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Movie review: 'A Place at the Table' gives hunger games whole new meaning
Kelly Jane Torrance
Updated: Thu, Feb 28, 2013
That it's difficult to quantify the extent of hunger in America is the first -- and by no means only -- obstacle to ending it. The documentary "A Place at the Table" tells us that 49 million people in this country, including a full quarter of the nation's children, are "food insecure." Even most...
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Movie review: 'No' examines democracy in Chile as Pinochet's reign ends
Kelly Jane Torrance
Updated: Thu, Feb 28, 2013
The clever political chronicle -- Or is it better described as a drama? Or, instead, satire? -- starts with a stroke of genius. A group of executives sit around a table as an advertising team presents them with a new ad campaign. "It's young, it's unbound, it's free!" a near-ecstatic narrator...
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Who will win the Oscars?
Kelly Jane Torrance
Published: Thu, Feb 21, 2013
The average age of a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is 60. Yet I predict this year's Oscars will be a night celebrating the talent of the young, as newcomers and other whippersnappers triumph over the veterans in some important categories. With the under-40...
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Washington Examiner's Katy DeLuca, Kelly Jane Torrance preview the Oscars
Steve Doty
Updated: Wed, Feb 20, 2013
It's time for glitz and glamour on Hollywood's most famous red carpet. The Washington Examiner's Katy Lucey and Kelly Jane Torrance preview the 2013 Oscars in this video, produced by Steve Doty.
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