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Film News: Marescot to direct $16 million docu feature -- Brazil's Gullane and Germany's Eva Group have boarded Luc Marescot's docu feature 'Amazonia, the Green Planet,' one of the most expensive films ever about the Amazon.

Hip-hop group Black Eyed Peas go straight to number one with their comeback single, Boom Boom Pow.

Seattle Theatre Group (STG) is proud to announce its 2009 - 2010 performance season with 34 extraordinary engagements at the historic Paramount and Moore Theatres, as well as the Falls Theatre at ACT. Shows range from performance art and comedy to legendary musicians, dance and silent film.

Charles Darwin's great-great-granddaughter Ruth Padel 'humbled' to win most important academic poetry position in UKRuth Padel has been elected the new Oxford professor of poetry after a controversial contest for the most important academic poetry position in the UK.Padel, the great-great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin, is the first woman to take the role since it was created in 1708.The Nobel laureate Derek Walcott withdrew from the running last week after a dossier detailing sexual harassment claims made against him by a Harvard student in 1982 was sent anonymously to 200 Oxford academics.A group of students and graduates, headed by the secretary of the Oxford University Poetry Society, called for the contest to be suspended after the row. Walcott, who had been the frontrunner, criticised the 'low tactics' and 'degrading attempt at character assassination' the election had become.His withdrawal left Oxford graduates and staff with the choice of Padel or the Indian poet and critic Ar

The Congress-led United Progressive Alliance's (UPA) victory in the Indian general elections made front page news in the Pakistani media Sunday, with at least one newspaper saying 'disparate groups of voters prescribed a middle path' under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's 'care'.

Sick of school and the expectations placed on him, 18-year-old Gabriel Garcia Marquez joined a musical group, partied all night, and disappeared for days at a time at a local whorehouse.