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'The Americans,' FX lead TCA Award nominations
"The Americans" and its channel, FX, led the pack in the Television Critics Assn. awards nominations, announced Monday morning. The first season of the Cold War spy drama starring Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys grabbed four nominations, including a...
Tags: Star Trek (movie, 2009), The Voice (tv program), Lost (tv program), Monica Potter, Elections
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New releases: Ken Burns takes strong tone in 'Central Park Five'
The Central Park Five, PBS, $24.99; Blu-ray, $29.99 This documentary (made by Ken Burns, his daughter Sarah and her husband, David McMahon) revisits the racial tensions of '80s New York, via the story of a white, female investment banker who was raped...Tags: Fiction, Jurassic Park (movie), Promised Land (movie), Central Park, Ken Burns
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'Central Park Five,' graphically told
WASHINGTON -- From Tom Paine's "Common Sense" to Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail," American history is replete with examples of printed words accelerating social justice. Still, from...
Tags: PBS (tv network), Crime, Law and Justice, AIDS, Central Park, Lawyers
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Column: 'Central Park Five' -- graphically told
WASHINGTON — From Tom Paine’s "Common Sense" to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" to Martin Luther King’s "Letter from Birmingham Jail," American history is replete with examples of printed words accelerating social...Tags: PBS (tv network), Crime, Law and Justice, George Will, AIDS, Central Park
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Failed Justice Argues Against Death Penalty
From Tom Paine's "Common Sense" to Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail," American history is replete with examples of printed words accelerating social justice. Still, from Mathew Brady's 1862...Tags: PBS (tv network), Crime, Law and Justice, AIDS, Central Park, Lawyers
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'West of Memphis': Trio still seeking justice ★★★
For astonishing injustice put to rest, at long last, the moviegoer has at least two options. One: "Les Miserables." And two: "West of Memphis," a strong, blood-boiling documentary from director Amy Berg, who made the similarly fine "Deliver Us From Evil,"...
Tags: Dixie Chicks (music group), Crime, Law and Justice, Music Box Theatre, West of Memphis (movie), Johnny Depp
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Ed Koch dies on day his documentary opens
Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch died the same day a new documentary about his life and legacy opened in New York. "Koch," which will open in Southern California theaters beginning March 1, offers evidence that the combative mayor had mellowed...Tags: Sex and the City (movie), Gold Standard Incorporated, Movies, Entertainment, Andrew Cuomo
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Ed Koch's most memorable TV appearances
It seems fitting, if sad, that Ed Koch should pass away on the same day that "Koch," a documentary about his life, opened in Manhattan. Though the three-term mayor of New York City, who died early Friday of congestive heart failure, is best known for...Tags: Michael Bloomberg, Woody Allen, Robert De Niro, Coca-Cola Co., Saturday Night Live (tv program)
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Oscars 2013: 'Gatekeepers,' 'Sugar Man' earn documentary nods
Of the five titles vying for the Oscar in the documentary feature category, four offer hard-hitting examinations of tough-minded subjects -- the Israeli/Palestine conflict, sexual assault in the military, the emergence of AIDS activism. The fifth is a...
Tags: France, The Queen of Versailles (movie), Entertainment, The Gatekeepers (movie), Mark Olsen
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'Zero Dark Thirty,' 'Argo,' 'West of Memphis' among WGA nominees
The scripts of "Zero Dark Thirty," "Lincoln" and "Silver Linings Playbook" are among the nominees for Writers Guild of America Awards for outstanding achievement in writing for the screen in 2012. Nominees announced Friday in the original screenplay...
Tags: Nat Faxon, Moonrise Kingdom (movie), Silver Linings Playbook (movie), Woody Allen, Entertainment
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Review: 'West of Memphis' makes strong case
For astonishing injustice put to rest at long last, the holiday moviegoer has at least two options. One: "Les Misérables." And two: "West of Memphis," a strong, blood-boiling documentary from director Amy Berg, who made the similarly fine "Deliver Us From...Tags: Dixie Chicks (music group), Movies, Entertainment, Amour (movie), Documentary (genre)
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Ken Burns, daughter team up for justice in 'Central Park Five' ★★★ 1/2
"The Central Park Five" is an unusually good documentary about an outlandish miscarriage of justice. On an April night in 1989, Trisha Meili was beaten, raped and left for dead not far from a path in Manhattan's Central Park. Five boys between the...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Clarence Thomas, New York City Police Department, Central Park, Manhattan (New York City)
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