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Minnesotans goes for Oscars

Less than an hour into the 80th Academy Award, Javier Bardem’s best-supporting actor award for “No Country For Old Men” launched what promised to be a Minnesota-centric affair, with Joel and Ethan Coen’s “No Country” and Diablo Cody’s “Juno” considered runaway favorites in most top categories.

“Thank you to the Coens for thinking I could do that and putting one of the most horrible haircuts in history on my head,” said Bardem, who played the role of a cold-blooded killer with a hideous hairdo.
Thirty minutes later, the Coen brothers collected their second screenwriting Oscar for they adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s gritty, pessimistic crime thriller.
“Thank you very much for this,” said a smiling Joel, who laconically offered a self-deprecating explanation for the award. “I think whatever successes we’ve had in this area has been entirely attributable to how selective we are.”
“We’ve only adapted Homer and Cormac McCarthy.”
Ethan Coen was even more reticent. “We, uh…thank you very much,” he said in the shortest speech of the evening.

The Coens’ film entered the evening as the prestige leader it has dominated the run-up to the Academy Awards, with a trove of top prizes

• Producers Guild
• Directors Guild
• Screen Actors Guild
• Writers Guild

“Juno,” the quirky comedy written in Minnesota by Cody, also has been an awards magnet, winning in three top slots at Saturday’s independent Spirit Awards. The little indie that could entered the Oscars competition with impressive populist appeal, as well. After 12 weeks in release it has earned $150 million, more than double the take of its nearest best-picture rival, “No Country.”

There was no hiding from Jon Steward, though.
“Diablo Cody used to be an exotic dancer and now she’s an Oscar-nominated screenwriter,” Stewart noted in his opening monologue as the camera cut to her beaming smile. “I hope you’re enjoying the pay cut.”
Cody insisted on Saturday that she didn’t believe “Juno” was destined for a big night at the Oscars, despite nominations for four awards including best picture.
“The fact that people have embraced this movie the way they did continues to be a surprise,” Cody said. “I still think of us as the ‘little pregnant girl movie’ that has somehow caught on. It doesn’t feel like an Oscar movie.”

In the same category also competing for the top prize.

• “There Will Be Blood,” starring Daniel Day-Lewis as a ruthless oil baron.,
• “Atonement,” a British-accented romantic epic
• The thoughtful legal drama “Michael Clayton”

Films or filmmakers with Minnesota connections were up for a total of 17 Academy Awards.

• Minneapolis-based producer William Pohlad’s “Into the Wild” scored nominations for supporting actor Hal Holbrook (at 82, the oldest nominee in the history of the category) and for film editing.

• Jim Erickson of Badger, Minn., was nominated (but did not win) for his rustic turn-of-the-century set decoration on “There Will Be Blood.” And Edina native Jim Burke was one of the producers of the double nominee “the Savages”.
  
  
• Minnesota talent was also on tap in the spotlight. Amy Adams, who began her acting career at Chanhassen dinner Theatre, trilled her nominated “Happy Working Song,” which she sang as Giselle, the Disney princess she plays in “Enchanted.” Adams was also on tap to present the award for best original score.

After half a centruy of scholarly work, new documents about the lives of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg have been made public.

"Certainly, after 50 years, the unique historical value of these records outweighs any secrecy rationale," said Thomas S. Blanton, the director of the National Security Archive, which filed the petition, with support from more than a dozen scholars. The archive, based at George Washington University, is a nonprofit group that uses the Freedom of Information Act to challenge government secrecy.

Among the historians were John Lewis Gaddis, the Robert A. Lovett professor of military and naval history at Yale, and Ronald Radosh, adjunct senior fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington and past president of the Historians of American Communism.

Welcome to the land of Finnishspirit

I probably should start with a presentation of myself and I. I'm born in Sweden 27 years ago and have lived there since that. Maybe you are asleep after reading this but ill continue anyway. To make a long story short, I have studied the last five years. And have one year left at Dalarna University. I'm studying Media and Communication towards sports. If theres anything you wanna know, ask me and ill try to give a good answer.

My knowledge about American media is kind of weak. But I rather would look into it through Swedish view. In Sweden we have two big newspapers, “Aftonbladet” and “Expressen”. They compete every day to get the readers to their papers. These papers are what we call evening-papers. We have also morning papers, but the majority reads evening papers. Our major newspapers have implemented the first layer. We often have comments to everything and that makes often the journalists to write about the different kind of comments that the readers give to different articles. Theres also stage 2 usage of layers, with a possibility “have you ever done/or been a part” to make comments and also write stories about different subjects. I recognize most of the layers through Swedish media. They have done some really interesting things to create a new kind of journalism. I see some problems in this cause for example: Last fall there were plane crash in Thailand. In the same plane we had four Swedish people. Two of them survived. When the plane crashed and the guys realized that they survived. The first thing they did was to pick up their mobile to record the incident. In that kind of situation I would rather do some helping. One new thing that the media in sweden uses is the map. When a big crash or a bank getting robbed they use a mapping system to show where it has happened. I actually don’t like that idea because it gives the reader ideas. For example to take his own camera and take pictures and sell them to newspapers.

Over and out from Sweden.