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...production have intellectual backgrounds: making movies isn’t about dropping out and heading to Hollywood anymore. One doesn’t have to choose between making movies and learning about them. Connor says this attitude has been adopted in VES: “We try to avoid the trade-off as much as possible.” Polonsky says that James Schamus is more or less his role model. He is the president of Focus Features, a film company where Polonsky has interned. Schamus not only has a PhD, teaches at Columbia, and publishes, but he has also...
...course, any real sacrifice means short-term inconvenience, if not outright pain. For the hardest hit and essential sectors of the economy, the government can find ways to create an appropriate gas tax credit structure that will also avoid creating a regressive tax. But, ultimately, even the short-term increase in gasoline prices that would result from a new excise tax is but a pittance of the price that America would pay years down the road when the price of a gallon has reached double digits, national consumption has not decreased, and no good gasoline alternative is available...
...DIED. Alida Valli, 84, intelligent, incandescent Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films, including Carol Reed's The Third Man, Luchino Visconti's Senso and Bernardo Bertolucci's The Spider's Stratagem; in Rome. A baroness who went into hiding during World War II to avoid being recruited for Mussolini's propaganda efforts, she received a career Golden Lion award at the 1997 Venice Film Festival...
...film, which was mentioned by talk show host Oprah Winfrey on her show last week, tells the stories of “night commuters,” the 40,000 children who walk for hours every night to avoid being abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army, a rebel force led by self-proclaimed prophet Joseph Kony...
DIED. Alida Valli, 84, intelligent, incandescent Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films, including Carol Reed's The Third Man, Luchino Visconti's Senso and Bernardo Bertolucci's The Spider's Stratagem; in Rome. A baroness who went into hiding during World War II to avoid being recruited for Mussolini's propaganda efforts, she received a career Golden Lion award at the 1997 Venice Film Festival...