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With
Parasite’s Oscar win last March, surely even the most sheltered moviegoer is aware by now of the great boom in Korean filmmaking since the beginning of this century. Some of those Korean entries have partially taken place in America, and some of the directors behind them have even made whole films here, but we haven’t yet had the great movie about being a Korean immigrant in America. For this, we needed someone like Lee Isaac Chung, a seasoned director of low-budget films about such subjects as terminal illness (
Lucky Life) and Rwandan genocide (
Munyurangabo). For
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Oft-honored Tom Brokaw, “Nightly News” anchor for 21 years, retiring from NBC News after more than five decades Larry McShane
Legendary NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw, a fixture in America’s living rooms for more than two decades on the “Nightly News” and the longtime face of the network, retired Friday to close his long and storied on-air career.
Brokaw developed into one of television news’ most trusted sources as he collected a multitude of honors: The Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award, a dozen Emmys, two Peabody Awards. In each of his last four years at the anchor desk, the “NBC Nightly News” was honored with the Murrow Award for Best Newscast.
Writing about movies in 2020 was, in a word, bizarre. Theaters were closed for months, and remain closed in major markets. Only a few film festivals usually anchor points for the year happened in person, and the rest shifted online or were canceled altogether. Release dates kept changing. The rules and dates for next year’s Oscars changed too.
Perhaps most bizarrely, the tentpole releases that normally prop up the calendar disappeared, pushed into a future that we trust will arrive eventually. And each big delay of an anticipated film spurred a new wave of headlines.
So while many, many great movies came out in 2020, it felt like most people didn’t really know about them. (I had a lot of conversations that began, “So what are you doing without any new movies to write about?”) Without the marketing engine behind them that massive franchise properties command, and with most debuts happening on streaming services, undifferentiated from one another or moving to unfamilia
there making a living the way most people do. people loved to hear him talk, that voice. before fred thompson s death fox news host sean hannity took a look at the former senator s long legacy. let s watch that together. fred thompson has worn many hat, lawyer, actor. no deals, casey. do your job. housekeep the crime. senator, presidential candidate. it s about the future of our country. in his new book teaching the pig to dance thompson recounts his colorful and admittedly, lucky life. growing up in lawrenceburg, tennessee, thompson was raised by hardworking, middle-class parents. after becoming the first in his family to graduate college, thompson went on to law school and despite protests from his mother, he became a lawyer. soon after tochompson start his