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...Alan Arkin scored a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his soulful performance as a deaf-mute silversmith in the drama The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. Almost forty years and dozens of film roles later, there is renewed Oscar speculation surrounding Arkin, this time for his role as a foul-mouthed, drug-snorting grandpa in the indie Little Miss Sunshine, out this week on DVD. The acerbic actor chatted with TIME's Carolina A. Miranda about why he doesn't give a hoot about the Oscars, his passion for New Mexico and how we humans are wrecking the planet...
...North Korea nuke turning out to be a weapon of mass distraction? William Arkin thinks so and says as much in the Washington Post...
...Pulitzer for non-fiction; Omer Ismail, a Sudanese activist studying the genocide in Darfur; Andrea Rossi, the former research coordinator of United Nations Children’s Fund’s Innocenti Research Centre; Beena Sarwar, a journalist and documentary filmmaker studying human rights in Pakistan; and William Arkin, NBC News military analyst who will be writing a chapter for the upcoming book “In Search of the Perfect...
Grandpa (Alan Arkin) does heroin. Dad (Greg Kinnear) hopes to become a motivational guru with a dreary nine-step program that asks people to banish their inner losers. Chubby little Olive (Abigail Breslin) is determined to become a prepubescent beauty queen, the Little Miss Sunshine of the title. That goal is not particularly advanced by her brother (Paul Dano) or her uncle (Steve Carell), a Proust scholar coming off a suicide attempt. Mom (Toni Collette) is loving but too distracted to cook. At the Hoover house in Albuquerque, N.M., it's all KFC all the time...
Intelligence experts say figuring out the patterns of communication helps in understanding a movement as amorphous and diffuse as al-Qaeda. The CIA's database of suspected terrorists worldwide has tripled in the past four years, to about 190,000, says William Arkin, an independent intelligence analyst who monitors NSA and other military spy organizations. "In terms of link analysis, social analysis and a better understanding of al-Qaeda and the nature of terrorist networks, I don't think it could have been done unless we had employed some of these technologies...