The New York Post has an item today about a seemingly unimportant rich person who lives in the East Village. The reason for his inclusion in the standard-bearing gossip column is less due to his own exploits — though he is, like, a millionaire or something — and more to his girlfriend’s. Her Read More
Julian Assange, speaking with the BBC, says that the accusations of sexual misconduct made against him in Sweden are a smear campaign, that it’s working to tarnish his image, but that in the end the attention only makes Wikileaks stronger.
“Two days ago I did a search on Google for my name, some Read More
Get your bets in, literary gamblers: the Swedish Academy has settled on a winner for the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, according to the AP. The Academy will be announcing the recipients of the other Nobel categories starting on Monday, but it will deprive us of the winner in literature until the Read More
With time running out to place bets on the novels shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize before the winner is announced on Oct. 12, literary gambling aficionados can now direct their attention to the writers in the running for the Nobel Prize. The spread that’s up on the British betting site Ladbrokes.com Read More
Touting the benefits of the Republican plan to privatize Social Security, politicians and pundits assure us that these schemes already have succeeded in other countries, from Britain and Sweden to Poland and Chile. That argument tends to be most persuasive among those who know the least about the examples cited.
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Fernando Meirelles’ City of God , from a screenplay by Bráulio Mantovani (based on the novel by Paulo Lins), was released by Miramax on Jan. 17, 2003. It received rapturous reviews, but quickly faded from the screen until Harvey Weinstein decided to re-release it for Oscar consideration after his other Oscar contender, Cold Mountain , Read More
Lukas Moodysson’s Lilja 4-Ever , from his own screenplay, in Russian and Swedish with English subtitles, has moved me and shaken me as no other new movie has this year. And therein lies a paradox: Though the reviews have been great, the reactions at film festivals enthusiastic, and the film itself chosen by Sweden (reportedly Read More
