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Under any name, Donald Westlake was a grandmaster
Donald E. Westlake is dead. This simple sentence can't even begin to encapsulate the enormity of this event. Because it also means Richard Stark has passed on too, as has Tucker Coe and Samuel Holt, Timothy J. Culver and J. Morgan Cunningham and a slew of...Tags: Television Industry, Game Playing, New Year's Day, Mel Gibson, Basketball
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Oscar likes to keep it real
" The Duchess." "W." " Changeling." " Defiance." "Frost/Nixon." "Milk." " Valkyrie." "Che." What do these films have in common, other than succinct titles? All are based on real people and events, and all happen to have release dates timed to award...Tags: George M Cohan, Jamie Foxx, Daniel Day-Lewis, Angelina Jolie, Changeling (movie)
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Getting Mugabe out
'Only God will remove me." With this public vow, Zimbabwe's strongman president, Robert Mugabe, officially ended the campaign for the presidential runoff election that is to be held on Friday. The campaign had already turned brutal, with Mugabe's...Tags: Government, Heads of State, Mobutu Sese Seko, National Government, Political Candidates
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Heath Ledger's Joker generating Oscars buzz
The Associated PressJack Nicholson's Joker was a blast. Heath Ledger's Joker is as dark and anarchic a figure as Randle McMurphy in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," the role that brought Nicholson his first Academy Award. Ledger's performance in the Batman tale "The...Tags: Celebrity, Daniel Day-Lewis, Kevin Smith, Kathy Bates, Elections
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Movie Review: 'Street Kings'
It's not easy being Det. Tom Ludlow ( Keanu Reeves). Still grieving over his recently deceased wife, he wanders the streets of Los Angeles in an alcoholic haze, shooting first, planting evidence next and answering questions later. This should be enough to...Tags: Celebrity, Keanu Reeves, Los Angeles, Crimes, Forest Whitaker
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Suspense-less 'Street Kings' lacks twists and turns
Sun Movie Critic(C+) Street Kings is like a sideshow shooting gallery that wants to award you a Ph.D. in sociology instead of a stuffed toy or 10 free shots. It would be easier to take as gory, lowdown fun if it weren't giving you the third degree in more ways than one....Tags: Police Investigations, Police, Keanu Reeves, Clint Eastwood, Forest Whitaker
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A force from the pulpit
Few outside the Anglican hierarchy would have recognized John Sentamu's name before June 2005, when he was tapped as the Church of England's first black archbishop. But five months later, when his enthronement ceremony at York Minster cathedral...Tags: Christianity, Racism, Transportation, Air Transportation, Anglican
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MOVIES
PREMIUM CABLE "THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND" *** 7 p.m., HBO A fictional Scottish doctor (James McAvoy) flukes into a job as personal physician and adviser to Ugandan president and charismatic monster Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker). MPAA rating: R ---------...Tags: Forest Whitaker, Movies
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Pros and cons of 'The Great Debaters'
Sun movie critic(B-) An optimistic movie set during the Great Depression, the fact-based The Great Debaters coarsens its inspirational story and powerful history with movie devices that date to the 1930s. Director Denzel Washington uses the cliffhanging climaxes and...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Jermaine Williams, Celebrity, Denzel Washington, Minority Groups
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Forest Whitaker Enters FX Arms Race
Zap2It.comForest Whitaker, who did a season-long arc on "The Shield" in 2006, is reteaming with FX. The Oscar-winning actor will to executive produce and direct a drama pilot. The show, written by newcomers Matthew Donlan and Jeremy Martin, centers on arms...Tags: Television Industry, Forest Whitaker, Movies, NBC, Film Festivals
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Telluride Film Festival unveils slate
The 2007 Oscar awards season has officially begun.
The Telluride Film Festival, the Colorado celluloid fete that serves as an intimate family reunion for cinephiles and a launch pad for specialty-film Oscar campaigns, unveiled its 34th annual lineup this...Tags: Daniel Day-Lewis, Jane Campion, Marcia Gay Harden, Forest Whitaker, Sony Corp.
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'The Queen' reigns at BAFTAS
The EnvelopeA gracious monarch and a charismatic dictator took the top prizes Sunday at the British Academy Film Awards. Dame Helen Mirren was crowned best actress for playing Queen Elizabeth II in "The Queen," which also was named the year's best picture. Forest...Tags: Literature, Celebrity, Leonardo DiCaprio, Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench
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