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Some artists just get better and better with time. Don Harvey , a longtime teacher, organizer, instigator, artistic chameleon and all-around Northeast Ohio cultural provocateur, is one of them.

Matteo Garrone's watchable satire on reality TV is played with gusto and heart - though is fundamentally a little predictable For his latest film, showing in competition in Cannes, Matteo Garrone has brought back a couple of actors from his gutwrenching true-life mafia drama Gomorrah - but the tone and feel is very different.

The public should be allowed to hear the five alleged 9/11 conspirators describe what the CIA did to them in secret overseas prisons, the American Civil Liberties Union said in a motion filed at the Guantanamo war court late Wednesday.