Thousands of D.C. residents who couldn’t renew their driver’s licenses due to fines and fees they owed to the city now can renew them under a court order.
A federal judgeissued a preliminary injunction in late December requiring the city to halt enforcement of its “Clean Hands” law, which disqualifies residents from getting or renewing a driver’s license if they owe more than $100 in parking, traffic or other fines and fees. Read More...
Depeche Mode's origins date to 1977, when schoolmates Vince Clarke and Andy Fletcher formed a Cure-influenced band called No Romance In China, with Clarke on vocals and guitar and Fletcher on bass guitar. Fletcher would later recall, "Why am I in the band? It was accidental right from the beginning. I was actually forced to be in the band. I played the guitar and I had a bass; it was a question of them roping me in. Read More...
The Color Purple was nominated for eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actress for Goldberg and Best Supporting Actress for both Avery and Winfrey. It failed to win any of them, tying the record set by 1977’s The Turning Point for the most Oscar nominations without a single win.Click to see full answer. Subsequently, one may also ask, what awards did The Color Purple win? NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Motion Picture Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture – Drama NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Foreign Film Furthermore, what year was the color purple nominated for an Oscar? Read More...