Art & Culture
Sorting Through Statuettes: A Skeptic's Guide To Surviving Awards Season
Brad Pitt won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for his work in Moneyball and in Terrence Malick's Tree Of Life, in which he plays an authoritarian father.
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Pujols Has 'Greatest Night' Ever, Cards Lead World Series 2-1
Albert Pujols of the St. Louis Cardinals hits his third home run of the game — tying a World Series single-game record — Saturday night in Arlington, Texas. His team beat the Texas Rangers 16-7 to take a 2-1 lead in the series.
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Academy announces winners of 2011 Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowships
Jacob Estes (1998) wrote and directed "The Details," which premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. The film of Bragi Schut’s 2003 Nicholl-winning script "Season of the Witch" was released earlier this year. Anthony Jaswinski (1997) wrote “Vanishing on 7th Street,” also released earlier this year.
Pictured here is a scene from "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," co-written by 1996 fellow Ehren Kruger. Kruger also penned "Arlington Road," "The Ring" and the forthcoming "Transformers: Dark of the Moon."
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Emperor Kangxi and the Sun King Louis XIV: Sino-Franco Encounters in Arts and Culture.
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Lessons From Premiere Week: Comedy Up, NBC Down, Nostalgia Mixed
So we're a week into the meat of the networks' fall season. Premiere ratings only go so far in terms of their instructiveness; as recently as last year, Outsourced did okay on its first outing, and it's dead now. Very dead.
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Ty Segall: Campy Irreverence, Sincere Appreciation
Ty Segall's "Goodbye Bread" unfurls into a disarmingly mellow, casually masterful bit of haiku rock 'n' roll existentialism.
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'Moneyball': A 'Bad News Bears' For MBAs
Brad Pitt plays Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland A's, in the movie Moneyball.
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Rin Tin Tin: From Battlefield To Hollywood, A Story Of Friendship
The original Rin Tin Tin was born in 1918 and died in 1932.
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Convergence 2011: Australian content state of play
To help inform the discussion around the Australian Government's Convergence Review, Screen Australia has released a comprehensive analysis of Australian content across all media platforms.
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Human Rights
Ringing FOWPAL’s Peace Bell for the World:Nobel Peace Prize Laureates’ Visions and Actions
Protecting the World’s Cultural Diversity for a Sustainable Future
The Peace Bell Resonates at the 27th Eurasian Economic Summit
Declaration of World Day of the Power of Hope Endorsed by People in 158 Nations
Puppet Show I International Friendship Day 2020