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First Step May Be Realizing We're In Love With Violence
The Hartford CourantHow can we make sure that violence always feels real — truly real — to us? This is the question that underlies so many of the questions we are asking about violence today in the aftermath of the horror of Newtown. When we ask, "Are violent...Tags: Suicide, Pakistan, Django Unchained (movie), Pulitzer Prize Awards, Slavery
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'The Gatekeepers' review: Important and incomplete
**1/2 (out of four) Before the Oscar-nominated documentary “The Gatekeepers,” members of Israel’s secret service known as the Shin Bet had never given interviews. So why were they willing to participate in this film? Why is it now OK to...
Tags: Israel
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What to expect from Seth MacFarlane's debut outing as Oscar host
A year after Billy Crystal helmed the Oscars for approximately the 40 millionth time, hosting duties fall to “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane, who’s directed a grand total of one movie and had a minor role alongside Dwayne Johnson...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Django Unchained (movie), Dwayne Johnson, Academy Awards, Amour (movie)
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Oscars 2013 date, time, TV channel, preview and more!
Channel Guide MagazineOscars 2013 date, time, TV channel, preview and more, with host Seth MacFarlane! The 85th Annual Academy Awards Sunday, Feb. 24 ABC, 7pm ET; Red Carpet coverage on E! starting at 5:30pm ET Family Guy funnyman Seth MacFarlane hosts this year's Oscar... -
Letters: Torture and 'Zero Dark Thirty'
Re "Road to Oscars a minefield for 'Zero,'" Feb. 19 I was disgusted by the opening scenes in "Zero Dark Thirty" portraying torture. Contrary to actual events, the prolonged scenes failed to portray any significant awareness of the current moral and...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Entertainment Events, Entertainment, Academy Awards, Movies
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Solitary confinement's toll
WASHINGTON -- "Zero Dark Thirty," a nominee for Sunday's Oscar as Best Picture, reignited debate about whether the waterboarding of terrorism suspects was torture. This practice, which ended in 2003, was used on only three suspects. Meanwhile, tens of...
Tags: The New York Times, Suicide, U.S. Supreme Court, Prisons, Charles Dickens
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Oscars 2013: Watch live video coverage Sunday — but first, catch up
The 85th Academy Awards are getting closer, and the big question on Oscar watchers' minds is whether "Argo" will sweep this awards season, capping off its run with a best picture win for Ben Affleck's drama about the Iranian hostage crisis. But there'...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Denzel Washington, The Master (movie), Google+, Jennifer Lawrence
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Critic's Notebook: Movie violence must not be stopped
I abhor violence. As a rookie police reporter years ago I saw the damage guns, knives, broken bottles, metal pipes, hands — humans — can inflict. From the terrifyingly premeditated to the unfortunately accidental, those images still have the...
Tags: Sam Peckinpah, Scarface (movie), The Wild Bunch (movie), Django Unchained (movie), The Silence of the Lambs (movie)
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Database catalogs movie firearms
This sturdy Austrian had supporting roles in the recent action movies "Skyfall" and "Zero Dark Thirty," the TV western "Justified" and the military video game "Medal of Honor: Warfighter." The ubiquitous performer — actually a semiautomatic pistol...Tags: Jeremy Renner, Jamie Foxx, Django Unchained (movie), Justified (tv program), University of California, Santa Barbara
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COLUMN: Solitary confinement comes with a price
Washington Post Writers GroupWASHINGTON -- "Zero Dark Thirty," a nominee for Sunday’s Oscar as Best Picture, reignited debate about whether the waterboarding of terrorism suspects was torture. This practice, which ended in 2003, was used on only three suspects. Meanwhile,...Tags: Washington, DC, Suicide, George Will, U.S. Supreme Court, Prisons
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Oscar predictions 2013: Sounding off on sound
Gold Standard writer Glenn Whipp is sweeping through all 24 Oscar categories this week, assessing the races, predicting the winners and helping you prevail in your Oscar pools. He tackled the troublesome shorts categories here. Now it's time to peek...Tags: Django Unchained (movie), Voting, Argo (movie), Academy Awards, Music
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The 'Argo' factor in this year's Oscar fest
In the week since Oscar nominations were announced, we've sat through two award shows — the Critics' Choice Awards, thrown by a group of junketeers who, according to Anne Hathaway at least, can't even spell the names of their winners right, and...Tags: Wes Anderson, Michael Haneke, Tony Kushner, Golden Globe Awards, Django Unchained (movie)
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