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PHOTOS: Land Of Lincoln Well-Repped At The Oscars

Posted 02.26.2013 | Chicago
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The Academy Awards are known as Hollywood's biggest night, but with a bevy of winners, presenters and others with ties to Illinois, the Oscar limeligh...

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Oscar's 6 Biggest Winners (Even if They Don’t Go Home With Trophies)

Posted 02.24.2013 | Impact
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By Stephen Saito, TakePart Win or lose on Sunday, these half dozen Academy Award-nominated films have already made waves of social change. Silve...

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Jason Linkins

Congressman Pans 'Lincoln' For Historical Inaccuracies

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.06.2013 | Politics
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It's not unusual, during the run-up to the Academy Awards, for the films up for the top honors to come under fire for all sorts of reasons. In 2009, f...

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Congressman Finds Big Error In 'Lincoln'

AP | Posted 04.08.2013 | Entertainment
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HARTFORD, Conn. — As Rep. Joe Courtney watched the Oscar-nominated "Lincoln" over the weekend, something didn't seem right to him. He said Tues...

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Just In! 2013 AARP Movies For Grownups Awards

Posted 02.04.2013 | Fifty
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Drum roll please... AARP has just announced the winners of its 12th Annual Movies For Grownups Awards. They include everything from -- of course -- th...

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Enough Stories

Brian D. Cohen | Posted 03.30.2013 | Arts
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Brian D. Cohen

If we approach and accept art on its terms, it will offer us much more than familiarity and comfort; if we think we already know the moral to the story, we stand to miss what is there. There may be no story.

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Steven Spielberg Donates 'Lincoln' Memorabilia To Charity

Posted 01.14.2013 | Impact
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The box office isn’t the only one benefitting from Steven Spielberg's acclaimed "Lincoln." Memorabilia from the film has been donated to the Iris...

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Spielberg Pads His Record

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 01.08.2013 | Entertainment
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LOS ANGELES -- Steven Spielberg has extended his domination at the Directors Guild of America Awards, earning a nomination Tuesday for his Civil War e...

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How Leonardo DiCaprio Saved 'Lincoln'

OWN | Posted 12.28.2012 | OWN
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For a recent episode of "Oprah's Next Chapter," Oprah visited Steven Spielberg in the same Dreamworks office where she'd auditioned for "The Color Pur...

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Spielberg's 'Lincoln' Box Office Magic Makes Middle Age the New 20-Something

Debra Sharon Davis | Posted 02.19.2013 | Fifty
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What does it mean when an intelligent film like Lincoln, in its sixth week of major release last weekend, came in number three at the domestic box office, beating both Skyfall and the the last installment of the Twilight Saga this busy holiday season?

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Daniel Day-Lewis: 'Lincoln Was An Absentee Father'

OWN | Posted 12.18.2012 | OWN
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Recently on "Oprah's Next Chapter," Oprah sat down with Academy Award-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis, star of the film "Lincoln" -- and with the film'...

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10 Things You Didn't Know About This Director On His Birthday

Posted 12.18.2012 | Fifty
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Steven Spielberg is a man who lets his work speak for him. And with an oeuvre that includes such feats of movie magic as "E.T.," "Indiana Jones" and "...

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Rethinkin' Lincoln on the 150th Birthday of the Emancipation Proclamation

Bill Bigelow | Posted 02.12.2013 | Home
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Bill Bigelow

In coming months and years, teachers' jobs will be made harder by Steven Spielberg's film Lincoln, in which Daniel Day-Lewis gives a brilliant performance as, well, Lincoln-the-abolitionist. The only problem is that Lincoln was not an abolitionist.

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Our Lincoln, Ourselves: Rethinking Slavery and Abolition

Jim Downs | Posted 02.11.2013 | Entertainment
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Jim Downs

When the script does not portray Lincoln as divinely inspired abolitionist, the film lapses into other problematic formulations of why people fought to end slavery.

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Mallika Rao

The Lincoln Obsession: Why the 16th President Is Back in a Big Way

HuffingtonPost.com | Mallika Rao | Posted 12.06.2012 | Arts
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In her biography, "Team Of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln," Doris Kearns Goodwin recounts an anecdote that at first seems impossible ...

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Lessons From Lincoln

Jerry Jasinowski | Posted 02.02.2013 | Entertainment
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Jerry Jasinowski

Lincoln is an important story well told. Daniel Day-Lewis' impersonation of Lincoln is spot on, right down to the great man's high-pitched voice, lumbering gait and profound melancholy. To watch that film is to walk into the White House in January 1865.

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WATCH: What It's Like To Raise Kids Named 'Spielberg'

Posted 12.03.2012 | OWN
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Academy Award-winning director Steven Spielberg recently sat down with Oprah for a one-on-one "Oprah's Next Chapter" interview about life, family and ...

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WATCH: What Made Steven Spielberg Cry?

OWN | Posted 12.01.2012 | OWN
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After watching the film "Lincoln" -- which she calls a "masterpiece" -- Oprah sits down with Academy Award-winning director Steven Spielberg. One part...

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WATCH: Oprah's Full-Circle Moment With Steven Spielberg

OWN | Posted 11.29.2012 | OWN
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In what turns out to be a full-circle moment, Oprah sits down with Academy Award-winners Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day-Lewis at Dreamworks Studios i...

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Obama's Other Golden Hour

Christopher Holshek | Posted 01.21.2013 | Politics
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Christopher Holshek

In Obama's second term, there will be some things that can and should be fixed, while others will have to await their time. Obama will have to choose wisely, because his chances will be narrow and his political capital is limited -- unless we afford him more.

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Four Score: Steven Spielberg To Give His Own Gettysburg Address

AP | MARK SCOLFORO | Posted 01.19.2013 | Entertainment
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GETTYSBURG, Pa. — Two-time Academy Award winning director Steven Spielberg expressed a sense of humility Monday as he delivered the keynote addr...

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Lincoln Pulls Back a Curtain on Past and Current Politics

Brian Formo | Posted 01.15.2013 | Los Angeles
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Steven Spielberg's Lincoln takes on the last four months of the 16th president's life -- and it is nothing like you'd expect. This is a political procedural where an ensemble cast carries equal importance to Abraham Lincoln himself.

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Spielberg's Decade-Long Project

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 12.30.2012 | Entertainment
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LOS ANGELES — The task of encapsulating the essence of Abraham Lincoln in a single film took Steven Spielberg roughly three times as long as it ...

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WATCH: Steven Spielberg Says He Was Bullied, Faced Anti-Semitism In Childhood

Posted 10.22.2012 | Celebrity
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Appearing on "60 Minutes" Sunday night, Steven Spielberg revealed that his childhood -- a recurring subject of his films -- was less than perfect. On ...

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WATCH: What You Didn't Know About Steven Spielberg

The Huffington Post | Christopher Rosen | Posted 10.22.2012 | Entertainment
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Steven Spielberg appeared on Sunday's edition of "60 Minutes" in support of the upcoming drama "Lincoln" and revealed how his relationship with his fa...

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