Watch out, Heathcliff: There's a rat out there bigger than you. Or at least there was. Just a couple of thousand years ago, the world's largest rat, weighing more than the average house cat, scuttled about what is now East Timor of Southeast Asia. The skeletal remains of the robust rodent were found in a cave, researchers announced today. The excavations also turned up 13 other species of rodents, 11 of which are new to science, with eight of the rats estimated to have weighed more than 2 pounds. Read More...
Per Deadline, IMDb TV is currently developing a TV reboot of Cruel Intentions, the 1999 film that starred Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, and Reese Witherspoon. The cult hit was originally based on Les Liaisons dangereuses, a French novel about narcissistic exes who delight in manipulation, seduction, and betrayal. This time around, the story will be set at an elite college in Washington, D.C., where two step siblings are determined to stay at the top of the Greek life hierarchy. Read More...
One of the high-profile American radio and television personalities, Bobby Bones, grew up in a low-income family. He was a disheveled, often hungry little boy who grew up in Mountain Pine, a former sawmill town near Hot Springs. The people around him used to bully him relentlessly for his dress-up and for being too quiet or smelling bad. Abandoned by his dad early on, Bones’ mom raised him and his sister, Amanda Estell as a teenage single mother. Read More...