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'Les Miserables,' 'Zero Dark Thirty' enter Oscar race
With high-profile Oscar contenders "Les Miserables" and "Zero Dark Thirty" screening for the first time for guild and academy members this weekend, a measure of clarity was expected to enter this year's best picture race. That happened, yes, but if you...Tags: Django Unchained (movie), The Master (movie), Movies, New York City, Death of Osama bin Laden (2011)
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Jessica Chastain gets her character in 'Zero Dark Thirty'
As the overstressed beating heart of "Zero Dark Thirty," a CIA analyst named Maya who relentlessly chases after the hated phantom that was Osama bin Laden, Jessica Chastain is at times steely, at times shattered, potty-mouthed but somehow girlish,...
Tags: Golden Globe Awards, The Debt (movie), James Gandolfini, Movies, Death of Osama bin Laden (2011)
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Jessica Chastain talks 'Zero Dark Thirty,' awards buzz
For RedEyeFor the second consecutive year, Jessica Chastain could be nominated for an Oscar. Last year, her touching performance as Southern sexpot Celia Foote in "The Help" earned her a best supporting actress nod. She's now a favorite to land a best actress...Tags: Golden Globe Awards, The Help (movie), Entertainment Events, Pakistan, Zero Dark Thirty (movie)
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'Zero Dark Thirty' and 'Homeland': How similar are they?
In both the recently concluded season of Showtime’s “Homeland” and the new film “Zero Dark Thirty,” a young female CIA operative becomes obsessed with tracking an elusive terrorist and nearly destroys herself in the process....Tags: Golden Globe Awards, Movies, Homeland (tv program), Mandy Patinkin, Environmental Issues
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'Zero Dark Thirty': Why the fabrication?
The critical acclaim for the new Kathryn Bigelow movie "Zero Dark Thirty" has renewed the debate on the efficacy of torture. The movie dramatizes the decade-long effort to find and eventually kill Osama bin Laden. In a riveting opening section, the film...
Tags: Movies, Heroism, Medical Specialization, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Crime, Law and Justice
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Free the CIA torture report
Americans have known for years both the broad outlines and some of the disgusting details of the George W. Bush administration's policy of subjecting suspected terrorists to torture, humiliation and imprisonment at "black sites" in foreign countries....
Tags: Politics, Elections, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Olympia J. Snowe, U.S. Department of Justice
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'Nightline' talks 'Zero Dark Thirty' controversies with Kathryn Bigelow
Kathryn Bigelow and her screenwriter, Mark Boal, are now deep in the middle of the awards season push. Hot on the heels of the very well received first critics' screenings of their "Hurt Locker" follow-up, "Zero Dark Thirty," Bigelow and Boal are doing...
Tags: Jennifer Lawrence, Academy Awards, Movies, Pakistan, Bradley Cooper
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CIA deception threatens global effort to eradicate polio
The news that the Central Intelligence Agency had been running a fake vaccination program in Pakistan first surfaced in 2011 and quickly ignited fears that the covert operation could compromise the global campaign to eradicate polio. Late last month, a...
Tags: Pakistan, Politics, Karachi (Pakistan), Police Investigations, John F. Kennedy
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Golden Globe nominations 2013: 'Lincoln,' 'Argo,' 'Zero Dark Thirty' top list
Two vastly different films about the scourge of slavery in America, a thriller about the rescue of American hostages in Iran and a study of the dogged quest to capture one of the world's most wanted men -- Osama bin Laden -- were among the top nominees...
Tags: The Master (movie), Politics, The Girl (movie), Arbitrage (movie), Lincoln (movie, 2012)
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When senators play movie critic
I won’t be able to watch “Zero Dark Thirty” until next weekend. Bizarrely, a movie that is become a cause celebre in Washington, D.C., isn’t available yet to residents of the nation’s capital. But you don’t have to have...
Tags: U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Movies, Washington, DC, John McCain, Police Investigations
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'Zero Dark Thirty' review: The year's superior true-war story
***1/2 (out of four) And that’ll do it for “Argo.” Ben Affleck’s widely praised Oscar contender is plenty entertaining, but its sense of place and investigative detail don’t come within miles of the immersive power of...Tags: Movies, Ben Affleck, Kyle Chandler, Entertainment, Mark Duplass
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In 'Zero Dark Thirty,' the movie as ideological weapon
When the Osama bin Laden-raid film “Zero Dark Thirty” was coming together last year, right-wing commentators scoffed; after all, any film about President Obama’s hallmark overseas success timed for a pre-election release had to have...Tags: Movies, Pakistan, Politics, Values, Elections
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