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Oscars 2013: How Seth MacFarlane's sexist jokes hurt women
Wait, so the academy fired Brett Ratner from his gig as Oscars producer for making sexist and crude comments, but then, as Vulture’s Kyle Buchanan smartly points out, allowed host Seth MacFarlane to make “that kind of un-PC humor the...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Academy Awards, Michelle Obama, Rihanna, Arts and Culture
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Oscars 2013: Do we love women or hate them? The show couldn't decide
The tonal dissonance of 85th Academy Awards had much to do with its treatment of women. Even as Seth MacFarlane's humor inflamed feminists, many of the musical numbers celebrated the strength and power of female performers and pride of place was saved for...
Tags: Star Trek (movie, 2009), Argo (movie), Tina Fey, Central Intelligence Agency, Celebrities
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'Argo' wins best picture on scattered Oscar night
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Just as Oscar host Seth MacFarlane set his sights on a variety of targets with a mixture of hits and misses, the motion picture academy spread the gold around to a varied slate of films. "Argo" won best picture as expected,...
Tags: Michelle Obama, George Clooney, Adele (music artist), Star Trek (movie, 2009), Argo (movie)
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Oscars 2013: Adele, Shirley Bassey save the Oscars
If British spy James Bond can't be called upon to save the mishandling of pop music by the 2013 Oscars, producers did at least book the next best thing: Shirley Bassey. The vocalist, now in her 70s, has defined what has now become a genre, Bond music. A...
Tags: Entertainment, Chasing Ice (movie), Adele (music artist), Arts and Culture, Life of Pi (movie)
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Oscars 2013: Celebration of music starts with 'We Saw Your Boobs'
"Tonight, for the first time, the Oscars have a theme," Seth MacFarlane said at the start of this year's Academy Awards, adding that Sunday night's show would be celebrating the marriage of film and music. Moments later, the host was cavorting around...
Tags: Entertainment, Naomi Watts, Adele (music artist), Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Daniel Radcliffe
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Oscars 2013: 'Searching for Sugar Man' wins best documentary
The musical mystery “Searching for Sugar Man” won the Oscar for documentary on Sunday night. Directed by Malik Bendjelloul, the film about an obscure Detroit singer made a remarkable near-sweep of eligible awards since its premiere at the 2012...
Tags: Sundance Film Festival, Sex Crimes, Entertainment, Simon Chinn, U.S. Military
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TV This Week for Feb. 24 - March 2: 'Parade's End' on HBO
SUNDAY Films from "Amour" to "Zero Dark Thirty" will vie for best picture at "The 85th Annual Academy Awards," hosted by — What the deuce?! — "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane, himself a nominee in the best original song category. (ABC,...
Tags: Entertainment, World War I (1914-1918), TNT (tv network), Andrew Garfield, Rebecca Hall
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Oscars 2013: MacFarlane opens the show both crude and polished
Less than five minutes into Seth MacFarlane’s opening monologue Sunday evening, the raunch humor-prone “Family Guy” creator dropped the kind of transgressive comedy cluster bomb many pop watchers had been anticipating. Describing...
Tags: Entertainment, Rihanna, Quentin Tarantino, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Daniel Radcliffe
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Oscars 2013: Updates on eight awards that make or break your ballot
Part of the spectacle of watching the Oscars is being reminded of all the people who contribute their own brand of excellence to a film, beyond the directors, actors and actresses who are in the limelight most of the time. You may not have considered...
Tags: Voting
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Seth MacFarlane's Oscars: He's not worst host ever
RedEyeEveryone seemed to be talking about what Seth MacFarlane would do as host of the Oscars. On Sunday night, MacFarlane kept that dialogue going, making Hollywood's big night all about Seth MacFarlane. The "Family Guy" creator opened the 85th Academy Awards...Tags: Rex Reed, James Franco, Ricky Gervais, Star Trek (movie, 2009), Argo (movie)
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Oscars 2013: Telecast length padded, but not historically so
With rehearsals for this year's Oscars show clocking in at nearly four hours, some wondered if the telecast could give 2002's record four-hour, 23-minute marathon a run for its money. Thanks to some judicious, last-minute trimming, the Seth MacFarlane-...
Tags: Entertainment, Johnny Carson, Kristin Chenoweth, Billy Crystal, American Beauty (movie)
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The 85th Annual Academy Awards
VarietyInfusing the evening with genial snark, Seth MacFarlane joined David Letterman, Jon Stewart and Chris Rock as hosts tapped to heighten the Oscars' hipness quotient and address its age-old (which is to say, old age) problem. Once viewers got past the...Tags: Michelle Obama, Rihanna, Argo (movie), Jennifer Lawrence, Music Industry
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