Special Effects
Special effects (which typically refers to visual effects in live-action moving-image media but also includes audio effects and other possibilities) are the methods used to produce on-...
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"Sneaky" Pete Kleinow, a steel guitar prodigy who rose to fame as one of the original members of the Flying Burrito Brothers, has died. He was 72.Kleinow, who also worked in film as an award-winnin...
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Warren Beatty leaned down to chat face-to-face with Kirk Douglas. Sylvester Stallone chomped on pineapple and glanced across the bar at Clint Eastwood. Angela Lansbury gawked at Jack Nicholson. Jul...
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Today's digital cameras can do a lot, but wisely chosen camera accessories can help take your photography skills to the next level. Zoom Lenses Most digital cameras come with a zoom lens th...
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A museum that tells the Bible's version of Earth's history _ that the planet was created in a single week just a few thousand years ago _ attracted thousands to its opening as protesters rallied ou...
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A museum that tells the Bible's version of Earth's history _ that the planet was created in a single week just a few thousand years ago _ attracted thousands to its opening as protesters rallied ou...
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Emilio Ruiz del Rio, the award-winning Spanish set decorator and visual and special effects wizard who worked on such films as "Dr. Zhivago," "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Pan's Labyrinth," has died, a...
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Dave Eggers in the flesh? The literary pied piper appears at the 92nd Street Y with 30-year-old Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Sudanese refugee Valentino Achak Deng (phew!)—the ...
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THE MAYTREESBy Annie Dillard HarperCollins, 224 pages, $24.95
Annie Dillard gets it right twice in her second novel. As well as being the compelling story of a couple who marry just after World W...
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Los Angeles (dpa) - At the start of what organizers billed as the
biggest Star Wars party ever, thousands of sci-fi fans invaded the
Los Angeles Convention Centre Wednesday ...
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Background Info
Richard ‘Dickie’ Attenborough
was born in
Cambridge
on 29 August, 1923. The son of the president of a theatrical organisation, he started acting at the tender age of...
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