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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: blacklist

blacklist stories: 5 news summaries

(Newser) - Legendary Hollywood screenwriter Budd Schulberg has died, the New York Times reports. He was 95. Schulberg, who won an Oscar for On the Waterfront in 1955, was the son of a movie mogul and grew up as a Hollywood insider. His 1941 novel What Makes Sammy Run?, a scathing look... More »

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Hollywood • Communist Party • author • Joe Louis • screenwriters • movie industry • Spike Lee • blacklist • Budd Schulberg • On the Waterfront • House Un-American Activities Committee • Red scare • John Wayne • Max Schmeling

EU Prohibits 6 Kazakh Airlines From Airspace

Cites safety, won't say
if Borat mockery lies behind ban

Apr 8, 09 12:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - The European Union has banned six Kazakh airlines from its airspace, citing safety reasons, the Guardian reports today. No specific reason was given, though perhaps comedian Sacha Baron Cohen’s skit about Borat flying on “Air Kazakh”—a rickety plane with a drunken one-eyed pilot—may have finally... More »

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European Union • Kazakhstan • airline safety • Borat • Sacha Baron Cohen • blacklist

ANALYSIS

Apple Could Remotely Kill iPhone Apps

Phone checks in for instructions on bad seeds, blogger finds

Aug 7, 08 5:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Apple appears capable of remotely deactivating programs paid for and installed by iPhone users, Arnold Kim writes on MacRumors. The discovery was made when an iPhone user uncovered a hidden web address linked to a software blacklist maintained by Apple—presumably intended to screen malicious software from being used. “... More »

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iPhone • Apple • iPhone applications • blacklist

Obituary

 Film Noir
 Master
 Dassin
 Dead at 96  

American director made classic Rififi in France

Apr 1, 08 7:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jules Dassin, a master of film noir who left Hollywood after being blacklisted, has died in an Athens hospital at the age of 96, reports the Los Angeles Times. Born to Russian Jewish immigrants in Connecticut, Dassin made such dark crime dramas as Brute Force and The Naked City in... More »

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film • obituary • blacklist • Jules Dassin • film noir • Rififi • François Truffaut • Brute Force • The Naked City • Melina Mercouri

Director Rips China Over Actress Ban

Lee blasts media silence, blacklisting
of Lust, Caution star

Mar 10, 08 1:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Director Ang Lee has blasted Chinese officials for blacklisting a young actress who appeared in his film Lust, Caution. Authorities have ordered TV stations to stop reporting on actress Tang Wei and to pull ads featuring her, even though censors signed off on her portrayal of a student activist who... More »

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China • Ang Lee • Brokeback Mountain • Lust, Caution • Tang Wei • Lost in Beijing • blacklist • Chinese officials • Tony Leung

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