For years one of the biggest players at the Oscars, Weinstein has now been
thrown out of the academy.
Not exact matches
If you want to know what led a bunch
of shivering teenagers to sort through the trash behind Prosser Career
Academy one recent, icy day, try to get your head around this statistic: Every day, kids in the Chicago Public Schools district
throw out nearly a quarter
of a million lunch and breakfast trays made
of polystyrene foam.
Set in early 1900s England, The Winslow Boy follows the Winslow family, who are distress to find that the young 14 - year - old Winslow boy has been
thrown out of the royal naval
academy for stealing a postal order.
Whenever the question
of «What good are the
Academy Awards» gets
thrown around, I tend to let people bluster their way around subjects like
out -
of - touch voters and million - dollar ad campaigns and vanity and spectacle and hostility to art.
Throwing out Bound for Glory, I've never seen it, and quite frankly never heard
of it, this year had 4 huge movies vying for Best Picture and the
Academy chose wrong.
«We've
thrown out tradition and rebuilt this thing,» said Arthur Levine, the
academy's founding president and former head
of one
of the preeminent traditional schools
of education, Columbia University's Teachers College.
The public is also wising up to the hijinks being perpetrated by K12.com, Eva Moskowitz and her Success
Academies, and countless charter schools across the country and the reformers are scrambling by
throwing out a flurry
of «new» initiatives, each one nuttier than the other.
«We just
threw that
out as the topic, and then all
of the
Academy artists submitted, and then the process
of selection started.»