Month: December 2019

This year’s Golden Globes director nominations prove the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. still has trouble recognizing the talents of women behind the camera. Throughout its 75-year history, women have been nominated for best director at the Globes only seven times. In 2017, presenter Natalie Portman called attention to the ceremony’s historical omission of female filmmakers […]

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This year’s fairly wide-open awards season came into sharper focus with Monday’s Golden Globe nominations, which boosted several early Oscar front-runners, including “Marriage Story,” “The Irishman” and “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood,” and also gave a leg up to other potential contenders like “Joker,” “The Two Popes” and “1917.” In the run-up to […]

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Can it happen again? In California and across the West, skiers and snowboarders certainly hope so. “It” would be a historic, snow-choked winter like last one, when: Mammoth Mountain in the eastern Sierra remained open for daily skiing and snowboarding until July 28, concluding a nine-month “winter” season — tying with 1982-83 as its third […]

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I’m Business columnist David Lazarus, with a look today at kids’ privacy. A coalition of nearly three dozen consumer and medical groups submitted a letter to the Federal Trade Commission last week calling for a review of how companies are marketing to children and tracking them online. They also want more transparency about what information […]

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Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery to become a conductor on the Underground Railroad, is having a pop-culture moment — 106 years after her death. “Harriet,” the film based on the freedom fighter’s courageous life, has awards buzz and, according to Box Office Mojo, has made more than $40 million worldwide. The Critics Choice Assn. announced […]

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SWANSBORO, N.C.  —  Historic cities and towns along the Southeast U.S. coast have survived wars, hurricanes, disease outbreaks and other calamities, but now that sea levels are creeping up with no sign of stopping, they face a more existential crisis. With a total annual budget of $225 million, Charleston, S.C., can’t afford the billions of […]

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