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City Lights: Looking back on an interview with Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens would have been a darn good high school teacher.
That was one of my first memories after hearing that the prolific author and columnist had died Thursday at the age of 62. A leftist for years, then an adamant supporter of the War...Tags: Libraries, Kim Jong Il, Terrorism, Documentary (genre), John Edwards
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Movie review: 'Assaulted' documentary advocates for gun rights
For a gun-rights advocacy documentary that opens with a fluttering American flag and a twangy country vocalist singing "got a gun to keep us strong / that's what our country was founded on" (the next verse violates the Old Testament's Fourth Commandment...Tags: Movies, Politics, Entertainment, Gun Control, Crime, Law and Justice
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James Lipton's 'Inside the Actors Studio' hits 250 on changing Bravo
When "Inside the Actors Studio" quietly made its debut in 1994, Bravo was a decade-plus-old, little-watched cable network that aired highbrow art films, opera and ballet. Nineteen years, 300 guests and 15 Emmy nominations later, the show, one of Bravo's...
Tags: Movies, Katie Couric, Television, Satellite and Cable Service, George Clooney
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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: Firearms, Trials, Punishment, Crime, Law and Justice, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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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: Physiology, Nottingham, Mick Fleetwood, Ten Years (music group), Entertainment Events
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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: Safeway Inc., Physical Fitness and Exercise, Movies, Acupuncture, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
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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: Buddy Holly, Movies, Television Industry, Health, Arts and Culture
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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: Movies, Fox Broadcasting Company, Economy, Business and Finance, Vice (movie), Entertainment Events
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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: Movies, The Hunger Games (movie), Arts and Culture, Josh Hutcherson, Harry Potter (fictional character)
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Bingham Ray dies at 57; leading force in independent films
Bingham Ray, the co-founder of October Films, one of the top independent film distribution companies of the 1990s, and a former president of United Artists who was a leading force in independent films for more than two decades, died Monday. He was 57....Tags: Lincoln Center, Movies, Arts and Culture, Economy, Business and Finance, Entertainment Events
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Moore: Traverse City fest tops $500,000 fund goal
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Michael Moore says the year-end fundraiser for the theater that hosts the annual Traverse City Film Festival has topped its $500,000 goal with days to spare.
The Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker and festival co-...Tags: Movies, Festive Events, Consumers Energy Company, Entertainment, Documentary (genre)
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Box Office: 'Hunger Games' beats record with $155-million debut [Updated]
Company Town"The Hunger Games" posted the third-highest domestic debut of all time with $155 million, behind only the $169.2 million opening for the final "Harry Potter" installment and the $158.4 million launch of "The Dark Knight." That means "The Hunger Games"...
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