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For the many voracious foreign readers waiting to read the works of Mo Yan the lack of translation of Mo's work is now their biggest obstacle. Professor Joao Martins is the Portuguese translator of Mo's novel Big Breasts and Wide Hips. The lack of di

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A DVD retails for $10 or more. Out of that, we writers currently get 4 or 5 cents. Were asking to get 8 cents per DVD. The producers and others say were asking for too much. That is television writer Saul Blooms argument as to why the Writers Guild o

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By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 11 February 2008 Striking Hollywood writers could return to work this week to end a three-month strike that has crippled film and television production. The news raises hopes that the Academy Awards, or Oscars, may go a

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