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...Oprah without Oprah? The show was monolithic in a way that's no longer possible, even for a mogul like Winfrey. She plans to "appear on and participate in" programs on OWN, but nobody is saying whether she'll have a show of her own. Bereft of her royal presence, will people care what Oprah wants them to watch...
...more than 4,600 Americans and tens of thousands of Iraqis have been killed - Iraq's natural resources are only now emerging as spoils of war. As U.S. troops prepare to withdraw from the country next year, some of the world's biggest energy companies, among them ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell, are racing to lock up multibillion-dollar deals with officials in Baghdad that will allow them to exploit the country's giant oil fields. The deals will not only allow Big Oil to return to Iraq for the first time since Saddam nationalized the industry...
...Royal Tenenbaums...
...auteur—his awareness of the history of cinema giving way to reverence and innovation in equal parts. His films identify with a generation still in turmoil over lost innocence and the transition between adolescence and adulthood. He crystallized that ethos in 2001 with “The Royal Tenenbaums,” his masterpiece. Since then, Anderson has done little more than replicate that film’s model, to no more than occasional success...
...King Bhumibol Adulyadej have been cancelled or postponed this year. The king, who will turn 82 on Saturday, is scheduled to appear in public on his birthday for an audience with members of the Cabinet and parliament, but will forgo his yearly speech to the nation, review of the Royal Guards and most of the other pomp and pageantry that usually accompanies the celebrations. The Dec. 5 outing will be only his second public appearance since being admitted to the hospital for what doctors said was a respiratory infection on September 19. The first was in mid-November...