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Readers share ratings, quibbles
The awards season has run its course. It's always a relief to see it in the rearview mirror. Even the winners feel that way. Many of the award-winners qualifying for very goodness and even greatness fed an ongoing debate about historical fiction on...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Argo (movie), Robert Aldrich, Charles Bronson, Les Miserables (musical)
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Oscars: Music, Seth MacFarlane lift show up where it belongs
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelThe 85th annual Oscars clocked in at 3 hours 35 minutes. They could have been a slog, except that Oscar producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan are showmen who love the movies. That affection transformed this music-themed telecast into the most... -
Miller: No clear winner in Oscar contest
For some in Newport-Mesa, the 85th annual Academy Awards telecast may have prompted a three-word response: "Oh, hey, guys." Within minutes of the show's beginning, William Shatner, who recently brought his one-man show to the Segerstrom Center for the...
Tags: Rosalynn Carter, World War II (1939-1945), Christopher Plummer, Entertainment, Seth MacFarlane
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Oscars 2013: Follow the Academy Awards live on Twitter
The 85th Academy Awards are hours away, but social media is abuzz with winner projections, potential Oscar snubs and fashion faux pas. For film buffs and casual onlookers following the awards on a second screen, you can get access from the scene on...
Tags: Social Media, Screen Actors Guild, John Ford, Les Miserables (musical), Ben Affleck
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Oscars 2013 winners: “Argo” takes home top prize
Channel Guide MagazineOscars 2013 winners will always enjoy their triumphs, despite the fact that they'll forever be associated with the year that Seth MacFarlane hosted. No, he didn't turn it into “Family Guy goes to the Oscars,” per se — although those... -
Oscars speeches: Honestly sincere, or expertly faked?
Los Angeles looks lush. But as often noted, it is actually an arid wasteland where nothing but artifice and self-interest sprouts naturally. That's the cynical, archetypal reading. For instance, two thirds of the way into Nathanael West's cynical,...
Tags: Academy Awards, Lobbying, Jennifer Lawrence, Christoph Waltz, Ben Affleck
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Oh, How I Miss Joan Rivers' Bad Manners On The Red Carpet
The Hartford CourantI attended the Academy Awards this year, as I usually do. For the record I was wearing a gray T-shirt and a pair of plaid flannel pajama bottoms from the Ocean State Job Lot collection. I looked fabulous, at least that's what the person doing the...Tags: Meryl Streep, Academy Awards, Tommy Lee Jones, Les Miserables (movie), Movies
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Who Day-Lewis forgot to thank
Daniel Day-Lewis should have thanked Galenian Elihu Washburne. If you haven’t seen the movie ‘Lincoln’, you should make the effort. In this year’s Oscar awards, Daniel Day-Lewis won Best Actor for his amazing portrayal of...Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Day-Lewis, Politics, Elections, Slavery
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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: Bradley Cooper, Entertainment, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie), Politics
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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: Religion and Belief, Theater, No Country for Old Men (movie), Seth MacFarlane, Entertainment
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Oscars 2013 preview: MacFarlane, 'Argo' hope to steal the show
"Argo" heads into Sunday's Oscars with the wind at its back, but Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" has the most nominations of any film -- a dozen. Will Ben Affleck's 1970s Iran drama make it a sweep, or are there some surprises in order? The suspense isn'...
Tags: Screen Actors Guild, Ben Affleck, Seth MacFarlane, Entertainment, Amour (movie)
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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: Django Unchained (movie), Academy Awards, Tommy Lee Jones, Argo (movie), Inglourious Basterds (movie)
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