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| Oscar-nominated documentary scrapes at raw wound in Indonesia Thursday, Feb 27, 2014 01:19 PM PST  By Kanupriya Kapoor and Jonathan Thatcher JAKARTA/MADIUN, Indonesia (Reuters) - A chilling documentary about one of the worst massacres since World War Two is up for an Academy Award this weekend. The nearly three-hour "Act of Killing" centres on one of the killers in Indonesia's bloody purge of what was then the biggest communist party outside China and the Soviet Union, as he re-enacts for the camera, with no apparent sign of remorse, the way nearly 50 years earlier he had dispatched his victims by strangling them with a loop of wire. It touches on the darkest period of Indonesia's already violent early years as an independent state and which even after almost half a century is so raw a memory that it remains largely brushed from mainstream debate. The version in school textbooks still adhere to the line propagated by the autocratic leader Suharto who initiated the purge and who was forced to step down 15 years ago. Full Story | Top |
| Hollywood film production in 'bad spiral' as competition bites Thursday, Feb 27, 2014 01:14 PM PST  By Tim Reid LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Three days before the Oscars, the Los Angeles film czar and a think tank delivered some damning news to Tinseltown: Hollywood's status as the home of American film and television production is threatened because places like New York are offering better financial incentives to studios. The study of employment and production data released on Thursday by the Milken Institute, an economic think tank, says California has lost tens of thousands of entertainment jobs to New York and other U.S. states in the past decade, and film and television productions with them. While it may be one of the best years for high-quality film in recent memory, with nine strong films nominated for the best picture Oscar, just one of the nine was filmed in California. Ken Ziffren, a veteran California attorney recently appointed as Hollywood's film czar by the mayor of Los Angeles, said the report showed Hollywood was in a "bad spiral," both in terms of jobs and productions leaving California. Full Story | Top |
| 'Concealed in Death' tops U.S. best-sellers list Thursday, Feb 27, 2014 11:45 AM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Concealed in Death," by J.D. Robb shot to the top of the U.S. bestsellers list on Thursday, pushing "Private L.A." into second place. The list is compiled using data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide. Hardcover Fiction Last Week 1. "Concealed in Death" by J.D. Robb (Putnam, $27.95) - 2. "Private L.A." by James Patterson Mark Sullivan (Little, Brown, $28.00) 1 3. "The Invention of Wings" by Sue Monk Kidd (Viking, $27.95) 3 4. "The Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt (Little, Brown, $30.00) 4 5. ... Full Story | Top |
| Kardashian confronts tradition at elite Vienna ball Thursday, Feb 27, 2014 11:34 AM PST  By Georgina Prodhan VIENNA (Reuters) - At 24, Olga Goreglyad is a veteran of society balls around Europe but her ambition will not be fulfilled until she dances on Thursday night as a debutante at Vienna's Opera Ball - something celebrity guest Kim Kardashian will not be doing. Almost every social group and profession in Austria, from confectioners to firefighters and pharmacists to refugees, holds its own ball, but the Opera Ball is the most elite, with a presidential opening and top-class music and ballet. It's an important platform," opera director Dominique Meyer told Reuters. But each year, the fine classical performances of the Vienna Philharmonic and State Ballet are overshadowed in the Austrian media by the paid celebrity guests invited by Viennese millionaire mall developer Richard Lugner. Full Story | Top |
| Jim Lange, host of "Dating Game" TV show dies at 81 Thursday, Feb 27, 2014 07:15 AM PST (Reuters) - Jim Lange, the host of the "Dating Game" TV show, died on Tuesday at his home in California at the age of 81 after suffering a heart attack, his wife said on Tuesday. Lange, who was born in St. Paul, Minn., worked in radio and as a disc jockey before joining the "Dating Game". Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and Steve Martin were among the celebrity contestants who appeared on the show. His wife Nancy told NBC's "Today" morning news show that although her husband was best known for his television work his real love was radio. Full Story | Top |
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