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...alone, the Oscars show was the usual gala of stars, thank-yous and back-patting. On social-media platforms, it was a conversation about fashion (what is J. Lo wearing?), race (why do they cut to Morgan Freeman every time Precious wins an award?) and politics (Fox News paranoiac Glenn Beck tweeted that Avatar vs. The Hurt Locker was "an anti US/human movie against an anti US/Troops movie"). TV with Twitter is like an instant DVD commentary. (See pictures of Oscar fashion from the red carpet...
...based. On March 2, the museum, which will soon open a Pacific-theater wing, hosted a reception after a local screening of The Pacific, attended by the last wave of old-timers who consider V-J day a personal accomplishment. Wherever Hanks travels, veterans accost him with thank-yous. "It's pretty heady," Hanks says. "But now the Korean War guys have started coming up to me, saying, 'Hey, what about us?' I get good-natured guff from so many veterans saying things like, 'When you going to do something on Vietnam?' And the fact that I hadn't worked...
...Toyota 4x4. His aim was to demonstrate that he, not the Tupac Amaru guerrillas who were holding 72 civilians (including Fujimori's brother) at the embassy residence, who enjoyed the support of the country's poor. At one shantytown he rolled down his window and basked in the thank-yous for the new streets and microbuses. One woman called out, "Fuji, the new water pumps you gave us aren't working!" Ever the engineer, Fujimori shot back, "Do you have the pressure set right?" He opened the Toyota's door and was about to step out until he stopped...
...Some viewers eagerly anticipate squirming; that's the fun of live TV. On Sunday night the big chances for it rested upon Rourke - his acceptance speech the night before at the Independent Spirit Awards was five minutes of wondrously ribald thank-yous and genial insults - and Jerry Lewis, the legendary, infamous clown, now 82, who would receive an honorary award. Would the long-ago star-director of imaginative, raucous comedies prance out and shout "Mel-vin!"? Would he, bearing in mind how he's been scorned by mainstream U.S. critics but revered in the pages of Cahiers du Cinema, give...
...ability to connect theory and practice. “I look for people with an ability to function in imperfect situations,” he said. Sarah M. Link ’01 spoke of the necessity to maintain optimism in a job where salaries are small and thank-yous are rare. The afternoon also included a panel on environmental justice and a bike auction that raised $3,200, according to Susan C. Collings, PBHA’s director of development. PBHA-A’s Saturday night award dinner in the Taubman Building honored Los Angeles Times columnist Rosa...