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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: Salma Hayek, Channing Tatum, Academy Awards, Frank Sinatra, Javier Bardem
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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: Academy Awards, Awards and Prizes, Arts and Culture, Amy Davidson, Brett Ratner
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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: Ang Lee, Daniel Day-Lewis, Academy Awards, Lincoln (movie, 2012), Barbra Streisand
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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: Academy Awards, Lincoln (movie, 2012), Golden Globe Awards, Movies, Screen Actors Guild
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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: Jack Nicholson, Golden Globe Awards, Argo (movie), Movies, White House
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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: Daniel Day-Lewis, Ang Lee, Mark Wahlberg, Lincoln (movie, 2012), Alan Arkin
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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: Daniel Day-Lewis, Ang Lee, Academy Awards, Barbra Streisand, Golden Globe Awards
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L.A. Kings, Galaxy meet with President Obama at White House
Consider it a ceremony fit for a king. The Stanley Cup-winning L.A. Kings -- along with the back-to-back MLS champion L.A. Galaxy -- traveled to the White House on Tuesday, where players met with President Obama and presented the commander in chief with...
Tags: Anze Kopitar, Jonathan Quick, Barack Obama, Dustin Brown (ice hockey), White House
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President Obama lauds Kings and the Galaxy at the White House
WASHINGTON – President Obama celebrated with the champion Los Angeles Kings and the Galaxy in the White House on Tuesday and then looped some of the players into an event for First Lady Michelle Obama’s favorite cause: her campaign against...
Tags: Chicago Blackhawks, Barack Obama, Dustin Brown (ice hockey), Darryl Sutter, White House
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BESD and Imagine School students to cook up fun recipes for Future Chefs competition
Students at Brawley Elementary School District and Imagine School will learn about the importance of healthy eating while honing their culinary skills thanks to education partner and Quality of Life service provider Sodexo and its annual Future Chefs:...Tags: Healthy Diet, Foods and Beverages, Students, Recipes, Teaching and Learning
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33 Artists Offer Their Take on First Ladies, at City Lights Gallery in Bridgeport
The term "first lady" can mean lots of different things, depending on your interpretation — and artists tend to have wildly differing interpretations of things. It can be literal, like a painting of Michelle Obama. Or it could refer to powerful...
Tags: Fine Artists, Artists, Arts and Culture, Arts
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Healthworks getting kids active
SOUTH BEND – A South Bend museum is focused on kids. They're working hard to keep kids in Michiana healthy and fit. Memorial's Healthworks Kids' Museum has kicked off “Passport to Play,” a program that gets kids away from the...Tags: Interior Policy, Arts and Culture, Museums, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Politics
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