The latest in Charles Dickens

Dickens' dog collar fetches $11,590 in NYC auction

2010-02-22T09:14:12Z

<div id="subtitle">Leather and brass dog collar belonging to Charles Dickens fetches $11,590 at NYC auction</div><div><p>A dog collar that belonged to Charles Dickens has fetched $11,590 at a New York City auction.</p><p>The leather and brass collar is inscribed with Dickens' name. It had been e...

Don't Pawn Away Your Future

2010-02-22T16:15:46Z

One story by classic novel writer Charles Dickens starts out, "It was the best of times, and it was the worst of times." Although it was more than a century ago that he wrote his famous Tale of Two Cities, we can identify with it today. Amer ica has one of the highest standards of living in the world, yet these are troubling times for a great many of her citizens. Multitudes have lost faith in the stock markets, and have lost bundl...

Making Money Without Making Enemies

2010-02-22T19:05:28Z

There is never a wrong time to talk about making money and gaining wealth without making enemies. Occasions, such as Christmas, provide a special reason. The best example is Charles Dickens? ?A Christmas Carol.?<br><br>If you have not read the book I am sure you must have seen a version of a TV movie or even a cartoon about the story of a stingy businessman named Kensington area in London. It is situated at Ixworth Place south of the world famous Hyde Park. To get the Myhotel you can use The Kensington Station, The Sloane Square Station or The Kensington Bridge tube Station whic...

Ghost of meals past: Dickens' toothpick sold in NY

2010-02-23T15:36:34Z

<div id="subtitle">The ghost of dinners past, Dickens' toothpick, is sold at NYC auction house for $9,150</div><div><p>An ivory and gold toothpick once owned by Charles Dickens has sold at a New York City auction for $9,150.</p><p>It was being offered by heirs to the Barnes &amp; Noble f...

Dickens Toothpick

2009-12-15T12:02:17Z

This undated photo provided Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009 by Bonhams New York shows an unusual piece of Charles Dickens memorabilia - his ivory and gold toothpick. The item is being auctioned in New York City with a pre-sale estimate of $3,000 to $5,000. (AP Photo/Bonhams New York) NO SALES

Apocalypse flick '2012' swamps box office

2010-02-24T04:37:24Z

<div><p>North American film-goers embraced the apocalypse over Christmas this weekend as disaster flick "2012" beat Disney's "A Christmas Carol" to top the box office, final figures showed Monday.</p><p>The big-budget "2012" reduced its competitors to rubble as it racked up 65.2 million dollars, accounting for roughly half of all box office receipts in an impressi...

'2012' gets ahead of rivals at US box office

2010-02-24T05:09:03Z

<div><p>North American film-goers favored the apocalypse over Christmas this weekend as disaster flick "2012" beat Disney's "A Christmas Carol" to top the box office, according to early estimates Sunday.</p><p>Trend-trackers Exhibitor Relations said the loosely Mayan-inspired t...

'Christmas Carol' hits high note at box office

2010-02-24T07:42:13Z

<div><p>The festive season lured North American movie-goers at the weekend to leave "Disney's A Christmas Carol" on top of the box office rankings, final figures showed Monday.</p><p>The latest adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic tale, featuring Jim Ca...

'Christmas Carol' beats the dickens out of box office rivals

2010-02-24T08:11:13Z

<div><p>With more than 40 shopping days left until Christmas, North American theater audiences already had enough holiday cheer to put "Disney's A Christmas Carol" at the top of the box office this week.</p><p>Early estimates on Sunday by box office tracker Exhibitor Relations ...

Hollywood stars light up London for Christmas

2010-02-24T10:22:44Z

<div><p>Jim Carrey and other Hollywood stars switched on the Christmas lights in London on Tuesday as part of festivities that included an attempt to stage the world's biggest carol sing-along.</p><p>Carrey turned on the lights along Oxford Street while Colin Firth performe...

"A Christmas Carol" gets thrill ride movie treatment

2010-02-24T10:30:47Z

<div><p>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Take a classic Christmas tale, a dollop of Jim Carrey and a sprinkling of innovative movie technology.</p><p>Bake for 96 minutes, Hollywood style, and you've got the latest version of "A Christmas Carol", arriving in movie theaters around t...

Carrey's Scrooge rings in Hollywood holiday spirit

2010-02-24T10:41:00Z

<div id="subtitle">Carrey's Scrooge rings in Hollywood's holiday spirit; season also has vamps, aliens, doomsday</div><div><p>Hollywood loves money. So does Ebenezer Scrooge. So what better way to launch the holiday season than putting the old money-grubber at the head of the line to separate movie-goers from their cash?</p><p>The latest version of <...

Carrey, Zemeckis capture 21st century Scrooge

2010-02-24T10:42:52Z

<div id="subtitle">Carrey, Zemeckis' `Christmas Carol' captures 21st century Scrooge through digital technology</div><div><p>Technology finally has caught up with Charles Dickens' imagination.</p><p>Jim Carrey and Robert Zemeckis' new take ...

Ways on Planning Your Wedding Stress Free

2010-02-25T11:28:58Z

It is the best of times; it is the worst of times, to paraphrase the English literary genius, Charles Dickens. Indeed, weddings can bring out the best and the worst in people, can become the most joyful and the most sorrowful of occasions and can become terribly stressful and horribly distressing that it is no wonder there is a term for the bride of the moment - bridezilla.<br><br>You need not, however, ...

A Hypnotherapist?s Casebook. No 1. Hypnotherapy For Healing.

2010-02-25T15:56:49Z

These articles were originally first published as a column in<br>L.A. Health Magazine. Titled, A Hypnotherapist?s Casebook. No 1.<br><br>Hypnotherapy for Healing.<br><br>A little over ten years ago I was between jobs. I had been working in Psychiatric Hospitals and other Institutions, as an Admissions Counselor, Chemical Dependency Counselor, Case manager and Discharge Planner. I was attending some college courses, hoping e...

Writer focuses on Charles Dickens' own bleak house

2010-02-26T06:21:32Z

<div><p>CANBERRA (Reuters Life!) - Writer Charles Dickens is lauded for chronicling the way of life in Victorian England in his novels but his treatment of his own wife was also indicative of society in those days, according to a new novel.</p><p>British social worker...

Remember, you read it here first -- centuries ago

2010-02-26T19:42:12Z

<div><p>LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Think the heinous crimes, disastrous wars and seemingly never-ending financial scandals of recent years are something new? Then think again.</p><p>Courtesy of the British Library, readers can now immerse themselves in vivid newspaper accounts of a 19th Century society that appears to have changed little from today's chaotic world.</p&am...

Scrooge comes to Cannes for snowy Disney blockbuster

2010-02-27T08:59:11Z

<div><p>Scrooge came to Cannes in a horse-drawn carriage Monday to promote Disney's 3D holiday special "A Christmas Carol" starring Jim Carrey and a host of other Hollywood A-listers.</p><p>Carrey plays the eponymous Charles Dickens' Neurosis - Accidents and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder</p><p>By Neil Worrall</p><p></p><p>On first impressions, you might not think there is a link between Victorian author Charles Dickens and compensation claims in the 21st century, but you would be wrong. In fact Charles Dickens experiences in a train crash nearl...