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Oscars: Music, Seth MacFarlane lift show up where it belongs
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelThe 85th annual Oscars clocked in at 3 hours 35 minutes. They could have been a slog, except that Oscar producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan are showmen who love the movies. That affection transformed this music-themed telecast into the most... -
Miller: No clear winner in Oscar contest
For some in Newport-Mesa, the 85th annual Academy Awards telecast may have prompted a three-word response: "Oh, hey, guys." Within minutes of the show's beginning, William Shatner, who recently brought his one-man show to the Segerstrom Center for the...
Tags: Christopher Plummer, Ang Lee, Steven Spielberg, William Shatner, Jane Austen
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A reflection on the merits of the historical novel vs. the historical film
Although there will presumably be no hoop skirts or beaver-skin top hats on the red carpet, this year's Academy Awards are putting a spotlight on American history. I've spent years studying, writing and teaching about the fight to end slavery, so I was...
Tags: The New York Times, Steven Spielberg, Culture, Slavery, Social Sciences
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Oscars 2013 winners: “Argo” takes home top prize
Channel Guide MagazineOscars 2013 winners will always enjoy their triumphs, despite the fact that they'll forever be associated with the year that Seth MacFarlane hosted. No, he didn't turn it into “Family Guy goes to the Oscars,” per se — although those... -
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: Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie), David O. Russell, Ang Lee, Steven Spielberg, Christoph Waltz
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Oh, How I Miss Joan Rivers' Bad Manners On The Red Carpet
The Hartford CourantI attended the Academy Awards this year, as I usually do. For the record I was wearing a gray T-shirt and a pair of plaid flannel pajama bottoms from the Ocean State Job Lot collection. I looked fabulous, at least that's what the person doing the...Tags: Meryl Streep, Movies, Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Hathaway, Joan Rivers
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Who Day-Lewis forgot to thank
Daniel Day-Lewis should have thanked Galenian Elihu Washburne. If you haven’t seen the movie ‘Lincoln’, you should make the effort. In this year’s Oscar awards, Daniel Day-Lewis won Best Actor for his amazing portrayal of...Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, Elections, Daniel Day-Lewis
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Michelle Obama on the Oscars: The behind-the-scenes story
On Feb. 14, a Hollywood delegation showed up at the White House. Motion Picture Academy President Hawk Koch, Oscar producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron and film mogul Harvey Weinstein had come to explore a rather important matter (for them): They wanted...
Tags: White House, Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie), David O. Russell, Robert A. Iger, The Washington Post
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The Oscars telecast's rocky road
Last night's Oscars were like an emotional roller-coaster at a terrible amusement park--beginning wth Seth MacFarlane's as-bad-as-feared monologue, the show rarely rose above painful and hit few peaks. Allow us to relive some of the night's best and worst...
Tags: No Country for Old Men (movie), Theater, Ang Lee, Joaquin Phoenix, Steven Spielberg
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Connecticut's Oscar Favorites From Those In The Know
The Hartford CourantThe Academy Awards bring out the critic in everyone. It starts when the nominations are announced — "Whaddya mean, Ben Affleck wasn't nominated?" — and lasts long after Oscar night. That annual ritual takes place Sunday night and will be...Tags: Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie), Snow White and the Huntsman (movie), Golden Globe Awards, Celebrities, Robert De Niro
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Oscars 2013: Ang Lee, Christoph Waltz among night's surprises
Riding high on a late-inning surge of Oscar goodwill, "Life of Pi" director Ang Lee supplied one of Sunday night's most surprising outcomes: besting Steven Spielberg for director. Until just a few weeks ago — and with "Argo" director Ben Affleck...
Tags: Ang Lee, Steven Spielberg, Christoph Waltz, Life of Pi (movie), Slavery
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Oscars 2013: Ang Lee is worthy, but better than Steven Spielberg?
Now that the dust has settled and cold reality has replaced airy speculation, it's clearer than ever that as far as the 2013 best picture Oscar was concerned, Hollywood's directors gave and took away. Not content with being the powers on the set, the...
Tags: Ang Lee, Steven Spielberg, Life of Pi (movie), The Hurt Locker (movie), Kathryn Bigelow
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