Super Size Me wins writers' award
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Oscar-nominated movie Super Size Me, whose director ate fast food for a month, wins a US film prize.
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Larry Gelbart, whose writing for the war sitcom "M-A-S-H" defined television in the 1970s, collected his second Humanitas Prize for screenwriting on Tuesday: this time for his lifelong career.
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Arts & entertainment: Â· Versatile Scottish writer gains victory at lastÂ· Judges hail postwar novel as a masterpiece
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Valerie Bertinelli, whose life spans the different worlds of television and rock 'n' roll, is working on a memoir. "Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time," which also documents her fight to lose weight, will be published in April 2008 by the Free Press, an imprint of Simon &amp; Schuster.
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Six emerging authors, whose work includes poetry, short stories and "creative nonfiction," were named this year's winners of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards, given to "women writers who demonstrate excellence and promise in the early stages of their careers."
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The fast-food indictment "Super Size Me" is among 12 films competing for best documentary at the Academy Awards.
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"Small Island," Andrea Levy's saga of Jamaican immigrants in postwar Britain has won the Whitbread Book of the Year award.
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One of the world&#39;s most prestigious literary awards, the Booker Prize for fiction, has been won by British writer Alan Hollinghurst for his novel, &#39;The Line of Beauty&#39;.
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Terry McMillan has been honored with a lifetime achievement award from Essence magazine for her best-selling, irreverent novels about the everyday struggles of modern American black women.
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The talented actress wins a National Award.
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Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe wins the International Man Booker Prize in honour of his literary career.
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LOS ANGELES  - FX has picked up a third season of "Super Size Me" director Morgan Spurlock's documentary series "30 Days."
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Nigeria's Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie won Britain's Orange Prize for fiction by women, becoming the first African to take the award in its 12-year history, organizers said Wednesday.
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The usual pre-National Book Awards&#39; (NBA) anticipation was heightened by controversy over the fiction nominees (five women authors, all living in New York) and wonder at the nomination of the surprisingly readable 9/11 Commission&#39;s The 9/11 Commission
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Comedian Peter Kay's record-breaking autobiography is up for two awards at the Galaxy British Book Awards.
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Little Miss Sunshine takes a top prize from the Writers Guild of America, which also honours The Departed.
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Songwriters turned out to honor their own Monday as the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers presented its top Pop Music Awards.