According to the LA Times’ Web Scout, “last Friday morning the opening line of ‘The Waste Land,’ T.S. Eliot’s most famous poem, became one of most explosively Googled phrases in America.” Google’s Hot Trends, an online glimpse at what people are most ardently searching the Internet for at any given time, didn’t explain exactly why the phrase “April is the Cruelest Month” spiked in popularity. So the Times’ Web Scout had to dig deep…and you may be surprised at what he discovered.

Read the whole article at LA Times. 

Are you a poet like T.S. Eliot? Why not enter the Writer’s Digest Poetry Contest? But poets, hark: the deadline is June 2nd so hurry up or June will be the cruelest month too! Go, WordHustler, go! 

In the midst of chaos at the LA Times, The Hollywood Reporter has stealthily coaxed Jay Fernandez, the Times’ prized Tinseltown reporter and originator of the famed “Scriptland” column, to join THR team.

See full article on Hollywood Wiretap.

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