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Review: THE DESCENDANTS is a triumph - CNN.com
A guaranteed multiple Oscar nominee and the film that cements Alexander Payne as one of the top filmmakers of his generation, "The descendants" is a ...
What were THE DESCENDANTS of vikings who invaded the coast of France in the ninth century?
What were The descendants of vikings who invaded the coast of France in the ninth century?
Answer: They called them "Normans" after "North-men." From the word Norman we get things like Normandy (which was the eventual house from which William the Conqueror was descended, as well as the name of the area).
Category: History
George Clooney in "THE DESCENDANTS": Being Mr. Mom Isnt Easy
Thelma Adams is a New York Film Critics Circle member and the author of "Playdate," a novel. Remember the famous line about Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, "Sure he was great, but dont forget Ginger Rogers did everything he did backwards ... and in high ...
Descendants,’ With George Clooney - Review - NYTimes.com
In a voice-over at the beginning of “The descendants,” Matt King (George Clooney) challenges the myth, endemic among mainlanders, that Hawaii, where he ...
Shoah Foundation Institute Examines Other Genocides
LOS ANGELES — Since Steven Spielberg established the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation in 1994, the organization has devoted itself exclusively to the memory of Holocaust survivors. Its archives house more than 50,000 video interviews, in 32 languages, with survivors from 56 countries — the largest such collection in the - By IAN LOVETT
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Hemmings's bittersweet debut novel, an expansion of her first published short story ("The Minor Wars," from House of Thieves and originally published in ...
Fox Searchlight - THE DESCENDANTS - Official Site
From Alexander Payne, the creator of the Oscar-winning SIDEWAYS, set in Hawaii, The descendants is a sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic journey for Matt King ...
STATEN ISLAND JOURNAL; Wild Turkeys Get a Taste of Domesticity, Much to a Boroughs Chagrin
Michael Budano is fearless. As a teenager in East Harlem, he polished the shoes of mobsters like Frank Costello and Joseph Valachi without blinking an eye. But the unwelcome visitors that trot and strut around his Staten Island neighborhood do sometimes make him nervous. I had one under my car last week, said Mr. Budano, 71, a retired traffic - By JOSEPH BERGER
THE DESCENDANTS: George Clooney is a jerkface (in a good way ...
Let it be known that no amount of prestige (think Oscar nominations, humanitarian awards) can keep "The descendants" star George Clooney from pulling ...
What happened to THE DESCENDANTS of all the Jews who converted to Christianity in the time of Jesus?
I know there are still "Christian Palestinians" in Israel, are these their descendants?
Answer: With all due respect. 1st century Jews who accepted Jesus did not see it as a conversion to Christianity. They merely saw the Jewish Messiah as an extention of their faith. They believed He was the Messiah of Israel while other Jews rejected it. What happened was many of these first Jewish believing families were subject to torture and death, as were Gentile believers. Many over time forgot much of their roots as they assimilated into new nations. Yet the bulk of them, as proclaimed in Scripture, did not want to share the newfound faith with pagan Gentiles who were being brought in. The Jews are very proud of their covenants, oracles, and revelations from God, and many o them considered Gentiles unworthy of God or His covenants. So as Gentile believers began to outnumber original Jewish believers, many Jews abandoned the faith. As for the minority of Palestinian who are Christians, their families were converts of Christian sects who have lived in the area for the past 2000 years, even as Mohammad had dialogue with Christians who lived in Mecca and Medina.
Category: Religion & Spirituality
MOVIE REVIEW | THE DESCENDANTS; ‘Descendants,’ With George Clooney - Review
In a voice-over at the beginning of “The descendants,” Matt King ( George Clooney ) challenges the myth, endemic among mainlanders, that Hawaii, where he lives, is a paradise on earth. His brief rant is buttressed by images of poverty and grime that are powerful but also slightly misleading, since Matt’s story is not — or at - By A. O. SCOTT
THE DESCENDANTS - Rotten Tomatoes
Alexander Payne is at the top of his game again with The descendants, a movie that is funny, hopeful, and heartbreaking.
Shailene Woodley stars with George Clooney in "THE DESCENDANTS" (w/ trailer)
You may recognize Shailene Woodley from her leading role in "Secret Life of an American Teenager" as the teen mom, dealing with her "baby daddy," new love, old love and her parents on again and off again relationship as well as an unusally sassy younger ...
THE DESCENDANTS finally makes its Academy debut as the raves come in
Three months after dazzling audiences at the Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals, Alexander Paynes "The descendants" is finally hitting theaters in New York and Los Angeles today. And that opening timed perfectly to the films Los Angeles premiere ...
THE DESCENDANTS Is a Fantasy Island
As life-or-death dramedy, The descendants poses several important questions: Why has it taken Alexander Payne seven years to follow up on his critically beloved, box-office boffo, Merlot-squelching Sideways? And what has blunted this gifted ...
POSTING; Posting - Diversifying the City’s Housing Stock
IS there a mismatch between the housing New Yorkers need and the housing that gets built? Only 17 percent of dwelling units in the city are occupied by parents raising children under 25, according to the nonprofit Citizens Housing and Planning Council , but most new homes are designed with such traditional families in mind. What is missing, housing - By FRED A. BERNSTEIN
Director Alexander Payne Talks About THE DESCENDANTS
Like Payne's earlier films -- including Election and About Schmidt -- The descendants blends absurdly human comedy with tragic and touching situations.
George Clooney & Stacy Keibler: "THE DESCENDANTS" in LA ...
George Clooney and Stacy Keibler at the premiere of 'The descendants' at AMPAS Samuel Goldwyn Theater on November 15, 2011 in Beverly Hills, California.
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As life-or-death dramedy, The descendants poses several important questions: Why has it taken Alexander Payne seven years to follow up on his critically beloved, box-office boffo, Merlot-squelching Sideways? And what ha.
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From Alexander Payne, the creator of the Oscar-winning SIDEWAYS, set in Hawaii, The descendants is a sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic journey for Matt King ...
How many jews are actually descendants of jacob?
I love the jews and Israel. And Im wondering of all the jews in the world and those living in Israel, how many of them are actually descendants of Jacob or descending from the ancient israelites?
Answer: As long as your mother is Jewish, you are Jewish according to Orthodox and Conservative views. That's it.
Category: Israel
How Come Descendants of the Marquis de Sade Dont Want To Be Associated With Him?
I heard that throughout history The descendants of the Marquis de Sade refused to have any "marquis" or "de sade" in their names to avoid any contact of being related to him.
All unpublished works and manuscripts of him were destroyed by the family.
Was de Sade really this bad of a person?
Answer: It's not that he was a bad person, but he was an outcast in his time, and association with any outcast can be frightening.
Whether or not he was good or bad is a matter of opinion. For his relatives at the time, it may have been a matter of survival to disassociate with him. But that sort of opinion can be passed down through the generations. It's a very difficult thing to break from our parents' beliefs. It can mean we lose their support and even their love, and that's frightening.
Category: Religion & Spirituality
LOOK; Blood In The Water
A parish priest on the Faeroe Islands in the 17th century left behind an account of a grindadrap -- Faeroese for whale hunt -- a grisly spectacle in which pilot whales were killed with such fury on both sides, he wrote, that the water becometh as red as blood. For generations, the grindadrap has been a mainstay of life on the Faeroes, - By JULIE BOSMAN
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On Movies: Descendants director bristles at flawed characters comment
The lights came up after the gala screening of The descendants at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, and Alexander Payne and his star, George Clooney, trotted onto the stage - greeted by an especially rapturous standing ...
Movie Review: 'THE DESCENDANTS' Marks George Clooney's ...
"The descendants" marks George Clooney's ascendance.
THE DESCENDANTS Star Matthew Lillard Gives a Bracingly Honest Interview About Life After Scream
"Ill be right back." With those four words, Matthew Lillard carved out for himself a tiny, bloody morcel of horror movie history. It was after all, the a stand-out line from Scream, one of the most influential films of the last twenty years. And like the ...
THE DESCENDANTS (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The descendants is a 2011 comedy-drama film based on the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings. The film stars George Clooney, Judy Greer, Matthew Lillard and ...
THE DESCENDANTS (2011) - IMDb
Directed by Alexander Payne. With George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller, Nick Krause. A land baron tries to re-connect with his two daughters after ...
ARTS & LEISURE; Alexander Payne’s New Film, ‘THE DESCENDANTS’
SEVEN years. That’s how long it has been since the release of “Sideways,” which cemented Alexander Payne ’s status as one of this country’s most exciting movie directors, won him an Oscar for screenwriting and ratcheted up the anticipation for his next film — the sooner, the better. Seven years. He is aware of - By FRANK BRUNI
George Clooney: My Girlfriend Can Kick My Ass
"Shes very tall," Clooney, 50, told E! News at The descendants premiere in Los Angeles Tuesday night, when asked about his date. "She can kick my ass." Adding that the WWE star, 32, can also knock him down in a wrestling match, Clooney says ...
Fox Searchlight - THE DESCENDANTS - Official Site
From Alexander Payne, the creator of the Oscar-winning SIDEWAYS, set in Hawaii, The descendants is a sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic journey ...
ARTS & LEISURE; Risk Taker
LOS ANGELES TO transform himself into an aging J. Edgar Hoover, Leonardo DiCaprio sat for hours at a time while makeup artists gave him liver spots, yellow teeth and big, bulbous love handles. He spends a good chunk of Clint Eastwoods film J. Edgar that way, sweating and sneering in the unforgiving lighting of F.B.I. headquarters. The part - By BROOKS BARNES
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Would it have been preferable for the USA to never have had slavery?
On one hand, slavery was a terrible violation of human rights, but on the other hand, The descendants of African slaves have far more opportunities and a much better way of life here than they would have if their ancestors had never been brought to North America. Africa today is for the most part, violent and impoverished while the USA is one of the most advanced nations on Earth.
Would it have been better for Afro Americans? Would it have been better for Euro Americans? What would a modern America be like without a history of slavery? What do you think?
Category: History
ANTIQUES; Carousel of Misbehavior In the Folk Art World
In the seamy underbelly of folk-art collecting, owners over the past century have muddied the attributions of works, brazenly added new flourishes to old woodcarvings, and let bird droppings and paint spatters gather on canvases in storage. The historian Elizabeth Stillinger has named culprits in A Kind of Archeology: Collecting American Folk - By EVE M. KAHN
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Say Goodbye to These! Or, An Interview with Judy Greer
In the wake of Alexander Payne’s new film “The descendants,” I had the opportunity to speak with actress Judy Greer, who plays a small but meaningful role alongside George Clooney in this movie. To discuss her role in “The descendants ...
OSCARS: Jim Burke & Jim Taylor Give Birth To Alexander Payne’s ‘THE DESCENDANTS’
Fox Searchlight’s The descendants opened in New York and Los Angeles in five theatres (2 in NY and 3 in LA) last night. The buzz began with the sellouts of the special screenings and tribute to George Clooney in Telluride, and continued to the Toronto ...
Have THE DESCENDANTS of the original convicts sent to Australia suffered from their familys unfortunate start?
I wondered to what extent the fact of being sent there as a criminal tainted the convicts future prospects and thus their childrens - and their childrens? - lives? Has there been any knock-on effect that still has an impact today on the relative class/wealth/success of convicts descendants?
Answer: I doubt it. I think very few old Austalian families don't have some convict blood in their ancestry, and if not they probably don't admit so. There is a certain kudos to having this in your background, an appropriately Ozzie version of the Pilgrim Fathers. The land and resources grab from the Aborigines benefitted many of these original inmates, setting their descendants up for a prosperous future
Category: Genealogy
How are descendants from stepbrothers and sisters related? What is the correct terminology?
For example, my great, great grandfather was married twice and had a set of children with each wife. My great-grandfather, grandfather, father and I descended from his marriage to the second woman. Would my relation to The descendants of the children he had with his first wife have the "step" prefix added?
Answer: The children of the two marriages were half siblings, not step children.
Category: Genealogy
How can we all be descendants of Adam and Eve when everyone on Earth except Noah and family were drowned by ?
God in the great flood. Does that not make us descendants of Noah?
Answer: Noah was a descendant of Adam and Eve.
We are all descendants of Noah, and Adam and Eve.
Category: Religion & Spirituality
THE DESCENDANTS: Alexander Payne, cast on filming in Hawaii
The biggest star of Alexander Paynes "The descendants" is clearly George Clooney. But theres another major player with a prominent role in the directors new film: the state of Hawaii. Adapted from Kaui Hart Hemmings novel of the same name ...
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The Descendents are an American punk rock band from Hermosa Beach, California. As of 2011, they have released six studio albums, three live albums, three compilation ...
THE DESCENDANTS (2011) - Movie Info - Yahoo! Movies
Matt King is an indifferent husband and fatherof two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off ...
THE DESCENDANTS: George Clooneys best performance yet? - Yahoo! News
The Oscar-winning charmer plays against type as a hapless dad in Alexander Payne s new flick. The descendants, the first film in seven years from Sideways director ...
THE DESCENDANTS | Movie Reviews | Rolling Stone
1 day ago ... If there's something fundamentally wrong with The descendants, I can't find it. What I see ranks high on the list of the year's best films. Director ...
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George Clooney plays the leader of a storied Hawaiian family as they are forced to decide what to do with their last, vast parcel of land. At the same time he ...
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THE DESCENDANTS?
does anyone remember that band
sorry i spelled the descendents wrong
Answer: Yes, I do. LMAO!!!
Category: Royalty
ARTSBEAT; Disputed Painting Seized From Florida Museum
A 16th century painting on loan to a Florida museum was seized Friday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents because it is suspected of having been looted during World War II. The Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan, Italy, had loaned Girolamo Romanos 1538 painting, Christ Carrying the Cross Dragged by a Rogue, to the Mary Brogan Museum - By PATRICIA COHEN
If Jews are sons of Abraham, then why does the mother have to be Jewish for the sons to be considered Jews?
If someone tells me, Jews are all descendants of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and he sons of Jacob. The first thing that comes to mind, is a PATRIARCHAL LINE.
But then, Im told that the MOTHER is the one that needs to be Jewish in other for the children to be considered Jewish.
Then I stop understanding.
Can someone explain this to me?
Answer: Okay. So - The Jews started off originally as the children of Jacob all sticking together, and as a family forming a nation as they grew and grew in Egypt. In Egypt, they were all The descendants of the 12 sons of Jacob. However, they still weren't officially G-d's nation yet. That only happened when they got the Torah at Sinai. Once they got the Torah, they became mandated in all the laws of the Torah and became G-d's nation. All of them became Jews at that point. So what happened is that this group of people who were descended from Jacob's 12 sons, and therefore Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as well, were now turned into full-fledged "Jews" together. And from that point on, the maternal law was put into effect; which means that to be a Jew without having actually been present at the giving of the Torah, your mother had to be a Jew (or you have to have converted).
As others have said, this rule makes sense because it's a lot more likely for the mother to stick around long enough to tell the kid they're Jewish than the father is. If it relied on the father, there would literally be millions of people in the world who "might" technically be Jewish and there would be no way for them to find out. And that would be extremely messy, because then, according to Judaism, everyone who didn't know their father would be required to keep Judaism as if they are a Jew, just in case. So in the end this rule works out very well for the world.
Just to note, EddieJ said that "At some point in time the rabbis decided that the paternity of the father could always be in doubt". This is untrue, because this rule was put into effect immediately upon the receival of the Torah at Mt. Sinai. It's not something that was put into effect later; it's always been there.
Category: Religion & Spirituality
Are there any descendants of Alexander the Greek still alive today?
I have read that Alexander the Great had daughters. I know that his only son was killed. Did the daughters survive and did they have children? Are there any descendants of Alexander the Great alive today?
Yes, Alexander the Great, and he was Greek.
Answer: I don't know, but it is
Alexander the Great
not Greek
I think he was Roman
but that he conquered the Greeks, maybe other way around,
but its still
Alexander the Great
Category: Genealogy
From how far back can THE DESCENDANTS of theft victims claim their family property?
If The descendants of holocaust Jews can, what about other people, and how far back can this go?
Lets say I buy a silver plate with what turns out to be Lord Shitbags coat of arms on it. If the present lord Shitbag can prove it was stolen from his ancestor in 1880, do I have to give it back to him? And if not, why not?
Answer: I hope my scum family are reading this (as are economic commentators, professors, angry Liverpudlians and lawyers)
Category: Law & Ethics
How can an extinct animal have descendants?
Please dont say your grandmother is dead isnt she. If a six mile wide meteor hit earth and the human race was wiped out then humans would not have descendants. So how can a t-rex evolve into anything, let alone, a chicken?
Clarification. How can an animal that became extinct due to a cataclysmic event have descendants? Not to say there is not at least one good answer already submitted.
Answer: First, T-Rex did not directly evolve into chickens. T-Rex belonged to a group of dinosaurs called theropods, which are extinct today. However, recent studies have shown that birds are actually The descendants of small nonflying theropods (i.e. over 100 characters in the skeleton link these groups). These small theropods survived the mass extinction that wiped out T-Rex, and their descendents evolved into birds.
So, although distantly related to theropod dinosaurs, chickens (or any other bird for that matter) are not the direct descendants of T-Rex.
Category: Biology
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is THE DESCENDANTS a chick flick?
I dont want to watch a boring girls film so before i purchase to go can people give me a heads up. Thanks.
Category: Movies
How do the Inca descendants relate to the land?
Im doing an assignment on the Inca civilization and have been asked to research and record, how the incas of today (inca descendants) relate to the land. If anybody has any other information on the inca civilization, please let me know. Ive tried wikipedia, and there is nothing there that helps me answer this question. Thanks!
Answer: Aymara and Quechua people are desedants of Incas. Aymara people inhabit the Titicaca Basin in Southern Peru. They practice agriculture and raising typical animals. Quechua people are the rural population of highland of Peru together with Aymara people. Quechuan is named official language of Peru and is spoken by 11 million inhabitans.
Category: Anthropology
THE DESCENDANTS (2011) - Critics Reviews - MSN Movies
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Clooney on THE DESCENDANTS: If its not nominated for Best Picture, Ill be shocked
George Clooney, Oscar winner, humanitarian and two-time Sexiest Man Alive, loves farts, fart jokes and even fart apps. "We think its one of the funniest things in the history of mankind," Clooney says in a new Rolling Stone cover story about he and his ...
Are the Palestinians THE DESCENDANTS of the Biblical Philistines?
Are the Palestinians The descendants of the Biblical Philistines, a recent innovation, or neither? Please keep the hatred out of it. I dont want answers that describe either group as terrorists. I want intelligent answers!
Answer: Actually there is no such thing as a modern day Palestinian. They are Arabs that were expelled from Jordan after they tried to overthrow the King and Government.
Around 1200 B.C.E., about the same time Moses led the Israelites back to Canaan, a Mediterranean seafaring people called the Philistines settled on the western seaboard of what is now Israel and the Gaza Strip. After the Jews returned, the Philistines battled them for years, including the skirmish recounted in the story of David and Goliath. The word Philistine is the etymological predecessor of the word Palestine. However, the modern-day Palestinians do not claim a cultural or hereditary connection to the Philistines — the tie between the two peoples is in name only.
Here you will find many articles describing Jordan expeling the present day Arabs that occupy Palestine
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Category: Politics
THE DESCENDANTS - Rotten Tomatoes
Review: Alexander Payne is at the top of his game again with The descendants, a movie that is funny, hopeful, and heartbreaking.
George Clooneys funny farts on Descendants set
George Clooney kept making fart noises on his phone on the set of The descendants, his co-star Shailene Woodley has claimed. George Clooney made his castmates laugh on the set of The descendants by making fart noises. The Hollywood hunk is ...
'THE DESCENDANTS': George Clooney and costars dazzle critics ...
"The descendants": Having fared well at festivals and widely predicted as a best-picture candidate, the new family drama "The descendants" arrives today from director Alexander Payne ("Sideways") and star George Clooney ...
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Director heads to new territory with Descendants
HANALEI, Hawaii ---- It was precisely the kind of day that drives Hawaiis $10 billion vacation business. The sun sliced through the clouds along the coast of Kauai, a windward breeze blowing across the bay as children played in the warm ocean waters ...
Descendants is latest from Minn. moviemaker Jim Burke
Minneapolis — Its a big weekend for movie producer Jim Burke. His latest film "The Descendents" opens in select cities, including his hometown of Minneapolis. "The Descendents" is Burkes latest collaboration with Oscar winning director ...
Brazils Long Shadow Vexes Some Neighbors
LA PAZ, Bolivia -- Sandal-clad indigenous protesters have excoriated their president, calling him a lackey of Brazil. Angry demonstrations in front of Brazils embassy here denounced its imperialist tendencies. Bolivian intellectuals lambasted the São Paulo bourgeoisie, likening them to the slave hunters who expanded the boundaries of - By SIMON ROMERO; Sara Shahriari contributed reporting.
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The descendants is a 2011 comedy-drama film based on the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings. The film stars George Clooney, Judy Greer, Matthew Lillard and Shailene Woodley ...
Box Office Preview: George Clooney's 'THE DESCENDANTS' Lands in ...
The Alexander Payne-directed film is opening midweek in New York and Los Angeles to build word-of-mouth and get a jump on box office giant "The Twilight: Breaking Dawn -- Part 1," which could take away women.