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Former talk show host Rosie O?Donnell made her first trip to the Sundance Film Festival to debut the documentary All Aboard! Rosie?s Family Cruise. The film, which was commissioned by HBO (a division of Time's parent company, Time Warner) and will air on the cable channel April 6, profiles gay families aboard a 2004 cruise from New York City to the Caribbean that was organized by O?Donnell and her partner Kelli O'Donnell. Rosie spoke to TIME about the challenges of gay parenting...
...television show will have a message, but without getting into the tanks, the guns, the killing and the blood." HAZIM SHARAWI, host of a new children's television show for Al Aksa TV, Hamas' television station in the Gaza Strip, which aims to teach children about Palestinian politics...
Brokeback Mountain, a western about two cowboys, Ennis (Heath Ledger) and Jack (Jake Gyllenhaal), and the convulsive, frustrating, 20-year love affair they endure, has quickly become the favorite topic of every late-night TV host. Jay Leno imagined Clint Eastwood and John Wayne as gay caballeros. Jon Stewart displayed a doctored Brokeback poster with Senators Ted Stevens and Robert Byrd. Letterman's website invited fans to submit their own "Top 10 Rejected Titles for Brokeback Mountain." (Among the winners: Oklahomo, Little Bathhouse on the Prairie and The Good, the Bad and the Fabulous!) Jack's plaintive cry to Ennis...
...plot? Oh, never mind, except to note that it sidles up to the hero's birth and impromptu, painfully comic circumcision. What matters here is the casting of the two--sorry, six--leads. Steve Coogan, the Brit comic best known for incarnating Alan Partridge, a suavely unknowing TV host, plays four roles: Tristram, his father, Sterne and a put-upon egomaniac star named Steve Coogan. Rob Brydon, who has worked often with Coogan, plays Tristram's Uncle Toby and "Rob Brydon." Much of the film's grace and brass come from their comic kinship, as when they compare Pacino impressions...
...assistance to the Palestinian Central Election Commission (CEC). As the chair of the delegation sent by the International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES), Blanc is advising both the CEC and the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC)—the Palestinians’ 132-seat parliament—on a host of technical issues including GIS mapping, information and database technology, and voter registration and education. “We are providing three types of assistance to the Palestinian Authority,” Blanc, who graduated from Harvard with a degree in government, said in a phone interview from Gaza...