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PROBLEM: In 1992  Clint Eastwoodâs  âUnforgivenâ won four Academy Awards and sent  his  career on an entirely new trajectory.
Yes  it was a Western and  Eastwood  had made plenty of those already but  âUnforgiven â was different. It had some action but mostly it was a bleak character study and was regarded by many as âart.â Whether intending to or  not Eastwood  had become an auteur.
In the wake of this critical and artistic breakthrough  Warner Brothers â  Eastwood âs exclusive distributor for  his  entire output as a director since  his  debut âPlay Misty for Meâ in 1971 â began to position not all but most of  his  future efforts as âOscar bait.â Thirteen of Eastwoodâs next 19 films came out in the fall â the highly-treasured time of year reserved for awards contenders. The six that were not released in autumn were low achievers such as âAbsolute Powerâ and âBlood Workâ and lightweight fluff like the senior citizen buddy comedy âSpace Cowboysâ and the bizarre misfire that was âJersey Boys.â
Warner Brotherâs long term  Eastwood  strategy paid off in spades. Since and including âUnforgiven â Eastwoodâs films have been nominated for 35 Oscars and have won 12 with  Eastwood himself  walking away with four as well as receiving the prestigious Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1994.
Less than a dozen people have won more Oscars than  Eastwood  and most of those were in technical categories. Not bad for a guy who used to co-star with monkeys.
Beginning in 2006 with âFlags of Our Fathersâ and âLetters from Iwo Jimaâ (shot at the same time but released three months apart)  Eastwoodâs choice of material started to change. The political content began to increase (âJ. Edgar â âInvictus â âGran Torinoâ) and although not overt it confirmed what many had known for a while:  Eastwood  was a conservative. While a moderate on most social issues   Eastwood  considers  himself  a âpragmatic Libertarianâ who eschews political correctness and  his  output in the last dozen years has indicated that  he âs an unabashed patriot.
While not a backer of most American Wars  he âs a staunch and unwavering supporter of armed service personnel  a point made with unmistakable clarity in âAmerican Sniper.â In addition to being the highest-grossing movie of 2014 and Eastwoodâs career  this throttling and unflinching bio-drama about the late Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) lit a welcomed fire under red state Middle America.  Eastwood  pulled off a delicate balancing act by crafting an inspirational  crowd-pleasing film that didnât pander while acknowledging the efforts of an American hero without addressing the war itself.
âThe 15:17 to Parisâ â the new movie about the three soldiers that thwarted the 2015 Thlys Train Attack â opens this Friday and it is the first  Eastwood  movie in at least 20 years that was not made available for advance press viewing.
Instead of hiring regular actors to portray the leads   Eastwood  cast the actual soldiers who confronted the terrorist â a bold move indeed and one sure to appeal to fans of âAmerican Sniper.â

SOLUTION: Is Hollywood Turning on Clint Eastwood and '15:17 to Paris'?

PROBLEM: The coalition  known as the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD)  is considered the principal opposition to  NicolÃ¡s Maduroâs  socialist regime and includes more than a dozen political parties whose ideologies range from center-left to center-right.
 Maduro  first announced  he  would ban some opposition leaders from running in December after they questioned the legitimacy of the latest round of elections.
Other prominent opposition leaders  such as Popular Will leader Leopoldo LÃ³pez and rightful Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledezma  remain imprisoned or exiled by  the regime .
The election  which is scheduled for April  is widely expected to be rigged in Maduroâs favor  with  his regime  looking to fully consolidate  its  power on the country experiencing the worst political  economic  and humanitarian crisis in  its  history.

SOLUTION: Venezuela Supreme Court Bans Opposition from Presidential Election

PROBLEM: More than 30 000 brain scientists are in Washington  D.C.  this week attending the Society for Neuroscience meeting. One of the hot topics this year is mental disorders such as depression and schizophrenia and autism.  NPR science correspondent Jon Hamilton  has just come from the meeting to talk about some of what  he 's been seeing and hearing. Hi  John. Thanks for coming.
 JON HAMILTON   BYLINE: Hi.
 HAMILTON : Twenty years ago  I'd say it didn't contribute much  but things are really changing. And I was really surprised. I was going through the abstracts to this year's meeting  and there were nearly a thousand papers that mentioned depression. There were 500 that mentioned schizophrenia or autism. And just this morning  there was this study on how - looking at the brain tissue of people with obsessive compulsive disorder and how it's different.
MARTIN: That's NPR's science correspondent Jon Hamilton. Jon  thanks so much.

SOLUTION:
In D.C. Brain Science Meets Behavioral Science To Shed Light On Mental Disorders : NPR