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This summer, a 1,000-mile pipeline is expected to begin pumping oil from Azerbaijan's Caspian Sea coast, through neighboring Georgia, to a Turkish port on the Mediterranean Sea. Ivan Watson travels the length of the pipeline and reports on the people and places along the way.

The Innocence Project has been working to use DNA evidence to free people wrongfully convicted of crimes. The new documentary, After Innocence (opening February 10 at the Ken Cinema with the filmmaker Jessica Sanders making an appearance) follows the lives of a group of men who have been set free.

After Innocence

The Israeli government formally notifies Jewish settlers in the Gaza Strip they have 48 hours to leave their homes or be forcibly removed. Thousands of soldiers delivered eviction orders, but most settlers have refused to leave.

I found that peculiar, says Hatcher who came to San Diego earlier this month to promote his film, then I realized that was the time that was when women were finally allowed to play women and Kynaston was out of a job. I thought this could be a good story about a man whos caught in a huge cultural sea change and whose identity is turned upside down because the one thing he does really well, the one thing that he identifies himself by, is taken away from him.

In the Mood for Love

Director Baz Luhrmann is dead on in his assertion that Shakespeare wrote for a broad audience. In fact, if Shakespeare were writing today he'd probably be doing films or television. We tend to forget that Shakespeare's plays were first and foremost popular entertainment. He wrote of and for his times, and had the kind of pop appeal and commercial savvy that Steven Spielberg exemplifies today.

You could say that Sir Ian McKellen is an actor who lives and breaths Shakespeare. Introduced to the Bard when he was only eight, McKellen says that he was riveted by the idea of people standing up on a platform speaking other people's words and weaving magic out of it all. infected with the acting bug, McKellen went to Cambridge where the example set by fellow students Trevor Nunn and David Frost helped convince him to pursue a career in the arts.

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