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ReutersHas Jay-Z's 'Magna Carta Holy Grail' Album Gone Platinum Before Its Release? By Tony Maglio LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Jay-Z once spit, "I deserve platinum plaques, to match my bezel." And while the rapper's got a bunch of those (and plenty of bezels),...Tags: Film Festivals, Staples Center, The Killers (music group), Music Theater, George Michael
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Director Costa-Gavras: European cinema could not survive without state protection
ReutersLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Filmmaking could not exist in Europe without the support of governments, veteran director Costa-Gavras told an audience at the Los Angeles Film Festival on Monday night. At the same time, the Greek director of such...Tags: The Hurt Locker (movie), Southeast Asia, Unrest, Conflicts and War, French Literature, University of Paris
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'Miss Saigon' Helicopters Back to West End
VarietyThe resurgence of the 1980s Brit megamusical continues, with producer Cameron Mackintosh locking in a West End revival of "Miss Saigon" that will open at the Prince Edward Theater in May. Originally helmed by Nicholas Hytner in its 1989 London bow, the...Tags: Hulu, Kelsey Grammer, Les Miserables (movie), International Military Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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2 naval landing craft on auction block at Great Lakes
For anyone looking to stage a D-Day invasion, run scuba tours in the Caribbean or cruise Lake Michigan with 200 of your closest friends — the U.S. Navy has a boat for you. And maybe a bargain. Two landing craft — the kind that that can...
Tags: Chestertown, Auction Service, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Military Equipment, U.S. Department of Defense
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Mary Elizabeth Winstead Joins Logan Marshall Green on Cinemax Pilot 'Quarry' (Exclusive)
ReutersJun 19 (TheWrap.com) - Cinemax has found Quarry's rock. Mary Elizabeth Winstead has been cast on the Cinemax drama pilot, "Quarry," opposite star Logan Marshall Green, TheWrap has learned exclusively. She will play Joni, Quarry's (Green) wife, who is...Tags: Bruce Willis, The Thing (movie), Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (movie), Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Die Hard (movie)
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As Little Saigon turns 25, family and heritage mark the path ahead
In a conservative Orange County town, where the strawberry fields were still plentiful and the population solidly white, Danh's Pharmacy stood out when it opened its doors after the Vietnam War came to an end. Yet the business was just the beginning...
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China's Xi tells Vietnam wants peace in South China Sea
Reuters* Xi meets Vietnam's president in Beijing * Oil reserves, shipping lanes, fishing grounds at stake * Xi says must act in spirit of responsibility to history By Ben Blanchard BEIJING, June 19 (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping told his visiting...Tags: Beijing (China), Malaysia, Hanoi (Vietnam), Human Interest, Xi Jinping
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The two tortured political marriages of Richard Nixon
Just as they say that the poor are always with is, so it is with Richard Nixon, arguably the most tormented American president, who comes back to us in the new book "Ike and Dick" (appropriately subtitled "Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage"). The...
Tags: Political Dissent, U.S. Senate, Republican Party, Executive Branch, Family
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Jim Holshouser, former North Carolina governor, dies at 78
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)RALEIGH, N.C. James Eubert Holshouser Jr., the first Republican governor of the 20th century who championed education, the environment and health care, died Monday after a prolonged illness. He was 78. Holshouser broke decades of Democratic rule when...Tags: Laws, U.S. Senate, Business Enterprises, Republican Party, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Snooping: Haven't we been here before?
The Baltimore Sun (MCT)For us aging Vietnam War protesters, the secret domestic surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden, a young former CIA contractor, is like a bad flashback. In 1968, Lyndon Johnson demanded that something be done to curb the demonstrations that were...Tags: National Government, U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of Defense, Social Movements, Gerald Ford
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New York police sued over surveillance of Muslims
ReutersBy Chris Francescani NEW YORK, June 18 (Reuters) - The New York Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the New York Police Department over its surveillance of Muslim communities, accusing the police of trampling on religious freedoms...Tags: Laws, Aircraft Hijacking, New York City, Justice and Rights, Religion and Belief
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Red Cross to Guantanamo judge: Don't give lawyers our confidential records
The Miami HeraldGUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba A lawyer for the International Committee of the Red Cross on Tuesday urged a military judge not to order release of its confidential communications with the Pentagon about Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other captives...Tags: Military Justice, National Government, Health and Medical Professionals, The Miami Herald, Freedom of Information Act
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