Gilliam Honored With Visionary Award for Inventiveness
Associated Press notes Terry Gilliam received the Stockholm Visionary Award for his quirky surrealism. The jury highlights decades of unique inventiveness from Monty Python animations to directing Time Bandits Brazil and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, though Gilliam says making art was not always fun.
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Associated Press
Terry Gilliam
Stockholm
Sweden
Gilliam
Brazil
Las Vegas
Notable birth anniversaries today
Actor Robert Vaughn comedian Terry Gills Tom Conti and Little Steven are listed among today’s birthdays. Also celebrating are actor Richard Kind actress Jamie Lee Curtis singer Jason Ringenberg and actress Mariel Hemingway and actress Scarlett Johansson.
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Robert Vaughn
Terry Gills
Tom Conti
Little Steven
Richard Kind
Jamie Lee Curtis
Jason Ringenberg
Jason and the Scorchers
Mariel Hemingway
Scarlett Johannson
Bono hopes world's problems fade with time
Bono said he would rather be remembered for his music than activism, hoping his AIDS and poverty work fades as those problems disappear. He noted his lobbying since 1999 persuaded leaders to fund aid, debt relief, and poverty reduction, and predicted his songs will endure for 100 years.
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Associated Press
Bono
CBS
60 Minutes
Africa
Deaths of Guitar Master Link Wray and Noted Actress Pamela Duncan
Link Wray, 76, of Copenhagen Denmark father of the power chord in rock and roll who inspired Bruce Springsteen David Bowie and Pete Townshend died November 5 Pamela Duncan 73 of Englewood New Jersey actress in Attack of the Crab Monsters and later in an Oscar nominated documentary died November 11 Ed Peterson 100 of Los Angeles wildflower expert who preserved California indigenous plants died November 14.
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Link Wray
Copenhagen
Denmark
Bruce Springsteen
David Bowie
Pete Townshend
Pamela Duncan
Englewood
N.J
Ed Peterson
Los Angeles
California
Aguilera Marries Jordan Bratman in Napa Valley Vineyard
Christina Aguilera and music executive Jordan Bratman wed at Staglin Family Vineyard in California's Napa Valley. About 130 guests attended as Aguilera wore a Christian Lacroix gown with jewel hair accessories, and Bratman proposed earlier in Carmel with a rose petal filled hotel room.
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Knight Ridder
Christina Aguilera
Jordan Bratman
Staglin Family Vineyard
California
Napa Valley
Weekly
Aguilera
Christian Lacroix
Bratman
Carmel
Calif
Usher shares dating tips in Time interview
R and B star Usher promoting his first lead role in In the Mix reveals dating advice. He says women respond to compliments and buying a drink, then listening to her interests. He plays Darrell, a New York DJ in an interracial romance with Emmanuelle Chriqui.
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Usher
Time Magazine
Darrell
New York City
Emmanuelle Chriqui
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Germany
Dannenberg
la Hague
Gorleben
Orange Revolution
Ukraine
Pora
Youth Movement
Kiev
Viktor Yushchenko
Sarajevo
National Assembly
European Union
Bosnia
Balkan
European Commission
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Itokawa
Probe Hayabusa
JAXA
Hayabusa
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