Here are the results for the National Society of Film Critics Awards, given out January 5, 2008. Best Picture: There Will Be Blood Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will…
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TURPIN, Charles Murray, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Kingston, Luzerne County, Pa., March 4, 1878; attended the public and high schools and Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pa.;…
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