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Oscar's Charm City connections

Charm City connections worked like shamrocks at the Oscar nominations this year. "The Blind Side," recounting the rise of Ravens offensive lineman Michael Oher from the Memphis projects, and "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," featuring Baltimore native Mo'Nique, won best picture...

Consensus fuels new voting system for best-picture Oscar

The Oscars are using a preferential voting system this year to determine the best-picture winner. Although attempting to understand the system can sometimes feel a little like trying to divine the secrets of cold fusion, the system is actually logical - sort of.

Actress Lively stretches out for more adult role

Looking very much like the fashion plate celebrated in magazines, complete with stylishly unruly blond mane and plunging black leather-like jacket, Blake Lively sits on a couch in a suite at the Luxe Hotel. Piled on the table before her: posters of her new movie for signing. Piled on her lap:...

Coroner: Pneumonia, drugs killed Brittany Murphy

Actress Brittany Murphy died from pneumonia, and probably would have survived if she had gone to a doctor in time, a coroner's official said Thursday.

The Performance: Blake Lively

Looking very much like the fashion plate celebrated in magazines, complete with stylishly unruly blond mane and plunging black leather-like jacket, Blake Lively sits semiformally on a couch in a suite at the Luxe Hotel. Piled on the table before her: posters of her new movie for signing. Piled on...

Academy will use a new method to tabulate best-picture ballots

The Oscars are using a preferential voting system this year to determine the best picture winner. Although attempting to understand the system can sometimes feel a little like trying to divine the secrets of cold fusion, the system is actually logical -- sort of.

David Brown, Oscar-nominated producer, dies in N.Y.

David Brown, a film and theater producer who helped bring to the screen two of the 1970s' biggest hits, "Jaws" and "The Sting," has died. He was 93.

A singing 'American Psycho' planned for the stage

If the malevolent Sweeney Todd can sing, why not Patrick Bateman, the twisted title character of Bret Easton Ellis' "American Psycho"?

'Transformers,' 'Land of the Lost' lead Razzies

"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" made a fortune. "Land of the Lost" tanked.

The shadow in his smile

Mel Gibson took a deep breath, shook his head and stared down at his palms. "I just can't do this. You've got me at a disadvantage." The movie star, his voice a croak, was a mere 19 minutes into an interview, but it was clear there was no way he was going to make...

WTMD bid to take over Senator draws concerns

In letters and at community association meetings this week, neighbors of the Senator Theatre are voicing concerns over its possible takeover by Towson University radio station WTMD. Complaining that the university has not been a good neighbor in the past, they want assurances Towson officials will...

Could 'Avatar' be The One?

Slasher films, pot comedies, anything starring the Rock -- there are some movies that no one expects to win Academy Awards. And traditionally, Oscar's no-fly list has included science fiction. Academy Award-winning films are supposed to be serious, weighty, historical -- if your movie takes place in...