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Sampling of quotes from the Grammys - Yahoo! News

"I just keep thinking back to when you're in second grade and you sing at your talent show the first time and people joke around and they say, 'Oh, maybe we'll see you at the Grammys someday.' That just seems like an impossible dream. I just feel like I'm standing here accepting an impossible dream right now and I thank you so much for that." — Taylor Swift, accepting the Grammy for best country album for "Fearless."

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Polanski's Swiss detention 'could last a year' - Yahoo! News

"If the Swiss justice ministry decides to grant extradition, Mr Polanski can appeal to the Federal Penal Court and then the Federal Court," Justice Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf told Le Matin newspaper.

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Kathryn Bigelow tops directors with `Hurt Locker' - Yahoo! News

The 58-year-old filmmaker is the first woman to win the guild's top honor, which positions her and the film as shoe-ins for the Academy Awards. The DGA boasts that its winner has gone on to win the Oscar all but six times since 1948.

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Gilyard’s big plays outshine Tebow in Senior Bowl - College Football - Rivals.com

He fumbled twice and finished 8 of 12 passing for 50 yards in the showcase for senior NFL prospects. Tebow’s longest completion was 11 yards and he netted 4 yards on four rushes, but was never turned loose as a power runner as he often was with the Gators. He battled strep throat early but didn’t miss any practice time during a week when he was trying to prove to skeptical NFL teams and draft analysts that he could be a starting pro quarterback.

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Bigelow, Cameron, Tarantino vie for director honor - Yahoo! News

LOS ANGELES – A month into Hollywood's awards season and the competition is still wide open. "The Hurt Locker" appears to be a front-runner, but "Avatar," "Precious," "Inglourious Basterds" and "Up in the Air" have won their share of awards, too.

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Famed film editor struck, killed by car in NYC - Yahoo! News

NEW YORK – An award-winning film editor who worked on many of Errol Morris' documentaries, including "The Fog of War," was struck and killed by a getaway car speeding from a Manhattan drugstore robbery, police and her mother said on Saturday.

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Music industry prepares for post-merger landscape - Yahoo! News

NASHVILLE (Billboard) – After nearly a year of intense scrutiny, political posturing and consumer outcry, it's time for the music business to come to grips with its new superpower: Live Nation Entertainment.

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CBC News - Film - Montreal film The Wild Hunt scores Slamdance audience prize

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Social forum ends with vows to fight capitalism - Yahoo! News

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil – Leftists who converged in Brazil to protest what they view as uncontrolled capitalism ended the World Social Forum on Friday with vows to take advantage of the financial crisis to promote a global socialist agenda.

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