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The Butler

Opens Friday, Aug 16, 2013 Synopsis: Director Lee Daniels (Precious) teams up with Emmy Award-winning screenwriter Danny Strong to tell the remarkable story of White House butler Eugene Allen (played by Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker), who served eight U.S. presidents over the course of 30 years, and witnessed sweeping social change during his three decades of service at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Inspired by Wil Haygood's Washington Post article, The Butler features Robin Williams as Dwight D. Eisenhower, James Marsden as John F. Kennedy, Liev Schreiber as Lyndon B. Johnson, John Cusack as Richard M. Nixon and Alan Rickman as Ronald Reagan. Oprah Winfrey, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Terrence Howard, Jane Fonda, David Oyelowo, Lenny Kravitz, Melissa Leo, and Vanessa Redgrave co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi Cast: Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Terrence Howard, Alan Rickman, Jane Fonda Movie Details Play Trailer Buy Tickets Movie Review

JUMP: A glimpse into another mind

...and film scores undam the creative juices. Sometimes inspiration is impressive and grand. Nelson's step dad was an Emmy award winning title designer for feature films. He introduced Nelson to the creative world of Hollywood where she got to witness...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2013-01-24/jump-glimpse-another-mind
Art
Top Chef a la Juneau

...with Alaska, and I would tell Padma ? everything.In early August 2012, Padma Lakshmi and the rest of Bravo's Emmy award-winning "Top Chef" cast and crew sailed and flew into Juneau to shoot the final two episodes of the show's...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2013-02-07/top-chef-%C3%A0-la-juneau
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Break Of Reality to perform Monday

...hundreds of performances across the country, the group has written music for dance, film, and television, including an Emmy award-winning episode of AIR: America's Investigative Reports on PBS. They've also released three albums: "The Sound...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2012-10-25/break-reality-perform-monday
Art
Man who accused Elmo puppeteer of teen sex recants

...of fame. In 2006, he published an autobiography, "My Life as a Furry Red Monster," and he was the subject of the 2011 documentary "Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey."He has won 23 daytime Emmy awards and one prime-time Emmy.

http://juneauempire.com/not-web/2012-11-14/man-who-accused-elmo-puppeteer-teen-s
Not For Web
Gold Town to host Skype interview with artist Wayne White after Tuesday film

...puppeteer, sculptor and musician, White was the main creative director of "Pee Wee's Playhouse," winning three Emmy awards for his work on the show. He also was the art director for the music video "Big Time" by Peter Gabriel, and designed...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2012-09-21
Art
'Wreck-It' casts a wide and beguiling net

...both outcasts, their struggles for acceptance are comfortably similar and familiar.Making his feature film debut, Emmy-award winning director Rich Moore ("The Simpsons") ably manipulates the action by tantalizingly shifting the characters...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2012-11-01/wreck-it-casts-wide-and-beguiling-net
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UAS to honor Tutunov with reception Sunday

...Mexico, and the United States.Tutunov's recording of the Abeliovich Piano Concerto was featured as part of the Emmy award winning soundtrack for the History Channel documentary, "Russia: Land of Tsars," and his CD of the Tchaikovsky Concert...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2012-03-29/uas-honor-tutunov-reception-sunday
Art
Mike Wallace, '60 Minutes' interrogator, dies at 93

...language, capable of reducing an interview subject to a shaking, sweating mess.Wallace, who won his 21st and final Emmy Award at 89, died Saturday in the New Canaan, Conn., care facility where he had lived the last few years of his life...

http://juneauempire.com/david-bauder/2012-04-09/mike-wallace-60-minutes-interrog
Gary Sinise band to play 3 Alaska shows

...was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Lt. Dan Taylor in "Forrest Gump" and he won Emmy Awards as Outstanding Male Actor in a movie or miniseries for portrayals of George Wallace and Harry Truman. His 12-member...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/091610/reg_708449390.shtml
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