Samsung Galaxy NX mirrorless camera official: Interchangeable lenses, Android Jelly Bean and 4G LTE

True to JK Shin's promise, Samsung is indeed introducing a new Android-powered mirrorless camera: the Galaxy NX. Although it runs Google's mobile OS (version 4.2.2 Jelly Bean) and bears LTE radios, the NX is not quite a direct sequel to the Galaxy Camera, the company's glorified point-and-shoot for all comers. Rather, the NX is what Samsung calls an interchangeable-lens CSC (or Compact System Camera), featuring a 20.3-megapixel APS-C sensor, as well as 3G / 4G LTE connectivity -- making it worthy of that Galaxy moniker.

As you can tell from the above image, the NX also packs a large 4.8-inch HD LCD display on its rear and is powered by an unspecified 1.6GHz quad-core processor. The UI should look pretty familiar to anyone who's used an Android device before, with the common apps and widgets submenus, as well as the device wheel for its Smart Mode -- employed when selecting imaging settings. And if you happen to own any other of the company's NX camera, you'll be able to swap out lenses as the NX is fully compatible with that range. The NX camera also incorporates a hybrid AF, culled from the best of DSLRs and compacts, with a shutter speed of 1/6000 sec and 8.6fps shooting.

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Soprano paved the way for today's antiheroes

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Ree Hines TODAY contributor

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Michael C. Hall as Dexter on "Dexter," Bryan Cranston as Walter White on "Breaking Bad," and Jon Hamm as Don Draper on "Mad Men."

When "The Sopranos" hit the small screen in 1999, there wasn't a leading character on television to compare to troubled patriarch Tony Soprano. Sure, the big screen had long since made room for complex antiheroes. Heck, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Clint Eastwood crafted careers by bringing those types to life. But TV is different.

Viewers develop long-term relationships with the familiar faces on weekly dramas. Audiences were used to cheering for the good guys they knew and loved and waiting for the baddies to finally get what was coming to them. So why would they tune in to see a lead like Tony Soprano?

Because of an actor like James Gandolfini.

It would have been easy to play Tony bigger than life -- he was a bigger than life character. He was equal parts tough guy, wise guy, ruthless killer and devoted father, flawed husband and struggling soul. That's what made him a tough sell. But Gandolfini somehow balanced the exaggeration that was inherent to the world of a crime boss with the mundane, every-man existence behind it. Sure, he cracked open a few heads, but he also fed the ducks that called his pool home. He was quick on the trigger, but he was also a hit around the barbecue.

"The decent part of Tony, the part that stood in for the tragically wasted human potential Dr. Melfi kept trying to tease out and embrace, came from Gandolfini," New York Magazine writer Matt Zoller Seitz wrote shortly after the actor's death. "His humanity shone through Tony's rotten fa?ade. When people said they sensed good in Tony, it was Gandolfini they sensed."

Gandolfini made Tony real. He made the unlikable, likable.

"I once asked ('Sopranos' creator) David Chase what did it (mean) to find Gandolfini, and he looked at me as though I was crazy," GQ writer and author of "Difficult Men" Brett Martin told TODAY. "He said, 'It meant everything.' What he brought to that role, the depth and the humanity and the kind of soulfulness, as well as the ugliness and the anger. It changed television forever, really."

Gandolfini's appealing portrayal of a gritty, unappealing guy ushered in the era of the modern TV antihero. The bad guys, the morally ambiguous guys, the not-your-typical-leading-man guys -- their time had finally come.

But not just on television. As New York Times' TV writer Bill Carter noted on TODAY Thursday, he also changed it for film actors. "The centerpoint of drama moved from movies to television after 'The Sopranos,' and great actors said, 'I can do TV now, because look what this guy is doing,'" he said. "He was dominating the whole dramatic field."

Which means there are plenty of actors from all over Hollywood who owe a debt of gratitude to Gandolfini. If viewers hadn't connected to his portrayal of Tony Soprano, would they have even had the chance to connect to Michael C. Hall's portrayal of Dexter Morgan in "Dexter"? The serial killer with a moral compass may seem miles away from the mobster, but both characters possess a strong sense of right and wrong, as well as a taste for bloody business. Tony came first. He was the test. In passing the test, Gandolfini made way for Hall and many others.

Jon Hamm's downward spiral as Don Draper on "Mad Men" is often Tony-esque, especially in the way he can hop from his mistress's arms to his marital bed without a moment's regret. Bryan Cranston's far darker descent as Walter White on "Breaking Bad" sees a basically good -- or at-one-time good -- man find a way to justify death and destruction, just as Tony did again and again. And Michael Chiklis' brutal-with-cause Vic Mackey on "The Shield" shared Tony's satisfaction in "convincing" an enemy to divulge hidden information.

They all benefitted from the ground Gandolfini broke -- as do audiences, who get to enjoy some of the most complex characters to ever grace the small screen.

Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/tony-soprano-character-altered-face-tv-paving-way-antiheroes-6C10387810

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Jason Schwartzman joins Christoph Waltz, Amy Adams in Tim Burton's 'Big Eyes' (Exclusive)

By Jeff Sneider

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Jason Schwartzman has joined the cast of Tim Burton's "Big Eyes," the Weinstein Company drama that stars Amy Adams as painter Margaret Keane and Christoph Waltz as her husband Walter, who took credit for his wife's work while she toiled in obscurity.

Based on a true story, "Big Eyes" is being produced by Burton, Lynette Howell of Electric City Entertainment and screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, who previously worked with Burton on "Ed Wood."

Krysten Ritter is set to co-star as Margaret's free-spirited friend and confidante DeeAnn, while Schwarzmann will play a San Francisco art gallery owner named Ruben.

"Jason has been part of such a diverse list of intelligent, often whimsical films during his career and makes an exciting addition to this already fantastic cast," said TWC Co-Chairman Harvey Weinstein.

Schwartzman recently starred in Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom" and wrapped the director's upcoming movie "The Grand Budapest Hotel." He'll soon be seen in Disney's "Saving Mr. Banks."

Schwartzman is repped by WME and attorney Warren Dern.

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Zynga Acquires Casino Gaming Vets Spooky Cool Labs - AllThingsD

Zynga announced on Wednesday it had acquired Spooky Cool Labs, a Chicago, Ill.-based gaming studio focused heavily on real-money gaming titles.

?We have a legacy in social casino franchises with Zynga Poker, and we believe that free-to-play social casino games for the Web and on mobile have the potential to reach and connect a much broader audience,? Zynga?s chief revenue officer Barry Cottle said in a company blog post.

?Spooky Cool Labs is the right team to help us bring the feeling of being on a casino floor and the thrill of hitting a big jackpot right to players wherever they play,? he said.

Terms of the deal, which was first noted by TechCrunch, weren?t disclosed.

As Zynga has signalled for some time, real-money titles are a big bet for the company?s future. It recently launched two of its first real-money games in the United Kingdom, ZyngaPlusPoker and ZyngaPlusCasino. This was the fruit of Zynga?s partnership with bWin, a major operator that has licenses to operate online real-money gaming websites in multiple countries across Europe.

But real-money gaming is still nascent for Zynga, especially due to restrictions on online gambling in the United States, one of Zynga?s key markets. The company hopes to eventually release real-money games in the U.S., but necessary legislation and lobbying efforts could take at least a year or more before Zynga sees any progress.

The acquisition also comes on the heels of a large round of layoffs ? approximately 18 percent of Zynga?s workforce ? in an effort to reduce costs and restructure the business toward mobile.

Spooky Cool Labs will stay based in Chicago, and founder Joe Kamikow will also continue leading game design for Aristocrat Leisure Limited, a major slot machine company based in Australia.

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Movie review: One-sided love, one-dimensional script in 1er Amour

1er Amour

Starring: Lo?c Esteves, Marianne Fortier, Macha Grenon, Beno?t Gouin, Sylvie Boucher, Pierre-Luc Brillant

Directed by: Guillaume Sylvestre

Running time: 80 minutes

Parental guidance: sex scenes, drug use

Opens with English subtitles on Friday, June 21 at: Forum cinema. Opens in French on Friday, June 21 at: Beaubien, Brossard, Deux Montagnes, Longueuil, Pont Viau, Quartier Latin, St-Eustache cinemas.

MONTREAL - The frustrating thing about 1er Amour is that it has so much unfulfilled potential. There?s the possibility of a really good movie about adolescent obsessions, about unrequited love, about first love.

Freely adapted from First Love, the 1860 novella by Russian author Ivan Turgenev, 1er Amour has a promising starting point. It?s that oldest of ideas: a boy falls big-time for an older girl and is devastated when his affections are not reciprocated.

But it?s just too thinly sketched here. This short feature feels kind of unfinished, leaving us wanting more, and not in a good way.

There are some very good performances in the film, most notably from Beno?t Gouin, who is perfect as Fran?ois, a father with a wandering eye. Gouin is one fine character actor, who can be slightly twisted and somehow still charming like nobody?s business. Macha Grenon is also excellent as his wife, Marie, as are Marianne Fortier and Sylvie Boucher as the daughter and mother, respectively, who are renting the cottage next door to Fran?ois and Marie?s shack.

But ? and this is a major-league, game-changing ?but? ? Lo?c Esteves is simply not that convincing as Antoine, the boy at the centre of this drama. The film is all about Antoine ? the story?s told from his point of view ? and the young actor just doesn?t convey the emotional range needed to bring this thing to life.

Thirteen-year-old Antoine and his parents arrive at their cottage on an isolated island somewhere in the Quebec countryside, and very quickly the kid is mighty intrigued by the rather attractive 17-year-old girl, Anna, just across the way. He?s smitten, but she hardly notices. She has other things on her mind, like drinking, smoking weed and getting cosy with her boyfriend.

It turns out that Anna?s mother, Genevi?ve, is an old pal of Fran?ois, but that?s just another plot strand that?s not built upon in a particularly meaningful way. There?s a development late in the film that?s quite the twist, but yet again, first-time feature writer-director Guillaume Sylvestre ? who made the cool foodie documentary Durs ? cuire, about chefs Normand Laprise and Martin Picard ? doesn?t really pick up the ball and run with it.

It?s a twist that could have ricocheted off in any number of directions, but Sylvestre doesn?t follow any of those options. Instead, he ends 1er Amour just minutes later, creating that rare film where I would have liked another 20 minutes of action (as opposed to, say, Man of Steel, which could have easily had a half-hour of explosions lopped off with no one noticing).

It?s the second straight first feature from a local writer-director ? after Sarah pr?f?re la course ? suffering from a thin screenplay that could have used a little more hard labour.

Source: http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/movie-guide/Movie+review+sided+love+dimensional+script/8553403/story.html

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Digital 3-D atlas of brain reveals tiny details

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Digital 3-D atlas of brain reveals tiny details
By MALCOLM RITTERBy MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer??

In this photo provided by Katrin Amunts, Karl Zilles, Alan C. Evans, researchers use a microtome to cut sections from a brain preserved in paraffin wax into slivers 20-micrometers thick, resulting in over 7,400 slices. A digital three-dimensional model called "BigBrain" was produced from the thousands of sections. Its resolution is finer than a human hair, so it can reveal clusters of brain cells and even some large individual cells. It is being made available to scientists around the world. The researchers, from Germany and Canada, reported their work Thursday, June 20, 2013 in the journal Science. (AP Photo/Katrin Amunts, Karl Zilles, Alan C. Evans)

In this photo provided by Katrin Amunts, Karl Zilles, Alan C. Evans, researchers use a microtome to cut sections from a brain preserved in paraffin wax into slivers 20-micrometers thick, resulting in over 7,400 slices. A digital three-dimensional model called "BigBrain" was produced from the thousands of sections. Its resolution is finer than a human hair, so it can reveal clusters of brain cells and even some large individual cells. It is being made available to scientists around the world. The researchers, from Germany and Canada, reported their work Thursday, June 20, 2013 in the journal Science. (AP Photo/Katrin Amunts, Karl Zilles, Alan C. Evans)

This image made from video provided by researchers shows a highly-detailed image of the hippocampus region of the human brain. The digital three-dimensional model called "BigBrain" was produced from the thousands of sections made from the brain of a 65-year-old woman. Its resolution is finer than a human hair, so it can reveal clusters of brain cells and even some large individual cells. It is being made available to scientists around the world. The researchers, from Germany and Canada, reported their work Thursday, June 20, 2013 in the journal Science. (AP Photo/Montreal Neurological Institute/McGill University, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine/Research Centre Juelich, and National Research Council of Canada)

In this photo provided by Katrin Amunts, Karl Zilles, Alan C. Evans, researchers use a microtome to cut sections from a brain preserved in paraffin wax into slivers 20-micrometers thick, resulting in over 7,400 slices. A digital three-dimensional model called "BigBrain" was produced from the thousands of sections. Its resolution is finer than a human hair, so it can reveal clusters of brain cells and even some large individual cells. It is being made available to scientists around the world. The researchers, from Germany and Canada, reported their work Thursday, June 20, 2013 in the journal Science. (AP Photo/Katrin Amunts, Karl Zilles, Alan C. Evans)

In this photo provided by Katrin Amunts, Karl Zilles, Alan C. Evans, researchers arrange sections made from a brain preserved in paraffin wax. A digital three-dimensional model called "BigBrain" was produced from the thousands of sections. Its resolution is finer than a human hair, so it can reveal clusters of brain cells and even some large individual cells. It is being made available to scientists around the world. The researchers, from Germany and Canada, reported their work Thursday, June 20, 2013 in the journal Science. (AP Photo/Katrin Amunts, Karl Zilles, Alan C. Evans)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Scientists have a new brain atlas to help them study their favorite organ. It's a digital, three-dimensional model called "BigBrain."

Its resolution is finer than a human hair, so it can reveal clusters of brain cells and even some large individual cells. It is being made available to scientists around the world.

To make the atlas, researchers sliced a cadaver brain from a 65-year-old woman into 7,400 thin sections, stained them to reveal tiny features, and photographed each one. Then they used computers to combine the data into a 3-D digital model.

The idea of thin-slicing a brain to study its anatomy is not new. In fact, complete bodies of a man and a woman were sliced and photographed about 20 years ago to create an anatomy reference called the Visible Human Project.

For the new brain-mapping project, the researchers chose the woman's brain for no special reason other than it was basically healthy, said Katrin Amunts of Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf in Germany.

She is lead author of a report on the atlas published Thursday in the journal Science. Scientists have begun mapping data from other brain studies onto the new model to gain new insights, said senior author Karl Zilles of the Juelich Aachen Research Alliance in Juelich, Germany.

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