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President obama and japans Prime Minister shinzo abe have laid wreaths at the site of the japanese attack on Pearl Harbour where nearly 2,500 americans died in1941. Its the first visit by a japanese leader while still in office. Mr abe pledged that the horrors of war must never be repeated but stopped short of apologising. Heres our tokyo correspondent Rupert Wingfield hayes. It has taken 75 years but today the Prime Minister of japan and the president of the United States stood side by side in ...

Major brands and Hollywood studios appear to be questioning the benefits of social messaging as investors like BlackRock reverse course.

Marvel Studios, which is owned by the modern-day Evil Empire known as Disney, is allegedly putting its television division through a major restructuring following one failure after another on Disney+,...

A little more than halfway into Jonathan Lethem’s The Arrest comes a chapter titled “Postapocalyptic and Dystopian Stories”, in which the screenwriter protagonist and his movie-producer friend debate the appeal of such tales while name-checking a panoply of authors and titles – Vonnegut, King, Atwood, Walter Tevis, Philip K. Dick, George R. Stewart, Walter M. Miller, Emily St. John Mandel, Russell Hoban, and especially Cormac McCarthy. McCarthy’s The Road “bugs the fuck out of me,...

Require different disciplines and training. she mastered them all. carrie did something equally amazing. she had the "star wars" trilogy. she was a superstar. she did "hannah" and when harry met sally. she wrote "postcards from the edge," a remarkable book turned into a film starring meryl streep and shirley mcclain, directed by mike nichols. she became a famous script doctor. she would fix everybody elses scripts. she went from a superstar actor to a superstar writer. imagine doing -- each of t...

Princess leia over the years, but she was much more than that role, a gift ed actress and extraordinary writer as well. >> of course most people know her as princess leia, but she had a very successful career as an actress in other movies, including "is when harry met sally" and "the blues brothers." she wrote a one-woman show about drinking based on a memoir. she had adapted "postcards from the edge" for the film version, and she was a very well noted hollywood script doctor. she would work beh...

But after she rose to fame in that role she had a very successful career as an actress in other movies like when harry met sally and blues brothers. but mostly was a writer. an author. postcards from the edge. and the she was also a screen writer as well. she adapted postcards from the edge for the film version and she was a very noted hollywood script doctor. she would work behind the scenes on movies like "wedding singer" and skt sister act" to bunch them before they started filming. she was v...

>> well, i mean, her career was shaped obviously in most peoples perceptions by "star wars," but she was really a multifaceted talent and a tremendous writer. wrote books and made a very good living as a script doctor working on movies like "hook" and "the wedding singer" and punching up dialogue on those. in terms of her acting career, "star wars" came so early in her career that it probably closed some doors for her, and she played comic roles and supporting roles. but the career that she had ...

On the revolution of this affair between the two of them, but they were clearly very close, werent they? lets talk about that and her incredible talent as both an actress and author. >> well, yes. i mean, that was really in a way the sort of soul of the original "star wars" trilogy, that relationship. and it got much richer with the empire strikes back which was the scene we saw where that relationship took root and grew. but carrie fisher was a talented actress, but really made a name for herse...

Very honest. in a refreshing way because its not 134g ysomething you get in town. >> its the honesty about the way she spoke in her own life. >> absolutely. >> nischelle, i want to ask you, her portrayal of the princess is the one we most remember but she had so much depth in her work in so many ways that people may not have been aware of. >> absolutely. i mean, she was -- she had numerous guest stars on television shows, she was a script writer, they called her the script doctor. she would come...