Sar has held several positions over 35-year membership in the HFPA. He most recently served as vice president. The native of Istanbul has covered entertainment for publications in Turkey and Argentina and is a special correspondent for English-language The Moscow Times. … [Read more...] about Hollywood Foreign Press Appoints Ali Sar President After Lorenzo Soria’s Death
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“That’s Just Magic”: Director Robert Stone Captures Thrilling Apollo 11 Mission In Emmy-Nominated ‘Chasing The Moon’
Chasing the Moon contextualizes NASA’s moonshot within the broader Cold War. In 1957 the Soviet Union became the first country to launch an artificial satellite into Earth’s orbit, Sputnik 1. In a further blow to American exceptionalism, the Soviets also rocketed the first man into Earth’s orbit in 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. President Kennedy was responding to the political moment, the documentary demonstrates, when in 1962 he famously announced the goal of landing a man on the moon before the end of the decade. … [Read more...] about “That’s Just Magic”: Director Robert Stone Captures Thrilling Apollo 11 Mission In Emmy-Nominated ‘Chasing The Moon’
