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Postcard from Venice: On John Woo, Tsui Hark and the Glorious Nuttiness of Detective Dee

Posted on September 5, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Two nights ago here in Venice, John Woo received a Golden Lion lifetime-achievement award, which may not mean much to people who have seen only his American movies. In fact, while waiting in line for a screening the other day, I heard one badge-holder (speaking English with an English accent) explaining to another who he is. I would have thought anyone in the world who’d managed to get accreditation to a major film festival would know John Woo, but apparently not.

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New York City Inks Contract for Up to 475 Compressed Natural Gas Buses

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo: New Flyer What’s the Difference Between CNG and Diesel? The Board of the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority (the “MTA”) has awarded New Flyer of America a contract for up to 475 buses. The contract is for 135 40-foot compressed natural gas (“CNG”) heavy-duty transit buses with options for up to an additional 340 CNG buses. We know that buses are a pretty green way to move lots of people around in urban area, but how much better are CNG buses compared to regular diesel buses? The U.S. Department of Energy has some numbers to allow us to compare…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Alexandra Cousteau, the Ocean Ambassador (Podcast)

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

“We all live downstream from one another,” says Alexandra Cousteau. In other words, what we do to the water, we do to ourselves. A third-generation Cousteau explorer, Alexandra is an ambassador of the sea. She’s the host of Planet Green’s Blue August , is currently traveling the world as a documentarian with her organization Blue Legacy , and, when she has a spare moment, does things like c… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Postcard From Venice: Black Swan Could Stand to Go Even Blacker

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The hardest thing about being an American critic covering a European festival is that almost anything you write is bound to smack of “I’m here, in a fantastic European city, seeing things that you can’t.” So here I am in Venice, one of the most beautiful cities in the world, looking at brand-new movies that many of you won’t be able to see for weeks or months, or maybe ever.

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Guess Who Will Be The Villain In The Expendables Sequel?

Posted on August 28, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Sylvester Stallone has joined the world of celebrity Twitterers and like so many outstanding examples in the field , has taken to it like a musclebound duck to water. And Sly’s even learned how to stoke the rumor mill by floating a potential villain for The Expendables sequel.

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Peak Oil Alarm Raised By Secret Government Talks

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: AZrainman Could government finally be waking up to the threat of peak oil? When a government minister attended a peak oil conference as a “keynote listener” , I perhaps unkindly cited it as evidence that miracles do happen. But despite warnings of peak oil in 5 years from Richard Branson , there’s no doubt that governments the world over have not so far devoted too much attention to peak … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Micro Frog Found in Search for World’s Lost Amphibians

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image: Conservation International (CI) Pea-Sized Frog is Old World’s Smallest The smallest frog known on the Asian, European or African continents – and one of the world’s tiniest frogs – was found by a group of scientists searching for “lost amphibians.” This pea-sized micro frog belongs to the species of microhylid , which, as the name suggests, is composed of miniature frogs under 15 millimeters. So why was it “lost”? And, excepting the “awww, cute!” factor, why is it important that this tiny frog has been found?… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Spencer Sex Tape Better than Girl-On-Girl

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Filed under: Heidi Montag , Spencer Pratt , Karissa Shannon , Kristina Shannon , Vivid Entertainment The Heidi Montag sex tape saga has exposed a glaring hypocrisy in the world of celebrity sex tapes — straight sex trumps beautiful, innocent, glorious girl-on-girl action. Sources close to the Heidi sex tape deal tell TMZ … Vivid Entertainment is only… Read more

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World’s Largest Ice Art on Siberia’s Lake Baikal

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Images from the anthropologist Lake Baikal is the “pearl of Siberia” , the world’s deepest freshwater lake. Because of its age and isolated location in Siberia, it contains unusual collections of freshwater flora and fauna and 1,700 plant and animal species. It has had a controversial history with Russian oligarchs plotting to destroy it and activists’ offices being ransacked. However in the depths of winte… Read the full story on TreeHugger