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...want to write about an exciting evening at the Oscars - about how "Chicago" became the first musical since 1969 to win Best Picture, and how Nicole Kidman and Catherine Zeta-Jones, as predicted, got to nuzzle the Actress statuettes to their respectively slim and ample bosoms. I want to celebrate a night of surprises, with dark horses galloping past favorites toward the finish line on the Kodak Theatre stage: "The Pianist" for Adrien Brody (the first man under 30 to win Best Actor) and Roman Polanski (at 69, the oldest to win Best Director), plus richly deserved prizes to Hayao...
...Oscars. The standard reason to discount political speeches from Hollywood celebs, after all, is that we don't give a crap about their political thoughts: their job is to stand up, look pretty, collect their $25 million and give US and People something to write about...
These books are hard to read, no question, just as they must have been hard to write, but they are more than just dutiful filial exercises or neurological horror stories. They have pleasures to offer--watching the weave of a mind unpicked, thread by thread, makes the act of reading itself, of stringing words together and turning them into sense, feel like a fresh miracle. Doctors estimate that by 2020 the number of Americans suffering from Alzheimer's will have increased to 14 million. "People aren't prepared for what is coming," Cohen warns us. "An army of the forgetful...
DIED. STAN BRAKHAGE, 70, experimental filmmaker; of cancer; in Victoria, Canada. By linking disparate images without narrative and by using the film surface to scratch, color, write on and paste collages onto, Brakhage aimed to provide a free-associative poetry on film. His 1964 film Dog Star Man was listed by the Library of Congress among the most important films ever made...
Singer said he decided to write Animal Liberation, one of the most important books of the modern animal rights movement, after learning about animal suffering in factory farms and research labs...