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...While the movie was not overly appreciated by critics, Bullock's road to Oscar might have been cemented when she tied - literally tied - for the Critics' Choice Award for Best Actress with Meryl Streep. Onstage that night, Bullock showed the zany streak that endeared her to Oscar voters by mock-charging Streep when accepting her half of the award and then planting an openmouthed kiss onto a surprised but game Streep. "To the critics, I bet you never saw this coming," Bullock said of her victory in her speech. She ended it with, "I don't know what...
This explanation has a certain weight, coming from Abed El-Aziz el-Rantisi, who, as Sacco explains in the prologue, is a senior figure in Hamas later assassinated by an Israeli rocket. And in the course of his investigation, award-winning cartoonist-reporter Sacco, who has published works on Bosnia and the Palestinian territories, makes a convincing case that these two mass killings - "foot notes" which rated only a few sketchy lines in UN dispatches and press reports of the day - are key to understanding the despair and rage of 1.5 million Palestinians trapped inside Gaza today...
...Apocalypse Now or Oliver Stone had in Platoon - or more thoroughly than in PBS's 11-hour 1983 documentary history. In 1994, however, Hanks brought to the screen the impact of Vietnam on his generation in the tragicomic Forrest Gump. While the role earned him an Academy Award, Gump hardly epitomized the brutal nature of Vietnam, about which reporter Michael Herr had written so devastatingly in Dispatches. (See the top 10 fiction books...
...Lemelson Foundation awards the U.S.’s largest cash award for inventions, the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize...
Against Clarkson, Harvard will have to find a way to shut down Golden Knights’ captain Britney Selina, the team’s all-time leading scorer and finalist for the ECAC Best Defensive Forward Award. The Clarkson offense also features third-team all-ECAC forward Dominique Thibault, second in the ECAC in goals with 21 and points with 39. Forward Juana Baribeau and left wing Melissa Waldie both have 16 goals on the year as well...