Journalist Dith Pran Dead At 65 From Cancer

Cambodian-born journalist Dith Pran died Sunday morning of pancreatic cancer according to his close friend and associate Sydney Schanberg. The two were colleagues at The New York Times since 1975 when their lives became the basis of “The Killing Fields.”

In 1975 Dith was working as an interpreter and assistant to Sydney Schanberg in Phnom Penh. [...]

Actor Unions Part Ways

On Saturday the unions representing film and television actors voted to sever ties with each other. The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists is now a separate entity of the Screen Actors Guild.

For 27 years the unions have been together and had hoped that they could make peace as they prepared for upcoming talks [...]