Monica Bleibtreu

Monica Bleibtreu, a respected stage, film, and television actress, and mother of Moritz Bleibtreu, died yesterday, May 14, in Hamburg. She was 65. Bleibtreu had been battling cancer for a number of years.
Born into a theatrical family in Vienna on May 4, 1944, the dark, strong-featured Monica Bleibtreu had been working steadily on German-language television since the late 1960s. Among her TV credits are a presentation of Bertold Brecht’s play Mother (1971), the series Doctors in the mid-1990s, and the made-for-television movie Happy Hour oder Glück und Glas (2000), starring The Lives of Others‘ Martina Gedeck.
In 1975, she won a German Television Award for best actress for her performance in the made-for-TV movie Marias letzte [...]

Oscar Shorts at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater

Badgered by Sharon Colman (top); The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello by Anthony Lucas (middle); Ausreisser / The Runaway by Ulrike Grote (bottom)

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present "Shorts!," featuring the ten Academy Award-nominated films in the Animated Short and Live-Action Short categories, on Tuesday, February 28, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
The event will feature onstage discussions with the animated and live-action nominated filmmakers (subject to availability).
The 2005 Animated Shorts and Live-Action Short nominees are:

Short Film (Animated)
Badgered, Sharon Colman, director
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation, John Canemaker, director; Peggy Stern, producer
The Mysterious Geographic Explorations [...]