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...shed the deadly habit, and award winning graphicist John Lasseter's computer-generated Knick Knack. The Festival of Animation is known internationally as one of the best showcases for the most recent creations in animation. This year's show also highlights The Hill Farm, which took the Grand Prize at the Annecy France Film Festival and which displays a realistic look at British country life...
ROXANNE: THE PRIZE PULITZER (NBC, Oct. 16, 9 p.m. EDT). The sensational divorce trial is the jumping-off point for this TV-movie look at life-styles of the rich and salacious...
...good movies. Larry McMurtry has managed to do both, and at the same time. His highly praised fiction includes several titles -- The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment -- that are probably more familiar to filmgoers than to readers. And Lonesome Dove, for which he was awarded the 1986 Pulitzer Prize, won huge ratings last winter as a TV mini-series...
...past 20 years, Tibet's exiled leader, Tenzin Gyatso, 54, has been nominated several times for the Nobel Peace Prize. His nonviolent Buddhist philosophy and advocacy of a peaceful approach to determining Tibet's future would seem to make the 14th Dalai Lama (meaning "Ocean of Wisdom") a natural for the honor. So when the Nobel Committee in Oslo finally named him the winner of the $445,000 cash award last week, the question was not "Why him?" but "Why now?" Surely the choice of the Dalai Lama, who has been living in India since he fled Chinese occupation forces...
Some People Are Never satisfied: Ramsey is the 31st Harvard professor ever to win a Nobel prize and the ninth to win one in physics. It may be high by most universities' standards, but Harvard President Derek C. Bok wasn't resting on any laurels. At a reception for Ramsey yesterday afternoon, he said, "We can never have too many...