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...That won't happen this year. If the Oscars follow the critics' prizes, there won't be a hit film among them - not even the hits that reviewers loved. Disney's megahit comedy Enchanted has the highest rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the critics' polling site, but I barely heard the film mentioned at the New York voting today. Dozens of scribes raved about the smash comedies Knocked Up and Superbad, but neither film has won a critics' prize. The comedy they love now is Juno, which came out last week...
...latest, “BOOM!: Voices of the Sixties,” combining anecdotes from his life, a brief retelling of the major events of the 1960s, and a reflection on what our nation has gained and how we should best proceed. “What I hope will happen as a result of ‘BOOM! is that it will be a catalyst for national dialogue,” Brokaw said. “What should we keep from the ‘60s and what should we leave behind? What should be the national tasks...
...study. Ellis, the founder of Orphans of Rwanda, said that outside aid organizations must be wary of treating Africa as a “charity case.” “We come to Africa with our own set of priorities and assumptions of what needs to happen there,” he said. “You have got to believe that countries can develop themselves.” Currently, only 1 percent of Rwandan students attend university, he said. His organization aims to provide scholarships to disadvantaged students in order to foster a new generation of Rwandan...
...means to nudge the nostrils and tease the tastebuds.“There’s, like, a gift bag that [is included] which is filled with things that you do during the course of the film,” says Hinkle. “There are bubbles that happen at different places in the film, and you chew gum at certain times, and the bubble gum smell fills the theatre. The goodie bag is filled with all these fun things to make the film more interactive.”It’s these sort of group experiences that...
...immigrants, all refugees, and Wyclef wants us all to get along. Unfortunately, he also wants every single genre of music to co-exist on each of the album’s tracks. Social warrior though he may be, Wyclef can’t quite make it happen. His poignant frustration with the state of the world leads to touching insight at times, but it gets lost in the frantic cultural sampling of “Memoirs.” Wyclef told New York Magazine this fall that he sees the disc as something of a magnum opus...