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...It?s just the latest move in what has already been a bloodbath. Over the past 24 months the indie film industry - responsible for recent Academy Award winners like Slumdog Millionaire, There Will Be Blood, and Juno - has lost dozens of key players on both the front and back end of the production process. (See the top 10 Sundance hits...
...just as rough on the back end. Small distributors like ThinkFilm, which released the popular documentaries The Aristocrats, Born into Brothels and Murderball, are struggling, while financially stronger studios - the Hollywood heavies - are scaling back. Just two years ago, each of the six major studios had at least one specialty film division that bought indie films at events like the Toronto International (TIFF) and Sundance festivals, arranged for them to be shown at movie theaters and marketed them to the public. Today only Twentieth Century Fox, Sony and Universal still have specialty divisions - Disney does, too, but in name only...
...love traylessness!” Lilian Alexander ’13 said. “I still get my fair share of food, I get extra exercise walking back to get my drink, I zip through the lines—and I’ve gotten really good at balancing stuff...
...Most Army psychiatrists now have a full caseload of men and women returning from combat zones with PTSD. A survey by the Rand Corp. in April revealed that 1 in 5 service men and women are coming back with posttraumatic stress and mental depression. Previously known as "combat fatigue" or being "shell-shocked," PTSD was only diagnosed as an illness in the 1980s, but it has been around for as long as men have been killing one another and undergoing fearful experiences. It can lead to outbursts of rage, emotional numbness, severe depression, nightmares and the abuse of alcohol...
...Ironically, another nadir in Cambodian-Thai relations occurred back in 2003 when Cambodian protesters - armed with false information that a Thai actress had claimed Cambodia's national treasure, the ancient city and temple complex of Angkor Wat, as actually being Thai - burned down the Thai embassy in Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. The incensed Thai Prime Minister at the time? None other than Hun Sen's self-proclaimed "friend," Thaksin Shinawatra...