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Prize-winning author John Updike died at the age of 76 on Tuesday. — AP Grey's Anatomy's Shonda Rhimes is executive-producing an ABC pilot about a TV news bureau called Inside the Box. — The Hollywood Reporter Netflix's profits have actually spiked recently, attesting to the appeal of its mail-delivered DVD service during the onset of the recession. — Variety Despite efforts to postpone Read more
Spoiler alert! A new study has found that plot spoilers don't ruin stories for readers. Using ironic-twist, mystery, and literary short stories by authors that included John Updike and Agatha Christie, researchers from UCSD's psychology department found that the participants preferred to know the plots for all three types of stories, but especially the ironic-twist and mystery ones. Their Read more
