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1. REVIEW: Daniel Radcliffe learns ‘How to Succeed’ on Broadway
(Entertainment/Movies)

... performer in the okay Broadway revival of “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” that opened on Sunday at the Al Hirscheld Theatre. Playing the corporate climber J. Pierrepont Finch (impishly ...

2. Oscar predictions 2011: Academy Awards picked by the experts
(Entertainment/Movies)

... midrash, “A Serious Man.” JT: I concur, but there are other contenders. I've never been quite clear on what David Fincher brings, other than a dull palette, to movies that don't involve serial killers. ...

3. Feed those birds so they survive winter
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... Gold finches love it as do juncos which prefer to eat what the finches spill rather than cling to the sock and pull out their own seeds. Pine warblers quickly found the sock feeder and showed up in my ...

4. Legislation to keep senior citizen residency operators honest signed by Gov. Christie
(Health/Healthquest)

... in South Jersey include: Baker House in Vineland, Goldfinch House in Bridgeton and Maurice House in Millville, Lindsay House in Pennsville, Mey House in Egg Harbor Township, Granville House in Burlington, ...

5. Winners...
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

Picture: Inception, but since that WON'T happen, "The Social Network" will easily take it. Director: WHERE IS CHRISTOPHER NOLAN?! Ugh, David Fincher will take it. Actor: Colin Firth Actress: Natalie ...

6. Academy Award nominations kick off Oscar seasons
(Entertainment/Movies)

... have reached. David Fincher's "The Social Network" earned eight nominations, including one of the ten Best Picture slots, as well as Best Director for Fincher himself. The exclusion of Andrew Garfield ...

7. Movie review: ‘The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest’
(Entertainment/Movies)

... the hugely popular series, at least until the David Fincher-directed American version of the first book comes out, will gobble up "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest." But this Swedish cinematic adaptation ...

8. Hamilton Twp’s ‘naturalist’ painter Dallas Piotrowski captures flora and fauna she loves
(Entertainment/Movies)

... little birds and animals, insects. . ." Though she likes her goldfinch border best, she's less happy with the bird it frames. Of her current series on "fields, meadows and woodlands," Dallas says, "I ...

9. ‘The Social Network’ will cost Mark Zuckerberg more than $100M — MOVIE REVIEW
(Entertainment/Movies)

... the rest, especially friends and business partners. Sinking the auteur theory, director David Fincher is ever only as good as the script. Buoyed here by Mezrich and Sorkin, he keeps this story swimming ...

10. ‘The Social Network’ is a rousing success (with movie trailer)
(Entertainment/Movies)

... Fincher's depiction of the founding of Facebook is a rousing success. "The Social Network" cleverly wraps the tale around the frame of the two lawsuits filed against Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. (Yes, ...

11. Autumn comes early to the New Jersey Boonies
(Life/Style)

... several broods before leaving earlier this month. But they have been replaced by a steady procession of hummingbirds, goldfinches, chickadees, nuthatches, titmice and woodpeckers that only occasionally ...

12. ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ — Then and Now
(Opinion/Commentary)

...  In trying to explain the existence of racism to his young son, Mockingbird's Atticus Finch stated in his calming, yet compelling voice, "There are a lot of ugly things in this world, son." Instructive ...

13. Over 400 exotic birds offered for adoption in N.J.
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

Associated Humane Societies trying to find homes for canaries, parakeets, finches, parrots, cockatiels and conures BY ALEX DAVIS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Wanted: Homes for canaries, parakeets, finches, ...

14. ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ turns 50
(Life/Style)

Novel by Harper Lee to be discussed at Spring Lake Public Library BY ELIZABETH BIRGE NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Fifty years ago this summer readers met Jem and Scout Finch, their father Atticus, their ...

15. N.J. MVC runs out of letters for license plates
(N.J./State)

... which are manufactured at Bayside State Prison's auto-tag shop in Leesburg, the boot a year later. The state has been using the current goldfinch yellow (the state bird) reflectorized plates since 1992. ...

16. Twitterer in Chief: Governor Christie has hired someone to Tweet for him
(Opinion/Commentary)

... said to be in the process of moving across the Hudson, our state bird is the goldfinch.) Sixty thousand seems like a lot in these troubled times. Even at $1 a Tweet, he'd have to crank out almost 165 ...

17. Sundance Selects: New service brings independent film festival into homes for on demand screenings
(Entertainment/Movies)

... Fincher's "Seven" (what is it with that number?), "7 Days" still delivers that vicarious thrill. The third film wasn't available for screening, but "Daddy Longlegs" is written and directed by Ben and ...

18. Princeton’s Peter and Rosemary Grant honored with Kyoto Prize for insights into evolutionary theory
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... is a retired senior research scholar, both in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton. In their dogged study of a population of birds popularly known as "Darwin's finches," the ...

19. National Golf Day brings some lobbying to Capitol Hill
(Sports/Professional)

... sport. PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem was among them as the PGA is the most visible part of the industry and often draws the most criticism. PGA Commissioner Tim Finchem told reporters he reminded ...