• Tristram DeRoma of Shelton, Connecticut says:
  
  "I think it's a great idea, whether it's for personal gain or not. I myself am going to charge my inlaws $5 a shot."
  
  
• Aimee Puschkin of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, says:
  
  "I think it's smart. Regardless of what they do, short of putting their child under house arrest, the paparazzi are going to get their shot. The less access they have to the baby and pics of the little tyke, the more lengths they may be willing to go to, to get them. I don't think anybody wants to see exactly what lengths. So it's smart. Not just from a business standpoint, but from a safety standpoint. The paparazzi are crazy."
  
  
• Jo Perkins of Abington, Massachusetts, says:
  
  "I think the sort of people who have the opportunity to sell photos of their babies for $5 million dollars already have $5 million dollars to donate to charity. Why don't they just donate their own money? I think it's creepy, but I'm not sure I'm not just jealous.

Moviegoers across the nation might have been asking themselves yesterday if they had spotted newly-betrothed Katherine Heigl, in special wedding garb, at the sold-out sneak previews of Heigl's new romantic comedy 27 Dresses. It wasn't the recent Emmy winner - but it was something almost equally galvanizing: 27 LIVE STANDEES -- models wearing specially-made bridesmaid dresses adorned with the film's title and credits, at 27 specially-selected locations for the December 27 sneaks. (The dresses were inspired by the film's one-sheet, in which Heigl wears the dress.)

This new dimension in promotions/sneak previews, along with the film's playability to all ages, brought the studio its best sneak previews results in years. 27 Dresses and the Live Standees delighted the attendees at sold-out showings around the country, many of whom took photos of the immobile models/standees before and after the screenings.

Katherine Heigl, who earlier this year got Knocked Up in the hit motion picture comedy from Judd Apatow, and nabbed an Emmy for her starring role as a surgical resident in Grey's Anatomy, is always a bridesmaid but never a bride in the romantic comedy 27 Dresses. From the screenwriter of The Devil Wears Prada, 27 Dresses centers on Jane (Heigl), an idealistic, romantic and completely selfless woman...a perennial bridal attendant whose own happy ending is nowhere in sight. But when younger sister Tess captures the heart of Jane's boss - with whom she is secretly in love - Jane begins to reexamine her "always-a-bridesmaid..." lifestyle. She gets help -- and maybe something more -- from a cynical journalist with whom she has nothing in common.

Hoping to keep itself relevant as more consumers seek video on demand via the Internet, Free How-To Guide for Small Business Web Strategies - from domain name selection to site promotion. Netflix launched a Web initiative Tuesday that gives subscribers the option of downloading and instantly watching movies online.

The company will roll out the service to subscribers over the next six months. Users will be given access to a certain amount of download time each month based on their Netflix subscription plan.

Netflix pioneered the DVD rent-by-mail business and has become a serious rival to Blockbuster, which last year debuted its own mail-based rental service.

"I don't think anyone who has not been in a similar situation can possibly know how this feels: I am alternately elated and overwrought. I both want, and don't want, to finish this book (don't worry, I will.)"

The strong start for "Dead Man's Chest," which was released as a single DVD and a two-disc box set Tuesday, means that Disney's Buena Vista Worldwide Home Entertainment could have the three bestselling DVDs for 2006, Disney said.

The top DVD sellers for 2006 now include Disney-Pixar's "Cars," with 13 million DVDs sold since its Nov. 7 release, and "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," with 12 million sold since its release by Disney and Walden Media on April 4, Disney said.

The comedy, starring Danny DeVito and Matthew Broderick as dueling neighbors, thrusts intelligent LED lighting into the national spotlight as DeVito's character attempts to turn his house into the world's biggest and most brilliant holiday display. His ambitions are realized when the entire house is transformed into a traffic-halting multimedia light show made possible by Color Kinetics' LED technology.

"This is a film that literally hinges on the lighting -- where the lights are a central character. Anything less than spectacular would have failed the story," said Jason McKinnon of Electric Aura Lighting Design, who conceptualized the ground-breaking lighting sequences along with Rob Sondergaard. "Based on their highly programmable and durable nature, we knew that LEDs were the only feasible choice to make our concept a reality. Color Kinetics' technology exceeded our expectations, allowing us to turn the house into a three-dimensional video display that is the movie's climatic centerpiece."

The project was achieved using Color Kinetics iColor Flex SL, which resembles a traditional holiday string light, but allows precise digital control of every node on the strand. Each thimble-sized node houses a tri-color LED that's capable of producing 64 billion colors through additive color-mixing of red, green and blue light -- much like a pixel in a video screen. Strands of iColor Flex SL lined the home's exterior from top to bottom -- comprising 14,300 nodes in all and essentially wrapping the home in a digital skin. Based on the vision of Deck the Halls director John Whitesell and production designer Bill Brzeski, holiday-themed light animations were designed and streamed via a media server to the LED nodes, which projected the content back.

At full intensity, the 14,300 LED nodes drew just 7,150 watts of energy -- the equivalent of four average hairdryers.

By comparison, wrapping the house in the same fashion with conventional exterior string lights would have drawn approximately 100,100 watts -- 14 times more than the LED installation -- yet without the capability for programmable effects.

The electrical current draw of the entire LED installation was 126 amps -- which is the approximate draw of 1.3 average households.

By comparison, the same configuration using conventional exterior string lights would have drawn 812 amps -- approximately 6.5 times more than the LED installation, or the equivalent of 8 houses' worth of power.

Each tri-color node of iColor Flex SL incorporates a microchip that was custom-designed by Color Kinetics, making it an individually programmable "pixel."

Filming was interrupted numerous times by small aircraft that were attracted to the set by the lights.

"We try to make figures based on films that have an effect on people. And 'Napoleon' definitely had an effect on a whole lot of people," he said. Everywhere I went, people were spouting off lines from the film and talking about their favorite scenes. So I knew we were on to something. And that's when we began talking to [director] Jared Hess about making the figures."

The figures are just the latest in an ever-growing list of accolades and ephemera "Napoleon Dynamite" has collected since it debuted at last year's Sundance Film Festival (where it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize). In April the Idaho State Legislature passed a bill commending Hess, who shot the film in Idaho, for "showcasing the positive aspects of Idaho's youth, rural culture, education system, athletics, economic prosperity and diversity."