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Those groups (like the New York Film Critics Circle, of which I am a member) comprise mostly reviewers for daily and weekly print publications. Not so those who choose the Globes and Critics Choice awards. The 199 members of the BFCA, North America's largest film-critic group, are a mix of reviewers for radio and TV - a dwindling fraternity, as are the print critics - and the swelling contingent of industry bloggers. (See who the critics think will win an Oscar this year...
...real" critic, I may both deplore and secretly envy the proximity that the BFCA and HFPA members enjoy with the celebrities they chronicle. At last Monday's New York Film Critics Circle dinner, I got to chat with Clooney and Bigelow and found them both warm, smart and gorgeous. But as I retreat to my rabbit hole and watch the parade of expensive, pampered flesh on the expertly produced Golden Globe show, I can thank the HPFA for aligning certain constellations - as when Sophia Loren, still statuesque and preternaturally well-preserved at 75, presented the Foreign Film award to Austria...
...trend in Asian art cannot be inferred from a single sale, but works from other contemporary Philippine artists such as Geraldine Javier, Winner Jumalon and Benedicto Cabrera are being sold with increasing frequency and success at auctions and galleries in Hong Kong, Singapore, London and New York City. Mok Kim Chuan, the head of Southeast Asian art at Sotheby's, calls it a nascent boom with room to run. "It took 20 years for Indonesian art to grow to where it is now in the market," he says. "The Philippines has only just started...
...World Food Program targets schoolchildren with Food Force, which asks players to coordinate an emergency response during a food shortage. The New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has teamed up with Games for Change to produce a game to complement his recent book, Half the Sky, which lays out a plan to fight global poverty. Players on social networks will take real-world actions - making microcredit loans, signing petitions - to advance. "We think it's a chance to reach beyond the choir," says Kristof...
...critical to the Democrats' reform strategy. The plan called for under the House and Senate bills would cover about 15 million new people - half of those currently without health insurance who would enter the system under reform. This plan terrifies most states but especially those like California and New York, where Medicaid benefits are already far more generous than most states in the South. That's because under the formula called for in reform bills, generous states would, paradoxically, get a smaller share of federal funding than states that currently have stingy Medicaid programs. (See 10 health care reform...