`About Elly,’ `Racing Dreams’ take Tribeca awards (AP)
AP – The Iranian drama “About Elly” and documentary “Racing Dreams” won top honors at the Tribeca Film Festival.
76ers’ Miller, DiLeo unsure about future (AP)
Andre Miller will be one of the top available free agents this summer. He just doesn’t want to say if the Philadelphia 76ers are one of the teams he will consider. If the star point guard does return, there’s no guarantee Tony DiLeo will be back to coach him. Miller and DiLeo said little about their futures Thursday night after the 76ers were eliminated from the playoffs by the Orlando Magic.
Magic eliminate 76ers without Howard (AP)
Dwight Howard can trade the keyboard for hitting the boards. Orlando’s big man will get to play again in the next round of the NBA playoffs. On a night the suspended Howard recorded a double-double in blog and Twitter posts from his hotel room, the Magic advanced to the second round of the Eastern Conference playoffs, beating the Philadelphia 76ers 114-89 in Game 6 on Thursday.
Ireland-set "Eclipse" a delightful ghost drama (Reuters)
Reuters – For his film “The Eclipse,” Conor McPherson leverages several of the assets that made his award-winning, multi-Tony-nominated Broadway play “The Seafarer” a hit.
Gear Guide: yogitoes SKIDLESS Yoga Towel
Recently, one of my fitness expert friends urged me to check out the Yogitoes Skidless yoga towel, saying that it had changed her yoga practice (and no, she’s not on the company’s payroll). Well, how could I NOT check it out, after a recommendation like that?
The New Heart-Healthy Foods: Research Proves Me Wrong
A fascinating study published earlier this month in the Archives of Internal Medicine came to some surprising conclusions about some of the foods we normally consider to be heart-healthy or unhealthy. It wasn’t a single clinical trial, but rather, a review article that looked at the results of over 140 randomized, controlled, human clinical trials—the research gold-standard—published between 1950 and 2007.
Documentary takes skin-deep look at school for stripping (Reuters)
Reuters – Six weeks feels like a lifetime in “A Wink and a Smile,” a documentary that follows 10 students through a term at Seattle’s Academy of Burlesque. Like most strippers, the film promises more than it delivers, offering abbreviated versions of a dozen or so tired routines along with endless critiques, explications and on-camera soul-searching.
UFC 100 VIEWING PARTY TO BE HELD AT MANDALAY BAY
Las Vegas, NV (USA) – With the mega-card UFC® 100 already sold out, the Ultimate Fighting Championship® organization will hold a closed-circuit screening of this historic pay-per-view at Mandalay Bay Beach Saturday, July 11. Don’t miss your chance to watch all the action on a LED Video Wall under the stars at the UFC 100 viewing party.
Paterno feeling great, back on field (AP)
Joe Paterno felt like he was in charge again this spring. With his surgically replaced hip, Penn State’s 82-year-old coach was back on the field coaching his team the way he likes. He’s more mobile, more energetic and more patient these days, free of the pain that had dogged him for two years. The Nittany Lions are truly his team again.
Freddie Mac pays $700K to former exec’s survivors (AP)
AP – Freddie Mac is paying out more than $700,000 to the family of David Kellermann, the mortgage finance company’s former acting chief financial officer who died last week in an apparent suicide, the company disclosed Thursday.