Novelty acts: The Heat, White House Down, Storm Surfers 3DBring on the dumb comedy, mindless action . . . and surf porn
In the Shakespeare wars, James Shapiro fights for the BardA Q&A with the orthodox Stratfordian about Mark Twain, Sigmund Freud and other non-believers
We survived Y2K, six Céline albumsHumans will make it past 2012, and Morgan Freeman will live to narrate our story . . . maybe