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BoA in Times Square

I've had the good fortune of meeting BoA, the Korean/Japanese pop sensation. My uncle is a very powerful man in the Korean entertainment business. When I visited Korea in 2000, he was the Vice-President of Broadcasting at MBC, which is one of the main broadcasting companies in Korea. (As a side note, I'm proud to say that one of the very last showed produced under his tenure as the VP of Broadcasting was the hit drama 대장금, or Dae Jang Geum, which still remains one of the most popular dramas in Korean history.) While he holds an even higher position now, his former title was an impressive one nonetheless. He took me on a tour of the studios and I gaped and gawked,...

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Go Vote for Amazon’s $199-$229 PS3 Bundles!

I'm a total movie nut and own hundreds and hundreds of DVDs. However, J has forbidden me from buying any more. The problem lies in that we have a fairly large LCD television, 52" to be exact. So while my DVDs looked amazing on my old 27" CRT television, the non-HD is very evident on our new TV, with massive pixelation and loss of detail. We decided long ago that we will buy the best Blu-Ray player out there: the PS3. However, with both money and time being tight, we held off on this luxury purchase (which will eventually require more of our time and money). Until now. Like last year, Amazon will let it customers vote for the ultimate clearance items...

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