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Oct 01

Venice Golden Lion for Alexander Sokurov's Faust

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Russian director Alexander Sokurov's take on the German legend Faust has won the film a Golden Lion - the top award at the Venice Film Festival.

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VENICE, Italy (AP) — Russian director Aleksander Sokurov's "Faust," a new take on the German legend about the quest for knowledge at all cost, won the Golden Lion prize at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday.

Aug 28

The Novel Is Finished!

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Yes, at long last I completed the seventh draft of my novel.  It was a long, hard climb  and I'm glad to be finally over the mountain top.  There is still more editing to be done and more than a few sentences to be rewritten, but I feel good enough about it to show it to people.  A coworker who read it made notes on grammar errors and misspellings, very