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Hemingway & Gellhorn

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 Watching Hemingway and Gellhorn, starring Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman The role of documentary film-maker Joris Ivens, Dutch director of The Spanish Earth, was played by Lars Ulrich, drummer for Metallica!

Mondrian

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 Piet Mondrian is buried in Brooklyn??!!

The Dark Knight Rises

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 Woke up in the middle of the night and caught The Dark Knight Rises. Man! Why does Edith Piaf hate Bruce Wayne so much?

Sydney Poitier

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 "N obody was able to casually play conscience like Sydney Poitier."

Perfect Day

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In 2010, Susan Boyle was to perform a cover of Lou Reed's Perfect Day on America's Got Talent. Just hours before her performance she received word that Lou Reed refused to give permission for her to cover the song. As there was no time to rehearse a new song, her appearance was summarily canceled. Within days, Lou Reed himself released a statement that he had had nothing to do with the decision. Further, within weeks, Reed not only gave permission for Boyle to include the song on her album The Gift, but stepped forward to produce the video himself. Lawyers.

Pinter, Knowles, Streep, Irons, Reisz...

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 The beauty, the elegance of Pinter's screenplay for The French Lieutenant's Woman. Ambiguity of every kind except the moral..