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LIBYA News, Oct 07, 2011


Gaddafi urges mass Libya protests
BBC News
Libya's ousted leader Col Muammar Gaddafi has called on Libyans to come on to the streets "in their millions" to resist the nation's interim leaders. In an audio message broadcast on Syrian-based Arrai television, he says conditions in Libya have ...
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BBC News
WRAPUP 1-Libyan forces plan "final" attack on Gaddafi hometown
Reuters
By Rania El Gamal and Tim Gaynor SIRTE, Libya, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Libyan interim government forces have pledged to mount a final decisive attack on Muammar Gaddafi's hometown and one of his former lieutenants says he believes the deposed leader is ready ...
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Libyan dissident tortured by Gaddafi to sue Britain over rendition
The Guardian
A Libyan dissident is launching legal action against the British government after a cache of secret documents discovered in Tripoli exposed the pivotal role played by MI6 in his rendition to one of Muammar Gaddafi's jails. In a case that threatens to ...
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The Guardian
Libya's oil-rich east bids for power
Reuters
Under Gaddafi, Benghazi was at the mercy of Tripoli for its share of state funding, even though most of this is generated from nearby eastern oil fields. Libya's economy is almost entirely reliant on oil and gas revenue. Cradle of the anti-Gaddafi ...
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Reuters
Libya: Niger Still Refuses to Extradite Saadi Gaddafi
AllAfrica.com
At the opening session of the Pan African Parliament in Midrand on Monday, Niger's minister of foreign affairs, Mohamed Bazoum was adamant that his country would not accede to an extradition request for Muammar Gaddafi's third son, Saadi. Libya's ...
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Libyan's protest Jew attempting to reopen synagogue
Jerusalem Post
ROME – An Italian-Libyan Jew, by his mere presence in Libya, has provoked an outburst of latent anti-Semitism, cultivated for over 40 years by the Gaddafi regime. David Gerbi's simple act of devotion in cleaning out the filth of an abandoned, ...
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Libya back to school, but without Gaddafi teachings
Reuters India
The school break has been longer than usual for many Libyan children this year. When the war against Gaddafi started, lessons stopped. Now, with the rebels victorious and a new government installed, the schools are gradually reopening. ...
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Reuters India
NATO concerned by report of missing Libya missiles
Reuters
"It is the responsibility of the National Transitional Council to ensure that stocks of weapons in Libya are appropriately controlled," he said, referring to Libya's new administration after the ouster of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. ...
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Reuters
Libya's Waha Oil faces tough task to fix war damage
Reuters
By Jessica Donati TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Forces loyal to deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafihave destroyed vehicles and equipment at some fields owned by Libya's Waha Oil company and at others security is still too shaky to visit, an engineer with the ...
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More graves uncovered in Tripoli
Sydney Morning Herald
Meanwhile, street to street fighting raged yesterday between Libyan rebels andGaddafi loyalists in the city of Sirte as the battle entered its final stages, Arab media reported. ''Our fighters are carrying out fierce battles inside Sirte with the ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Gaddafi will fight on to the end
Reuters UK
By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's former prime minister said on Tuesday he believed the deposed leader was still in Libya and would carry on fighting the country's new leaders until the end. "I think Gaddafi ... has not left the ...
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Gaddafi compound becomes hangout for Libyans
Washington Post
cracked a taxi driver, using a nickname for Moammar Gaddafi, who used to live here. “Right this way!” Inside the tree-shaded compound of Bab al-Aziziya, abandoned by the Libyan leader as rebels closed in last month, the families cruised around slowly, ...
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Twists of Fate: The Towns That Loved Gaddafi Face an Uncertain Future
TIME
Ramadan's hometown of al-Asaaba is one of several towns on the fringe of western Libya's Nafusa Mountains that two months after the fall of Tripoli have found themselves on the wrong side of history, struggling to survive in a post-Gaddafi period of ...
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Abuse Claims Of Pro-Gaddafi Prisoners Denied
Sky News
A senior Libyan official has denied abuse of captured Colonel Gaddafi loyalists is widespread after allegations of torture were made to Sky News by imprisoned soldiers. To view this content you need Flash and Javascript enabled in your browser. ...
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Sky News
Libyan Fighters Seal Off Gaddafi's Hometown
TIME
By AP / HADEEL AL-SHALCHI and MAGGIE MICHAEL Saturday, Oct. 01, 2011 (TRIPOLI, Libya) — Libyan fighters have completely surrounded Muammar Gaddafi'shometown of Sirt and are engaged in heavy clashes with his loyalists on the city's streets, ...
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TIME
Libya: Gaddafi Hometown Rocked by Street Fighting
AllAfrica.com
"I call on the Libyan people, men and women, to go out into the squares and the streets and in all the cities in their millions" to reject the NTC, the deposed leader said in a scratchy audio message. "I say to them, do not fear anyone. ...
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Hugo Chavez sends solidarity to Gaddafi, Syria
Reuters
By Deisy Buitrago and Andrew Cawthorne CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Saturday he was praying for Libya's deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi and also sent a message of solidarity to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against ...
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Reuters
Muammar Gaddafi and the justice tyrants face
The Guardian
We forget how recent a historical precedent this is Former Libyan leader MuammarGaddafi in Rome in 2009; if captured alive, Gaddafi likely faces a tribunal prosecution in Libya for crimes against humanity. Photograph: Reuters/Max Rossi When Interpol...
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The Guardian
Landmark Turkish passenger flight lands in Tripoli
Hindustan Times
A Turkish Airlines passenger plane landed in Tripoli's Mitiga airport from Istanbul on Saturday in the first international commercial flight to Libya since the ousting of Muammar Gaddafi in August. the plane landed while inside the building, ...
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Tripoli's residents call time on celebratory gunfire
Reuters
By Jessica Donati and Tim Gaynor TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Raking the night skies over Tripoli with gunfire to celebrate Muammar Gaddafi's fall last month is lethal, bad for business and must stop, say residents of the Libyan capital. ...
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Libya, Syria and Middle East unrest - live updates
The Guardian (blog)
Trying to rein them in are revolutionaries from eastern Libya, which shook offGaddafi's rule early and have since had time to organise their forces. Streets were littered with bullet casings, and black smoke billowed from four homes that had been set ...
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The Guardian (blog)
Email scammers tout assets of deposed Arab leaders
Reuters
In one email, a scammer pretends to be the wife of deposed Libyan leader MuammarGaddafi. She says she has managed to escape to Tunisia and is desperately looking for a "reliable partner" to transfer $25 million of Gaddafi's funds. ...
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Reuters
Two years ago he was freed from jail to die... yet the Lockerbie bomber is ...
Daily Mail
In Tripoli Libya's post-Gaddafi leaders have named a new Cabinet and vow to step down after the country is fully secured. The announcement comes after weeks of political infighting stalled efforts to form a new government. ...
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Daily Mail
Libya: Post-Gaddafi Libya Gets New Cabinet
AllAfrica.com
LIBYA'S transitional leaders named a new cabinet yesterday and said they would step down after the country is fully secured, putting an end to weeks of political infighting as the North African nation struggles to get back on its feet. ...
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Libyan peace deal signed over desert town
euronews
In Libya, Tuareg tribesman signed a peace agreement on Friday with local Arabs over the Saharan desert oasis of Ghadames. The town had been at the centre of speculation that Muammar Gaddafi was hiding locally under the protection of the tribes. ...
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euronews
Deadly legacy of Gaddafi landmines
Zimbabwe Independent
DOZENS of civilians, including many children, have been killed or injured in recent weeks in Libya by landmines planted by Col Muammar Gaddafi's forces and unexploded munitions they left behind. The BBC's Damian Grammaticas reports from Zlitan, ...
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Email scammers becoming increasingly creative, using Arab leaders
Bikya Masr
CAIRO: Emails posing as close aides of deposed Arab leaders such as Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi have offered recipients an amazing deal: give them your full bank account details and they will transfer millions of dollars from the ...
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Bikya Masr
The perils, prizes and pitfalls of the post-Gaddafi era of oil
Financial Times
By Daniel Yergin The modern oil era began in 1969 when the 29-year-old Muammer Gaddafi seized power in Libya. A year later, he used threats of production cuts and nationalisation to begin forcing western oil companies to accept new terms. ...
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Civilian safety key to ending Libya mission: NATO
Reuters
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told a news conference that ending UN-sanctioned military operations was not dependent upon locating ousted Libyan leader MuammarGaddafi, whose whereabouts are unknown. "He is not the target of our ...
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WRAPUP 1-Fighting halts aid mission into Libyan siege city
Reuters
Gaddafi's supporters are too weak to regain power, but their resistance is frustrating the new rulers' efforts to start building the post-Gaddafi Libya. At the western outskirts of the city, civilians who were able to get out of Sirte spoke of many ...
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"Gaddafi" gets last minute call
The Zimbabwean
Dynamos striker Cuthbert Malajila, now popularly known as "Gaddafi" after fleeing turmoil in Libya, was on Tuesday drafted in as a last minute replacement for injured Edward Sadomba. Malajila will join the team as they face Cape Verde in a key Africa...
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The Zimbabwean
Five myths of Libyan intervention
Mail & Guardian Online
Gaddafi was the glue that held together a motley crew of secularists, Islamists and ethnic factions. With his impending demise, Afghanistan and Iraq may well be the future that awaits post-Gaddafi Libya.
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Seif Gaddafi spotted in Bani Walid
Press TV
Meanwhile, NTC sources also announced that another one of Muammar Gaddafi'ssons, Mottasim, is reportedly leading his father's loyalists in Sirte. Witnesses said he has based himself at a hospital in Sirte in order to avert attacks by NTC forces. Libya...
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Press TV
Libya: Winning The Peace Collectively
AllAfrica.com
That requires urgently providing practical support to the process of forging a government recognised as legitimate inside Libya, as well as internationally. By Gaddafi's design, Libya is a state deliberately devoid of institutions. ...
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Tripoli gets new militia, apparent rebuff to Islamists
Reuters
Naker said his group was cooperating with the Tripoli Military Council which is led by Abdulhakim Belhadj, a veteran Islamist foe of Muammar Gaddafi. He said it would protect citizens' security and property, collect unlicensed weapons, ...
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Jet-setting Blair on the back foot: 'I could make a lot more money'
Sydney Morning Herald
Mr Blair used an interview on India's CNBC-TV18 to say he had been upset by allegations that he had profited from mobile phone and gas deals in the Palestinian territories, and that he had lobbied Muammar Gaddafi's Libyan government on behalf of the ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Gaddafi still hiding in south Libya: de facto PM | news.gkrom.com ...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is hiding in southern Libya under the protection of tribes, crossing occasionally into Niger, but transitional government forces expect to pinpoint his whereabouts soon, the de ...
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Gaddafi urges Libyans to demonstrate against new rulers | APN News
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Deposed strongman Muammar Gaddafi called on Libyans to turn out in their millions to demonstrate against the country's new rulers, in an audio message broadcast today on Syria-based Arrai television. “I call on the Libyan people, men and ...
APN News
Gaddafi urges supporters to come out | The News Tribe
By Areeb Hasni
Sirte: Libyan ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi has called on his supporters to come on to the streets to resist the nation's interim leaders. In an audio message broadcast on Syrian-based Arrai television on Thursday, he said conditions in ...
The News Tribe
Libya's NTC thinks Gaddafi hiding near Algeria - Yahoo! News
Read 'Libya's NTC thinks Gaddafi hiding near Algeria' on Yahoo! News. SIRTE ( Reuters) - Libya'snew rulers have said they believe fugitive former leader ...
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Libyan forces plan "final" attack on Gaddafi hometown - Yahoo! News
Read 'Libyan forces plan "final" attack on Gaddafi hometown' on Yahoo! News. SIRTE, Libya(Reuters) - Libyan interim government forces have pledged to ...
news.yahoo.com/humanitarian-fears-grow-over-libya-sirte-bat...
NTC Commander: Gaddafi has fled Libya CCTV News - CNTV English
Although the whereabouts of fallen leader Muammar Gaddafi remains a mystery, a spokesman of Libya´s ruling National Transitional Council ...
english.cntv.cn/program/newsupdate/20110929/106135.shtml
Libyan dissident tortured by Gaddafi to sue Britain over rendition ...
The Guardian, UK and World news, User comments, Web. News · Sport ... Libyan dissident tortured by Gaddafi to sue Britain over rendition. Sami al-Saadi ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../libyan-dissident-tortured-sues-britain
Libyan forces capture Gaddafi's spokesman - ABC News (Australian ...
Moamar Gaddafi's spokesman has been captured outside the former Libyan ...
www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-30/libyan-forces.../3192932
Gaddafi urges mass Libya protests | Libya News Map
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Eyewitness News: Gaddafi loyalists "ask for truce"
World News | Sirte, Libya ... A Libyan commander leading the attack on Muammar Gaddafi'shometown of Sirte said on Tuesday he was in talks with elders ...
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ENTERTAINMENT News, Oct 07, 2011

Robotic storytelling
New York Post
Do you really want to pay to watch an actor playing a kid who in turn plays what amounts to a video game? Ah, say the marketers, but there's more to it than which remote-controlled pretend robot beats up which. And they're right. There is schmaltz. ...
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New York Post
Democrats vs. Republicans: Stars they Won't Pay to See; Movies They Hate and ...
Hollywood Reporter
An exclusive THR/Penn Schoen Berland study reveals why Dems and Republicans like different films -- and which actors each side absolutely refuses to pay to see. On Sept. 23, Morgan Freeman went on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight to proclaim that Tea Party...
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Hollywood Reporter
X-Change Corp and Old West Provides Market Guidance for Its Current Projects ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Old West is an entertainment company moving rapidly to the forefront of the Hip Hop consumer market, specializing in all aspects of entertainment, including Music, Feature Films, Television, Home Video/DVD and Major Events. Old West is aggressively ...
See all stories on this topic »DVDs: Great Boxed Sets? How Sweet It Is! (Plus The Not So Sweet)
Huffington Post (blog)
Hitchcock has such a remarkable career, that you could easily name another five movies that can match these for sheer entertainment value, such as Shadow Of A Doubt, Notorious, The Lady Vanishes, The Man Who Knew Too Much and The 39 Steps. ...
See all stories on this topic »New DVDs due for release Oct. 11
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
VIDEO GIRL (Entertainment One) A girl with dreams of being a dancer gets caught in the fast lane when she becomes a sought-after star in music videos. With Meagan Good, Haylie Duff, Ruby Dee. (R; drugs, language, some sex) Not reviewed. MR. ...
See all stories on this topic »Piracy slowly disappearing
Manila Standard Today
The bad press is normal among actors and politicians, and Ricketts knows that. And he could be back on the big screen soon. He has been talking to Vic del Rosario of Viva Entertainment for a possible movie that he can star in and at the same time ...
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Miramax CEO: There Is a 'Robust' Market for Content Ownership
Home Media Magazine
Miramax CEO Michael Lang remains bullish on home entertainment retail, including physical and digital, despite ongoing media hype and Wall Street fascination on the rental model spearheaded by subscription video-on-demand services such as Netflix,...
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Home Media Magazine
Star Trek's favourite Vulcan Leonard Nimoy gives fans famous Vulcan V sign as ...
The Daily Telegraph
He's a terrific actor, he looks the part, and it's time to give him some space. And I'm very flattered the character will continue." Adam Malin, chief executive of Creation Entertainment, which runs Star Trek conventions, had toured with Nimoy for ...
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Best of Nashville 2011: Arts, Music & Entertainment Writers' Choice
Nashville Scene
We'd love to see a brief run for this at The Belcourt — where you'd likely buy popcorn from the movie's actors. JIM RIDLEY If we put it to a popular vote, the winner would likely be one of The Belcourt's perpetually sold-out screenings of Tommy ...
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Nashville Scene
Xbox Companion app connects your Windows Phone to TV
IntoMobile
And the content is really rich, too – for example, when I swiped to the “cast” page and touched anactor's name, like star James McAvoy, I was taken to other movies starring him. From there, I could easily learn more about the other movies, their cast, ...
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The Ides of March's Evan Rachel Wood Dishes: At the Center of Film's Hurricane
Movie Fanatic
It makes you mad because he's such a great actor but he's also just a really cool guy and interesting and creative [laughs]. He's a great partner. Movie Fanatic: He had a few things to say about you too! Movie Fanatic: That you have a great memory for ...
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Movie Fanatic
Behind The Camera: RA.One (Hindi) - Will It Be The One?
Yentha
A video game based on the movie is also in the making. And with the brand Shahrukh Khan and his loyal followers, backing the film, RA.One could quite easily earn back the humungous budget with its initial collections itself. Yet something bigger rides ...
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RIVERSIDE: 'Forever Plaid' launches Fox theater season
InlandSoCal.com
A movie buff, he directed a featurette for “That's Entertainment Part III” and logo for MGM/UA home video. Interviewed by phone after a walkthrough of the Fox, built as a 1920s movie palace, he said he is thrilled by its renovation. ...
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InlandSoCal.com
North Shore Entertainment Calendar
The Salem News
Gardner is a feature writer, producer and theater critic for NH Public Radio, a professional actor and director, and teacher at St. Paul's. 978-468-5577 or www.hwlibrary.org. AUTHOR VISIT WITH MOLLY BIRNBAUM. Wednesday, Oct. 12, 7 pm, Peabody Institute ...
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Twin Falls Times-News
S. Features DJ Rage, video extremist, 9 pm; he takes music requests and projects the music-video version of each song on a 14-foot screen. Hip-hop DJ at 9 pm in the Blue Room, 223 Fifth Ave. S., and karaoke at 9 pm in the Sidewinder Saloon. ...
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Jerusalem Post
Meanwhile, over in Holon, the Mediatheque Center is offering a rich range of entertainment and activities of stories, movies, comics and animated exhibits and creative workshops for kids of all ages. There is also a fascinating ongoing exhibition of ...
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October Theatrical Preview
High-Def Digest
Honestly, how many more undiscovered home videos can the investigators find? And when will it stop? Had the actors been capable of giving strong, un-annoying performances, they'd be more tolerable. Had the movies done anything more to conjure fear than ...
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High-Def Digest
Will 'Arthur Christmas' delivering a stocking full of gold to Oscar?
HitFix (blog)
"It's been such a tricky deadline because, you know, delivering two weeks late on the movie means next Christmas release," Smith says laughing nervously. And just what does she have left to do? Oh, just that. Thankfully, Smith took time out from the ...
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Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom Blu-ray Review
Bigpicturebigsound.com
The movie has probably never sounded better though, so if you have the stomach for it, you might want to discover for yourself what all the fuss has been about. Actors: Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Umberto P. Quintavalle, Aldo Valletti, ...
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Steve Jobs dies: full coverage
Telegraph.co.uk
20.43 After Steve Jobs returned to Apple, the firm ran a TV advertising campaign called "Think Different", featuring rebellious historical figures such as Martin Luther King, Ghandi, Einstein, and Picasso. The actor Richard Dreyfuss did the voiceover ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Power duos: The most 'super' star-pairings in movies
KOLD-TV
AP Entertainment News Video The Ides of March are upon us, and the impressive teaming of the classic George Clooney and the vibrant Ryan Gosling is inspiring. In fact, it's such a potent power duo that it makes us think of other great pairings of the ...
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