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Academy Awards: Voting Snobs and Oscar Snubs

David Aronchick | Posted 04.24.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: LA Times, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, The Graduate, Best Picture, The Killing Fields, Oscar Voters, Academy Awards, Brokeback Mountain, Oscar Snubs, Academy Award Fails, Academy Award Voters, Los Angeles Times, Oscars, Life of Pi, Academy Award Snubs, Oscars Best Picture, Entertainment News
David Aronchick

Look at the history of the award for Best Picture. It is littered with bad choices that get more and more glaring over time as the titles that lost rise in popularity and prominence over those that won.

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25 Great Movies for Our 'Historically Illiterate' Children

John Farr | Posted 04.04.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: A Night to Remember, The Missiles of October, The Killing Fields, A Man for All Seasons, Young Mr. Lincoln, Glory, Schindler?S List, Born on the Fourth of July, The Battle of Algiers, Gallipoli, All the King?S Men, Apollo 13, Reds, The Official Story, City of Life and Death, Judgment at Nuremberg, Gandhi, The Last Emperor, The Longest Day, Downfall, Malcolm X, Milk, All the President?S Men, Inherit the Wind, Danton, Entertainment News
John Farr

If history itself is comprised of human stories, great movies can make those stories feel even more immediate, more human. With that in mind, here are twenty-five of my favorite historical films, and the subjects they cover.

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Remembering John Lennon at Dharamshala

Jamyang Norbu | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Concert for Bangladesh, The Killing Fields, Chairman Mao, Communist China, Liberation of Bangladesh, Lotus Fields, Pakistan, Tibetan Paratroopers, Tibet, George Harrison, Kissinger, Beatles, John Lennon, Dith Pran, Genocide, Cambodia, Imagine, Kashag, Nixon, Revolution, Dharamshala, World News
Jamyang Norbu

I remember the exact night, thirty years ago, when I heard John Lennon had been murdered. I was in the hall of the kashag (the Tibetan cabinet) buildi...

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HuffPost Review: And Everything Is Going Fine

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Movie Reviews, Marshall Fine, The Killing Fields, Gray's Anatomy, Monster in a Box, And Everything Is Going Fine Movie Review, And Everything Is Going Fine, Steven Soderbergh. King of the Hill, Spalding Gray, Jonathan Demme, Swimming to Cambodia, Elizabeth Lecompte, Marshall Fine Movie Reviews, Wooster Group, Movies, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Spalding Gray was a unique, insightful and entertaining performer, who found ways to turn his life into his art. It's only fitting that that his life is told in his own words in And Everything is Going Fine.

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Progress in Southeast Asia

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: The Killing Fields, Chinese Han, The King and I, Pol Pot, Vietnam, China Beach, Angkor Wat, Russia, Cambodia, China, Thailand, Indochina, World News
Patrick Takahashi

This is part two of my world odyssey, the first report being on "The Wonder of Korea". Today, some thoughts combining Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. ...

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