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...award-winning author was memorialized on the Harvard campus as his fame extended elsewhere. Updike presided over the opening of an exhibit of his manuscripts at the Houghton Museum in 1987. His papers are still available for viewing at the Houghton Library today...
...Friday, a day after Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, the movie filled just 25% of the seats for its debut in theaters across India, the country of its setting. Buoyed by the hype the movie has generated in the U.S. - along with its Oscar nods and four Golden Globe awards, Slumdog on Sunday won the "best cast" award from the Screen Actors Guild - Fox Searchlight released 351 prints of the film across India last weekend. But while Indian critics have largely embraced the movie, audiences are not flocking to the film. Theaters showing the movie averaged...
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...left to watch? Nighy. If the Academy handed out an award for Best Overacting, he would win every year. A stalwart of British theater, particularly David Hare plays, he is most warmly remembered by movie audiences for playing the drug-addled rock star Billy Mack in Love Actually and the pirate Davy Jones in the last two Pirates of the Caribbean offerings. (He also appears, his emoting confined to the standard range, as one of Tom Cruise's cohorts in Valkyrie.) Here, outfitted with piercing powder blue eyes, Nighy ascends to scenery-devouring heights that obliterate the boundary between...
...perhaps more widely known for his career accomplishments, which span academia and government. He has advised national military organizations—serving as the Director of Political-Military Affairs in the National Security Council and participating in the Gulf War Air Power Survey—and has written numerous award-winning books, including Winning the Next War: Innovation and the Modern Military. Sassanfar, who is a professor of biology at MIT, has delved into science education throughout her career. She is the Director of High School Science Outreach at MIT, directs the Massachusetts Junior Academy of Science, and consulted with...