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Oscars: Colin Firth gets a well-deserved win for 'The King's Speech'
Learn another language, live in a different body — that's fundamentally what "The King's Speech" required of Colin Firth if he was to give the stammering King George VI an authenticity that could be sensed in every tortured sentence he delivered....Tags: Colin Firth, Academy Awards, Movies, World War II (1939-1945), Celebrities
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'The King's Speech' dethrones 'The Social Network'
Hollywood's coronation of "The King's Speech" culminated Sunday night when the story of stuttering King George VI and his speech therapist won four Academy Awards, including best picture. But if the Oscars completed the historical drama's ascension, the...Tags: Culture, The Hurt Locker (movie), Harvey Weinstein, Black Swan (movie), Aaron Sorkin
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TV review: Nice try, Oscars
RedEyeOscar producers, the more you try to make your annual Hollywood lovefest appeal to young viewers, the older you seem. And you are 83! "Anne, I must say, you look so beautiful and so hip," James Franco, 32, deadpanned as he and co-host Anne Hathaway, 28,...Tags: Culture, Colin Firth, Black Swan (movie), F-bomb Dropping, James Franco
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Television Review: Anne Hathaway and James Franco play it safe
They played it safe, and who could blame them?
The 83rd Academy Awards opened with hosts Anne Hathaway and James Franco taking an "Inception"-inspired journey through the dreams of former host Alec Baldwin, dreams that turned out to be clips from...Tags: Culture, Chris Rock, Colin Firth, Ellen DeGeneres, Annette Bening
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Stuttering takes center stage in 'The King's Speech'
The hit movie "The King's Speech" that chronicles the relationship between Britain's wartime monarch, King George V1, and his speech therapist, Lionel Logue, has put stuttering squarely in the spotlight. A speech disorder in which the sufferer has...Tags: Old Dominion University, Geoffrey Rush, Stuttering, Celebrities and Health Issues, Physical Conditions
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"The King's Speech" Takes Home Top Trophies at the Oscars
KTLA NewsHOLLYWOOD (KTLA) -- The British period film "The King's Speech" started the evening with the most Academy Award nominations - 12, but faced strong competition from blockbusters "Inception" and "The Social Network," taking home 3 awards for Best Picture,...Tags: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Culture, Colin Firth, Black Swan (movie), Celebrity Parents
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Comments & Curiosities: The 'King' of all award shows
"Hooray for Holly." Come on, everybody, "Hooray for Hollywood, that screwy bally-hooey Hollywood, where any office boy or young mechanic, can be a panic." No, wait, stop, please. That was awful. We try that every year and it never gets any better....Tags: Helena Bonham Carter, Colin Firth, Black Swan (movie), Annette Bening, James Franco
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Darko Tresnjak Finds A Home At Hartford Stage
The Hartford CourantDarko Tresnjak wanted to direct as far back as he can remember. When the newly-named artistic director of Hartford Stage was a 7-year-old boy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, he was inspired by the opening-day ceremonies of the 1972 Olympics to organize his...Tags: Maryland, Rentals, Broadway Theater, Television, The Hartt School
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To the MPAA ratings board, 'The King's Speech' is just as bad as 'Saw 3D'
The Big PictureâThe Kingâs Speech,â a British film being touted as a leading contender for the best picture Oscar, is a delightful, heart-warming account of how a cheeky Australian speech therapist helped King George VI conquer a terrible stammer. âSaw 3Dâ is.... -
Weekend Movies: 'Love and Other Drugs,' 'Tangled,' 'Burlesque'
Brand XThanksgiving weekend means, for many of us, a long one -- all the better to see new movies. Here's what's stuffing theaters starting today. "Love and Other Drugs": Gyllenhaal. Hathaway. Nudity. Romance. How can this movie possibly go wrong? We'll be first... -
The sound of silence: Alexandre Desplat on the music that 'just floats' throughout 'The King's Speech'
Pop & HissThe drama in âThe Kingâs Speechâ stems from the inability to communicate. The challenge, then, for French composer Alexandre Desplat was to keep his score from saying too much. âThis is a film about the sound of the voice,â Desplat...... -
'The King's Speech' enjoys regal opening in four theaters
Company Town"The King's Speech" put on a command performance in limited release. The historical drama about Britain's King George VI and his unusual relationship with a speech therapist brought in a total of $349,791 from two locations in Los Angeles and......
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