Word: glen
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...Glen Hansard, 37, lead singer of the Irish rock band The Frames, and Marketa Irglova, 19, a Czech singer and pianist, play struggling artists in director John Carney's romantic musical, which won the best song category for the ballad "Falling Slowly." The Oscar was the capstone of a long journey that started with a tiny movie that was made for $150,000 on the streets of Dublin and propelled by clever, slow-build marketing that relied on Hansard and Irglova's strengths as live performers...
...rooting for the strike to be resolved in time for the show to go on, I couldn’t help but wonder if perhaps the Academy would call a time-out on the more ostentatious aspects of Hollywood’s biggest celebration of itself. When Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova performed—and later won the Oscar for—their tune “Falling Slowly” from “Once,” the show became for a moment genuinely entertaining—and from a musical number, no less! These hitherto unknown...
...just told [my guys] that we need to keep our poise, and I thought we did for the most part,” Amaker said. “I’m sure that Glen said the same thing to his kids, and they did. I thought the game was played very well and hard, but clean from that point forward...
...We’ve never had a player leave the bench, and two guys definitely left the bench,” Penn coach Glen Miller said. “I have no argument with it. I was very concerned about our lack of depth as a result of that...
...pogroms in Ukraine's villages. Some Ukrainians also helped to run Nazi concentration camps. This persecution by their own countrymen left deep bitterness among Ukrainian-Jewish Holocaust survivors, says Lee Schein, 77, who fled Rava-Ruska during the war as a 12-year-old girl, and now lives in Glen Ellen, California. "The Nazis offered the Ukrainians their own state if they worked with them, so they worked with them," she says. "It is a pure miracle that I got away." But Desbois insists he is not looking to assign blame. "I do not ask who is guilty...