The U.S. Supreme Court expanded the law's protection for workers who face retaliation after they complain of race and age discrimination. See the full story.
Sydney Pollack, director, producer and surprisingly effective character
actor, was one of a handful of filmmakers who emerged in the early days
of television drama and graduated to a successful career in feature
films, establishing himself in the late '60s and '70s as the
director-of-choice for some of the most prominent movie stars of the
New Hollywood.
Our friends at the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch are conducting another of their movie-genre shootouts,
this time asking readers to vote for their favorite Western. Although the merit of these polls,
which the American Film Institute has taken to absurd lengths (and depths)
with its 100 Years series, remains debatable, list-making has
the undeniably salubrious effect of making us aware of films not yet
seen and prompting us to revisit movies we need to see yet again.
Joe Holleman constructs an
inarguably respectable Top 20 Westerns, with the acknowledged masters
of the genre represented by multiple entries and taking up more than
half the list:
Rep. Kenny Hulshof joined Rep. Linda Sanchez in introducing a federal law against cyberbullying, a proposal that may violate the First Amendment. Bruce Sanford, one of the nation's top First Amendment experts, says he doesn't think it is even "plausibly" constitutional.
I don't know about you, but I get a lot of junk e-mail suggesting that I'm just only a credit card away from an amazing pharmaceutical discovery that will "make the ladies go willllddd!" Yesterday, however, I received one that takes a disturbing turn towards celebrity matchmaking. To be more specific, the subject line stated that I could "Win the love of Ellen Page" if I made use of their product.
With so much discussion about Steven Soderbergh's two-part Che Guevara film , which screened Wednesday at Cannes, I'm surprised nobody is bringing up this , his 1969 "Che!" with Omar Sharif as Guevara and Jack Palance as Fidel Castro.
In film history, cultural turning points are usually harder to pinpoint
than technological ones. We can more or less confidently identify the
first sound film, the first widescreen process or earliest use of
stereo. But the earliest film noir? The first movie star? (I vote for
Florence Lawrence , but that's a subject for a future post).
With this in mind, Mark Harris' "Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies
and the Birth of the New Hollywood" is based on a premise as
deliberately provocative as it is ultimately logical. Everyone agrees
that American films changed dramatically somewhere between 1965 and
1969, but why? Which films really marked the beginning of the change?
"Dr. Strangelove"? "The Wild Bunch"? "Easy Rider"? "2001: A Space
Odyssey"? "Faces"? "The Pawnbroker"? "Midnight Cowboy"? "Chelsea
Girls"? Harris sidesteps the argument with a selection that might seem
arbitrary but - and this is the book's premise - historically
defensible:
Written by William H. Freivogel, Special to the Beacon
Last Updated ( Friday, 23 May 2008 )
A Texas appeals court ruled Thursday that Texas authorities overstepped
their authority last month when they took 468 children from their
parents at the Yearning for Zion ranch run by the Fundamentalist Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision Monday to uphold a federal child porn
law may have broad implications because it establishes that the First Amendment does not protect solicitations or offers to commit a crime. National security experts think the opinion may make it easier to convict would-be terrorists who discuss a plot that may never happen.
The Beacon will expand staff and local news coverage with a $90,000
grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation – one of four
grants announced Wed., Dec. 17, to local online non-profit news sites.
The grants are intended to help fill the void created when traditional
media cut staff.
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