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Why Men Won't Talk About Impotence

Ann Bauer | Posted 05.24.2012

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Ann Bauer

In researching my book, I asked men about performance issues. What happens in your head when you can't get it up? How does it become (as I've heard it can be) a self-perpetuating problem? I'm close to literally a dozen fine, garrulous older men. But when I broached this topic, every one of them turned red and stammered and then was struck mute.

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Hollywood's Female Trouble: Part 2, The Directors

Xaque Gruber | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: True Blood, The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow, Csi: New York, Directors, Pam Veasey, Directing, Lesli Linka Glatter, Mad Men, Jane Fonda, Directors Guild of America, Women Directors, Gloria Steinem, Video, Entertainment News
Xaque Gruber

Even with Bigelow's Oscar win in 2009, why are the statistics for female directors (in both film and television) less than golden?

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Kathryn Bigelow's Bin Laden Movie Running Into Trouble

The Huffington Post | Kia Makarechi | Posted 03.02.2012

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"Zero Dark Thirty," Kathryn Bigelow's movie on Navy's SEAL Team 6's hunt for, and killing of, Osama Bin Laden has run into more drama -- and major pro...

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Disposing Of Live Bombs In Germany

James M. Clash | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: The Hurt Locker, Ordnance, Germany, The Artist, Berlin, Unexploded Bombs, James Clash, Wwii, Jim, Jeremy Renner, Adventure, Academy Awards, Travel News
James M. Clash

Borchert took me to a residential area with unexploded bombs still in the ground. One 550-lb. and two 1,100-lb. US monsters had already been found and detonated.

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Jordan Zakarin

Navy SEALs And The Military's Secret Hollywood Mission

HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Zakarin | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Pentagon, The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow, Top Gun, Department of Defense, Entertainment Features, Philip Strub, Act of Valor, Movies, Michael Bay Transformers, Iraq War, Video, Military, Navy Seals, Act of Valor Movie, The Pentagon, Michael Bay, Entertainment News

A crack team of highly skilled warriors, outfitted with the most advanced weapons of the world’s most powerful military force, storms an enemy compo...

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Man Sued Because He Thought 'The Hurt Locker' Was Based On Him

AP | ANTHONY McCARTNEY | Posted 12.13.2011

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LOS ANGELES — A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed by an Iraq war veteran who claimed "The Hurt Locker" was based on his experi...

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Bin Laden Movie Controversy Drags In Congress, President, Oscar-Winner

AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 10.11.2011

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WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee sought an investigation Wednesday into the Obama administration's cooperation...

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Peter King Wants A Probe Of Osama Bin Laden Film, Feuds With Administration

AP | By LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 10.11.2011

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WASHINGTON -- A movie about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, expected in theaters just weeks before the 2012 presidential election, is already generating...

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A Modest Proposal: A Luxury Tax for Expensive Movies

Marshall Fine | Posted 08.24.2011

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Marshall Fine

Why don't we create a luxury tax for Hollywood, comparable to the one Major League Baseball invokes whenever a team tries to buy itself a pennant by stocking up on expensive star players.

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Movie Planned About Hunt For Bin Laden

AP | By DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 07.02.2011

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LOS ANGELES -- The filmmakers behind the war-on-terror drama "The Hurt Locker" are moving forward with an action thriller about the hunt for Osama bin...

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Ten Women Directors You Should Know About

flavorwire.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kathryn Bigelow, Female-Film-Directors, The Hurt Locker, Filmmakers, Women Filmmakers, Claire-Denis, Nicole Holofcener, Deepa Mehta, Kelly Reichardt, Mary Harron, Flavorpill, Catherine Breillat, Arts News

Kathryn Bigelow may have been the first female filmmaker to win a Best Director Oscar for 2009′s The Hurt Locker. But did you happen to notice that ...

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Catherine Hardwicke's Lady Issues

Jamie Frevele | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow, Catherine Hardwicke, Sexism, Twilight, Mark Wahlberg, The Fighter, Hollywood, Feminism, Oscars 2011, Entertainment News
Jamie Frevele

Catherine Hardwicke has decided to play the vagina card, whining about how the Big Bad Men wouldn't let her direct an Oscar-nominated Man Movie.

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Oscar Talking Points

Tribeca Film | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The King's Speech, Inception, The Hurt Locker, Blue Valentine, Jeremy Renner, True Grit, Nathaniel Rogers, Colin Firth, The Oscars, Black Swan, Jeff Bridges, 2011 Oscar Nominations, Entertainment News
Tribeca Film

You can see the full list of nominees at the Academy's official site. With so much to discuss, it's necessary to break it down into manageable talking points.

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Christina Aguilera's Embarrassing Drunk Moment In Jeremy Renner's Bed

Posted 05.25.2011

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UPDATE: Renner's rep tells us Aguilera was "clearly enjoying herself but she was not in his bed." PREVIOUSLY: Christina Aguilera may have had too m...

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Note: Oscars Don't Finance Films

Jeff Steele | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Voltage Picturesby Jeff Steele, The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow, Triple Frontier, Mark Boal, Grosvenor Park, Nicolas Chartier, Avatar, Entertainment News
Jeff Steele

If you ever find yourself catapulted into big budget, star studded, studio pictures, don't try to parlay that ahead of time; go on vacation until it's time to be on set, and then parlay it while you're in post.

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Why the Oscars Are Irrelevant

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: People's Choice Awards, National Board of Review, The Hurt Locker, Film Independent Spirit Awards, Billy Crystal, Academy Awards, Oscar Pundits, Golden Globe Awards, Anne Hathaway, Marshall Fine Blog, Steve Martin, Marshall Fine, Barbara Walters, Toronto Film Festival, New York Film Critics Circle, Gotham Awards, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, New York Film Critics Online, Oscars, Marshall Fine Commentary, James Franco, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Some people have greeted this week's selection of James Franco and Anne Hathaway as hosts for next February's Oscar broadcast as a harbinger of doom. Yeah, right -- like this annual ritual wasn't already one of the walking dead.

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'Hurt Locker' Soldier Poet Brian Turner's New Book

The Guardian | Sarah Crown | Posted 05.25.2011

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With his award-winning 2005 debut, "Here, Bullet," a collection about his time in Iraq with the 3rd Stryker brigade, the US soldier-poet picked up whe...

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How To Promote Your New Book From a Hospital ICU

Will Bunch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Hurt Locker, Tea Party Movement, Karl Rove, Rachel Maddow, Will Bunch the Backlash, Books, Book Promotion, The Backlash Book, Christine O'donnell, Health Care, Books News
Will Bunch

The book promotion can't stop... not even from the ICU. For the majority of authors, we struggle to be a constant Twitter wit and intrepid blogger, pouncing on any shred of breaking news that might be an excuse to mention your tome.

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War as Entertainment: The Real, the Game, and the Ugly Truth

Brenda Peterson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Brenda Peterson

What is the difference between playing a war videogame like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and witnessing a film like The Hurt Locker? Everything.

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A Woman's Touch: Ten Great Films From Female Directors

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow, Jane Campion, The Academy Awards, Giancarlo Giannini, Penny Marshall, Avatar, Kimberly Peirce, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Kopple, Scarlett Johansson, Deepa Mehta, Best Movies on DVD, Agnes Varda, Sean Penn, Best Movies by Farr, Thirteen/WNET, Sam Neill, Bill Murray, Mira Nair, Amy Heckerling, Female Directors, Tom Hanks, Hilary Swank, James Cameron, Lina Wertmuller, Holly Hunter, Sofia Coppola, Entertainment News
John Farr

Though film directing has been an overwhelmingly male preserve, there's an enduring legacy of women directors to celebrate. To prove my point, here are ten of my own favorite titles helmed by women.

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The Best Films of 2010: Part 1

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ajami, The Hurt Locker, Tom DiCillo, Conor McPherson, Ben Stiller, Aidan Quinn, Oscar, Greenberg, Noah Baumbach, Banksy, The Doors, Leap Year, A Prophet, Exit Through the Gift Shop, When You're Strange, Jonah Hex, The Last Airbender, The Secret in Their Eyes, Up, The Eclipse, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

If the movie year had ended last week, instead of just the first six months of the year, what movies would be the big contenders for awards?

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'The War Lovers': The Dangerous Temptation Of War

Evan Thomas  | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Black Hawk Down, The Hurt Locker, The War Lovers, Teddy Roosevelt, War Writing, Sebastian Junger, Vietnam War, War, Books, War Lovers, Tobias Wolff, Books News
Evan Thomas 

War is simply too alluring to young men who wish to prove their manhood and to old men who wished they had.

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Catching Up on Afghanistan

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Hurt Locker, General Colin Powell, Jieddo, General Mcchrystal, War in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Almost Famous, General Michael Oates, Iran, Taliban, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, Iraq War, Rolling Stone, Afghanistan, Ieds, Iraq, Politics News
Reese Schonfeld

Even with all this, the IEDs, al Qaeda and the suicide bombers and the revelation of General McChrystal's character deficiencies, I still think we have to stick it out in Afghanistan.

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The Hurt Locker's Missing Disclaimer: No Arabs Were Harmed During the Making of This Movie

Ahmad Sadri | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, The Hurt Locker, Arabs, American Imperialism, Iraq, Hurt Locker, Arab Americans, Entertainment News
Ahmad Sadri

Why get uptight, right? This is a genre flick, after all. And yet, this movie did make me uptight with its profound indifference to a nation utterly destroyed in an American preemptive war.

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Afghanistan: We Can't Win on the Cheap, but We Can't Afford to Lose

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Hurt Locker, Pentagon, Iran, Jieddo, Afghanistan, Korangal Valley, General Michael Oates, Iraq, Iraqi War, Valley of Death, Ieds, Osama Bin Laden, Afghanistan War, World News
Reese Schonfeld

Looking at the cost in lives and dollars in Afghanistan, I'd like to ask how many lives, how much money, and how long will it take us to reach our goal.

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