But during cross-examination, Valerie admitted he was not sitting that close to Simpson, the plane was dark on the overnight flight and he really did not know if Simpson had finger cuts.

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Instead of a sleepy flight heading west into the dark of night, the airplane was soon buzzing.

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Best Original Screenplay nominees are: Flight (John Gatins), Zero Dark Thirty (Mark Boal), Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino), Amour (Michael Haneke), and Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola).

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There were as many as 20 viable contenders of varying strength, with films like Flight, The Impossible, The Dark Knight Rises, Holy Motors, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Master, Cloud Atlas, Moonrise Kingdom, Skyfall, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Anna Karenina, and several others jockeying for Best Picture consideration and having pretty solid chances.

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The handful of dragons, the illusory sunset over Anor Londo, the last molten gasps of the Age of Fire, the onset of darkness and the flight of hope from the world these are all things going on in the original Dark Souls.

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