JazzBlog

It has all the essential ingredientsa rogues gallery of the ultra-rich, all of them dreadful, all of them with terrible skeletons in their closet. They are all taken to a remote island, because for some reason that is also an essential element of the genre. And then the torturing of our social and financial betters

BloombergBusinessweek has a fun breakdown of which occupations have had the highest shares of people who are married from 1950 to 2010, based on data from the Census Bureau. While engineers, mathematicians and scientists today are (unfairly) stereotyped as awkward nerds who dont know how to interact with the opposite sex, in 1950 they were

202376 Getty Images 19902000Coco Lee48 75

He was fast and then furious. A man caught speeding down a Georgia freeway was bewildered when cops slapped him with a $1.4 million ticket last month. Connor Cato was driving home through Savannah on Sept. 2 when the Georgia State Patrol caught him doing 90 in a 55-mile-per-hour zone, he admitted to WSAV-TV.

The accent might be the strangest part of all, for it bears no relation to his native Bristol dialect. To the American ear, it registers as London, and to the English ear, it registers as nowhere at all. Mid-Atlantic is the usual catchall. But one of the lessons of Scott Eymans estimable and empathetic biography,