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Oscars 2013: Adele's plans include avoiding the limelight
Adele fans have been spoiled of late. The artist, whose tour and public appearances were cut short after being sidelined by vocal surgery in late 2011, has been forced into the public eye courtesy of award season. Sunday night she won the original song...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Music Theater, Adele (music artist), Argo (movie), Skyfall (movie)
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Oscars 2013: Join our discussion about the Academy Awards [Video]
The Oscars saluted Hollywood’s best from the past year on Sunday night, honoring “Argo” for best picture, Daniel Day-Lewis and Jennifer Lawrence for lead actor and actress, and Ang Lee for director, to name only a few. Anne Hathaway&...
Tags: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Awards and Prizes, Seth MacFarlane, Academy Awards, Ben Affleck
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Oscars 2013: Elton John AIDS Foundation viewing party rocks it
In the 21st year of his annual Oscar viewing party, music legend Elton John worked his way Sunday to each of the more than 70 tables that made up the makeshift ballroom under tents at the West Hollywood Park. The Academy Awards Viewing Party —...
Tags: Anna Paquin, Academy Awards, Foster the People (music group), Seth MacFarlane, Awards and Prizes
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First lady coming home to address youth violence
First lady Michelle Obama will return to Chicago April 10 to speak at a working lunch hosted by Mayor Rahm Emanuel that is aimed at addressing youth violence in the city. According to an announcement Wednesday by the first lady's office, she will urge...Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Hadiya Pendleton, McCormick Place, Chicago Loop, Easter
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Oscars 2013: Seth MacFarlane's seven worst jokes
In his widely panned bow as Oscars host, “Family Guy” and “American Dad!” creator Seth MacFarlane lived up to his reputation for transgressive frat-boy humor by biting the proverbial hand that feeds. He attempted to bag on just...
Tags: Academy Awards, Seth MacFarlane, Eddie Murphy, Javier Bardem, Ben Affleck
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In city schools, healthy foods have yet to make the grade with students
First lady Michelle Obama will bring a star-studded lineup to Chicago on Thursday to tout the success of her national campaign against childhood obesity. But some of the toughest battles on that front are still being fought at neighborhood schools far...
Tags: Obesity, McCormick Place, Family, Social Issues, Education
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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: Brett Ratner, Abusive Behavior, Academy Awards, Amy Davidson, Seth MacFarlane
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Michelle Obama invites slain girl's mom and brother to White House event
— First lady Michelle Obama has invited the mother and 10-year-old brother of Hadiya Pendleton, the Chicago teen slain in January soon after taking part in inauguration festivities, to attend the White House Easter egg roll, the mother said. "I...
Tags: Hadiya Pendleton, State of the Union Address, Easter
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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: Searching for Sugar Man (movie), Academy Awards, Seth MacFarlane, Awards and Prizes, Adele (music artist)
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Oscars 2013: 'Argo' wins best picture
Ben Affleck may have been snubbed for directing it, but "Argo" certainly wasn't slighted at the Academy Awards, winning best picture in Sunday night's ceremony. In beating Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" for the top Oscar honor in the 85th annual ceremony,...Tags: Golden Globe Awards, Academy Awards, Awards and Prizes, Screen Actors Guild, Ben Affleck
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Oscars 2013: FLOTUS Michelle Obama announces best picture
One of the most powerful women in the country stepped into the spotlight to announce Oscar’s biggest prize — the award for best picture — even though she wasn’t in the auditorium, or anywhere near Hollywood. When Jack Nicholson...
Tags: White House, Golden Globe Awards, Bill Clinton, Argo (movie), Entertainment Events
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'Argo' wins best picture at Oscars: 'Pi' tops in total Oscars with four, including directing
VarietyThis time, the "Argo" story in Variety is truly about a big picture. Connecting three decades of history while erasing a quarter-century of Oscar protocol, Ben Affleck's "Argo" survived -- and indeed, thrived -- following its exclusion from the director...Tags: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Searching for Sugar Man (movie), Awards and Prizes, Golden Globe Awards, Entertainment Events
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