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YESTERDAY'S POLL
What is the BEST JIM CARREY film?
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - 31% Ace Ventura: Pet Detective - 16% The Truman Show - 13% Liar Liar - 9% The Mask - 8% Dumb and Dumber - 7% Man on the Moon - 7% Bruce Almighty - 6% Me, Myself and Irene - 5% Top Write In VOTE: Number 23
China has blocked access to the New York Times website, days after the Beijing government defended its right to censor online content it considers illegal.
Meanwhile, a Chinese woman known as "Kappa Girl," whose homemade erotic pic became an online sensation, has been detained by police in Shanghai.
Attempts to log on to the New York Times website late Sunday failed, producing the message that comes up whenever one tries to access a banned site in China.
Beijing loosened many controls on Internet content during the 2008 Olympics in compliance with an agreement with the Intl. Olympic Committee, but it has started rolling back some of those freedoms in recent weeks.
Times spokeswoman Catherine J. Mathis said there were no technical difficulties in accessing the paper's website. It was functioning fine for readers in Japan and Hong Kong, she said.
The slowing economy means the government is keen to keep a lid on any kind of dissent spreading and causing social unrest.
The government has previously temporarily blocked the Chinese-language website of the BBC, and websites of Voice of America, Asiaweek and Ming Pao, a Hong Kong newspaper, earlier in the week. But apart from Ming Pao the sites were all accessible Friday.ct for Miller, though he has been mulling a "Sin City" sequel.
'MOCKINGBIRD' DIRECTED PASSES AWAY
Robert Mulligan, who directed "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Summer of '42," among other films, died Friday of heart disease at his Connecticut home. He was 83.
Mulligan received a best director Oscar nomination in 1963 for "Mockingbird."
The brother of actor Richard Mulligan, he also directed "The Great Impostor," "Love With the Proper Stranger," "Baby, the Rain Must Fall," "Inside Daisy Clover," "Up the Down Staircase" and "The Other." He also narrated "Summer of '42."
Known for his diffident nature and sensitivity toward players, Mulligan directed five different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Natalie Wood, Ruth Gordon and Ellen Burstyn, with Peck winning the best actor Oscar for "Mockingbird."
He also elicited consistently fine performances from a range of his players, including Anthony Perkins in "Fear Strikes Out," Jennifer O'Neill in "Summer of '42," Robert Redford in "Inside Daisy Clover" and Richard Gere in "Bloodbrothers."
Mulligan earned his stripes in live TV in New York in the early 1950s and helmed such productions as "Studio One," "Playhouse 90," "The Alco Hour," "The Philco Television Playhouse" and "The DuPont Show of the Month" before becoming a movie director in 1957 with "Fear Strikes Out," the story of baseball pitcher Jimmy Piersall.
In 1982, Mulligan directed "Kiss Me Goodbye," a reworking of the Brazilian film "Donna Flor and Her Two Husbands." His more recent films include "Clara's Heart" (1988), starring Whoopi Goldberg, and "The Man in the Moon" (1991).
CLASSIC FILMS
BY GENRE
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Nothing Like the Holidays
Yes man
Slumdog Millionaire
Frost/Nixon
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Australia
Quantum of Solace
Milk
Four Christmases
Twilight
Bolt
