`Hurt Locker,' `Hangover,' `Up' win editing honors
Beverly Hills, CALIF. — The war story "The Hurt Locker," The Bachelor bash "The Hangover" and the animated tale "Up" have earned top honors from the American Cinema Editors. The group honored "The Hurt Locker" for best editing on a dramatic feature film, while "The Hangover" won in the comedy or musical category and "Up" took the animation award. "The Hurt Locker" won out over four other nominees that included sci-fi blockbuster "Avatar." Also among winners Sunday night was the...

Oscar nominees share lunch, light and sober talk
Beverly Hills, CALIF. — Table talk among Academy Awards nominees is ranging from weighty matters such as the War on Terror to lighter matters like what to wear to the Oscars. Contenders gathered Monday for the annual nominees luncheon, sharing a meal that included poached pear gorgonzola salad, marinated chicken breast and apple tarts. Meeting with reporters, best-actress nominees Sandra Bullock, Carey Mulligan and Gabourey Sidibe chatted about how they haven't yet figured out what gown...

PIC: Mischa Barton Morphs Into a Blond!
Mischa Barton got her hair did -- and she's barely recognizable! The volatile actress, 24, said goodbye to her long, dark locks after spending eight hours at the Byron Tracy Salon in Beverly Hills on Tuesday. Check out other winter hair switch ups! When the former star of The Beautiful Life and The OC emerged, she sported chin-length, dirty-blond locks and dark-red lipstick. Mischa's sick of the fat jokes! See a roundup of stars tired of being teased for their weight No wonder she's...

Nominees told to prep two speeches for Oscar night
Los Angeles (Reuters) - Academy Award organizers have come up with a novel idea for avoiding those boring Oscar acceptance speeches filled with "thank yous." Their solution: have the winners give two speeches. Entertainment Contenders for the world's top film honors including George Clooney, Sandra Bullock, Meryl Streep and Jeff Bridges gathered on Monday for the annual Oscar nominees luncheon in Beverly Hills, and as is tradition, the show's producers offered tips on giving the 45-second...

Oscar Nominations: Who Got Snubbed!
The Academy Awards nominations were announced Tuesday morning in Beverly Hills. As predicted, The Blind Side 's Sandra Bullock scored a Best Actress nod, as did Best Actor nominee George Clooney for Up in the Air . ( SEE A COMPLETE LIST OF OSCAR NOMINEES HERE ) But many stars were surprisingly shut out. Look back on the hot couples (like Jen Aniston and John Mayer!) who hit the Oscars last year Though his performance was critically lauded (and he scored a Screen Actors Guild Award nod), ...

BBC documentarian confesses to mercy killing of aids stricken lover
(BBC) Ray Gosling, a veteran Documentary-maker, said he had smothered the man with a pillow as he lay in his Hospital bed, after doctors said they couldn't help relieve his suffering. He claimed he had previously made a pact with the man, whom he did not name, that he would help him die if his pain became unbearable. Mr Gosling insisted that he had no regrets about his "startling confession". Full story: BBC presenter admits mercy killing of lover who had Aids – Telegraph

Countdown Special Comment on the Tea Parties and Race
From Countdown Feb. 15, 2010 Special Comment: Tea Parties And Race : I happen to be filling the few spare hours of this past week by re-watching my friend Ken Burns' Jazz Documentary and was literally pulling my shoes on to head over to the Hospital yesterday when it came to the story of the great Billie Holiday and the still-startling anti-lynching song "Strange Fruit." Not long ago, my father, who abandoned baseball because his team traded his favorite players (Yankees; Steve Souchock,...

Hitler's Green Killing Machine
Historians have either overlooked or forgotten that sweeping Nazi environmental laws, all signed by Hitler and considered to be his pet projects, preceded the racially charged Nuremberg Laws, reflecting the fact that Nazi Racism was rooted in ecology. The shocking climax of the infamous 1940 Nazi Documentary film entitled "The Eternal Jew" stunningly reveals a strong green rationalization based on Animal Rights for the looming destruction of the Jews. According to Nazi ideology, the so-called...

BBC Presenter Ray Gosling's On-Air Confession: I Killed My Lover (VIDEO)
BBC TV presenter Ray Gosling has delivered a shocking on-air confession: he smothered his lover to death. In a Documentary on death and dying on BBC One's Inside Out East Midlands program -- filmed in December -- Gosling is seen walking through a cemetery when he says, "And maybe, this is the time to share a secret that I've kept for quite a long time. "I killed someone, once," Gosling continues. "He was a young chap, he had been my lover, and he got AIDS." Gosling said that one "hot...

British Journalist Seized by Hamas in Gaza
British Journalist Seized by Hamas in Gaza Journalists Kidnapped by Palestinian Militants in Gaza since Sept. 2004 Freedom of Press in Israel Iran-backed Hamas arrested and imprisoned British freelance journalist and Documentary filmmaker Paul Martin in Gaza on Sunday (Feb. 14). A spokesman for the terrorist organization said Martin had "violated Palestinian law and the security in Gaza" but provided no details of Martin's alleged crimes.[1] The Hamas spokesman said only that Martin would be...

BBC Presenter Decides to Admit That He Killed a Guy a While Ago
"I killed someone once" is an interesting thing for anyone to say in a non-joking way, at any time, ever. When you're a BBC television personality, like Ray Gosling, and you say it on-camera, it's especially noteworthy. As part of a Documentary on death and dying that aired yesterday, Gosling reveals, while walking through a cemetery, that he once used a pillow to smother his lover, who was terminally ill from AIDS and in "terrible, terrible pain." Gosling says he only did what his lover...

TEA Party - The Documentary Film viewed by sold out crowd at Hanover Tavern
This weekend saw sold-out shows at the historic Hanover Tavern , near Richmond Virginia, of “Tea Party – The Documentary Film”. Hosted by the Richmond Liberty Alliance , Richmond Tea Party and the Washington D.C. –based FreedomWorks Foundation, the film details five ordinary Americans who came to the conclusion individually that the Federal Government was not listening to them, and that it was time to act and actively protest at wasteful spending and unnecessary...

A TV Confession Reignites Britain's Euthanasia Debate
Not since Robin Hood has a local hero given the Nottinghamshire authorities quite such a headache as the one induced by TV presenter and resident Ray Gosling. In a BBC program broadcast on Feb. 15, Gosling confessed to a killing. "Maybe this is the time to share a secret that I've kept for quite a long time," said Gosling, filmed strolling among the weathered headstones at a cemetery for a Documentary about attitudes to mortality. "I killed someone once. He was a young chap. He'd been my lover....

Synth Britannia: BBC documentary about synthpop bands
YouTube has Synth Britannia, split into nine parts. Documentary following a generation of post-punk musicians who took the synthesiser from the experimental fringes to the centre of the pop stage. In the late 1970s, small pockets of electronic artists including the Human League, Daniel Miller and Cabaret Volatire were inspired by Kraftwerk and JG Ballard and dreamt of the sound of the future against the backdrop of bleak, high-rise Britain. The crossover moment came in 1979 when Gary Numan's...

Video "Generation Jihad": How Radical Islamic Websites Create Terrorists in the West
I'll let this Daily Mail summary of the recent BBC Documentary "Generation Jihad" speak for why you should watch the whole thing. I'll embed all six parts of episode 1 of it below the fold. I'm watching it as we speak, so I may have some commentary in a bit. Daily Mail: Religious extremists are increasingly turning to the Internet to find, indoctrinate and radicalise young Muslims, according to a new Documentary series. Like Sexual Predators they prey on vulnerable young people, quickly...

The Oscars Go Green: Food, Inc., The Cove, Get Nods From The Academy (VIDEOS)
The Oscar nominations are in, and we're happy to see Food, Inc. and The Cove are among those honored. Both are up for best Documentary, and each brings necessary attention to weighty green messages. Food, Inc. chronicles the dark side of agricultural food production in the U.S., giving a horrifying look at the food we put in our mouths without a second thought. It's been hailed as a film that must be seen -- It's received major critical praise and was one of the most talked about Films...

Daily Kos: Special Comment: Tea Parties And Race
I happen to be filling the few spare hours of this past week by re-watching my friend Ken Burns' Jazz Documentary and was literally pulling my shoes on to head over to the Hospital yesterday when it came to the story of the great Billie Holiday and the still-startling anti-lynching song "Strange Fruit." Not long ago, my father, who abandoned baseball because his team traded his favorite players (Yankees; Steve Souchock, George Stirnweiss; 1948, 1950; yes, we carry grudges), mentioned to me...

Ray Gosling has done the assisted suicide campaign no favours
I find it difficult to believe Ray Gosling , the veteran Documentary maker who claims to have suffocated a lover in Hospital in his final stages of dying from Aids. His story just doesn’t ring true – how he just asked the doctor to leave him alone with for a moment, how he then despatched his lover by suffocating him with a pillow (not easy), how there was no autopsy or investigation of the suspicious circumstances of the death. Gosling sounded like he was making bits of it up as...

Melissa Roddy: Charlie Wilson: I Come Not to Praise Him, But to Bury Him
Most Americans' image of Congressman Charles Nesbitt Wilson is based upon the book and/or movie, Charlie Wilson's War . According to both of these sources, when Congressman Wilson first became involved in crafting U.S. policy towards Afghanistan, he was living on $700 a week. The Documentary evidence paints a very different picture. We all know that it was blonde bombshell Joanne Herring (played by Julia Roberts in the film) who recruited Wilson to the "cause of the Afghans." However, it...

Vancouver Olympics protest turns violent
told the Vancouver Media Co-op in a short video Documentary. Vancouver has over 15,000 homeless people, CS Monitor noted. Indeed, the games have cost the city well over $6 billion in unexpected spending, even though the initial public cost projection were less than $700 million. Added to the city's troubles was a startling lack of frozen precipitation, for which officials compensated by having over 5,000 cubic meters of snow airlifted by helicopter , requiring some 750 workers according to...

British journalist detained by Hamas in Gaza
Hamas security forces arrested a British man in Gaza on Sunday, British and Hamas officials said. Authorities in Gaza arrested British filmmaker Paul Martin Sunday as he arrived to testify at the trial of a militant accused of giving information to "hostile parties," Palestinian security officials said. Martin, described as a freelance Documentary filmmaker, was handcuffed and taken into custody for 15 days as he arrived at the Gaza City courthouse where the trial was taking place.

George Washington's whiskey distillery rebuilt; first president also grew hemp at Mount Vernon
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Hamas: British journalist ordered held for 15 days
Gaza City, Gaza Strip (AP) - Hamas officials said Monday that a British freelance journalist detained in Gaza will be held for 15 days, an unprecedented step against a foreigner since the Islamic Militants seized Gaza in 2007. Documentary filmmaker Paul Martin was detained Sunday at a Gaza Military tribunal where he was to testify on behalf of a Gaza man accused of collaborating with Israel, said Hamas Interior Ministry spokesman Ehab Ghussein. He had just begun to speak when the prosecutor...

Tennessee mosque vandalized after irresponsible local TV report on 'homegrown jihad'
Last year, the right-wing Christian Action Network and PRB Films produced a "documentary" called "Homegrown Jihad: The Terrorist Camps Around U.S." It claims to expose 35 " Islamic terrorist training compounds " devoted to "radical Pakistani cleric, Sheikh Mubarak Gilani." (Watch the trailer here .) In February 2009, CBS News reviewed the film and dismissed it as nothing more than "sensationalistic" fear-mongering: Officials describe the film to CBS News as "sensationalistic" and without...