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...third year of the Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science named ?All Quiet on the Western Front? the best picture of 1930. In its third year, the New York Film Critics? Circle convened in Rockefeller Center?s Rainbow Room to cite Greta Garbo as 1937?s best actress, in ?Camille.? The third year of the Tony Awards, 1949, Arthur Miller and Elia Kazan won for ?The Death of a Salesman.? The Grammy for Record of the Year in 1960, that award?s third time around, went to Percy Faith?s ?Theme from a Summer Place...
Last year more than 50 major movies were illegally copied and released even before they came out in theaters, according to the Motion Picture Association of America (M.P.A.A.). But for all the talk about movie piracy, few people understand how it actually works--the stunning velocity at which copies move and how far the studios will now go to hold back this threat. To tell the tale of how films get to black-market stores and shacks across every continent, from Beijing to New York City and to computer hard drives everywhere, TIME tracked the winding journey of The Last...
...would penalize small movies trying to get award nominations. In December the U.S. district court overturned the ban. Last week Sony traced a pirated copy of Something's Gotta Give to a screener intended for use by veteran character actor Carmine Caridi, a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Last Samurai and other pirated screeners have also been traced back to Caridi, according to a source close to the investigation, though it is not yet clear if Caridi had anything to do with leaking the film...
...November, U.S. District Court Judge John C. Lifland, a 1957 HLS graduate, denied FAIR’s motion for a temporary order suspending enforcement of the Pentagon’s recruitment policy. FAIR responded by appealing Lifland’s decision to the Third Circuit...
Smart dust, actually. That's the name for the wireless networks of sensors, called motes, that Pister, 39, is building. Each mote has a chip about the size of a grain of rice that detects and records things like temperature and motion at its location. Attach it to a battery the size of an aspirin, and a mote will keep doing this for longer than a year; add a power source the size of a bottle cap, and your mote is good for a decade. Most important, the motes have minuscule radio transmitters that talk to other motes...