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  69. <description><![CDATA[“The Lady in Number 6” is an inspirational documentary portrait of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest pianist and oldest holocaust survivor. The film won the 2014 Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject. ]]></description>
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  74. <h3 style="text-align:center;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">The Lady In Number 6: Music Saved Her Life </span></strong></h3>
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  76. <p style="text-align:justify;">Alice Herz-Sommer, who died in London last Sunday at the age of 110, was widely described as the oldest known Holocaust survivor. She had been a distinguished pianist in Europe before the war. However, it was only after the Nazi occupation of her homeland, Czechoslovakia, in 1939 that she began a deep study of Chopin’s Études, some of the most technically demanding and emotionally impassioned works in the piano repertory.</p>
  77. <p style="text-align:justify;">For Mrs. Herz-Sommer, the Études offered a consuming distraction at a time of constant peril. But they ultimately gave her far more than that, far more, even, than spiritual sustenance. “<em>They are very difficult</em>,” Mrs. Herz-Sommer said. “<em>I thought if I learned to play them, they would save my life</em>.” And so they did.</p>
  78. <p style="text-align:justify;">In recent years, because of her great age; her indomitability; her continued, ardent involvement with music and her recollections of her youthful friendships with titans like Franz Kafka and Gustav Mahler; Mrs. Herz-Sommer became a beacon for writers, filmmakers and members of the public eager to learn her story. Mrs. Herz-Sommer was also profiled in documentary films, one of which, <a href="http://theladyinnumber6.com/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><em>The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life</em></span></a>, a documentary portrait directed by <a href="http://nickreedent.com/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Malcolm Clarke</span></a>, won the <a href="https://www.oscars.org/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">2014 Oscar</span></a> for Best Documentary Short Subject.</p>
  79. <p style="text-align:justify;"><em>The Lady in Number 6</em> has been described as one of the most inspirational stories ever told. In the film, Alice Herz-Sommer, the world&#8217;s oldest pianist and oldest holocaust survivor, shares her views on how to live a long happy life. She discusses the vital importance of music, laughter and having an optimistic outlook on life. This powerfully inspirational film tells her amazing story of survival and how she managed to use her time in a Nazi concentration camp to empower herself and others with music.</p>
  80. <p style="text-align:justify;">Read more about the life of Alice Herz-Sommer in the <em>New York Times</em> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/28/world/europe/alice-herz-sommer-pianist-who-survived-holocaust-dies-at-110.html?hp&amp;_r=0" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">here</span></a>.</p>
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  141. <description><![CDATA[Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto star in “Dallas Buyers Club,”  the story of real-life Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof, whose life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live. McConaughey and Leto's Oscar-winning portrayals in the film have been described as this year’s two most transformative and most honored performances. Includes photographs and four videos.]]></description>
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  148. <h3 style="text-align:center;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">The 2014 Academy Award Nominations </span></strong></h3>
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  153. <h3 style="text-align:center;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">The Grace of Dallas Buyers Club: Facing Despair and Fear With Simple Humanity</span></strong></h3>
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  155. <p style="text-align:justify;">Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto star in <a href="http://www.focusfeatures.com/dallas_buyers_club" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><em>Dallas Buyers Club</em></span></a>, the story of real-life Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof, whose free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live. McConaughey and Leto&#8217;s portrayals in <em>Dallas Buyers Club</em> have been described as this year’s two most transformative and most honored performances. McConaughey won Best Actor at the 2014 Oscars and Leto was named Best Supporting Actor for their staggering performances in <em>Dallas Buyers Club</em>.  McConaughey’s desperation was palpable in the film, a life force that wouldn’t be denied, and Leto’s performance was as seductive and fragile as a butterfly kiss.</p>
  156. <p style="text-align:justify;">Leading up to their <a href="https://www.oscars.org/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Oscar wins</span></a>, both actors won at SAG, the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Movie Awards, not to mention an almost clean sweep for Leto among the many critics groups who give out these honors. The awards have come for their work in the “little-film-that-could,” in a movie that took 20 years to bring to the screen, that no one wanted to make, that was shot on a tight 24-day schedule for under $5 million and used only available light.</p>
  157. <p style="text-align:justify;">The movie, directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, is a sober and unflinchingly brutal look at a man (actually, many men), coping with HIV and AIDS in the 1980s, although it&#8217;s not set in New York or San Francisco as we&#8217;ve come to expect from most movies about this disease. As the title indicates, we&#8217;re placed instead in Texas, dwelling in shabby corners of Dallas. While it&#8217;s an unexpected place to find a story like this, the film is based on an uplifting true one.</p>
  158. <p style="text-align:justify;"><em>Dallas Buyers Club</em> tells the story of Ron Woodroof, played by Matthew McConaughey, a Texas electrician and rodeo rider. After receiving a diagnosis of H.I.V. in 1985, Woodroof found himself shunned and ostracized by many of his old friends, and bereft of any government-approved effective medicines.Woodroof took his treatment into his own hands and helped others with the disease obtain medication not legally available in the United States at that time. He found a way to begin importing drugs by means both legal and illegal from far-flung countries and began running a buyers club out of a cheap Dallas motel, with the unlikeliest crew of partners.</p>
  159. <p style="text-align:justify;">Bigoted in the way a rowdy Texan rowdy would have been in 1986, Ron nevertheless found his closest ally in Rayon, a willowy, honey-voiced trans woman played with warmth and grace by Jared Leto. Ron and Rayon have a bickering, eyes-rolling chemistry, which served them well as they carried out the important work that the medical institutions wouldn&#8217;t do. In its quiet, restrained manner, the movie becomes a truly heartwarming one. <em>Dallas Buyers Club</em> is a delicate, but largely unsentimental, movie about people doing good deeds. Their shared struggle for dignity and acceptance is a uniquely American story of the transformative power of resilience. In their courageous work confronting the nightmarish terrors presented by the early face of AIDS, Ron and Rayon did not go gently into that good night.</p>
  160. <p style="text-align:justify;">Read more about Dallas Buyers Club in The New York Times <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/01/movies/matthew-mcconaughey-stars-in-dallas-buyers-club.html" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">here</span></a>.</p>
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  164. <h3 style="text-align:center;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Dallas Buyers Club (Official Trailer)</span></strong></h3>
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  168. <h3 style="text-align:center;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Dallas Buyers Club: Anatomy of a Transformation</span></strong></h3>
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  172. <h3 style="text-align:center;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">The Envelope: McConaughey and Leto Discuss Making Dallas Buyers Club </span></strong></h3>
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  222. <description><![CDATA[“The Lady in Number 6” is an inspirational documentary portrait of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest pianist and oldest holocaust survivor. The film is a 2014 Oscar Nominee for Best Documentary Short Subject. ]]></description>
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  228. <h3 style="text-align:center;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">The Lady In Number 6: Music Saved Her Life </span></strong></h3>
  229. <p></p>
  230. <p style="text-align:justify;">Alice Herz-Sommer, who died in London last Sunday at the age of 110, was widely described as the oldest known Holocaust survivor. She had been a distinguished pianist in Europe before the war. However, it was only after the Nazi occupation of her homeland, Czechoslovakia, in 1939 that she began a deep study of Chopin’s Études, some of the most technically demanding and emotionally impassioned works in the piano repertory.</p>
  231. <p style="text-align:justify;">For Mrs. Herz-Sommer, the Études offered a consuming distraction at a time of constant peril. But they ultimately gave her far more than that, far more, even, than spiritual sustenance. “<em>They are very difficult</em>,” Mrs. Herz-Sommer said. “<em>I thought if I learned to play them, they would save my life</em>.” And so they did.</p>
  232. <p style="text-align:justify;">In recent years, because of her great age; her indomitability; her continued, ardent involvement with music and her recollections of her youthful friendships with titans like Franz Kafka and Gustav Mahler; Mrs. Herz-Sommer became a beacon for writers, filmmakers and members of the public eager to learn her story. Mrs. Herz-Sommer was also profiled in documentary films, one of which, <a href="http://theladyinnumber6.com/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><em>The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life</em></span></a>, a documentary portrait directed by <a href="http://nickreedent.com/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Malcolm Clarke</span></a>, is a <a href="https://www.oscars.org/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">2014 Oscar Nominee</span></a> for Best Documentary Short Subject. The awards ceremony takes place on Sunday.</p>
  233. <p style="text-align:justify;"><em>The Lady in Number 6</em> has been described as one of the most inspirational stories ever told. In the film, Alice Herz-Sommer, the world&#8217;s oldest pianist and oldest holocaust survivor, shares her views on how to live a long happy life. She discusses the vital importance of music, laughter and having an optimistic outlook on life. This powerfully inspirational film tells her amazing story of survival and how she managed to use her time in a Nazi concentration camp to empower herself and others with music.</p>
  234. <p style="text-align:justify;">Read more about the life of Alice Herz-Sommer in the <em>New York Times</em> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/28/world/europe/alice-herz-sommer-pianist-who-survived-holocaust-dies-at-110.html?hp&amp;_r=0" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">here</span></a>.</p>
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  238. <h3 style="text-align:center;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">The Lady In Number 6: Music Saved Her Life</span> </strong></h3>
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  252. <title>The Grace of Dallas Buyers Club: Facing Despair and Fear With Simple Humanity</title>
  253. <link>https://disembedded.wordpress.com/2014/03/02/the-grace-of-dallas-buyers-club-facing-despair-and-fear-with-simple-humanity/</link>
  254. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Zimmerman]]></dc:creator>
  255. <pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2014 09:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
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  292. <description><![CDATA[Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto star in “Dallas Buyers Club,”  the story of real-life Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof, whose life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live. McConaughey and Leto's Oscar-Nominated portrayals in the film have been described as this year’s two most transformative and most honored performances. Includes photographs and four videos.]]></description>
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  295. <p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" alt="" src="https://i0.wp.com/disembedded.smugmug.com/photos/i-L6vMC6C/0/X3/i-L6vMC6C-X3.jpg" width="725" height="406" /></p>
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  297. <p style="text-align:center;"><iframe class="youtube-player" width="725" height="408" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-VlWUkpIJFw?version=3&#038;rel=0&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></p>
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  299. <h3 style="text-align:center;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">The 2014 Academy Award Nominations </span></strong></h3>
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  301. <p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" alt="" src="https://i0.wp.com/disembedded.smugmug.com/photos/i-tqWbVDZ/0/X3/i-tqWbVDZ-X3.jpg" width="725" height="408" /></p>
  302. <p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" alt="" src="https://i0.wp.com/disembedded.smugmug.com/photos/i-dtkZ328/0/X3/i-dtkZ328-X3.jpg" width="725" height="527" /></p>
  303. <p></p>
  304. <h3 style="text-align:center;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">The Grace of Dallas Buyers Club: Facing Despair and Fear With Simple Humanity</span></strong></h3>
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  306. <p style="text-align:justify;">Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto star in <a href="http://www.focusfeatures.com/dallas_buyers_club" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><em>Dallas Buyers Club</em></span></a>, the story of real-life Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof, whose free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live. McConaughey and Leto&#8217;s portrayals in <em>Dallas Buyers Club</em> have been described as this year’s two most transformative and most honored performances. Their performances are staggering. McConaughey’s desperation was palpable in the film, a life force that wouldn’t be denied, and Leto’s performance was as seductive and fragile as a butterfly kiss.</p>
  307. <p style="text-align:justify;">Leading up to their <a href="https://www.oscars.org/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Oscar nominations</span></a>, both actors won at SAG, the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Movie Awards, not to mention an almost clean sweep for Leto among the many critics groups who give out these honors. The awards have come for their work in the “little-film-that-could,” in a movie that took 20 years to bring to the screen, that no one wanted to make, that was shot on a tight 24-day schedule for under $5 million and used only available light.</p>
  308. <p style="text-align:justify;">The movie, directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, is a sober and unflinchingly brutal look at a man (actually, many men), coping with HIV and AIDS in the 1980s, although it&#8217;s not set in New York or San Francisco as we&#8217;ve come to expect from most movies about this disease. As the title indicates, we&#8217;re placed instead in Texas, dwelling in shabby corners of Dallas. While it&#8217;s an unexpected place to find a story like this, the film is based on an uplifting true one.</p>
  309. <p style="text-align:justify;"><em>Dallas Buyers Club</em> tells the story of Ron Woodroof, played by Matthew McConaughey, a Texas electrician and rodeo rider. After receiving a diagnosis of H.I.V. in 1985, Woodroof found himself shunned and ostracized by many of his old friends, and bereft of any government-approved effective medicines.Woodroof took his treatment into his own hands and helped others with the disease obtain medication not legally available in the United States at that time. He found a way to begin importing drugs by means both legal and illegal from far-flung countries and began running a buyers club out of a cheap Dallas motel, with the unlikeliest crew of partners.</p>
  310. <p style="text-align:justify;">Bigoted in the way a rowdy Texan rowdy would have been in 1986, Ron nevertheless found his closest ally in Rayon, a willowy, honey-voiced trans woman played with warmth and grace by Jared Leto. Ron and Rayon have a bickering, eyes-rolling chemistry, which served them well as they carried out the important work that the medical institutions wouldn&#8217;t do. In its quiet, restrained manner, the movie becomes a truly heartwarming one. <em>Dallas Buyers Club</em> is a delicate, but largely unsentimental, movie about people doing good deeds. Their shared struggle for dignity and acceptance is a uniquely American story of the transformative power of resilience. In their courageous work confronting the nightmarish terrors presented by the early face of AIDS, Ron and Rayon did not go gently into that good night.</p>
  311. <p style="text-align:justify;">Read more about Dallas Buyers Club in The New York Times <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/01/movies/matthew-mcconaughey-stars-in-dallas-buyers-club.html" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">here</span></a>.</p>
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  315. <h3 style="text-align:center;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Dallas Buyers Club (Official Trailer)</span></strong></h3>
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  317. <p style="text-align:center;"><iframe class="youtube-player" width="725" height="408" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0nUSPuDPHKk?version=3&#038;rel=0&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></p>
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  319. <h3 style="text-align:center;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Dallas Buyers Club: Anatomy of a Transformation</span></strong></h3>
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  321. <p style="text-align:center;"><iframe class="youtube-player" width="725" height="408" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eQg6TGCp7h4?version=3&#038;rel=0&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></p>
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  323. <h3 style="text-align:center;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">The Envelope: McConaughey and Leto Discuss Making Dallas Buyers Club </span></strong></h3>
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  340. <link>https://disembedded.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/grammys-2014-macklemore-ryan-lewis-royals-for-a-night/</link>
  341. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Zimmerman]]></dc:creator>
  342. <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 05:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
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  376. <description><![CDATA[Macklemore &#38; Ryan Lewis won four Grammys on Sunday night, for best new artist and in three rap categories: best performance and best song for “Thrift Shop” and best album for “The Heist.” Includes photographs and two music videos.]]></description>
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  380. <h3 style="text-align:center;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Grammys 2014: Macklemore &amp; Ryan Lewis, Royals for a Night</span></strong></h3>
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  382. <p style="text-align:justify;">Macklemore &amp; Ryan Lewis, the Seattle duo that has spent the last year upending the rules about how hip-hop interacts with mainstream pop, won four Grammys on Sunday night, for best new artist and in three rap categories: best performance and best song for <em>Thrift Shop</em> and best album for <em>The Heist.</em></p>
  383. <p style="text-align:justify;">Of all the moments that have startled awards-show viewers over the years, none matches the mass marriage on Sunday night’s Grammys. No others made anything close to this bold a statement on an issue that has been engaging so much of the world in an emotional, political and theological debate. By including same-gender couples in this ceremony, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences declared that marriage is marriage, regardless of gender.</p>
  384. <p style="text-align:justify;">The night&#8217;s most cathartic moment was the group marriage: Queen Latifah married 33 straight and same-sex couples during a performance of <em>Same Love</em> by Macklemore &amp; Ryan Lewis, along with singers Mary Lambert and iconic pop-star Madonna.</p>
  385. <p style="text-align:justify;">A full list of winners at the 56th annual Grammy Awards can be found in <em>The New York Times</em> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/27/arts/music/grammy-winners.html?ref=music" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">here</span></a>.</p>
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  392. <h3 style="text-align:center;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Macklemore &amp; Ryan Lewis, feat. Mary Lambert: “Same Love” </span></strong></h3>
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  428. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Zimmerman]]></dc:creator>
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  448. <category><![CDATA[Tuffy]]></category>
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  451. <description><![CDATA[Little Tuffy Explores the Arctic: Discovers Our Backyard Winter Wonderland. Includes photographs and a video.]]></description>
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  453. <p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" alt="" src="https://i0.wp.com/disembedded.smugmug.com/photos/i-4jB6JFb/0/X3/i-4jB6JFb-X3.jpg" width="725" height="409" /></p>
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  456. <p></p>
  457. <h3 style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Little Tuffy Explores the Arctic: Discovers Our Backyard Winter Wonderland</span></strong></h3>
  458. <p></p>
  459. <p style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">After having been stranded inside during Chicago&#8217;s bitter cold weather that accompanied the past week&#8217;s massive snowstorms, little Tuffy finally ventured outside today to explore the Arctic and see what “Chiberia” was really like. Amazing&#8230;the backyard had been transformed into a snowy winter wonderland!</p>
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  462. <p></p>
  463. <h3 style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Little Tuffy Explores the Arctic: Discovers Our Backyard Winter Wonderland</span></strong></h3>
  464. <p></p>
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  477. <title>First Stars I See Tonight</title>
  478. <link>https://disembedded.wordpress.com/2014/01/07/first-stars-i-see-tonight/</link>
  479. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Zimmerman]]></dc:creator>
  480. <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2014 13:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
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  489. <category><![CDATA[Elle Fanning]]></category>
  490. <category><![CDATA[First Stars I See Tonight]]></category>
  491. <category><![CDATA[HitRECord on TV]]></category>
  492. <category><![CDATA[inspirational]]></category>
  493. <category><![CDATA[Joseph Gordon-Levitt]]></category>
  494. <category><![CDATA[live action short film]]></category>
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  496. <category><![CDATA[Stars]]></category>
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  499. <description><![CDATA[“First Stars I See Tonight” is an animated/live-action short film, which narrates the story of a girl with night blindness and how her father helps her to finally see the stars. Includes photos and the short film.
  500. ]]></description>
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  502. <p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" alt="" src="https://i0.wp.com/disembedded.smugmug.com/photos/i-fWfSwFz/0/X3/i-fWfSwFz-X3.jpg" width="725" height="419" /></p>
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  504. <h3 style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">First Stars I See Tonight</span></strong></h3>
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  506. <p style="text-align:justify;"><em>First Stars I See Tonight</em> is an inspirational animated/live-action short film, which narrates the story of a girl (Elle Fanning) with night blindness and how her father (James Patrick Stuart) helps her to finally see the stars.</p>
  507. <p style="text-align:justify;">The film is part of an upcoming variety show, <em>HitRECord on TV</em> by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, which will debut at Sundance on January 18th.</p>
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  511. <h3 style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">First Stars I See Tonight</span></strong></h3>
  512. <p></p>
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  523. <title>Some Remarkably Good Romanian Eggs</title>
  524. <link>https://disembedded.wordpress.com/2014/01/06/some-remarkably-good-romanian-eggs/</link>
  525. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Zimmerman]]></dc:creator>
  526. <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2014 05:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
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  536. <category><![CDATA[Ciocăneşti]]></category>
  537. <category><![CDATA[documentary short]]></category>
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  539. <category><![CDATA[Easter eggs]]></category>
  540. <category><![CDATA[Eggs]]></category>
  541. <category><![CDATA[Fabergé eggs]]></category>
  542. <category><![CDATA[Romania]]></category>
  543. <category><![CDATA[Romanian Eggs]]></category>
  544. <category><![CDATA[The Egg Painter]]></category>
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  547. <description><![CDATA[“Some Remarkably Good Romanian Eggs.” Ornamental eggs are a signature craft of Eastern Europe, and nowhere do they have the crisp, delicate geometry of the eggs produced by humble craftswomen in the small Romanian town of Ciocăneşti. Includes photographs and the documentary short, “The Egg Painter.”]]></description>
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  550. <p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" alt="" src="https://i0.wp.com/disembedded.smugmug.com/photos/i-2HdnBZz/0/X3/i-2HdnBZz-X3.jpg" width="725" height="481" /></p>
  551. <p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" alt="" src="https://i0.wp.com/disembedded.smugmug.com/photos/i-KMQFL6X/0/X3/i-KMQFL6X-X3.jpg" width="725" height="489" /></p>
  552. <h3 style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Some Remarkably Good Romanian Eggs</span></strong></h3>
  553. <p style="text-align:justify;">Ornamental eggs are a signature craft of Eastern Europe. The jeweled Fabergé versions once cherished by Russian nobility are just a high-end version a humbler, older and even more remarkable Easter tradition.</p>
  554. <p style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">Created on a minute scale and entirely by hand, the art of painting eggs is a careful one. The designs may be simple or complicated, figurative or abstract, and consist of a few or many colors. Nowhere, however, do they have the crisp, delicate geometry of the eggs produced in the northern Romanian town of Ciocăneşti. Located in a historic region that’s partly situated in present-day Ukraine, Ciocăneşti is so attractively preserved that it is considered a museum of Eastern European village life.</p>
  555. <p style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">The buildings here are distinctive for their elaborate, embroidered-looking motifs, and the town’s several dozen egg-painters work in the same style. There’s an old Romanian saying that holds that when people stop coloring eggs at Easter, the world will end. Is it out of such fear that the humble craftswomen of Ciocăneşti continue to teach the skill to their daughters? Either way, it gets passed on.</p>
  556. <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Read more about the Romanian egg painters <a href="http://www.junglesinparis.com/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">here</span></a>.</p>
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  559. <p></p>
  560. <h3 style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">The Egg Painter: Very Good Eggs of Romania</span></strong></h3>
  561. <p></p>
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