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Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Peter O'Toole

Peter James O'Toole (2 August 1932 – 14 December 2013) was an Irish actor. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and began working in the theatre, gaining recognition as a Shakespearean actor at the Bristol Old Vic and with the English Stage Company, before making his film debut in 1959.

He achieved stardom playing T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) for which he received his first Academy Award nomination. He received seven further Oscar nominations – for Becket (1964), The Lion in Winter (1968), Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969), The Ruling Class (1972), The Stunt Man (1980), My Favorite Year (1982) and Venus (2006) – and holds the record for the most Academy Award acting nominations without a win. He won four Golden Globes, a BAFTA and an Emmy, and was the recipient of an Honorary Academy Award in 2003. (read more)

Friday, December 13, 2013

wired

This is how it starts, people.

First we get our chatbots to sound and act realistic

and then we get them to convince everyone they're actually human.

Listen to this crazy conversation

between Time's Michael Scherer and a telemarketing robot

who refuses to admit her true artificial nature.

meet samantha west

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Japanese citizens protest the newly-passed Secrecy Law

INTERVIEW: Attorney Charles Bonner, one of the team representing sailors from the USS Ronald Reagan in their lawsuit against TEPCO for the health damages they sustained from Fukushima radiation during Operation Tomadachi, the humanitarian aid mission to Japan immediately after the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Japanese government PR stunt feeds radioactive Fukushima rice to workers and executives in a Tokyo government office complex, while the farmer who grew it can only visit his fields, not live there because the area is still too contaminated for resettlement...

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Friday, December 6, 2013

Madiba

"In a way I had never quite comprehended before,

I realized the role I could play in court

and the possibilities before me as a defendant.

I was the symbol of justice in the court of the oppressor,

the representative of the great ideals of freedom, fairness

and democracy in a society that dishonoured those virtues.

I realized then and there that I could carry on

the fight even in the fortress of the enemy."

Mandela, 1994

Saturday, November 30, 2013

under the skin

The film was shot on location in Glasgow and the Scottish Highlands.

Scarlett Johansson plays an alien predator. She wears a black wig and is not immediately recognizable as she cruises through Glasgow and the surrounding countryside picking up hitchhikers in a van equipped with hidden video cameras. Like candid camera, their reactions are real and authentic. Their stories offer a glimpse of society from the point of view of the ultimate outsider.

Adapted from the book by Michel Faber

20 things we should say more often

Friday, November 29, 2013

Catching fire

"remember who the real enemy is"

(Image source: StalkerAE)

An interpretation: The film shows what can happen when economic class differences are enforced by the Government. They become structured rather than fluid. The possibility for advancement is eliminated ..except by winning the hunger games ..inspiring a false sense of hope.