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...another Yule Ball. Inside the center’s screening room, two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington premiered his latest film, “The Great Debaters,” portraying the success of a black college’s debate team over Harvard amid the segregation of the 1930s...
...this wasn't just another Yule Ball. Inside the center's screening room, two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington premiered his latest film, "The Great Debaters," portraying the success of a black college's debate team over Harvard amid the segregation of the 1930s...
...three years ago, for containing the three basic elements that every great movie requires: “It made you laugh, it made you cry, and it made you cheer.” “Debaters” follows the true story of historically black Wiley College in 1930s Texas. Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at the college and a well-known poet, coaches a select team of students to the national debate championship. In reality, Wiley competed against the University of Southern California for the national title; in the film, the small college goes up against Harvard...
...comes the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, keepers of the Golden Globe Awards, to remind Hollywood that there is a middle way between ornery independent films and the mindless mainstreamers: the period romantic drama. Atonement, from the Ian McEwen novel about a love affair betrayed in posh 1930s England, received seven nominations, more than any other film, in the Globe list made public today. It's still OK, the HFPA said, to have an elevated, old-fashioned cry at the movies...
...Cruise is entitled to his opinions, but if he is going to express them publicly, he might care to do so with a bit more clarity. Was he implying that chattel slavery in his own country in the 1860s and the fascism that engulfed Europe in the 1930s were not worth being "solved" with a war? James Lehmann, NYON, SWITZERLAND...