Film critics rarely question the corporate control exhibited in movies such as <i>Munich</i>, which endorse Israeli policy.
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/ 13 January 2009
Construction recently started on Africa’s first state-of-the-art film studio near Cape Town, which once completed will be worthy of Hollywood status.
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/ 13 December 2008
Movies are being released hard and fast this festive season, writes Dan Glaister.
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/ 26 September 2008
It was the golden age of Hollywood, a time when movies defined who we were and what we did. But it was also the golden age of tobacco sponsorship.
Hundreds of dilapidated stars on Hollywood’s ”Walk of Fame” are getting a much-needed, -million makeover ahead of the landmark’s 50th anniversary.
The acrimonious feud between two of Hollywood’s best-known film directors reached a new level of name-calling and accusation at the weekend as Spike Lee invoked America’s bitter legacy of slavery in response to Clint Eastwood’s comments to the Guardian on Friday.
The internet must be open during the Beijing Olympics. That was the message a top-ranking International Olympic Committee (IOC) official delivered on Tuesday to Beijing organisers during the last official sessions between IOC inspectors and the host Chinese before the Games begin in just more than four months.
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/ 18 February 2008
Investors cheered an impending end to a format war for next-generation DVDs on Monday, pushing up shares of both Toshiba, on the verge of abandoning its HD DVD discs, and Sony, the leader of the rival Blu-ray camp. Toshiba shares jumped 5,1% as analysts praised its decision to cut its losses.
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/ 25 January 2008
The show will go on, even if there is a picket at the red carpet, writes Dan Glaister.
A recent report by a Hollywood insider questions the profitability of making movies, writes David Teather.
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/ 23 December 2007
Bill Clinton has never been one to avoid the limelight. Or stay on message. Last week, as he spearheaded a mission to rejuvenate his wife’s troubled presidential campaign, he showed that old habits die hard. In a publicity stunt at a grocery store in the vital first battleground state of Iowa, the ex-president caused brief chaos by breaking away to chat to the public.
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/ 18 October 2007
President George Bush gave the Dalai Lama one of the highest United States honours on Wednesday and called on China to open talks with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader whom Beijing reviles as a separatist. The Dalai Lama, accepting the Congressional Gold Medal from Bush and leaders of Congress, told a packed audience in the US Capitol that he had ”no hidden agenda”.
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/ 26 February 2007
Crime drama The Departed blew away its rivals at the Oscars on Sunday, scooping best-picture honours and delivering a long-overdue director’s prize for Martin Scorsese. Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola presented the 64-year-old with his Oscar which finally came at the sixth attempt.
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/ 9 February 2007
Anna Nicole Smith, the small-town Texas girl turned Playboy Playmate who fought all the way to the United States Supreme Court over her billionaire husband’s estate, died suddenly on Thursday at the age of 39. Smith, a voluptuous platinum blonde who grew up idolising the late screen legend Marilyn Monroe, was pronounced dead at a Hollywood, Florida, hospital.
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/ 28 February 2005
Former stand-up comic Jamie Foxx, who won the best actor Oscar on Sunday for his sizzling role in Ray, plunged into the dark world of blind soul legend Ray Charles and emerged as a Hollywood heavyweight. An emotional Foxx was greeted by a standing ovation on receiving his award, as he sang a few notes in homage to Charles.
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/ 28 February 2005
Clint Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby, which won four Oscars on Sunday, including the award for best picture, tells the story of the tragic, platonic relationship between a young woman determined to become a boxer and a grizzled trainer 30 years her senior.
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/ 23 November 2004
A woman who said her 10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich bore the image of the Virgin Mary will be getting a lot more bread after the item sold for  000 (R168 ,468 ) on eBay. GoldenPalace.com, an online casino, confirmed that it placed the winning bid, and company executives said they were willing to spend ”as much as it took” to own the 10-year-old half-sandwich with a bite out of it.
Peter Jackson’s fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings and an army of New Zealanders reigned supreme over the Oscars on Sunday, sweeping 11 trophies and making Academy Awards history. Meanwhile, Jackson said on Sunday he still wanted to tackle more hobbit tales.
The last episode of the Lord of the Rings trilogy scored a stunning Oscars clean-sweep on Sunday, winning eleven awards and becoming the first fantasy film ever to win the coveted best picture trophy.
As dark and disturbing as Roman Polanski’s films are, the real life of the 69-year-old director — who on Sunday won the Oscar for best director — is even more defined by horror, violence and sex.