Word: shermans
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...journalists were tortured by beatings with fists and rubber batons to the head, body and feet and by application of electric shocks all over the body, said Sherman Carroll, director of public affairs with the Medical Foundation for the Care and Treatment of Victims of Torture in London. They were also submitted to the "submarine," meaning their heads were "wrapped in plastic bags and then submerged in water until they started suffocating," he said...
...former film-lab fellows Walter Salles and Tony Bui. The Wood, a coming-of-age story about three African Americans by Rick Famuyiwa, is due out this week. The list of Sundance students over the years is long and impressive. It includes Quentin Tarantino, Julie Taymor, Paul Thomas Anderson, Sherman Alexie and Anna Deavere Smith. So when you watch 25-year-old Princess Peter-Raboff, an Alaska native and member of the Venetie Indian Reservation, shoot one of her first ever scenes with award-winning Hungarian director Gyula Gazdag offering pointers and encouragement, you can't help wondering...
...idea: "It's about a Nielsen family and will therefore be the highest-rated show ever, because every Nielsen family will watch it." That meeting went poorly, only partly because I was distracted by the UPN office, which is bright, cheerful and contains a life-size bronze statue of Sherman Hemsley in a bell-bottom suit holding a piece of pie. Let me repeat that: bright, cheerful and contains a life-size bronze statue of Sherman Hemsley in a bell-bottom suit holding a piece of pie. You try to pitch a sitcom after seeing that. This might explain...
...Boston resident reported to CPD that at 1:15 a.m. at Pizzeria Uno in Harvard Square, he was approached by a group of males who asked if he wanted a ride and if he wanted to "get stoned." They dropped him off at a sandpit on Sherman Street and assaulted him. He was kicked in the face, but refused medical treatment for a bloody nose...
...fellow filmmaker Rose McElwee is responsible for several award-winning films. Among these are "Sherman's March," which won Best Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival and was called one of the best films of 1986 by the National Board of Film. Her "Time Indefinite" received several festivals' award for the best film, while "Six O'Clock News" won Best Documentary at the Hawaii International Film Festival...