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...Toronto Film Festival ends its 34th annual session tonight, but most of the international press corps has gone home, their heads crammed with images and performances. Toronto, famous for years now as the kickoff to Oscar season, is the place Hollywood visits in search of Academy Award contenders. There were a few - though in a straitened economic environment, with fewer zillionaires eager to bankroll indie movies, some excellent films (Life During Wartime, The Joneses) had a tough time finding buyers. Crystal-balling the Oscars is fun, but it can't compare with seeing and savoring good films that might...
...Tell’ because ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ breaks the rules of integrity.” Choi, who has taken classes at the Harvard Extension School, spoke after receiving the first annual Service to Humanity award from the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard, an honor bestowed on a Harvard student who has shown leadership in ethical service to others. During his speech and the question-and-answer session that followed, Choi went from cracking jokes about being mentioned on the Daily Show to passionately demanding that Democratic politicians...
...like Joyce’s “Ulysses” or Wallace’s “Infinite Jest”—that literary junkies force themselves to read and pray that they’ll one day understand. He has received a National Book Award (for that novel), a MacArthur “genius grant,” and is consistently on the rumored short list for the Nobel Prize in Literature.All of this perhaps explains why the critical response to “Inherent Vice,” released earlier this summer, has been...
Gingrich, Newt • PAC of mistakenly chooses pornographer to receive its 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year Award - look, here's the letter...
...words wearable art have unfortunate connotations, smacking of models in body paint, posing self-consciously at pretentious art-gallery happenings and product launches. But that feeble sort of wearable art has nothing to do with the Montana World of WearableArt, which goes by the entirely apt acronym WOW. Its award show, held annually over several days in Wellington, New Zealand, is a fabulous event that's equal parts couture, choreography and craziness...