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...gone straight to DVD if ICM hadn't gone to bat for a theatrical release on behalf of first-time writer-director Scott Cooper. The agency's persistence is paying off in Oscar buzz for Bridges, who has been nominated four times in his career and has always gone home empty-handed. If the Golden Globe nomination he earned this week is any sign, it seems probable that he'll be recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his performance in Crazy Heart as the alcoholic singer-songwriter Bad Blake - and while the film...
...three months to help reach a goal of $4.5 million. Then Roberts dropped a bombshell. If donations fell short, said the preacher, God would strike him down. "I'm asking you to help extend my life," he said. "We're at the point where God could call Oral Roberts home in March." TIME's story on the incident was headlined, "Your Money or His Life...
Roberts was finally called to meet his alleged maker this week, more than two decades after that melodramatic appeal. He was 91 and died after complications from a fall in his home in California, where he lived in retirement. In the interim, the faith-healing evangelist saw his once enormous religious empire crumble and his son Richard resign as head of ORU in 2007 after allegations of financial malfeasance - a scandal that reportedly left the school with more than $50 million in debt. (Another son, Ronald, committed suicide amid drug rehabilitation in 1982.) (Read "Oral Roberts to the Rescue...
...transcendence. In 1987, TIME reported that the medical center, which cost $250 million to build, was draining Roberts of $30 million to $40 million a year. In his 1995 autobiography, Expect a Miracle: My Life and Ministry, Roberts revealed that he had undertaken his unorthodox $8 million "Call Me Home" fund drive because God had told him to keep the center afloat or be prepared to perish. There is some irony in the fact that this last-ditch bid for mainstream credibility provided the very ammunition used by his critics to relegate him permanently to the Christian fringe. Despite...
...until we find a way of physically moving the English coast farther away from France, the Calais region will be the place most aliens go because it's closest to the U.K.," he says. "The solution is to find a way to convince illegal aliens not to leave home in the first place. Trying to make their lives as miserable once they're here serves nothing...