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2012 Oscar Winners List
The Artist wasn't the only winner tonight! Find out who else took home trophies from the 84th Annual Academy Awards...
Best Picture: The Artist
Actor in a Leading Role: Jean Dujardin, The Artist
Actress in a Leading Role: Meryl Streep, The Iron...Tags: Christopher Plummer, Academy Awards, Meryl Streep, Documentary (genre), Octavia Spencer
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'True Blood' Star Luke Grimes Will Try to Kill Elvis in 'The Shangri-La Suite' (Exclusive)
ReutersJun 07 (TheWrap.com) - "True Blood" star Luke Grimes is in talks to check into "The Shangri-La Suite," an indie movie from the producers of "Little Miss Sunshine" that will mark the feature directorial debut of screenwriter Eddie O'Keefe. Described as...Tags: Movies, Jena Malone, Elvis Presley, Sarah Roemer, Chloe Sevigny
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Back Story: City's historic black cemetery was moved to Carroll
Several weeks ago, a friend of mine told me about the old Laurel Cemetery in the city's Belair-Edison neighborhood that had once been the premier resting place for Baltimore's African-American community until disappearing when the site was redeveloped...
Tags: Christianity, Belair-Edison, Government, Religion and Belief, Politics
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Ang Lee to direct FX pilot “Tyrant” — and other big-time directors who have gone to TV
Channel Guide MagazineNot many people expected Ang Lee to take home the Best Director trophy at the Academy Awards last month for Life of Pi. He's defying expectations yet again with his follow-up project, a pilot for FX called Tyrant, scheduled to shoot this summer. Tyrant... -
Hollywood's outsiders come inside
It's been nearly a generation since Quentin Tarantino burst on the scene with his raucous indie film "Pulp Fiction" in 1994, and Hollywood is a very different place. The once-vibrant independent film scene that Tarantino helped shape has shrunk to a...
Tags: The Green Hornet (movie) , Customs and Tradition, Christopher Nolan, The Master (movie), John Malkovich
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Laura Dern's 'Enlightened' approach
Season 2 of HBO's "Enlightened" finds Laura Dern as fortysomething executive Amy Jellicoe conspiring with an egotistical Los Angeles Times muckraker (Dermot Mulroney) to bring down her corporate overlords. Well-meaning but hopelessly naive — "I'm...
Tags: Nicolas Cage, Girls (tv program), Roger Corman, Los Angeles Times, Hal Ashby
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'Zero Dark Thirty,' 'Argo,' 'West of Memphis' among WGA nominees
The scripts of "Zero Dark Thirty," "Lincoln" and "Silver Linings Playbook" are among the nominees for Writers Guild of America Awards for outstanding achievement in writing for the screen in 2012. Nominees announced Friday in the original screenplay...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Woody Allen, Writers Guild of America, The King's Speech (movie), The Great Escape (movie)
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'Sideways' stage adaptation heading to La Jolla Playhouse
The recent stage adaptation of the bestselling novel "Sideways" that debuted in May in Santa Monica is moving up in the world. The La Jolla Playhouse said it will produce the play starting in July, with former artistic director Des McAnuff at the helm....
Tags: The Front Page (movie), Viniculture, Des McAnuff, His Girl Friday (movie), David Mamet
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The cutting edge
OMAHA, Neb. — Whether they're driving through, stuck here for work or savvy enough to make a long weekend out of this under-the-radar city, travelers tend to want a darn fine hunk of meat when visiting Omaha. Steak from steak country. Omaha offers...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Onions, Dining and Drinking, Gruyere, Diets and Dieting
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They're 'Mortified,' we're entertained
As a genre, the celebrity interview hasn't changed much over the years. The standard talk show appearance is home to the carefully sculpted anecdote. In-depth magazine profiles tend to pivot around a contrived field trip or two, or leave you with the...
Tags: Halloween, Busy Philipps, Talk Shows (genre), Entertainment, Pat Quinn
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The lighter side of self-destruction in 'Cruel World'; 'Rorsky Plays' at Oracle
"Goodbye Cruel World" The back story to Nikolai Erdman's 1928 play "The Suicide" is a real knee-slapper: the play was banned by Stalin's censors on the eve of its premiere, the author ended up spending time in Siberia, and its would-be director, the...
Tags: Broadway Theater, Christianity, Samuel Beckett, Theater, Lobbying
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A Glendale native projects his film dreams
Five weeks ago, Matthew James Reilly sat for an elegant dinner at the Carlton Hotel in Cannes, on the French Riviera. Around him were acclaimed filmmakers such as Alexander Payne, Michael Haneke and many others, and earlier that evening, Reilly himself...
Tags: Movies, Jim Jarmusch, Michael Haneke, Glendale (Queens, New York), Arts and Culture
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