Writers laud Little Miss Sunshine
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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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Attention all Angelenos! After an absence of a couple of decades, Audrey II -- that celebrated exotic plant of carnivorous appetites featured in the musical comic book "Little Shop of Horrors" -- is back among us. Only bigger and better -- and with lots of Broadway glitter and glitz.
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With the Hollywood writers  strike putting the brakes on film and TV writing, a group of  scribes has found an unusual mode of creative expression:  children's books.
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"The Almost Moon" (Little, Brown and Company, 304 pages, $24.99), by Alice Sebold: Even under the best circumstances it's hard to imagine conjuring much sympathy for someone who casually offers, by way of introduction, that she has murdered her mother.
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Not everyone in media is being hurt. For some, the writers' walkout means booming business.
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Comedy Little Miss Sunshine leads the nominations for the Independent Spirit film awards.
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NEW YORK  - With the Hollywood writers strike putting the brakes on film and TV writing, a group of scribes has found an unusual mode of creative expression: children's books.
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Arts & entertainment: Gifted, beautiful and unpredictable, Lee Miller's is celebrated as one of the finest photographers of the 20th century. But her great talents as a writer are often forgotten, argues Ali Smith.
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Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck is a little relieved to be taking "The Lives of Others" outside Germany, where people responded emotionally and lavished the movie with seven Lolas (the country's equivalent of the Academy Awards).
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Female solidarity â or the lack of it â seems to be a popular theme on television this summer.
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The hit road comedy "Little Miss Sunshine" and the acclaimed drug-addiction drama "Half Nelson" led the list of contenders on Tuesday for the Independent Spirit Awards, the American art-house world's version of the Oscars.
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1. "The Almost Moon" by Alice Sebold (Little, Brown)
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The makers of "Little Miss  Sunshine" are keenly aware of the irony that their film, a  cheeky repudiation of competitive culture, is a leading  contender in Hollywood's biggest beauty contest -- the Oscars.
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For about half of &quot;700 Sundays&quot; -- oh, say, around 350 of them -- Billy Crystal takes very good care of you. The wit is sharp, the impressions droll, the physical gags meticulously plotted.
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Judy Blume, a beloved children's book writer known for such candid tales as "Deenie" and "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret," has been named this year's winner of an honorary National Book Award for contributions to American letters.
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The hit road comedy "Little Miss Sunshine" and the acclaimed drugs drama "Half Nelson" led the list of contenders on Tuesday for the Independent Spirit Awards, the American art-house world's version of the Oscars.
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By Karen Nelson, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb.