Published: January 31, 2010
Kathryn Bigelow tops directors with `Hurt Locker'
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LOS ANGELES – Kathryn Bigelow and “The Hurt Locker” became official awards-season front-runners Saturday after Bigelow won the top prize from the Directors Guild of America.
The 58-year-old filmmaker is the first woman to win the guild’s top honor, which positions her and the film as shoe-ins for the Academy Awards. The DGA boasts that its [...]
Published: January 31, 2010
22-year-old goes from Miss Va. to Miss America
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LAS VEGAS – A 22-year-old Virginia woman who said she once thought her only talent was singing is the nation’s newest Miss America, emerging from a field of 53 contestants picked for their beauty, compassion and interview savvy.
Caressa Cameron, a broadcast journalism student at Virginia Commonwealth University, now plans a second year away from college [...]
Published: January 31, 2010
'Winter's Bone,' 'Restrepo' earn Sundance honors
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PARK CITY, Utah – The Ozark Mountains drama “Winter’s Bone” and the war-on-terror documentary “Restrepo” won top honors Saturday among U.S. movies at the Sundance Film Festival.
Director Debra Granik’s “Winter’s Bone,” the story of a 17-year-old trying to uncover the fate of her father among the criminal clans of the Ozarks, earned the grand jury [...]
Published: January 31, 2010
Miss Virginia wins 2010 Miss America crown
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LAS VEGAS – Miss Virginia Caressa Cameron won the 2010 Miss America title Saturday night after strutting in a skintight yellow dress, belting Beyonce’s “Listen” from “Dreamgirls” and telling kids they should get outside more often.
Cameron, a 22-year-old from Fredericksburg, Va., won a $50,000 scholarship and the crown in Las Vegas after a pageant that [...]
Published: January 30, 2010
U.S. troops more than welcome in Haiti — for now
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Young men gripping a steel fence along Port-au-Prince’s waterfront call out “Hi, Sir!” to two U.S. Army soldiers, pleading for jobs as translators, drivers, laborers.
None are getting any jobs today. But that doesn’t dampen their enthusiasm for the U.S. military, despite a checkered history in Haiti for the forces that are now [...]
Published: January 30, 2010
Haiti gov't says children taken without permission
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Ten Americans were detained by Haitian police on Saturday as they tried to bus 33 children across the border into the Dominican Republic, allegedly without proper documents.
The Baptist church members from Idaho called it a “Haitian Orphan Rescue Mission,” meant to save abandoned children from the chaos following Haiti’s earthquake. Their plan [...]
Published: January 30, 2010
Latrines join food, water on Haiti's crisis list
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Relief officials are scrambling to confront a sanitation crisis that could spread malaria, cholera and other deadly diseases throughout the chaotic camps packed with hundreds of thousands of Haitian earthquake survivors.
Shortages of food, clean water, adequate shelter and latrines are creating a potential spawning ground for epidemics in a country with an [...]
Published: January 30, 2010
Famed film editor struck, killed by car in NYC
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NEW YORK – An award-winning film editor who worked on many of Errol Morris’ documentaries, including “The Fog of War,” was struck and killed by a getaway car speeding from a Manhattan drugstore robbery, police and her mother said on Saturday.
Karen Schmeer was crossing Broadway at West 90th Street on the Upper West Side on [...]
Published: January 30, 2010
Books pulled from Amazon.com in pricing dispute
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NEW YORK – New copies of Hilary Mantel’s “Wolf Hall,” Andrew Young’s “The Politician” and other books published by Macmillan were unavailable Saturday on Amazon.com, a drastic step in the ongoing dispute over e-book prices.
Macmillan CEO John Sargent said he was told Friday that its books would be removed from Amazon.com, as would e-books for [...]
Published: January 30, 2010
Taylor rehearses, Ke$ha shares Grammy dreams
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LOS ANGELES – The music world is celebrating all over town this weekend with tributes, rehearsals, parties and, of course, a gift suite or two in anticipation of the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday night at Staples Center. Here’s a look:
DANCE COMMANDER: Ke$ha — who has the No. 1 song in the country with [...]
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