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Oren Moverman delivers with The Messenger

Marshall Fine | Posted 11.20.2009 | Entertainment

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It's referred to as "development hell" - that period between when a script is optioned and when it gets a green light - an endless series of notes, me...

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When Is a Lawyer Not a Lawyer? When She Acts

Jim Luce | Posted 06.08.2009 | Style

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Making a career in acting is a challenging prospect. What makes Anouk Dutruit's ambitions even more invigorating is her other career. By day and international lawyer, by night an actor.

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The State of Play of "State of Play"

William Bradley | Posted 05.19.2009 | Entertainment

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State of Play is a political thriller wrapped inside a journalistic thriller that works better as the latter.

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Alpha Financial Dogs Nouriel Roubini and Nassim Taleb, Socks Clinton and First Annual Lucky Award given to Mickey Rourke!

Wendy Diamond | Posted 03.26.2009 | Style

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In honor of the 81st Academy Awards, I decided I wanted to start the first annual Lucky Awards. It's not about glamour, but the person or film and their contributions to a greater good.

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Final Close Ups on Faces Framed in Classic Films: Gone With the Wind, Casablanca

Penelope Andrew | Posted 01.26.2009 | Entertainment

Two actors from Gone With the Wind--Evelyn Keyes who played Suellen O'Hara and Fred Crane who played Stuart Tarleton one of Scarlett's many beaus passed away in 2008.

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On Morality of War, Art Imitates Life

Lincoln Chafee | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics

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It may be easy, in the coming months, for Americans to forget the immorality of the Iraq War. But American foreign policy must be consistent with our interests as well as our morals.

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