sort of seems like contradictions, but to the extent that you can increase your dynamic range on all of those, you'll be a better programmer.
Question: What do you think of Apple?
Larry Wall: Well, Apple has always been, tried to be, at least, the arbiter of good taste and we need some of those. I think that the world would be a much poorer place without Apple as part of the cultural ecosystem. But we also need the other people who keep that from being the only way to do things, because when good taste becomes mandatory, then it's not really good taste any more, it's just manners. In the 20th century, we came out from the 19th century that was very mannered, and there are many novels about how you can have all these good manners on the top and, you know, culturally smooth, but, you know, underneath there's this ferment that doesn't get answered if it can't come out.
So I think going to a more evolutionary approach where Apple has their particular ecological niche that they fill, and others are trying to optimize for different things than just the coolest fashion statement. I think that's healthy to have that kind of diversity and that's really, I guess, my post-modernism poking out again.
Question: How do you feel about software patents?
Larry Wall: I am very much against the notion of software patents because I do not believe they provide equal protection under the law to the little guy. I consider myself to be one of the little guys. I cannot afford to spend my time researching patents and trying to steer clear of them. And if I did, I would be more liable. So all the creative stuff that I do, I have to completely ignore the patent system and just put it out there and just hope for the best. There's no way, I, as an individual, who's contributing free software to the world, can afford the patent system on that level.
And so I think that there's lots of different arguments you can make about the software patent system. There have been a lot of ridiculous patents on what we would consider to be trivial inventions, and I just can't afford to spend time worrying about it. So I wish software patents, as a technology, would just die and go away.
Now, that's not say hardware patents haven't been useful. I think that they're a little different and putting together a gadget or a machine is the old fashioned kind of invention. But computer programming is more like writing down math formulas, and we don't patent math; we probably shouldn't patent the human genome. Things that are sort of naturally the way the world works, they should just be sort of what everyone has to work with as a fair playing field and I just don't think software patents are a fair playing field right now.
Question: What’s the most overrated language?
Larry Wall: Pretty much every language is overrated by its practitioners and underrated by everyone else; it tends to be fairly tribal. Either a language matches the way you think or it doesn't. So I tend to think that perhaps languages that are pushed for reasons other than the technical merits of the language would tend to fall in that category. Some would label Java with that—though Java is a good language for what it does do—but it's not the be-all and end-all, and no language really is. I've seen people try to do things in Perl that I wouldn't try to do myself and in that sense, in their mind, Perl is more than what they, than what I would rate it as.
So really, any language outside of its realm can be considered overrated, just like, you know, any expert outside of their field starts talking hogwash. So don't listen to me on any subject other than linguistics and computers, I guess. Well, maybe theology.
Question: What is your work set-up like?
Larry Wall: Well, my company just moved a couple weeks ago from one office building to another. We had been across the street from Google headquarters and now we're a few miles down the road near the Great America theme park. So at the moment, my office is pristine, but that's because I haven't actually worked in it yet. My office would tend to be rather messier. The way I think is not linear; the way I consider problems, I just have to let things stew around, bubble. I can't say what's going to be important, but pretty soon the important thing bubbles up to my consciousness and then I do something about it, so my office tends to reflect that. You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.
Question: Do you work better in the morning or at night?
Larry Wall: Oh, I'm definitely a night owl. I get going about the time my wife crashes and goes to bed. And in some sense, I've had to learn to be more of a cat napper in recent years because Perl development, Perl design and development, has become a worldwide phenomenon—not just mailing lists, but RSC channels, Twitter even. This all happens 24 hours a day. And people come up with questions at any time of the day or night. I have people working on this in Europe, in Japan, China, Australia, India, South America, all over the world, except maybe Antarctica. No, I think we even have a Perl programmer in Antarctica.
So I've had to learn kind of sense when the questions would be coming and be ready to handle them. There's a lot of education and reiteration that happens on these online channels and sometimes it's tempting to just say, "Well, just go and read the documentation," but you know, people appreciate being led along and taught and mentored. This is part of the reason I'm not too concerned about the future of Perl after me, because I see how these people are interacting with each other and even when I'm not there, they are helping each other and solving each other's problems in a way that I could not do, even if I were there.
So while I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.
Question: How do you stay alert during late nights?
Larry Wall: Well, coffee is my drug of choice, generally, with a little bit of Pepsi here and there, if I need more sugar. But yeah, if I could do intravenous coffee, I would. But I guess that's pretty standard.
Question: Do you listen to music when you're writing code?
Larry Wall: I used to not be able to listen to music. I was raised a musician and I played classic music, violin, in orchestras and music comedy theaters, I have music running around in my head all the time, and if I hear music that's too interesting, I have to pay attention to it.
For a while there, I could really only work if I had sounds of oceans or [ocean sound] in my head. Lately though, I find that music like, that is very complicated structurally, like jazz, I can actually listen to that and work at the same time, because I can just let it wash over me and not have to bother analyzing it. That works for me.
Larry Wall: Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow. Like a variant of the song, Tomorrow, only it's more of the idea, the Mexican idea of mañana, you know, [singing] mañana, mañana, I love you, mañana, you're always a day away.
So, yeah, I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain. When something gets loud enough or I feel guilty enough about it or somebody else complains about it, or I just feel it's the next thing to do, then the thing will de-procrastinate itself at an appropriate time. Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
Computer networks can be either private or public.
1 What Are the Disadvantages of Using Public IP Addresses?
2 What Are Advantages & Disadvantages of an Open-Plan Office Space?
Private networks are formed by computers connected to each other but not to external networks or the Internet. Each computer in a private network occupies a private IP address space, meaning that no computer outside the network can find that address or communicate with that computer. Although the configuration is unusual in small businesses, it is used by some operations handling confidential or highly sensitive information, with a series of advantages and disadvantages for the small business.
The Internet is full of great content, but it also contains its fair share of malicious applications and users -- everything from Trojans and viruses to worms and hackers. The obvious advantage of a private network is that, by not being connected to external networks or the Internet at large, a private network is simply not exposed to these threats. With the average data breach costing an organization $6.6 million in lost business and repair costs, according to a study by the Ponemon Institute, the security of a private network can be a valuable advantage to a small business dealing with sensitive content.
By not being connected to external networks, a private network is also not vulnerable to technical difficulties outside the network. Problems like losses in Internet connectivity or external server outages do not affect the performance of a private network. Private networks depend only on the equipment that makes up the network to function. That means that any problem in the network, such as internally spread viruses or a malfunctioning server, can be addresses by servicing the network equipment, rather than waiting for a reply from an Internet provider or server operator.
Not being connected to other networks is a double-edged sword. While the isolation of a private network guarantees increased security, it also makes it impossible for network IP addresses to go onto public networks to communicate with other computers. No information enters the network from other networks -- no email, outside data or digital software updates -- and no information can leave the network onto other networks without being physically moved. In the context of a small business office on a private network, your employees could send data to each other but neither send nor receive data from clients, suppliers or vendors.
While it may be frustrating to depend on far-away servers and service providers for network connectivity, the advantage of huge, global networks such as the Internet is that the cost of maintaining network infrastructure can be divided among millions of users. In the case of a private network, the cost of server space and connective equipment rests entirely on a single network operator. Private networks where one computer is connected to an external network can also require increased configuration and maintenance, because that computer has to use two IP addresses to communicate over the private network and with external networks.
Not to be confused with a private IP network, where the IP address used by network computers actually does not allow them to access public networks, a virtual private network, or VPN, is a system whereby encrypted private data is transferred on a public network. A VPN is an attempt to achieve the security and privacy advantages of a private network while remaining connected to public networks and the Internet. As such, it is a method of securing public networks and not a private network in itself, but it offers increased functionality and an acceptable level of security for many small businesses.
Mercer, Edward. "The Advantages & Disadvantages of Using a Private IP Address Space." Small Business - Chron.com, http://smallbusiness.chron.com/advantages-disadvantages-using-private-ip-address-space-46424.html. Accessed 23 April 2019.
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The call log of a seized iPhone, with numbers redacted.
You may think of your iPhone as a friendly personal assistant. But once it's alone in a room full of law enforcement officials, you might be surprised at the revealing things it will say about you.
On Tuesday the American Civil Liberties Union published a report it obtained from a drug investigation by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, documenting the seizure and search of a suspect's iPhone from her bedroom. While it's no surprise that a phone carries plenty of secrets, the document presents in stark detail a list of that personal information, including call logs, photos, videos, text messages, Web history, eight different passwords for various services, and perhaps most importantly, 659 previous locations of the phone invisibly gathered from Wifi networks and cell towers.
"We know the police have started using tools that can do this. We’ve known the iPhone retains records of the cell towers it contacts. But we’ve never before seen the huge amount of data police can obtain," says ACLU technology lead Chris Soghoian, who found the report in a court filing. "It shouldn’t be shocking. But it’s one thing to know that they’re using it. It’s another to see exactly what they get."
In this case, ICE was able to extract the iPhone's details with the help of the forensics firm Cellebrite. The suspect doesn't seem to have enabled a PIN or passcode. But even when those login safeguards are set up in other cases, law enforcement have still often been able to use tools to bypass or brute-force a phone's security measures. Google in some cases helps law enforcement to get past Android phones' lockscreens, and if law enforcement can't crack a seized iPhone, officers will in some cases mail the phone to Apple, who extract the data and return it stored on a DVD along with the locked phone.
The phone search and seizure described in the documented case required a warrant. But the legality of warrantless phone searches remains an open issue. At U.S. borders or when arresting a suspect, for instance, police and government officials have argued that no such warrant is required.
Failing legal protections, the ACLU's Soghoian says those who'd like to keep prying eyes away from their handsets' data should use long, complex passcodes and encrypt their phone's storage disk. "While the law does not sufficiently protect the private data on smartphones, technology can at least provide some protection," Soghoian writes.
Here's the full court document detailing the iPhone's forensic search.
Well, it’s not the role Katey had picked for him, but it’s not too shabby. EW reports rising up-and-comer Nat Wolff has finally signed on to Josh Boone’s adaptation of The Fault in Our Stars. And The Wrap reveals Enlightened’s leading lady Laura Dern will also be joining the cast that includes celebrated Descendants’ starlet Shailene Woodley and newcomer Ansel Elgort.
Based on John Green’s popular YA novel, The Fault In Our Stars stars Woodley as Hazel, a 16-year-old girl who has been fighting terminal cancer since she was diagnosed at 13. But her sad story gets an exciting new chapter when she meets the dreamy (but also cancer-stricken) Augustus Waters at a Cancer Kids Support Group.
Back in May, Wolff was said to be among one of five young actors being eyed for the role of Augustus, along with Maleficent’s Brenton Thwaites, The Kings of Summer’s Nick Robinson, Noah Silver, and Elgort. Despite having worked with The Fault In Our Stars director on his first film, Stuck in Love, it seems Wolff didn’t have the edge over Elgort, who ultimately got the part. However, the Naked Brother turned Admission star has since signed on to play Augustus’s best friend Isaac, who is responsible for the leads’ meet-cute, having urged Augustus to attend the Cancer Kids meet-up. For her part, Dern will play Hazel’s mother, a part that seems sure to be small. But Dern is guaranteed to make the best of it.
As the book had cross-demographic success—appealing to both teens and adult—it seems likely The Fault In Our Stars’s movie adaptation will aim to do the same. As they’ve got Twilight producers Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen on board, this production seems like it’s off to a solid start. Plus, the upcoming Divergent could prove a powerful front-runner for boosting this pic’s buzz, as the films share two stars.
Based on another popular YA book, Divergent has Woodley and Elgort playing brother and sister instead of teen lovers. Directed by Neil Burger, the dystopian adventure that centers on a teen girl who realizes a conspiracy plans to wipe “Divergent” people like her off the planet looks like it’s aiming for the same audiences that turned out in droves for Twilight and The Hunger Games. If this Woodley movie, which opens next spring, proves anywhere near as popular as we suspect it will, that’s only good news for The Fault In Our Stars.
Bill O’Reilly, the star of Fox News’ prime-time lineup, is leaving the network after more than two decades, following revelations of sexual harassment claims that led advertisers to flee the show.
“After a thorough and careful review of the allegations, the Company and Bill O’Reilly have agreed that Bill O’Reilly will not be returning to the Fox News Channel,” 21st Century Fox said in a statement Wednesday.
Revelations surfaced in The New York Times earlier this month that O’Reilly and Fox News had settled several harassment claims, leading to advertisers fleeing O’Reilly’s show and a sustained protest movement against him.
“This decision follows an extensive review done in collaboration with outside counsel,” Rupert, Lachlan and James Murdoch wrote in a note to staff. “By ratings standards, Bill O’Reilly is one of the most accomplished TV personalities in the history of cable news. In fact, his success by any measure is indisputable. Fox News has demonstrated again and again the strength of its talent bench. We have full confidence that the network will continue to be a powerhouse in cable news.
Tucker Carlson will take over O’Reilly's 8 p.m. slot, the network said.
O’Reilly’s stunning downfall began with the Times investigation that found O’Reilly and Fox News had paid out a combined $13 million to women who claimed O’Reilly had harassed them. The report eventually prompted at least three new accusations of harassment by woman who had either worked with O’Reilly or had been regular guests on his show. One, by radio host Wendy Walsh, caused Fox to launch an investigation by Paul, Weiss, the same law firm that investigated allegations of sexual harassment against former Fox News chief Roger Ailes.
O’Reilly has vehemently denied the allegations against him.
"Over the past 20 years at Fox News, I have been extremely proud to launch and lead one of the most successful news programs in history, which has consistently informed and entertained millions of Americans and significantly contributed to building Fox into the dominant news network in television," O'Reilly said in a statement on Wednesday afternoon.