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...sure where the award ceremony for the feature films was held, but the shorts awards were given out a mile from town at a weird '80s dance party with a really bad buffet in a room without seats. I did not see Robert Redford. Standing near the stage, rehearsing my speech, I was relieved not to get any of the eight "honorable mentions," which is some kind of Sundancespeak for "loser." But when the actual award was given, they called up a young hipster named Destin Cretton, who not only did not have a speech prepared but also was holding...
That Slumdog should get anywhere near an Oscar is--like the crazy-wonderful plot twists in a Bollywood musical--both improbable and inevitable. India provided the backdrop for two Oscar-favored dramas of the '80s: Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (11 nominations and eight wins, including Best Picture, beating E.T.) and David Lean's A Passage to India (11 nominations, two wins...
...early '80s, when HIV was still a mysterious killer in San Francisco, Martin Delaney, 63, an advocate for AIDS patients, made smuggling runs to Mexico to secure medicines said to strengthen the immune system. Delaney later founded the organization Project Inform to raise awareness of HIV and AIDS treatments...
...always loved your '80s stuff--Barfly, Angel Heart and the like. Even though those movies are still panned by critics, what do you think of your '80s work? Andrew Fedeli GREENBRAE, CALIF...
...concerns the question of whether America needs a new generation of nuclear warheads. While serving under former President George W. Bush, Gates had repeatedly called for the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) program to be put into operation, because the nation's current nukes - mostly produced in the 1970s and '80s - are growing so old that their destructive power may be in question...