1. "Dutchman's Noah's ark opens doors": Also to be used in the promotional campaign for Evan Almighty.
["A half-sized replica of the biblical Noah's Ark has been built by a Dutch man, complete with model animals. Dutch creationist Johan Huibers built the ark as testament to his literal belief in the Bible. "]
2. "Centennial Tributes: Fred Zinnemann": From Edward Copeland on Film.
["If someone asks, "What is a Fred Zinnemann film like?" How would you respond? It's not that Zinnemann, who would turn 100 years old today, didn't make quite a few good and great films and at least one bona fide classic, but is there something you can point to as a Zinnemannesque film the way you might say Hitchcockian or Hawksian? Not really. This isn't to disparage Zinnemann at all. He simply was a solid, workman-like director who ended up making movies worth watching far more often than he made clunkers."]
3. "U.S. didn't accept most foreign Katrina aid": And Nero fiddles on...
["Allies offered $854 million in cash and in oil that was to be sold for cash. But only $40 million has been used so far for disaster victims or reconstruction, according to U.S. officials and contractors. Most of the aid went uncollected, including $400 million worth of oil. Some offers were withdrawn or redirected to private groups such as the Red Cross. The rest has been delayed by red tape and bureaucratic limits on how it can be spent."]
4. "919. Peter Ibbetson (1935, Henry Hathaway)": Another Top 1000 Film down for Kevin Lee.
["My second attempt at a video essay. I've taken to heart the feedback I received from the first one (on Fritz Lang's While the City Sleeps) and have tried to align commentary more with the footage and go more in depth with analysis..."]
5. "Beamed up: Star Trek star Scotty goes to final frontier": Can't hold him here no more, captain. See also our "Clip of the Day"—two for the price of one.
["The ashes of James Doohan, better known as Scotty in Star Trek, were blasted into space aboard a private rocket yesterday from a launchpad in the New Mexico desert."]
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