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A Week in Art & Culture
(09/02/2006 -
16/02/2006)
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By The IOL Art & Culture Team
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Feb.
16, 2006
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Samuel L Jackson is set to play an army doctor
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Torino's
Magic Not As Simple As Black, White
16/02/2006
If
athletes find it easier to summon up performance-inspiring mojo at these Olympic
Games, it might be because the city has been known for centuries as a center for
magic, both black and white…
Source:
USA Today
Films
on Bosnia Rape Tragedy, Guantanamo Top Berlinale
15/02/2006
The
Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) has hit its stride with bold
political films on the systematic rape of Bosnian women by Serb soldiers and the
notorious US military prison of Guantanamo…
Source:
Islam Online
Hindu
lite
15/02/2005
Pop
culture is veering into Hinduism — sort of. Call it a Hindu-esque sampling of
the flavor, images and style of a 6,000-year-old faith but with no actual
theology involved…
Source:
USA Today
Jaws
Author Peter Benchley Dies
13/02/2006
US
author Peter Benchley, whose novel Jaws was made into one of Hollywood's most
famous films, has died aged 65…
Source:
BBC News
Why
the Net Should Stay Neutral
12/02/2006
The
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation is considering making
changes to the 1996 Telecommunications Act, and one of the ideas being floated
is that network providers should be allowed to offer preferential service to
some of their customers instead of providing a neutral data carrier service…
Source:
BBC News
On-demand
Explosion
12/02/2006
Video
has jumped the shark, escaping the bonds of cable, dish, disc or cassette. Every
media company from AOL to Zenith is scrambling to sign deals with programmers,
allowing consumers to find and purchase nearly any form of moving image to play
over any device…
Source:
Denver Post
Jackson
'Set for Iraq War Film'
11/02/2006
Actor
Samuel L Jackson is to star in a new film exploring the aftermath of the Iraq
war, it is reported…
Source:
BBC News
Rise
in Torture Scenes Raises Red Flags
11/02/2006
In
the first hit film of the year, screaming, helpless young people are brutalized
by power tools and blowtorches wielded by gleeful tormentors…
Source:
The Boston Globe
'Munich,'
or Palestinians Making Baklava
10/02/2006
"The
best baklava is made by the Arabs in Jaffa," insists the Mossad case
officer to his chief agent in charge of assassinating those Palestinians Israel
claims planned the Munich operation of 1972. Besides being excellent
baklava-makers, we learn little else in Steven Spielberg's film
"Munich" about Jaffa's Palestinians,…
Source:
The Daily Star
Pharaonic
Tomb Find Stuns Egypt
10/02/2006
A
University of Memphis-led team found the previously unknown tomb complete with
sarcophagi and five mummies…
Source:
BBC News
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