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Governors Awards: Jeffrey Katzenberg's phone skills revealed
They all talk about the phone calls — Will Smith, Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks. What binds them is the relentless prodding they’ve all received from Hollywood’s most bullish fundraiser, Jeffrey Katzenberg. At the fourth-annual...
Tags: David Oyelowo, Christopher Nolan, D.A. Pennebaker, Entertainment, Quentin Tarantino
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'West of Memphis' full of real-life twists and turns
One might assume that a story already covered by a trilogy of documentaries, numerous books, countless articles and with a trail of celebrity supporters including Johnny Depp, Eddie Vedder and Natalie Maines had already earned enough attention. The...Tags: Sundance Film Festival, Crime, Law and Justice, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Entertainment, Johnny Depp
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The year of John Cage
Once, when asked how he thought history would consider his work, John Cage responded that he had made so much, getting rid of it all would be very difficult. Twenty years after his death he has been spectacularly proven right. This year marked the 100th...
Tags: Music Industry, John Cage, Germany, U.S. Postal Service, Museums
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Lady Gaga documentary is in the works
Looks like Lady Gaga is tearing another page out of the Madonna platinum-blond, pop-superstar playbook. In the early '90s, Madonna launched a new phase of her career by allowing director Alek Keshishian to make a documentary, "Truth or Dare," about...
Tags: Madonna, Music, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Lady Gaga, Entertainment
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"The Abolitionists" Documentary Showing at Wallace Stevens Theater in Hartford
Hartford's Harriet Beecher Stowe Center and CPTV host this reception/screening/talk-back for the upcoming PBS American Experience documentary The Abolitionists (movie still pictured above). which tells the stories of Stowe, Frederick Douglass, William...
Tags: The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., Entertainment Events, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Fiction, Slavery
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When Lawmakers Behave and Prosecutors Do Not
Writing about the fiscal cliff is futile, especially now that we’re over it. Who wants to spend time with a group of people who voluntarily set up a drop-dead event to force them to act and then decided that, actually, they’d rather drop...Tags: Lawyers, Mark Kirk, Elections, Mike Huckabee, Fiscal Cliff
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1950s Tax Fantasy Can't Give Solace to Republicans
Of course, 2013 will be fine, because the 1950s sure were. That’s the premise for the coming year, especially in regard to the agreement in Washington to raise U.S. tax rates on the well-off. In the 1950s, after all, tax rates were far higher than...
Tags: Calvin Coolidge, Barack Obama, Internal Revenue Service, Republican Party, John F. Kennedy
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“7 Questions” With … Jenny McCarthy
Channel Guide MagazineJenny McCarthy says her mission with her new late-night talk show is to “bring sexy back” to the genre. This seems like an eminently attainable goal for the former Playboy centerfold, who describes The Jenny McCarthy Show as “Playboy... -
Digital theater, Hollywood movies coming soon to Orlando Science Center
Theme Park Rangers - Orlando SentinelOrlando Science Center is set to debut its Digital Adventure Theater, where it will show 3-D documentaries and second-run Hollywood films to its guests. The Digital Adventure Theater, which opens to the public Friday, will feature works in 4K resolution,... -
Review: 'The Abolitionists' shows the people who led to Lincoln
Even as he helped orchestrate the American Revolution and the creation of modern democracy, John Adams worried that the framers of history, more interested in portraiture than landscape, would choose one or two individuals — Benjamin Franklin,...
Tags: Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner, Social Issues, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Slavery
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The difficult path to a foreign-language film Oscar
Something like a glammed-up re-imagining of the United Nations, year-in, year-out the foreign-language film category at the Oscars is a home to diplomacy, drama, intrigue and heartbreak. And that's just the process to secure a nomination and then the...Tags: United Nations, Drama (genre), Awards and Prizes, Rust and Bone (movie), Entertainment
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From halls of 'Downton Abbey,' to 'House of Cards,' a great midseason
Midseason used to be a time for networks to put on series that weren’t good enough to make the fall lineup. The thinking was: The money has been spent to make these episodes, so let’s try to get something out of them by plugging them for shows...
Tags: Sundance Film Festival, Jane Campion, Ronald Reagan, Matthew Rhys, Entertainment
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