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Life Out Here: That's just not funny?
As native Spanish speakers, some of my students have problems saying “third” because the “th” sounds isn’t used in Spanish (unless you’re from Barthelona, Valenthia or elthewhere in Thpain). Some of my students use a...
Tags: Music, Awards and Prizes, Dick Cheney, Movies, Academy Awards
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Onion comment about Oscar nominee shows how low we've sunk when it comes to kids
Quvenzhané Wallis arrived at the Academy Awards on Sunday to learn whether the youngest starlet to earn a best actress nod would become the youngest to win Oscar. It should've been the most magical night so far of her young life. Instead, the spirited...
Tags: Celebrities, Academy Awards, Onions, YouTube, Media Industry
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Onion 'edgy': Tasteless and sickening
Leonard PittsThe tweet went as follows: "Everyone else seems afraid to say it, but that Quvenzhane Wallis is kind of a (expletive), right?" The missing word is a bit of verbal sewage sometimes used to disparage women. Begins with "c," rhymes with "hunt." Its...Tags: Norman Lear, Culture, Onions, Seth MacFarlane, The Miami Herald
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Manipulative music, plot devices keep 'Beasts of the Southern Wild' from greatness ★★
Already "Beasts of the Southern Wild"is the most divisive film of 2012, which is a testament to its co-writer and director, Benh Zeitlin, making his feature film debut with a picture that killed at Sundance, won the Camera d'Or (best first film) at Cannes...
Tags: Music, Sundance Film Festival, Petroleum Industry, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Hurricane Katrina (2005)
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Viola Davis plots a career, not just for herself
Viola Davis has won two Tony Awards for her Juilliard-trained stage work in the August Wilson plays "King Hedley II" and "Fences." She has been Oscar-nominated twice, first for a supporting role in "Doubt," more recently for a much larger role, in "The...
Tags: Viola Davis, Public Schools, Celebrities, Chicago International Film Festival, Film Festivals
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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: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln (movie, 2012), Tony Kushner, Les Miserables (movie), Lobbying
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'Silver Linings Playbook' snags Spirit awards
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — The persistent irony of the Film Independent Spirit Awards is that as much as they're positioned as the DIY antidote to the Academy Awards, the indie film with the most Oscars recognition almost invariably reaps the greatest...
Tags: The Sessions (movie), Magic Mike (movie), Moonrise Kingdom (movie), Helen Hunt, Culture
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Anticipating the Oscars: These might contend
My Academy Awards predictions — and honestly, why not start now, a month before the nominations are announced? — carry an odor akin to Paul Rudd's cologne in "Anchorman": 60 percent of the time, they're right every time. This week the awards...
Tags: Les Miserables (movie), Life of Pi (movie), The Master (movie), Moonrise Kingdom (movie), David O. Russell
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What to expect from Seth MacFarlane's debut outing as Oscar host
A year after Billy Crystal helmed the Oscars for approximately the 40 millionth time, hosting duties fall to “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane, who’s directed a grand total of one movie and had a minor role alongside Dwayne Johnson...
Tags: Microsoft Corporation, Emma Stone, David Letterman, Jack Black, Life of Pi (movie)
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RedEye's 2013 Oscar predictions
For context about predictions of major entertainment events, Duff Goldman from “Ace of Cakes” correctly predicted the result of this year’s Super Bowl. NFL experts did not. Likewise, making Oscar predictions can be a bit ridiculous, as...
Tags: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln (movie, 2012), The Master (movie), Les Miserables (movie), Celebrities
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'Big Fish' writer chats with the minnows
A group of influential screenwriters will converge on Chicago this weekend, including Lucy Alibar (whose script for "Beasts of the Southern Wild" was nominated for an Oscar this year) and Bob Gale (who wrote all three "Back to the Future" films). They'...
Tags: Glee (tv program), Raiders of the Lost Ark (movie), Twitter, Inc., Frankenweenie (movie), DePaul University
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Jim Harbaugh tops list for The Times' Sports Oscars
Oscars, smoshkers. With his scenery-chewing performance on the sidelines last weekend, Jim Harbaugh has elevated himself to the top of this year’s list of the world’s greatest dramatic actors. “Maybe he’s just being himself?&...
Tags: The Master (movie), Football, San Francisco 49ers, Celebrities, James Stewart
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