The singer clutches the wireless microphone to his lips and croons the words to a traditional Afghan love song.
Afghanistan’s Oprah: A Singer’s Talk Show Tackles Taboos
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Just Say Om
The one thought I cannot purge, the one that keeps coming back and getting between me and my bliss, is this: What a waste of time.
Box Office Weekend: ‘Couples Retreat’ Advance, ‘Paranormal’ Activates
Are there movies nobody likes but everyone sees? Yes, on a weekend when only one major-studio film is released.
Mason Jennings gets ‘dark and raw’ in ‘Blood of Man’
Mason Jennings is free of drugs or alcohol. Has been for some time now.
Director Sydney Pollack Dies
The last time I saw Sydney Pollack he was doing me a gallant favor. He had become, in recent years, my narrator of choice for the documentaries I produce and write. He had done the voice-over for one of them in the summer of 2007.
How technology lifts Pixar’s ‘Up’
If you want to consider a difficult computational problem, try thinking of the algorithms required to animate more than 10,000 helium balloons, each with its own string, but each also interdependent on the rest, which are collectively hoisting aloft a small house.
Pixar’s secrets on display in ‘Up’
It’s a record any studio would love to have.
Filming the unfilmable: Zack Snyder on ‘Watchmen’
"I mean, it’s a weird movie," says "Watchmen" director Zack Snyder. "There’s no two ways about it." Never was a truer word spoken about the graphic novel adaptation that has taken 23 tortuous years to get from the page to the screen. Indeed, for many years, it was a movie that was considered impossible to make