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Review: Crash (2004) Dir: Paul Haggis
2007-07-17 00:55:00 At the 78th Academy Awards in March 5, 2006, Crash was nominated for six Academy awards. It battled it out with strong contenders like Brokeback Mountain, Good Night and Good Luck, and Memories of a Geisha, and went on to win Best Motion Picture, Best Writing-Original Screenplay, and Best Achievement in Film Editing. Premiering in 2004 and released internationally in 2005, from 2005 – 2007 Crash More About: Review , Paul , Paul Haggis , Haggis
The Inexorable Wole Soyinka
2007-07-16 05:20:00 Wole Soyinka (1934- ) Novelist, playwright, poet, auto-biographer, essayist and political activist. Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria. Together his father, a headmaster and Anglican cannon, his mother an esteemed political activist and market stall owner, and his very conventional Egba, Yoruba grandparents, taught Wole at an early age the balance between western education,
The Magic of Ben Okri
2007-07-14 05:34:00 Ben Okri (1959- ) Novelist, poet, essayist and critic. “I was told stories; we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.” Ben Okri was born in Ughelli, Nigeria but left in 1961 after when his father Silver Okri, who had gone ahead to More About: Magic
Tai Chi Chuan for Beginners
2007-07-14 00:14:00 Tai Chi Chuan or Taijiquan was introduced into China around 540 A.D. by an Indian Buddhist priest named the Boddidharma. At this time the Shaolin order was formed. During the building of their Temple, the emperor's gardeners had just planted new trees, so the temple was named "young" (or new) forest, in Chinese Mandarin Shaolin and Sil Lum in Cantonese. One of the results was that the Shaolin More About: Tai Chi
Who's afraid of Dambudzo Marechera?
More articles from this author:2007-07-13 22:27:00 Dambudzo Marechera (1952-1997) Novelist, Playwright and Poet. In Dambudzo’s brief life, he died in Zimbabwe an aged 35; he achieved fame in 1979 when his first book The House of Hunger jointly won The Guardian Fiction Prize. He had gained some infamy before that, when asked to join a certain society during their annual dinner, he stood up on the table and urinated on it, that being his answer. More About: Raid 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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