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New releases: Ken Burns takes strong tone in 'Central Park Five'
The Central Park Five, PBS, $24.99; Blu-ray, $29.99 This documentary (made by Ken Burns, his daughter Sarah and her husband, David McMahon) revisits the racial tensions of '80s New York, via the story of a white, female investment banker who was raped...Tags: Ken Burns, Central Park, Jurassic Park (movie), Promised Land (movie), Fiction
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'Central Park Five,' graphically told
WASHINGTON -- From Tom Paine's "Common Sense" to Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail," American history is replete with examples of printed words accelerating social justice. Still, from...
Tags: PBS (tv network), AIDS, Central Park, Crime, Law and Justice, Defendants
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Column: 'Central Park Five' -- graphically told
WASHINGTON — From Tom Paine’s "Common Sense" to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" to Martin Luther King’s "Letter from Birmingham Jail," American history is replete with examples of printed words accelerating social...Tags: PBS (tv network), George Will, AIDS, Central Park, Crime, Law and Justice
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Failed Justice Argues Against Death Penalty
From Tom Paine's "Common Sense" to Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail," American history is replete with examples of printed words accelerating social justice. Still, from Mathew Brady's 1862...Tags: PBS (tv network), Punishment, AIDS, Central Park, Crime, Law and Justice
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Guide to April 2013 TV premieres, finales, movies, specials
RedEyeThe last weekend of March offered up a bunch of TV events, but you ain't seen nothing yet. April 2013 brings showers of season and series premieres, finales and films to add to the already launched new seasons of "Game of Thrones," Doctor Who" and others....Tags: Television, Bones (tv program), Jim Norton, Syfy (tv network), Awkward (tv program)
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Ken Burns, daughter team up for justice in 'Central Park Five' ★★★ 1/2
"The Central Park Five" is an unusually good documentary about an outlandish miscarriage of justice. On an April night in 1989, Trisha Meili was beaten, raped and left for dead not far from a path in Manhattan's Central Park. Five boys between the...
Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Clarence Thomas, Ken Burns, Central Park, Crime, Law and Justice
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'West of Memphis': Trio still seeking justice ★★★
For astonishing injustice put to rest, at long last, the moviegoer has at least two options. One: "Les Miserables." And two: "West of Memphis," a strong, blood-boiling documentary from director Amy Berg, who made the similarly fine "Deliver Us From Evil,"...
Tags: Peter Jackson, Pearl Jam (music group), Dixie Chicks (music group), Movies, Crime, Law and Justice
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Ed Koch dies on day his documentary opens
Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch died the same day a new documentary about his life and legacy opened in New York. "Koch," which will open in Southern California theaters beginning March 1, offers evidence that the combative mayor had mellowed...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Gold Standard Incorporated, Andrew Cuomo, Sex and the City (movie), Movies
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Ed Koch's most memorable TV appearances
It seems fitting, if sad, that Ed Koch should pass away on the same day that "Koch," a documentary about his life, opened in Manhattan. Though the three-term mayor of New York City, who died early Friday of congestive heart failure, is best known for...Tags: Woody Allen, Robert De Niro, New York City, Michael Bloomberg, Bridesmaids (movie)
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Oscars 2013: 'Gatekeepers,' 'Sugar Man' earn documentary nods
Of the five titles vying for the Oscar in the documentary feature category, four offer hard-hitting examinations of tough-minded subjects -- the Israeli/Palestine conflict, sexual assault in the military, the emergence of AIDS activism. The fifth is a...
Tags: AIDS, The Gatekeepers (movie), Chasing Ice (movie), New York City, The Queen of Versailles (movie)
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Reel Critics: This 'Playing' is no keeper
"Playing for Keeps" employs every cliché in the PG-13 romantic comedy playbook. But the comedy is in short supply as the laughs prove to be few and far between. The end result is a big, steaming bowl of romantic mush with little connection to the...
Tags: Central Park, Jessica Biel, Romance (genre), Crime, Law and Justice, Uma Thurman
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'Zero Dark Thirty,' 'Argo,' 'West of Memphis' among WGA nominees
The scripts of "Zero Dark Thirty," "Lincoln" and "Silver Linings Playbook" are among the nominees for Writers Guild of America Awards for outstanding achievement in writing for the screen in 2012. Nominees announced Friday in the original screenplay...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Wes Anderson, Unions, Argo (movie), Paul Thomas Anderson
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