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Michelle Obama on the Oscars: The behind-the-scenes story
On Feb. 14, a Hollywood delegation showed up at the White House. Motion Picture Academy President Hawk Koch, Oscar producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron and film mogul Harvey Weinstein had come to explore a rather important matter (for them): They wanted...
Tags: Lincoln (movie, 2012), The Washington Post, Michelle Obama, Jimmy Carter, Academy Awards
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Argo, Lincoln and the politics of Hollywood
The Oscar for best picture was won by "Argo," the true tale of a secret rescue mission in Iran during the Carter administration. It beat out "Lincoln," the story of how black Americans were rescued from slavery. Does this mean Jimmy Carter's stock is on...
Tags: Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Entertainment Events, Dick Cheney, Awards and Prizes, Ben Affleck
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Rachel Marsden: Leggo my 'Argo': Iran's unhealthy fixation on Ben Affleck
American VoicesPARIS -- When Ben Affleck's "Argo" -- a film based on the true-life, CIA-assisted Canadian operation to rescue American diplomats during the Iranian hostage crisis in 1979 -- won the Oscar for Best Picture, all I could think about was how badly Iran...Tags: Russia, Chuck E. Cheese (fictional animal), Chicago Tribune Columnists, Rachel Marsden, Vladimir Putin
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The Oscars telecast's rocky road
Last night's Oscars were like an emotional roller-coaster at a terrible amusement park--beginning wth Seth MacFarlane's as-bad-as-feared monologue, the show rarely rose above painful and hit few peaks. Allow us to relive some of the night's best and worst...
Tags: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Lincoln (movie, 2012), Channing Tatum, Life of Pi (movie)
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Oscars: Jennifer Lawrence now brunet, Ben Affleck shaves beard
Jennifer Lawrence and Ben Affleck are doing some post-Oscar grooming. And here we thought the nips, trims, dyes and tucks were supposed to happen before the Academy Awards. Lawrence, 22, took home the lead actress Oscar for her role as a neurotic...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Kanye West, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (movie), Jennifer Garner, Google Inc.
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On Demand/DVD New Releases: Feb. 18-24
Channel Guide MagazineAmong this week's new releases are a couple of literary classics (Anna Karenina and Atlas Shrugged), a real-life action adventure story about a fake movie crew (Argo) and a look at real movie director and his wife (Hitchcock). There's Fun Size, about a... -
Oscars 2013: Ang Lee, Christoph Waltz among night's surprises
Riding high on a late-inning surge of Oscar goodwill, "Life of Pi" director Ang Lee supplied one of Sunday night's most surprising outcomes: besting Steven Spielberg for director. Until just a few weeks ago — and with "Argo" director Ben Affleck...
Tags: Steven Spielberg, Entertainment Events, Awards and Prizes, Lincoln (movie, 2012), Jack Nicholson
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Oscars 2013: Ang Lee is worthy, but better than Steven Spielberg?
Now that the dust has settled and cold reality has replaced airy speculation, it's clearer than ever that as far as the 2013 best picture Oscar was concerned, Hollywood's directors gave and took away. Not content with being the powers on the set, the...
Tags: Steven Spielberg, Entertainment Events, The Hurt Locker (movie), Lincoln (movie, 2012), Awards and Prizes
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Oscar 2013 -- Seth MacFarlane's party, Shirley Bassey's triumph!
Liz Smith"I THINK it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business," said director Sydney Pollack. WHILE first lady Michelle Obama lent herself to the opening of the Oscar envelope for best picture, bets were that she hoped the winner would turn out...Tags: Lincoln (movie, 2012), Channing Tatum, Life of Pi (movie), Catherine Zeta-Jones, Seth MacFarlane
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Oscars 2013: TV ratings rise with Seth MacFarlane as host
Seth MacFarlane may have sung about Oscar's losers, but he wasn't among them. Sunday's movie awards ceremony produced its best ratings in years. An average of 40.3 million viewers tuned in to the Oscar telecast on ABC, according to Nielsen. The ceremony...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Ceremonies, Awards and Prizes, Culture, Ben Affleck
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Oscars 2013: Seth MacFarlane could've learned from Clint Eastwood
So where's Clint Eastwood when you need him? Sure, he hijacked Mitt Romney's convention with his bizarre soliloquy, a man and his chair. But the moment was spontaneous, surprising and captivating in the can't-turn-away fashion of an impending train...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Awards and Prizes, Channing Tatum, Tampa, Les Miserables (musical)
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'Argo's' Oscar gets a thumbs-down in Iran
TEHRAN -- Since the news from Hollywood flashed early Monday in Iran, text messages have been passing the word: A film widely denounced here as a stereotyped, anti-Iranian caricature won the coveted Oscar for best picture. "I am secular, atheist and not...
Tags: U.S. Embassy, Entertainment Events, Crisis, Movies, Arts and Culture
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