Sparks Fly at Sundance Festival
The Sundance Film Festival in Winnipeg showcases bold documentaries and edgy features. Rossellini appears at a screening for The Saddest Music in the World as a double amputee matriarch, while other works examine post 9 11 detentions and Iraq war coverage. The atmosphere mixes risk, celebrity, and sponsor presence with chatter about festival culture and potential mainstream breakthroughs.
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Sundance spotlights black filmmakers shaping indie cinema
At Park City Sundance highlights a growing black presence in film with a panel on The New New Black Film featuring Mario Van Peebles Kasi Lemmons and Ernest Dickerson. Spike Lee notes real progress as smaller indie titles expand beyond stereotype with diverse black stories featured in documentaries and narrative work.
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Wesley Snipes
Martin Lawrence
Sex museum in Hollywood blends tame edification with tawdry allure
Los Angeles hosts the Erotic Museum on Hollywood Boulevard near the Kodak Theatre. It showcases nude abstracts, erotic objects, and vintage toys to educate rather than arouse for a $13 admission. Notable exhibits include a Farrah Fawcett mosaic and an X-rated film linked to Marilyn Monroe.
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Fox tops ratings with NFC clash as Idol looms
Nielsen notes Fox led week with 13.6 million viewers overall thanks to the NFC Championship, while CBS drew 13.2 million. NBC averaged 11.6 million and NBCs Nightly News led evening news at 11.4 million. Other top shows included Friends 26.7 million and The Apprentice 20.2 million.
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Keaton to Receive AFI Star Award at Aspen Comedy Fest
Diane Keaton will be honored with the AFI Star Award at the 10th annual U S Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen Colorado. August Wilson will receive the Freedom of Speech Award as the festival runs March 3 7 with HBO sponsorship.
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Station rebroadcasts final Average Joe segment after Gephardt split
In St Louis NBC affiliate KSDK aired the last nine minutes of Average Joe Hawaii after Dick Gephardt’s Iowa caucus fourth place win. Viewers flooded the station’s switchboard and site angry at the pullaway. NBC permitted a rebroadcast at 10 30 p.m. Station news director said breaking news forced the change.
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