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...Cannes Film Festival's highest honor, the Palme d'Or, went on Sunday to Michael Haneke for his film The White Ribbon - both establishing it as the best movie of the festival and triggering the annual debate among critics and fans over whether the award was a revelation or a gross miscarriage of justice on the part of the Cannes jury. 'Twas ever thus. (See a first review of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds...
...built his home in Connecticut, thousands of miles away from Beverly Hills. Newman devoted himself to philanthropy before it was fashionable, turned his back on the Oscars after being snubbed repeatedly (he went so far as to boycott a ceremony at which he was given an honorary award) and remained married to his second wife for half a century, an aberration among Hollywood couples. His was a Tinseltown success story that began strangely - with an accidental admission to an acting school Newman never applied to - and culminated in a legacy as steeped in salad dressing as it is in indelible...
...process, winners receive an award, which totalled $3,500 for students and $1,000 for the winners’ faculty advisers last year. Hoopes Prize recipients Evan B. Kornbluh ’09 and Matthew M. Spellberg ’09 said that they were not told how much the prizes would pay this year...
...though she conducted her research in Peru, Srinivas said she doesn’t plan on spending her award money in the Americas. Rather, she’ll be backpacking with friends in a different part of the world—Europe...
...Easier Awards. American Airlines is making it easier to redeem frequent flyer miles. You can now buy different types of award tickets or classes of travel on the same trip. So, for example, you can save miles on an economy-class MileSAAver ticket (more restrictive but cheaper) on the flight out, but purchase the costlier and more flexible first-class AAnytime ticket on the return. You can even book a one-way award flight without having to pay the equivalent of a round-trip ticket. Check out the new booking calendar on AA.com, which tells you how many miles...