Paramount PicturesThe CoreIn real life, people are always fighting to preserve the beauty of San Francisco, but through the magic of the silver screen we can get the slightly wrong thrill of watching it get messed with just a little bit. We don't really want the Golden Gate Bridge to explode, crumble, or be swarmed by crazy creatures and we don't think cable cars should be used as weapons and flying machines . . . or, judging by the box office success of many of these films which depict these an
In order to re-inforce our point that this year's SPJ honorees heark from a different era, here's a Spencer Tracy referenceLast week, the Society of Professional Journalists -- whose membership is growing ever more, shall we say, selective every day now -- honored three men as "fellows," the highest award it can bestow. It's a high honor, and one earned not in years or decades but a lifetime. That being said, in a time when the robustness of the field of journalism is getting to be on par with t