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John Goodman and Jeff Bridges bid farewell to the ashes of a friend (kept in a coffee can) in the Coen Brothers' "The Big Lebowski." |
John Turturro played "The Jesus" - a bowler and flasher - in the Coen Brothers' "The Big Lebowski." |
"O Brother, Where Art Thou?" |
Three escapees from a Deep South chain gang, in the Coen Brothers' Depression-Era comedy, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" |
In what was a landmark of cinematography, DP Roger Deakins, a longtime collaborator with the Coens (he received five of his 10 Oscar nominations for their films), had the entire camera negative digitally scanned, and then altered the colors in the computer to create a palette that was warmer and more autumnal than what... |
The film was a joyous throwback to the screwball comedies of the 1930s, made all the more memorable by its soundtrack (by record producer T. Bone Burnett) of "old-timey" country, bluegrass and gospel tunes, which became a multi-platinum bestseller. |
John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson and George Clooney in the Coen Brothers' "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" |
With a story derived (if tongue-in-cheek) from Homer's "The Odyssey," it's not long before the three travelers encounter sirens on the water: From "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" |
"We didn't start with the premise of updating the 'Odyssey,'" Joel Coen told CBS News. "The setting came first. The situation, these three fugitives in the chain gang, given the Clooney character is trying to get back home, it just suggested the 'Odyssey' to us." |
Both admit they had never read Homer's epic poem, although they did read the Classic Comics version of it. Ethan said it's "much easier that way. It's very freeing, man. We're thinking of doing an adaptation of Dickens' 'Martin Chuzzlewit.' We figure nobody knows the original and we don't have to read that. We can make... |
"The Man Who Wasn't There" |
Billy Bob Thorton and Jon Polito in "The Man Who Wasn't There." Shot in color and converted to stunning black-and-white, the film's plot involved a barber who devises a blackmail scheme against a man he believes is having an affair with his wife. There are also dreams of flying saucers. |
The film co-stars James Gandolfini, Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco, Richard Jenkins, and Scarlett Johansson. |
Originally attached to other directors and actors, the screenplay for the romantic comedy "Intolerable Cruelty" was taken over by the Coen Brothers and reworked for Catherine Zeta Jones and George Clooney. |
Tom Hanks in the Coen Brothers' remake of the Ealing classic, "The Ladykillers," about a group of thieves who plot to murder the boarding room hostess who has discovered their plot. |
"No Country for Old Men" |
If you find a briefcase filled with stacks of cash, it is probably best to just leave it be. Failing to heed that lesson, Josh Brolin plays a hunter whose discovery leads to a bloody cat-and-mouse chase in "No Country for Old Men." |
Based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy, the Coen Brothers' film is a triumph of quiet precision and suspense, as law enforcement forces and drug cartel hitmen draw closer to an Everyman whose greatest mistake, it turns out, was an act of compassion. |
Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) has already seen too much in his life, before seeing this: The aftermath of a drug deal gone bad, in the Coen Brothers' "No Country for Old Men." |
Javier Bardem won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor as the hitman Anton Chigurh in "No Country for Old Men." |
Javier Bardem in "No Country for Old Men." |
Kelly Macdonald ("Trainspotting") as the wife of Josh Brolin in "No Country for Old Men." |
"Ethan and I have been making stories with movie cameras since we were kids," said Joel Coen, accepting their Academy Award for directing "No Country for Old Men." "Honestly what we do now doesn't feel that much different from what we were doing then. |
"We're really thrilled to have received this and we're very thankful to all of you out there for letting us continue to play in our corner of the sandbox." |
In the dark comedy, "Burn After Reading," a former CIA analyst's computer files go missing, and are found by some opportunistic but dim-witted gym employees. The game cast included George Clooney, Richard Jenkins, John Malkovich, Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand. |
A typical setting in a Coen Brothers film: A character discovers they are in completely over their head, as when a dead body is found in "Burn After Reading." |
Michael Stuhlbarg plays a Jewish physics professor in Midwest suburbia suffering a moral crisis as his family is beset by infidelity, a pot-smoking son studying for bar mitzvah, a daughter stealing money to buy a nose job, and a mail-order record club, in "A Serious Man." |
Like many other Coen Brothers films, "A Serious Man" tells of characters whose ability to understand the world and their place in it is inhibited by their inability to see themselves - making the world appear even more threatening, and unknowable. |
It was the third Coen Brothers film to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. |
Professor Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) demonstrates for his students the Uncertainty Principle: "It proves we can't ever really know what's going on." |
Jeff Bridges as Marshal "Rooster" Cogburn - described as "a pitiless man, double tough, and fear don't enter into his thinking" - in the Coen Brothers' remake of "True Grit." The film, based on Charles Portis' novel, was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture. |
In her first feature film performance, Hailee Steinfeld received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination as Mattie Ross in "True Grit." |
"Inside Llewyn Davis" evokes the folk music scene in 1961 New York City, just on the cusp of a great change in music a-blowin' in the wind. But this is not an against-all-odds Hollywood fantasy about success being heaped upon the deserving; it's about everybody else who struggles with creative expression, perhaps witho... |
The obstacles that come before Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac, in a break-out performance) may arise because of his doing (a woman's pregnancy, a fight in a back alley), or from serendipity (a locked door, a missing box of trash, a wandering cat), but Llewyn's struggle to gain sympathy is often self-defeating. He is spitefu... |
As in other Coen Brothers films, the joy of watching "Inside Llewyn Davis" is that of being happily escorted though a minefield of absurdity, shock, and touching humanity, all arising from unexpected places. |
Folk singer Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) auditions for a Chicago club owner (F. Murray Abraham) in the Coen Brothers' "Inside Llewyn Davis." |
"Hail, Caesar!" (2016) depicts the travails of a studio fixer responsible for solving the problems that are throwing a film studio in disarray, such as the kidnapping of their biggest star by a coterie of Communists. |
The movies stars Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich, Ralph Fiennes, Jonah Hill, Scarlett Johansson, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and Channing Tatum. |
"The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" |
"The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" (2018) is made up of six stories set in the Old West which have no real connective tissue, but each possesses a peculiar take on western tropes that have been handed down via Hollywood and pulp authors over the past century-plus. Filmed in the Coen Brothers' typically meticulous style, th... |
The stories, which each inhabit a sort of sub-genre of westerns, were originally written a quarter-century ago. "They were put in a drawer, because they were short movies, and what were we going to do with them?" Joel Coen said. "We probably didn't expect to make them until maybe eight or 10 years ago, when we started ... |
Pictured: Grainger Hines in "The Gal Who Got Rattled." |
The Coens fill the frame with extraordinary images – captured in New Mexico, Colorado and Nebraska – that feel plucked from our collective imagination of what the Old West was (or should have been). |
A great example is the opening story, and the most hilariously Coenesque: "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs," a takeoff on Gene Autry singing-cowboy oaters, featuring Tim Blake Nelson as Scruggs, who is as handy with a six-shooter as he is a guitar. |
In "Near Algodones" (top), James Franco plays a bank robber whose luck appears to run out. |
In "All Gold Canyon," adapted from a Jack London short story, Tom Waits plays a prospector who is paid an unwelcome visit. |
In "The Gal Who Got Rattled," Zoe Kazan plays a young women on a covered wagon train to Oregon who finds herself in dire straits. |
"I met a traveler in an antique land..." Harry Melling as "The Wingless Thrush," performing monologues and dramatic verse on a tour of Western mining towns guided by Liam Neeson, in "Meal Ticket," from the Coen Brothers' "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs." |
Declaration respecting Maritime Law, Paris, of 16 April 1856. |
Statute of the International Law Commission, New York, 21 November 1947. |
Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field, Geneva, 12 August 1949, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, p. 31. |
Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, Geneva, 12 August 1949, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, p. 135. |
International Court of Justice, Colombian-Peruvian asylum case, Judgment of 20 November 1950, I.C.J. Reports 1950, p. 266. |
International Court of Justice, North Sea Continental Shelf, Judgment, I.C.J. Reports 1969, p.3. |
U.S. Proclamation 2667, “Policies of the United States with Respect to the Natural Resources of the Subsoil and Sea Bed of the Continental Shelf”, 28 September 1945. |
U.S. Proclamation 2668, “Policy of the United. States with Respect to Coastal Fisheries in Certain Areas of the High Sea”, 28 September 1945. |
General Assembly resolution 95(I) of 11 December 1946 (Affirmation of the Principles of International Law recognised by the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal). |
General Assembly resolution 26/25(XXV) of 24 October 1970 (Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations). |
General Assembly resolution 2601 (XXIV) of 16 December 1969 (International co-operation in the peaceful uses of outer space). |
ILA Resolution 16/2000, “Formation of General Customary International Law”, adopted on 29 July 2000, International Law Association, Report of the Sixty-Ninth Conference, London, p. 39. |
M.H. Mendelson, “The Formation of Customary International law”, Collected Courses of The Hague Academy of International Law, vol. 272, 1998, pp. 155-410. |
Houston Rockets guard Chris Paul and his Los Angeles Lakers counterpart Rajon Rondo weren't the only ones to get ejected after Saturday's on-court brawl: Red Hot Chili Peppers front man Anthony Kiedis was also booted from the Staples Center. |
The 55-year-old Los Angeles native was ejected after cursing at Paul and giving the NBA All-Star the middle finger as he was being escorted off the court in the wake of Saturday's melee according to DailyMail. |
Paul and Rondo began fighting after the latter appeared to spit on the former. |
Kiedis was sitting along the baseline near one of the baskets when Paul was being walked off the floor. As Paul approached the nearby tunnel, Kiedis became more vocal, even as a security guard attempted to restrain him. |
Before Paul was off the floor, Kiedis extended his arm and presented his middle finger to the Rockets star. |
After the game, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, who was in attendance alongside Kiedis, responded to the incident on Instagram. |
It is unclear if Kiedis's ejection will lead to a permanent suspension. |
A Lakers spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. |
Both Kiedis and Flea are longtime Lakers fans, and even wrote a song titled 'Magic Johnson' on their classic 1989 album, Mother's Milk. |
Dianne C. (Sigel) Mattison, 66, passed away Sunday, Feb. 24, at Wachusett Extended Care in Holden after a long illness. |
She leaves two sons, John J. Mattison and his wife, Tracy, and Mark W. Mattison and his wife, Deborah, both of West Boylston; her mother, Irene R. (Thienell) Sigel of Holden; two sisters, Denise E. Nephew of West Boylston and Darlene M. McGann of Jefferson; two granddaughters, Sarah and Meghan; and several nephews, nie... |
She was born in Worcester, the daughter of the late Joseph A. Sigel Jr., and graduated from Wachusett Regional High School and Quinsigamond Community College. She later attended Nichols College in Dudley. She was an early childhood and care secretary for 22 years for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She enjoyed readi... |
Relatives and friends are invited to attend calling hours from 5 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 28, in Miles Funeral Home, 1158 Main St., Holden. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, March 1, in the funeral home, followed by a committal service at Worcester County Memorial Park in Paxton. In lieu of flowers... |
Netbooks aren’t the rage anymore with products like the the ‘CrunchPad’ aiming to go mainstream but that does not demoralize the new names that strive to become popular. ii-View for instance has also raided the crowded netbook market with its ‘affordable’ A2 Netbook that promises big time features at a regular price. B... |
On the inside, the ii-View A2 Netbook houses an Intel Atom N270 processor so that is one of the reason it qualifies as a genuine netbook. The processor is assisted by 2GB of RAM and 320GB HDD. |
As mentioned before it is uncanny for a $399 offering to come with a 12.1-inch LCD but that is one factor which makes this product worth a watch. |
Courtesy of the screen size (1280 by 800 res) the netbook is able to accommodate a full-size keyboard and even a touchpad assisted by gesture control technology. |
Sandygate Amateur Boxing Club hitting the ground running – literally! |
Burnley’s Sandygate Amateur Boxing Club are hitting the forthcoming season running – literally! |
England schoolboy national finalist Cliviger’s Troy Richmond (13, pictured) has been regularly attending the England Institute of Sport Boxing HQ, National Boxing Squad training sessions in Sheffield. Ranked two in the country, the Year 9 Blessed Trinity pupil is part of the England Talent Pathway after a successful en... |
Sandygate’s senior former England novice champion Reece Farnhill (20) has also been training hard over the summer, entering his first mini-triathlon to keep his fitness in top form. |
And he showed just how fit he is, finishing fifth in the West Lancashire Summer Triathlon in Ormskirk. |
Reece again competes in another mini-triathlon, part of the Epic Races, this weekend in Kendal, ahead of his first bout of the season this month, in Alphen Aan Den Rijn, Holland, for a North West select team against Remco Hofstede (Teusdekruyf Boksschool). Anyone interested in joining Sandygate can find details on www.... |
Bring out the chef in you! |
Fetching ingredients, cleaning, and chopping them, as you knead the dough by the side while keeping an eye on the burner lest your daylong efforts go waste, doesn’t sound like a party, right? Gruelling to say the least! What if there was a way to make the same drill exciting, with a couple of changes? |
Last weekend, Shwetha, an MBA aspirant in the Capital discovered a way to do it by learning burger making from scratch, at the Monkey Bar. Says she, “Going out for lunch with your friends is a regular affair every weekend. But stepping out of the kitchen of a famous restaurant with pride writ large on your face as you ... |
Explaining how the workshops work, the chef reveals that a relatively simple dish is picked up for the culinary class; then the chef presents a talk on its origin and flavours before the participants get into the act of chopping, grilling, cooking and eventually making their friends taste their dishes. |
Thrilled after learning a French dish Coq au vin at Rara Avis in Delhi, Asmita Singh wants to repeat the experience many times over. A history graduate from Lady Shri Ram College, Asmita says, “I want to apply to Le Cordon Bleu (a renowned hospitality institute in Paris). Getting to understand the inner working of a re... |
So, its time to give a fresh lease of life to the innate chef in you, who knows, in the near future you might be asking the Sanjeev Kapoor’s and Nigella Lawson’s of the world to eat their heart out! |
Albany coach Joanna Bernabei-McNamee talks about her career path. |
When Imani Tate was asked if she expected to win Saturday against UConn, the Albany senior didn't seem to care that only one 16 seed has won an NCAA Tournament opening-round game. She didn't blink at UConn's 107-game winning streak. |
No, Imani Tate of the Bronx answered like any New York City guard would. |
"Absolutely, I expect to win every game I go out and play." |
Courageous statement? Maybe. Yet one could argue the most courageous statement was made years earlier by her coach sitting a few feet to her right Friday at Gampel Pavilion. |
Joanna Bernabei-McNamee was the assistant coach and recruiting coordinator on a staff at Maryland that included Louisville coach Jeff Walz when the Terrapins won the national championship in 2006 under Brenda Frese. A guard at West Liberty, she holds the all-time NCAA Division II career record for assists. |
She had started out coaching at Eastern Kentucky and West Virginia Wesleyan before becoming an assistant at West Virginia, Maryland and again at West Virginia. Coach Mac was a coach on the rise in the women's game when she gave it up in 2009. |
Not because she was burned out or despised coaching. She stopped to raise her two sons for nearly four years. |
"The decision to leave was difficult," Bernabei-McNamee said. "I didn't know I would get another opportunity to get back in. I had faith. But I knew as a mom that was the most important part of what my job needed to be at the time: raise my two boys." |
Joe McNamee, an All-America baseball player at West Virginia, was the Mountaineers' assistant baseball coach when he met Joanna Bernabei. Their offices were across the hall. |
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