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A short documentary about a Canadian doctor who raised concerns about high rates of some types of cancers in a small northern Alberta town has made the short list for an Academy Award. "Downstream," by California-based filmmaker Leslie Iwerks, ...

A Yankee named John Adams with a penchant for politics has once again played a crucial role in building our national identity. This Adams is a composer, and before someone gets Paul Giamatti and David McCullough on the phone, he is more than ...

PDT charmer," said Vera, "and he was always building that resume." One job led to another, from cataloging all of Steve Allen's television shows to editing at DreamWorks and 20th Century Fox. Somewhere along the way, he met Tom Hanks, producer of ...

Cash city rockers The Clash boasted about having 'complete control' over their output. That means no one but the band is to blame for the bottom of the punk barrel being scraped in the bid to find new material, says Marcus Gray Marcus Gray The ...

Actor David Morse didn’t realize he was a dead ringer for George Washington until he saw a portrait hanging on the set of the HBO miniseries “John Adams.” “I thought, ‘That’s a great picture of Washington.’ Then I realized it was me. ...

For Indiana's State Board of Education, approving the list of textbooks for schools statewide is usually a routine matter. Then they read the books. Their reviews of this year's batch of social studies texts: Boring, dull, uninspirational...The ...

om Hooper John Adams worried that future generations would forget him and only Washington, Jefferson and Franklin would be remembered. As I sat at the Emmy awards last Sunday in Los Angeles I hoped, somewhere, that John Adams was smiling....

general manager Charlie Collier said that the network did not get behind a great lobbying campaign. “These are people's passion projects,” he said. Collier added that as a movie-focused network, AMC creates an environment where “cinematic TV ...

I could not say with any certainty at this point what I would change until I was able to interact and assess what is currently going on in each department, determining the strengths and weaknesses in each department, talking with all of them one on ...

But in one sense the deadly storm was a uniter, not a divider: Only three years ago, the devil wind brought together much of the country in contempt of the Bush administration's loose definition of humanitarian aid. Fresh as a slap, the outrage of ...