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Mighty Movie Podcast: Ben Whishaw and Paul Schneider on Jane Campion's Bright Star

Dan Persons | Posted 11.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Fanny Brawne, Australia, Jane Campion, Film, Poets, Courtship, Repression, Poetry, Exclusive, Romance, 19th Century, Ben Whishaw, London, Charles Brown, Movies, Paul Schneider, England, Interview, The Piano, Great Britain, John Keats, Love, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

The film, in short, is sweet, sad, and moving but with Campion's astringent edge keeping the proceedings from lapsing into sentimentality. And that makes all the difference.

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Antonio Banderas and Laura Linney Talk The Other Man

Jenna Busch | Posted 11.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The Other Man, Richard Eyre, Antonio Banderas, Laura Linney, Interview, Movies, Entertainment News
Jenna Busch

Antonio Banderas: This is a movie that, in Hollywood, would literally have been impossible to make. Because it would have cut the peaks and lows of the movie and make something very edible for audiences.

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Everything I Learned About Writing I Learned From Tucker Max

Brandon Mendelson | Posted 11.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Stories, Interview, Tucker Max, Fratire, Entertainment News
Brandon Mendelson

I recently had the chance to interview Tucker by email. It took a few hours to think of questions I haven't seen him answer, and avoid falling into the trap where he might call me a retard.

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Is 'Emotional Intelligence' The New Hiring Criterion?

The Boston Globe | Erica Noonan | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Job Market, Work Life Balance, The Balanced Life, Career, Job Interview, Hire, Emotional Quotient, Emotional Intelligence, Interview, Eq, Living News

In this job market, it's not just who you know, or even what skills you've mastered. It's how well you understand other people that will get you ahead...

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Daily Pulse: Baucus Coughs Up a Bill

Lindsay Beyerstein | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lindsay Beyerstein, Senate Finance Committee, Insurance, Public Option, The Media Consortium, Daily Pulse, Obama, Talking Points Memo, Brian Beutler, Max Baucus, Tmc, Interview, Healthcare, Bill, Politics News
Lindsay Beyerstein

The president lit a fire under Max Baucus (D-Mont) and the Senate Finance Committee by unexpectedly announcing last week that he'd be laying out his own vision for health care reform this Wednesday.

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The Witness to Guantanamo Project: In-Depth Filmed Interviews of Former Guantanamo Detainees

Peter Jan Honigsberg | Posted 10.23.2009 | World

Read More: Guantanamo, Witness, Doctors, Uyghurs, Human Rights, Cia, Interview, Rule of Law, Guantanamo Detainees, World News
Peter Jan Honigsberg

We hope to film hundreds of interviews of former Guantanamo detainees. We are determined to document the systematic human rights abuses and rule of law violations at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Welcome, Big Brother: Ondi Timoner on We Live in Public

Dan Persons | Posted 10.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: 1984, Fema, The Dandy Warhols, Film, Josh Harris, Exclusive, George Orwell, Facebook Privacy, Facebook, Privacy, New York, Movies, Web 2.0, Cookies, Ondi Timoner, Internet, Quiet: We Live in Public, Courtney Taylor-Taylor, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Interview, Invasion of Privacy, Soho, Documentary, Voyeurism, Big Brother, We Live in Public, Pseudo, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

In the documentary We Live in Public, director Ondi Timoner focuses on an experiment in which 100 people were shut into a Soho, NY basement with all the comforts of home, plus 24/7 surveillance.

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Post-Game Interview With a Texas Streetball Legend

Josh Rosenblatt | Posted 09.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Sports, Pick-Up Basketball, Basketball, Interview, Humor, Parody, Entertainment News
Josh Rosenblatt

And now we're going to send you out to Austin, Texas, where Chuck Lovell is with veteran swingman and fan-favorite Josh Rosenblatt

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Prediction: Katie Couric's Report on Texting Will Save More Lives Than Her Campaign on Colon Cancer. And Guess What? It Will Save Your Job as Well!

Stephen Viscusi | Posted 09.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Resume, America's Workplace Guru, Career, Charlie Gibson, Colon Cancer, Job, Katie Couric, Oprah, The View, Interview, Tyra, Texting, CBS Evening News, Business News
Stephen Viscusi

Texting is worse than a personal phone call. Have you even been in a retail store, such as Starbucks or McDonald's, and seen an employee texting? How do you feel?

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Mighty Movie Podcast Exclusive: Spike Lee & Stew on Passing Strange: The Movie

Dan Persons | Posted 09.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Amsterdam, South Central LA, Live Performance, Broadway, Theater, Broadway Musicals, Digital Film, Spike Lee, Musicals, Interview, Exclusive, Germany, Public Theater, Berkeley, Sundance 2009, Stew, Rock and Roll, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

I got a chance to sit down with Spike Lee and singer/songwriter Stew to discuss the New York musical hit, Passing Strange.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Won't Forgive, Can't Forget: Oliver Hirschbiegel on Five Minutes of Heaven

Dan Persons | Posted 09.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Violence, Film, Liam Neeson, United Kingdom, Exclusive, Terrorism, Politics, Drama, Movies, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Television, Northern Ireland, Guilt, Interview, James Nesbitt, Great Britain, Truth and Reconciliation, Uvf, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

Could it just be coincidence? Could it just be that, by some random alignment of the planets, we have two films about the conflict in Northern Ireland opening on the same weekend?

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Have You Hugged Your Cadaver Today? Glenn McQuaid on I Sell the Dead

Dan Persons | Posted 09.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Film, Zombies, Horror, Sex, Exclusive, Vampires, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Ireland, Dominic Monaghan, New York City, Movies, Comedy, Ron Perlman, Gore, Interview, Great Britain, Larry Fessenden, Staten Island, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

I Sell the Dead has pretty much nothing going for it except a neat cast, plus the visual inventiveness and sheer, audacious wit of its director, Mr. McQuaid. Fortunately, that's more than enough.

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The Human Element: Implement Stay Interviews Before It's Too Late

Jon Younger | Posted 09.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Talent Management, Human Resources, Employee, Ibm, Management, Interview, Ubs, Business News
Jon Younger

Taking employee loyalty for granted is naïve. At least some of your best employees have already started looking around for opportunities beyond what they believe is achievable with your company.

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Liz Cheney: Favorite Pretty Princess (VIDEO)

Warren Holstein | Posted 09.14.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Birthers, Conspiracy Theories, Msnbc, Birther-Movement, Thomas Jefferson, Media, Interview, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Politics, Video, Obama Birth Certificate, Obama Conspiracy, Larry King, Nobama, Liz Cheney, Cnn, Rebublicans, Gop, Fox News, Waterboarding, Barack Hussein Obama, Comedy News, Torture, Comedy News
Warren Holstein

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Mighty Movie Podcast: A Brisk Trade in Paul Giamatti: Sophie Barthes on Cold Souls

Dan Persons | Posted 09.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Russia, Stanislavski, Soul, Being John Malkovich, Charlie Kaufman, Black Market, Paul Giamatti, Film, Interview, Movies, New York, Exclusive, St. Petersburg, David Strathairn, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Russian Mafia, Acting, Morality, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

Barthes was willing to give us some insight into her definition of soul and what it's like dealing with actors raised in the land of Stanislavski.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Flipper Agonists: Louie Psihoyos on The Cove

Dan Persons | Posted 08.31.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Oceanic Preservation Society, Aquariums, Sea Parks, Ric O'Barry, Flipper, An Inconvenient Truth, Mercury Poisoning, Whaling, Whales, Japan, Movies, Interview, Activism, Mercury, Louie Psihoyos, Sea World, Al Gore, Dolphins, The Cove, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

In Taiji, Japan, dolphins are herded into an isolated cove. The best get sold to sea parks and aquariums, the rest are killed for their meat. The Cove exposes the atrocity to the world.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: The Love That Haunts: Monika Treut on Ghosted

Dan Persons | Posted 08.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Taiwan, Ke Huan-Ru, Lesbian, Ting-Ting Hu, Gay, Sexuality, Exclusive, Monika Treut, Homosexuality, Chinese Taipei, Interview, Germany, Sex, Hamburg, Inga Busch, Fantasy, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

Treut took a pause in her globe-hopping to speak to us about lesbian love stories, Taiwanese ghosts, and the life of the world filmmaker.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: A Beautiful, If Somewhat Perplexed, Mind: Max Mayer on Adam

Dan Persons | Posted 08.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Hugh Dancy, Amy Irving, Max Mayer, Mark Linn-Baker, Drama, Rose Byrne, Autism, Frankie Faison, Asperger's Syndrome, New York Theater, New York, Recession, Interview, Comedy, Peter Gallagher, Exclusive, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

A conversation with director Max Mayer on his debut movie Adam.

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The Art of Listening: In Memory of Walter Cronkite

Stephen Wilkes | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Walter Cronkite, Stephen Wilkes, Good Listener, The Art of Listening, Interview Skills, Interview, Journalism, Media News
Stephen Wilkes

It was on this day, the 20th of March in the spring of 1974, that the legendary Walter Cronkite granted us our first interview and a life changing experience.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Don't Frack with the Undead: Sarmiento & Harel on Deadgirl

Dan Persons | Posted 08.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Candice Accola, Michael Bowen, Shiloh Fernandez, Violence, Gadi Harel, Film, David Cronenberg, Coming-of-Age-Film, Movies, Interview, Exclusive, Controversy, Noah Segan, Sex, David Lynch, Horror Movies, Marcel Sarmiento, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

Deadgirl is about two teenagers who, while exploring an abandoned hospital, find a naked woman chained to a table and barricaded away in the deepest, darkest regions of the building.

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It's a Spanxless Job, But Someone Had To Do It: Preparing Sonia for Her Supreme Court Interview

Stephen Viscusi | Posted 08.20.2009 | Style

Read More: Dance Your Ass Off, Congress, Marissa Jaret Winokur, Career, Workplace, Plastic Surgery, Sonia Sotomayor, Sara Palin, Bulletproof-Your-Job, Washington DC, Resumes, Resume Tips, Workplace-Guru-Bulletproof-Your-Job, Interview, Style News
Stephen Viscusi

Sotomayor should be a role model for all the less-than-glamorous men and women who are always ready to blame their appearance for their job woes.

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Ditch the Cell Phone, and Other Essential Interview Tips for Twenty-Somethings

Fred Whelan and Gladys Stone | Posted 08.17.2009 | Business

Read More: College Students, Job Market, Gen Y, Jobs, Job Interviews, Job Search, Students, Interview, Business News
Fred Whelan and Gladys Stone

What most of us take for granted, twenty-somethings are learning for the first time. The quicker they can get up to speed the more successful they'll be in their interviews.

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5 Tips For Negotiating Salary During A Recession

Jason Mannino | Posted 08.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Career, Salary Negotiation, Economics, Interview, New Job, Recession, Salary, Economy, The Balanced Life, Employer, Living News
Jason Mannino

In an economic climate where unemployment is at a severe level how do you negotiate for the salary you are worth when you do land your next job? What ...

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Career Lessons From My Recruiting Desk Part II: Interviewing in 2009

Jason Mannino | Posted 08.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Interviewing Tips, Jobs, Unemployment, Interview, Career, Work, Recruiting, Career Advice, Living News
Jason Mannino

What are your greatest strengths? I am always a little surprised when I still hear people say that interview questions like this one are still the mos...

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Career Advice for Kids

Marilyn Machlowitz | Posted 08.08.2009 | New York

Read More: Career Advice, College-Degree, Internships, Jobs, Interview, Parents, New York News
Marilyn Machlowitz

The situation is either the kid has graduated in May and is now beginning to look for a job. Or, if the kid, has been out of school longer, in a job, but is wondering what to do next.

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