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Onion 'edgy': Tasteless and sickening
The 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: Bob Hope, Arts and Culture, Seth MacFarlane, Movies, Richard Pryor
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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: Georgia Institute of Technology, Anne Hathaway, Politics, Lincoln (movie, 2012), Academy Awards
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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, Entertainment, Petroleum Industry, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010)
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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: Arts and Culture, Film Festivals, Public Schools, Celebrities, Won't Back Down (movie)
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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: Flight (movie), Academy Awards, Jennifer Lawrence, The Master (movie), Zero Dark Thirty (movie)
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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: Arts and Culture, Saturday Night Live (tv program), Robert De Niro, Steven Soderbergh, Safety Not Guaranteed (movie)
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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: Dwayne Johnson, Academy Awards, Seth MacFarlane, Microsoft Corporation, Zero Dark Thirty (movie)
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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: Matt Walsh, Oriental Theater, Mad Men (tv program), Back to the Future (movie), Arts and Culture
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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, Academy Awards, Seth MacFarlane, George Clooney, Entertainment
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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: Lincoln (movie, 2012), Robert De Niro, Amy Adams, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Zero Dark Thirty (movie)
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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: Flight (movie), Academy Awards, James Stewart, Celebrities, Golden Globe 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: Academy Awards, Celebrities, YouTube, Onions, Entertainment Events
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