Those econometric factors, which political scientists and Nate Silver love so well, are useful for showing us the tilt of the playing field.

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Can you imagine teens lining up to see Silver Linings Playbook (about two depressed people finding love) or Life of Pi?

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How much would you love a hotel that serves your martini on a silver tray while a full-scale riot rages outside?

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Mr. MURRAY HORWITZ (Director, American Film Institute's Silver Theater and Cultural Center): Actually, my kids love the fact that I was a clown.

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The Titanic might have grabbed headlines as the world's most glamorous luxury liner, immortalized on the Silver Screen by Leonardo Di Caprio and Kate Winslet's love story in the Oscar-winning 1997 eponymous film, but there was another ship that was almost twice the weight, which did not sink, and she is still afloat, as a hotel.

BBC: A ghostly visit on the RMS Queen Mary hotel

As much as the silver screen is obsessed with sleek steam trains it is also in love with pristine marble station concourses.

BBC: What is it about trains in movies?

That's the locale of "Silver Linings Playbook, " about two broken people finding their way to love through dancing.

CNN: Lights, camera, vacation! Film tourism

The award is called The Ron Silver Star, a tribute to those who strive to stand up for and promote love of country and national security in Hollywood.

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The runner-up Grand Prix Silver Lion went to Lebanese-born Randa Chahal Sabbag's The Kite - a film about love and separation on the Lebanese-Israeli border.

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Silver Lake, with Texas Pacific Group, has provided much of the inspiration for today's private-equity love-in with tech.

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