A human eating machine in India's Kerala state has been told by his doctors to slow down, and local restauranteurs are rejoicing.

The NYT looks at a Bravo miniseries on the newsroom of the New York Daily News -- something that's surprisingly sympathetic to its subjects.

The NYT's David Carr on how even big-time writers are trying to develop side Web projects as a hedge against economic turbulence.

Crash, a movie I didn't particularly like, cost $7.5 million to make and had worldwide revenues of $180 million. Writer-director Paul Haggis has made a whopping $300,000, and the eight principal actors -- Matt Dillon, Don Cheadle and Sandra Bullock among them -- have recently been cut cheques for $19,000.

And what did they do wrong? They worked for a slice of the "profits."