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'2016: Obama's America' Docu Producer Misses Mark With Oscar Beef
ReutersMay 13 (TheWrap.com) - Documentary filmmakers are supposed to be devoted to the truth, but Gerald Molen appears to have entered a realm of pure fantasy. Molen, the producer of the documentary "2016: Obama's America" (and before that, an Oscar winner...Tags: How to Survive a Plague (movie), Schindler's List (movie), 2016: Obama's America (movie), Government, Barack Obama
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Cannes: Ariel Veneziano Launches Sales Company International Film Trust
VarietyBenaroya Pictures and Miscellaneous Entertainment have formed a joint venture to launch sales company International Film Trust at Cannes. The new banner — headed by Ariel Veneziano as president — has an initial fund of $15 million to...Tags: The Passion of the Christ (movie), Clive Owen, Entertainment, Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc., The Hurt Locker (movie)
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California man gets 17-year prison term in Seattle terrorist plot
A California man diagnosed with schizophrenia was sentenced to 17 years in prison Monday for his role in a 2011 plot to attack a Seattle military center for new recruits. Walli Mujahidh, 34, born Frederick Domingue Jr. in Long Beach, had pleaded...
Tags: Prisons, Crime, Law and Justice, Court Preliminary, Firearms, U.S. Military
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Alvin Lee dies at 68; guitar virtuoso with Ten Years After
At the Woodstock music festival in 1969, the British blues-rock band Ten Years After burst onto the U.S. music scene with a searing rendition of "I'm Going Home" featuring the fleet-fingered Alvin Lee whaling away on guitar. When the "Woodstock"...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Woodstock Festival (1969), Music Industry, Concerts, George Harrison
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Sandy Hook: Let's Remember, Not Forget
The Hartford Courant"You are not alone" was a central theme of this week's memorial services in Newtown. The meaning of the message is twofold: that all the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting are grieved across the nation and world, and that too many...Tags: Human Interest, Interior Policy, Murder, Timothy McVeigh, Hurricane Sandy (2012)
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Health care doc 'Escape Fire' offers diagnoses, prescriptions ★★★
Likened to a raging forest inferno by the talented nonfiction team of Matthew Heineman and Susan Froemke, the American health care system is diagnosed up one side and down the other in the highly instructional "Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American...
Tags: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , Safeway Inc., Fires, U.S. Military, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Brian Ross' brain cramp
Jonah GoldbergIf ABC News does fire Brian Ross, he could always find a job working for Aaron Sorkin. Ross, a veteran investigative reporter for ABC News, blew it Friday morning when he suggested that the Aurora, Colo., shooting suspect, James Holmes, might be...Tags: Republican Party, ABC (tv network), Sarah Palin, Jared Lee Loughner, Fort Hood Shootings (2009)
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Author Ray Bradbury dies at 91
VarietyRay Bradbury, the influential and thought-provoking science-fiction writer best known for "Fahrenheit 451" and "The Martian Chronicles," died Tuesday night in Los Angeles. He was 91. Many of Bradbury's stories and novels were adapted for radio,...Tags: Ray Harryhausen, Science and Technology, Drama (genre), Colleges and Universities, John Huston
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America's New Year's host Dick Clark dead at 82
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dick Clark, the ever-youthful television host and tireless entrepreneur who helped bring rock 'n' roll into the mainstream on "American Bandstand," and later produced and hosted a vast range of programming from game shows to the...
Tags: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Simon Fuller, The Rolling Stones (music group), Ed McMahon, Chuck Berry
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'Hunger Games' beats record with $155-million debut
Los Angeles TimesLionsgate hit a bull's-eye with “The Hunger Games” this weekend, as the story of expert archer Katniss Everdeen and her battle for survival debuted with a record-breaking $155 million at the box office. The film starring Jennifer Lawrence...Tags: Stanley Tucci, The Hunger Games (movie), Jennifer Lawrence, Gary Ross, Liam Hemsworth
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Atrocious anti-fracking movie 'Gasland' could discredit environmentalists
In 1999, three 20-something adolescents were filmed getting lost in the woods of Maryland and displaying terror while being beset by spooks, or something.
"The Blair Witch Project" was one of the worst movies ever made, with shaky and amateurish...Tags: Vice (movie), Academy Awards, Entertainment Events, Economy, Business and Finance, Documentary (genre)
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