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Specializing in comedic roles, Lynn Redgrave made significant contributions to her illustrious family’s five-generation-long reputation for producing fine British actors. [1]

On 2 April 1967, Lynn Redgrave married the English actor John Clark. [2]

Her sister is actress Vanessa Redgrave; her brother was actor and political activist Corin Redgrave. [3]

By the mid-1960s she had appeared in several films, including Tom Jones (1963), and Georgy Girl (1966) which won her a New York Film Critics Award and nominations for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. [2]

Tall, likeable and endearing actress of both the English and American stage and screen, Lynn Redgrave was born on the 8th of March 1943 in London, England to one of the world’s most famous acting dynasties. [4]

The daughter of actors Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson and the sister of actors Corin and Vanessa Redgrave, the London-born Redgrave studied acting at the Central School of Music and Drama. [...] Her work earned her an Oscar nomination and a Best Actress award from the New York Film Critics and led to her playing leading roles in a number of films on both sides of the Atlantic. [1]

She was also reported to be writing a one-woman play about her battle with breast cancer and her 2003 mastectomy, based on her book Journal: A Mother and Daughter’s Recovery from Breast Cancer with photos by her daughter Annabel and text by Redgrave herself. [...] A member of the well-known British family of actors, Redgrave trained in London before making her theatrical debut in 1962. [3]

Daughter of Sir Michael Redgrave and sister of Vanessa Redgrave and Corin Redgrave, surprisingly her early aspirations were to become an equestrienne or a chef and it wasn’t until the age of 15 that she became more and more involved in acting and her father’s stage performances. [...] It wasn’t until her lovable role as the ugly-duckling in Georgy Girl (1966), that she was taken notice and as a result won both the Golden Globe, New York Film Critics Circle Award and a nomination for the coveted Best Actress at the 1967 Academy Award s. [4]

John Lithgow highlights the supporting cast as Kinsey’s repressed and moralistic father, while Chris O’Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, and Timothy Hutton play members of Kinsey’s research team and Tim Curry appears as an IU faculty member at odds with Kinsey’s teachings. [5]

As a result she took time to write “Journal: A Mother and Daughter’s Recovery from Breast Cancer” with her youngest daughter in 2003 and tragically lost her 7 year battle on 2 May 2010 (aged 67) in her family home surrounded by her loved ones. [4]

In 1989 she appeared on Broadway in Love Letters with her husband John Clark, and thereafter they performed the play around the country, and on one occasion for the jury in the O. J. Simpson case. [...] In 2005, Redgrave appeared at Quinnipiac University and Connecticut College in the play Sisters of the Garden, about the sisters Fanny and Rebekka Mendelssohn and Nadia and Lili Boulanger. [3]

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[1] Lynn Redgrave: Information from Answers.com
[2] Lynn Redgrave - Wikipedia
[3] Lynn Redgrave
[4] Lynn Redgrave - Biography
[5] Lynn Redgrave Movies

She’ll be presenting the best director award alongside last year’s winner, Kathryn Bigelow, who stands a statuesque six feet, so Swank looked to her shoes for help. [1]

Kathryn Ann Bigelow (born November 27, 1951) is an American film director. [2]

They were part of a parade of stars who came through the Kodak Theatre to run through their lines for the big show, presenting awards with fake envelopes, fake winners and even fake Oscars. [3]

The Hurt Locker won the 2010 Academy Award for Best Picture, won the BAFTA Award for Best Film, and was nominated for the 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Drama. [4]

Swank was tickled that her bedazzled shoes seemed to match the crystals embedded in the Oscar stage, so she set a lone stiletto down and had her boyfriend, Jon Campisi, snap a quick photo. [5]

With The Hurt Locker, Bigelow became the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director, the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing, the BAFTA Award for Best Direction, and the Critics’ Choice Award for Best Director. [2]

LOS ANGELES - Hilary Swank was feeling a little height-challenged at Oscar rehearsals. [1]

Oscar winners Sandra Bullock, best actress, and Kathryn Bigelow, best director, spoke to Harry Smith outside the Governors Ball about their awards and the historic night for women. [4]

“I need 10-mile-high shoes so I can remotely come close,” she said, toting a Gucci shoe box onto the Kodak Theatre stage on Saturday. [5]

Bigelow was married to fellow director James Cameron from 1989 to 1991. [4]

A very talented painter, Kathryn spent two years at the San Francisco Art Institute. [6]

Like most of the A-listers at Academy Awards rehearsals, Swank and Bigelow dressed down ‘ with the exception of their feet, of course. [5]

Amy Adams allayed her footwear fears by practicing walking down the staircase she’ll use to make her entrance Sunday. [3]

While enrolled at SFAI, she was accepted into the Whitney Museum of American Art ’s Independent Study scholarship program in New York City. [2]

Bigelow was born in San Carlos, California, United States, the only child of a paint factory manager and a librarian. [4]

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[1] Oscar stars come to Kodak a day early to rehearse - Yahoo! News
[2] Kathryn Bigelow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[3] Oscar stars come to Kodak a day early to rehearse - Boston.com
[4] Kathryn Bigelow
[5] Oscar Stars Come to Kodak a Day Early to Rehearse - ABC News
[6] Kathryn Bigelow - IMDb

Last night, every descendant of Ginsberg’s angel-headed hipsters within a world-wide radius clamored to Jack Kerouac Alley for the joyful kick-off of the 2nd San Francisco International Poetry Festival. [1]

Peaceful, it was not up on the roof Friday at the patron’s party celebrating the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s wondrous new Rooftop Sculpture Garden. [...] Siri designs wedding parties: understated gowns for the contemporary bride, chic looks for her mother, and fashionable dresses for her bridesmaids to truly wear again. [2]

In fact, we can’t recall ever hearing that phrase uttered more at a single event than at the recent opening-night gala which celebrated the return to San Francisco of the Boy King. [...] On Tuesday, we traveled down to sunny Stanford University for a party hosted by Protocol Chief Charlotte Mailliard Shultz and her husband, former Sec. [1]

Once again, the groove reigned supreme at the Four Seasons Hotel where the SFJazz Gala celebrated its 10th anniversary Spring Festival Season by honoring masterful musician McCoy Tyner. [2]

The Old Mint opens its doors (again) tonight (July 16) for a special, limited re-engagement of the exhibition, Backstage Pass: A Sweeping History of Rock ‘n’ Roll. [1]

San Francisco served as the stage for the first time ever on Saturday when the California Shakespeare Theater hosted its 15th annual gala, La Dolce Vita, at the Four Seasons Hotel. [3]

Philanthropist, vintner, composer and Broadway show-tune aficionado, Getty and his wife, Ann Getty, are longtime and generous supporters of the arts through their Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation. [1]

Ain’t nuthin’ ‘obsolete’ about the hip, hot new home design gallery Obsolete which opened last night on Portrero Hill with a Commotion of cocktail party. [...] A blaze of flashbulbs lit up the St. Francis ballroom at the 52nd SF Film Society Awards Gala where high-wattage Hollywooders turned gala patrons into paparazzi. [2]

The exhibition features 130 objects (curated by the de Young’s Renee Dreyfus). [1]

But after a wind-whipped day on the greens at the Lake Merced Golf & Country Club, the face of many a golfer arriving for the awards dinner at the Clubhouse bore a bright lobster red hue. [2]

In the meantime, let the record show that this shimmering soiree was a bountiful feast of haute couture fashion and first-nighter frolics that kicked-off at City Hall during the Ballet patrons’ cocktail party and dinners. [4]

It was all beautiful baubles and beautiful women on Tuesday when jewelry designer Alana Leigh and film producer Jennifer Siebel Newsom joined forces to raise funds. [1]

Sources:
[1] Catherine Bigelow | 7×7
[2] Catherine Bigelow | 7×7
[3] Catherine Bigelow : Miss Bigelow’s Social City
[4] Catherine Bigelow : Miss Bigelow’s Social City

God of Love, winner of the Academy Awards’ Best Live Action Short Film, is the story of a lounge-singing darts champion Raymond (Luke Matheny) who finds his prayers are answered - literally - when he receives a mysterious package of passion-inducing darts. [1]

Luke Matheny is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker, writer, actor and professor. [2]

Here’s the 10th and final abridged extract from Ebenezer Erskine’s 10 point sermon on 10 ways in which God in Christ is a God of love:Ebenezer Erskine 10. [3]

Luke Matheny takes full advantage of his eccentric physical appearance to portray a lounge crooner who’s a brilliant dart-thrower. [4]

The movie will play in a block alongside four amazing shorts from my fellow nominees. [...] Welcome to the website of filmmaker Luke Matheny. [5]

His short film “God of Love” received the gold medal at the 2010 Student Academy Awards; special jury recognition at Aspen ShortsFest; as well as first prize and the King Award for Screenwriting at the NYU First Run Film Festival. [2]

By accessing this site you agree to abide by the following Terms of Use and Privacy Policy/Your California Privacy Rights. [6]

Tags: Short Films, Carnet de voyage, Day & Night, Killing in the Name, Let’s Pollute, madagascar, Na Wewe, poster girl, Strange(rs) No More! [3]

As part of this amazing honor, the film will screen in theaters all across the United States and Canada starting on Feb. 11. [5]

I guess I’m still trying to figure out what a Luke Matheny film really is and I hope to keep defining that throughout my career. [...] LM: The French new wave was a big influence - probably more aesthetically than in actual storytelling - but my heart will always be with the Hollywood studio films of the ’30s and ’40s. [...] I have a feature film script which I am wrapping up and my agents are definitely eager to see it, and it’s a comedy. [1]

When he’s given a set of special darts (from Mount Olympus), he takes on the powers of Cupid-whoever he pricks falls madly in love. [4]

The catch is that the one woman he loves - Kelly (Marian Brock), a drummer in his band - is already in love with Ray’s best friend Fozzie (Christopher Hirsh), the guitarist in the band. [1]

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[1] God Of Love, a nominee for the Best Live Action Short Film …
[2] Woodstock Film Festival
[3] God Of Love ‘ Blogs, Pictures, and more on WordPress
[4] God of Love - 2010 Maui Film Festival
[5] Luke Matheny Films - Home
[6] Oscar - Nominations - Short Film (Live Action) - God of Love …

Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, INSIDE JOB traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia. [1]

‘Inside Job’ is the first film to provide a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. [...] If you have ever wanted to understand derivatives, hedge funds and collateralised debt obligation, this movie is for you. [2]

Through exhaustive research and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, the film traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation, and academia. [3]

Ferguson is more IF Stone than Michael Moore and is genuinely interested in getting answers, keeping himself out of the frame and only allowing his voice to intrude on the talking-head interviews when blatant spin needs to be challenged. [2]

Official Selection: 2010 Cannes Film Festival, narrated by Matt Damon. [4]

Disheartening but essential viewing, Charles Ferguson’s documentary explores the 2008 Global Financial Crisis with exemplary rigor. [2]

It was made on location in the United States, Iceland, England, France, Singapore, and China. [...] 'Inside Job' provides a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. [3]

Login to Facebook to rate this movie and see your friends’ ratings! [2]

The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. [1]

The global economic crisis of 2008 cost tens of millions of people their savings, their jobs, and their homes. [3]

TIME lists their top 25 choices for the best movie soundtrack ever! [...] The Oscars are almost here, so LIFE presents a gallery of Best Actress winners since 1960! [2]

A film produced, written & directed by Academy Award nominated filmmaker Charles Ferguson documenting the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. [4]

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[1] Inside Job - Movie Trailers - iTunes
[2] Inside Job Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes
[3] Inside Job (2010) - IMDb
[4] Inside Job - Movie Website for the Documentary Film