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A list of previous Palme d'Or winners at Cannes
For 66 years, the Cannes Film Festival's highest prize, the Palme d'Or, has been one of the most prestigious in movies. Winners have ranged from classic American films (Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver," Francis Ford Coppola's "The Conversation") to European classics (Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita"). Ahead of Sunday's presentation of ...
Palme d'Or race wide open at Cannes Film Festival
After two weeks, 20 films and parade after parade down the red carpet, the Cannes Film Festival has not produced a clear-cut frontrunner for the Palme d'Or. The prestigious award, given to the best film in competition, will be handed out Sunday night, decided upon by a jury headed by ...
Iranian director facing jail appears in Cannes
"Manuscripts Don't Burn" tells the story of an Iranian author secretly writing his memoirs and authorities' attempts to destroy the manuscript — a topic the director, Mohammad Rasoulof, knows quite a bit about. Rasoulof is also Iranian, his movies are banned in his homeland and he's been sentenced to jail ...
Actor Tyler Perry donates $100K to Ohio schools
Filmmaker and actor Tyler Perry has surprised middle school students in Ohio by showing up at a musical concert and donating $100,000 to help student athletes in the city's South-Western schools. The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/13Qe0uR ) reports that Perry was drawn to Finland Middle School on Friday after seeing a ...
Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival
Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. 'GRIGRIS' ENTRY IN CANNES BRINGS PRIDE TO AFRICAN NATION OF CHAD Director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun stirred up some emotion and national pride when he premiered his new movie "Grigris," at the Cannes Film Festival this week. The filmmaker, who ...
Journalist and author Haynes Johnson dies at 81
When Haynes Johnson visited Selma, Ala., months after a civil rights crisis there gripped the nation, he wrote in The Washington Evening Star that he'd found "no discernible change in the racial climate of the city." When it came to employment, housing or education, blacks had made no real gains. ...
News briefs from around Kentucky at 1:58 a.m. EDT
Feds pull plug on Ky. uranium plant and 1,000 jobs FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The operator of a Cold War-era plant in western Kentucky that supplies enriched uranium to nuclear power plants said Friday it planned to cease production after federal energy officials decided to end its work, putting more ...
Journalist and author Haynes Johnson dies at 81
Haynes Johnson, a pioneering Washington journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the civil rights movement and migrated from newspapers to television, books and teaching, died Friday. He was 81. The Washington Post reported he died at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Md. In a statement to the ...
Toronto mayor denies he smokes crack cocaine
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford denied that he smokes crack cocaine and said he is not an addict, breaking a week of silence over reports of a video purportedly showing him using the drug. Critics were not appeased, with one city councilor questioning whether the mayor told "the whole truth" and ...
Indianapolis 500 Driver Profiles
Profiles of the 33 drivers in Sunday's Indianapolis 500, in starting order with car number in parentheses, age, hometown, engine, race team, and biographical information (w-former winner; r-rookie): ROW 1 1. (20) Ed Carpenter, 32, Indianapolis; Chevrolet, Ed Carpenter Racing. Stepson of former speedway executive Tony George became first member ...
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