Scottish authors Ian Rankin and Louise Welsh have called on the headteacher of an Angus school to reconsider its decision to remove award-winning Scottish play Black Watch from its curriculum, describing the text as an "essential piece of Scottish culture".
In July, according to The Los Angeles Times, Mr. Makhmalbaf traveled to the Jerusalem Film Festival with the movie, prompting the head of Iran's official cinema organization both to denounce him for falling "into the arms of the occupier, the murderous Zionist regime" and to call on the state cinema museum to remove his awards.
Mr Smith told the New York Post he had removed the award from the shelf of their home and sent it to the magazine.
"Gross is controversial, but it is stupid and harmful to consider removing his award,'' said Dariusz Stola, director of Warsaw's Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews, who signed the second open letter, submitted to the Polish Press Agency on Friday.
A new petition has been launched by DadDoes, an American equivalent of Mumsnet for dads, to ask The Toy Industry Association to remove its two award categories that nominate toy of the year for girls and for boys.
It also said businesses should be allowed to offer new employees a statutory contract, called an enterprise contract, that would remove some existing award conditions on a take it or leave it basis.
The Writers Guild of America, West, released a petition on Monday signed by more than 150 writers and executive producers protesting the proposal to remove some writing awards from the live Emmys broadcast.
After that year the guidelines were changed again to remove the mandated awards and instead allow up to ten categories which would be chosen by each convention, though they were expected to be similar to those presented in the year before.
This month's decision by the Tony awards administration committee to remove the sound design awards from their roster serves only to reinforce a general ignorance about the relevance of sound design, and is a further push towards making sound a less relevant discipline within theatre.
The judge takes the square back to his other judges, and they decide whether to award, or remove, the point.
Earlier this summer, the old guard of fantasy got very uncomfortable over a petition I started asking for the World Fantasy Award to remove the bust of HP Lovecraft as its statuette and replace it with Octavia Butler.
