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...life. Abu-Assad says the sharply divided opinions pleased him, confirming that he had avoided making a predictable propaganda film. "I did not make what they wanted me to make," he says. Critics are impressed, too. The film, which has been sold in 45 countries, won the Blue Angel award for best European film at the Berlin Film Festival in February - it is a Dutch-German-French production - as well as the festival's Amnesty International film prize and the Berliner Morgenpost readers' prize for best film. It received strong reviews in France, where it opened earlier this month...
Author Dan Savage often draws upon his own experiences in his writings about gay life and popular culture. His bluntly honest syndicated advice column, Savage Love, now appears in more than 60 papers. The Kid, his award-winning memoir of gay adoption, tells the story of D.J., the son that Savage and his partner Terry adopted at birth. In his new book, The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage and My Family (Dutton), Savage explores the issue of gay marriage, as the couple, who lives in Seattle, struggles with the decision of whether to tie the knot in Canada. We caught...
...DIED. PAUL PENA, 55, critically loved bluesman, almost completely blind since birth, whose quest to immerse himself in Tuvan throat singing?an arcane art that involves the production of more than one note at the same time?became the subject of an Academy Award-nominated documentary, Genghis Blues, in 1999; of complications from diabetes and pancreatitis; in San Francisco. Pena, who lived off royalties from his song Jet Airliner, a Top 10 hit for the Steve Miller Band in 1977, happened upon Tuvan music in the early 1990s on a shortwave-radio broadcast out of Moscow...
...This is not a kick in the shin of any nation, any leader." OLE DANBOLT MJOES, Norwegian Nobel committee chair, denying that the decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to the International Atomic Energy Agency and its director general, Mohamed ElBaradei, was a dig at the U.S. over the war in Iraq...
DIED. PAUL PENA, 55, critically loved bluesman, almost completely blind since birth, whose quest to immerse himself in Tuvan throat singing--an arcane art from a region in Central Asia that involves producing more than one note at the same time--became the subject of an Academy Award--nominated documentary, Genghis Blues, in 1999; of complications from diabetes and pancreatitis; in San Francisco. Pena, who lived off royalties from his song Jet Airliner, a Top 10 hit for the Steve Miller Band in 1977, happened upon Tuvan music in the 1980s on a shortwave-radio broadcast out of Moscow...