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South Windsor Haiti School
South Windsor High SchoolHaiti is one of the poorest countries in the world. In 2010, about 88% of their rural population was at poverty level after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck. Hundreds of thousands were killed and, as a result of the tragedy, people from all over the...Tags: South Windsor, Windsor (Hartford, Connecticut), Literature, Haiti Earthquake (2010), Arts and Culture
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Yasmina Reza publishes new novel in France
Yasmina Reza, the Tony Award-winning French dramatist whose stage hits include "Art" and "God of Carnage," has a new work out this month but it isn't a play. Reza has published a new novel in France titled "Heureux les Heureux." The 190-page book...
Tags: France, Entertainment Events, Jorge Luis Borges, Berlin (Germany), Hope Davis
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New 'Vikings' promo shows hero's call to change everything
RedEyeHistory has unleashed another promo for its upcoming drama "Vikings" that shows the main protagonist, Ragnar Lothbrok, who is based on a historical figure from the 8th Century. Any number of legends exist about Ragnar from Old Norse poetry and other...Tags: Camelot (tv program), Jessalyn Gilsig, Entertainment, Television, Gabriel Byrne
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Nagisa Oshima dies at 80; iconoclastic Japanese filmmaker
Nagisa Oshima, an iconoclastic Japanese director and screenwriter best known in the West for the sexually explicit films “In the Realm of the Senses” and “Empire of Passion,” died Tuesday at a hospital near Tokyo, his production...Tags: France, Pneumonia, Jean-Luc Godard, Culture, Literature
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Diane Kruger, Rita Ora, Clemence Poesy at Chanel's beach
At the Chanel show at the Grand Palais in Paris on Tuesday, Diane Kruger of “Inglourious Basterds” said she arrived at midnight the previous evening specifically to see the collection. A regular at the classic label’s haute couture...Tags: Paris (France), Music Industry, Chanel S.A., Jessica Alba, Inglourious Basterds (movie)
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Marc Chagall's literary illustrations on exhibit at the Forest Lawn Museum
Once again, the Forest Lawn Museum is host to the work of an extraordinary artist: the Russian-born painter Marc Chagall. Currently on its walls are 65 early monochromatic works, under the exhibition title “Chagall: The Early Etchings,”...
Tags: Book, Museums, Literature, Arts, Artists
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‘Bullet to the Head’: Walter Hill on Stallone, ‘anti-buddy’ movies
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesIn the shoot’em-up action thriller “Bullet to the Head,” which reaches theaters Friday, Sylvester Stallone portrays Jimmy “Bobo” Bonomo, a ...... -
A Second Look: Aleksandr Sokurov's calling card in three literary adaptations
In 1999, the Russian director Aleksandr Sokurov, the prolific filmmaker who remains probably best known for the 2002 art-house hit "Russian Ark," launched the eccentric Men of Power tetralogy, dealing mainly with the obscure inner lives of 20th-century...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Literature, Venice International Film Festival, Faust (movie), Movies
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'Bullet to the Head': Fine director drives action vehicle ★★ 1/2
We've been here before. The Sylvester Stallone vehicle "Bullet to the Head" concludes with an ax fight featuring Stallone against his sneering, murderous adversary, played by Jason Momoa, going at it like maniacs in the bowels of an abandoned power plant,...
Tags: Jason Momoa, Literature, Sylvester Stallone, Walter Hill, Christian Slater
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'Bullet to the Head' review: Bone-headed thugs without harmony
*1/2 (out of four) Dumb as rocks, thin as paper and dull as scissors, “Bullet to the Head” offers just as much complexity and intelligence as you might expect from a movie called “Bullet to the Head.” I know, lots of people...
Tags: Jason Momoa, Sylvester Stallone, Literature, Walter Hill, Christian Slater
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Ticket sales to slow as Americans stay home for Super Bowl
Cold-blooded linebackers will knock down “Warm Bodies” at the box office this weekend, as the Super Bowl is expected to be a much bigger draw than the new zombie movie. Super Bowl weekend is traditionally one of the slowest of the year at the...Tags: Sylvester Stallone, Services and Shopping, Movies, Ghouls and Zombies (supernatural entities), Christopher Walken
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At 'Les Miserables' debut, a director who likes love and loathes lip-synching
NEW YORK -- Ever since Victor Hugo unleashed his five-volume novel on a politically minded France 150 years ago, "Les Miserables" has been generating tears and admirers across several forms of media. On Friday at Lincoln Center, Oscar winner Tom...Tags: Entertainment Events, Argo (movie), Amanda Seyfried, Politics, Holidays
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