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...Ringside seats cost $3,000. (By comparison, the top ticket for the recent, much-ballyhooed fight between Oscar De la Hoya and Floyd Mayweather at the MGM casino in Las Vegas were priced at $2,000.) The Ibragimov-Holyfield fight failed to live up to its lofty price tag, however, as the champ and challenger conducted a 12-round Krokus City pantomime. It was the case of a lionhearted, but aged ex-champ conserving his strength in order to go the distance against a belt-holding opponent who has benefited greatly from boxing's fall from primacy in the West...
Chicago church officials appear to be among the most aggressive in addressing the rise of Santa Muerte. Catholic officials in New York, Denver and Phoenix say they are unaware of Santa Muerte's increasing popularity in their communities. Father Oscar Cantu of Houston says he has watched botanicas and Santa Muerte gain popularity in his largely Mexican-American community, particularly among poor, uneducated immigrants. Father Cantu says he has made clear to his members that Santa Muerte is in conflict with the church's teaching. However, he says there has been little discussion about the topic among the broader church...
...Sean Penn: he is persistent. It took Penn 10 years to get the rights to make “Into the Wild,” his latest foray into film directing. Even after that, adapting Jon Krakauer’s bestseller was an extremely challenging process, according to the Oscar winner. “It was quite a dance back and forth because it’s not a simple story,” said Penn, who also directed “The Indian Runner” (1991) and “The Crossing Guard?...
...respected industry veterans, the film was directed by Sean Cunningham (“Friday the 13th”), Joe Gaeta (“The Matrix”), Ken Russell (“Lair of the White Worm”) and Joe Dante (“Gremlins”). Oscar-winning Visual Effects Supervisor Robert Skotak (“Aliens” and “Terminator 2: Judgment Day”) worked on the special effects. Hellman’s segment of “Trapped Ashes” screened at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2006. John Saxon...
...past year, Al Gore has gone about his considerable business without showing much interest in running for President. While picking up an Oscar and an Emmy, publishing a very smart book and playing host at a global concert for the planet, he's never done more than tease the idea. And yet all that time, the leaders of the Draft Gore movement have been clinging to a single fervid dream: that Gore would win the Nobel Peace Prize and use it to catapult himself to an eleventh-hour bid for the presidency...