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Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild, which represents published book authors, explained that copyright protection is necessary to compensate writers or “they will be forced to turn to other lines of work...
...case with their films, Ring’s Peter Jackson and Mind’s Ron Howard are sure things. Baz Luhrmann’s boldly excessive vision for Moulin Rouge assures him of a nomination as well. Despite Robert Altman’s snub from the Directors Guild of America (DGA), I’m confident that his multiple honors for Gosford Park (from the Globes, the AFI, and the New York critics, among others) are a sufficient bellwether for an Oscar nod. Ridley Scott’s DGA and AFI nominations for his command of Black Hawk Down?...
Mind won the Best Drama Golden Globe while The Fellowship of the Ring took the American Film Institute’s (AFI) Best Picture award, and both pictures secured nods from the Producers Guild of America...
Russell Crowe, Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington have split many of the year’s Best Actor awards between them; I’d expect that all three will be nominated for their work. The typically prophetic Screen Actors Guild (SAG) failed to nominate Hackman for The Royal Tenenbaums, but I don’t think that their oversight dims his chances terribly. Along the same lines, Bedroom’s Tom Wilkinson received no Globe nomination, but his recognition record is otherwise sterling, and his chances for an Oscar nomination look excellent. I think that Penn, whose role...
...from a Groton graduate who insisted that two students from Groton be admitted each year in order to care for, and play, the bells. While this alumnus’ idea of preferential treatment is not ideal, having students play the bells most definitely is. At Yale, the Student Carillon Guild offers instruction and recitals, providing an education while creating beautiful music. Learning how to play the bells at my high school was one of the most rewarding experiences of my life; many would find the same here if they were given the opportunity. The presence of a student carillon guild...