The New York International Children’s Film Festival , which opens this weekend, is the biggest children’s film festival in the U.S. This is not the kind of event where they screen Dr Seuss’ Horton Hears Another Who or Madagascar 3: Botswanarama! This is a venue for those budding cineastes between the ages of 3 and 18 for whom this weekend could not be complete without screening a film in the Children and War series — or another of the challenging entertainments chosen by the festival jury, which includes John Turturro, Susan Sarandon and Gus Van Sant. You can’t help feeling that if Rush Limbaugh were to come up with his fantasy politically-correct liberal-media-élite pile-on, it would sound a lot like a planning session for the NYICFF.
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RBS posts record $34 billion loss
Part-nationalized British banking group RBS announced massive losses for 2008, totaling £24.1 billion ($34.7 billion) on Thursday. The results are the worst in British corporate history. “I really want to take it to trial,” Linda Tye, grandmother of Tatiana Tye told CNN Radio
Two Arizona teens accused of pimping other girls
The grandmother of a 16-year-old Arizona girl accused of prostitution — and recruiting and pimping other teen girls — said Wednesday she hopes to fight the charges in court.
I Bought an Expensive House. My Bad, Not Yours
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Why Parents (Still) Don’t Matter
Dangerous. Misguided. Untenable.
Chinese mothers lose children, livelihoods in fatal wreck
The three mothers hail from the same province in China, but they’d never met until a reckless driver in central Ohio killed their only children.
1 killed, 21 others wounded in Egypt bombing
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How to Fix the Oscars: Make the Votes Public
The Oscar show needs fixing — everyone agrees on that.
Parents of 18 wonder how octuplet mom will cope
Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar of Springdale, Arkansas, are the parents of 18 children, and their family is the focus of a TLC network reality series. Joy Behar, guest host Thursday night on “Larry King Live,” asked the Duggars how they are able to stay debt free with such a large family and what they thought of Nadya Suleman, the single mother who recently gave birth to octuplets after having fertility treatments
Pinki brings a smile to the Oscars
While all eyes seem to be on "Slumdog Millionaire" for the Oscars, the eyes of a very courageous little girl will be focused on another India based film at the ceremony. It’s called “Smile Pinki” and it’s up for an Oscar too — nominated for best short documentary. The little girl watching it from inside the Oscar ceremony has traveled all the way from her small Indian village with her dad — and it has been an incredible journey for little Pinki Sonkar.