Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - Posts
AFP - Kathryn Bigelow will make Oscars history on Sunday if she becomes the first woman filmmaker to be crowned best director in the 82-year history of the Academy Awards.
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A Army sergeant on Tuesday sued the makers of Oscar-nominated film "The Hurt Locker" five days before the Academy Awards, claiming the central character in the film is based on him.
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Stefan Ruzowitzky, the Austrian director behind Oscar-winning foreign film "The Counterfeiters," is in negotiations to make his English-language debut with a period horror.
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The former Republican vice presidential nominee turned into a standup comic on Jay Leno’s “Tonight Show” Tuesday, dropping one-liners about the White House, Congress and Tina Fey.
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The former interrogator lost his love, Nadia, once, but now she’s off limits again in the Sideways timeline. Desperate to have her back, Sayid makes a deal with the devil.
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Nielsen says Jay Leno got a warm welcome from viewers with his return on Monday to "The Tonight Show."
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The 25-year-old college admissions administrator talks about being rejected by Jake Pavelka, life since “The Bachelor” wrapped and what lies ahead.
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While the rap star was heading to his sentencing after pleading guilty in a 2007 gun case, a fire shut down the courthouse and postponed the already-delayed proceeding.
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In an interview with Oprah Winfrey set to air Wednesday, Jessica Simpson discusses her feelings about her ex-boyfriend’s controversial Playboy interview and her fluctuating weight.
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If digital 3-D is so revolutionary, it will need to go beyond fantasy and animated blockbusters to drama and live action comedy.
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A law enforcement official says Naomi Campbell's driver says she slapped and punched him while he was driving her around New York City.
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The busy mom said she hopes to still balance her brood and ballroom work. “If I can cook dinner and dance, I’ll be doing really well,” Gosselin said.
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A producer of the war story “The Hurt Locker” will not be allowed to attend the Academy Awards because of e-mails he sent urging academy members to vote for his movie.
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“The passion is just crazy,” Jake Pavelka told Access Hollywood of new love Vienna Girardi. “There’s always puppy love in a new relationship and that’s really where you build a lot of this.”
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Some of the "stars" are those you love to hate (Kate Gosselin, Shannen Doherty), some are bound to be popular (Chad Ochocinco), and others are just plain weird (Buzz Aldrin, really?).
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An attorney for Michael Jackson's mother says the late singer's children were never exposed to a stun gun that was sent to the family's home recently.
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When we asked msnbc.com readers what they thought of the reinstated host’s first night back, many were pleased with what they saw.
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One of the top 10 female singers, Crystal Bowersox, reportedly has been hospitalized due to diabetes complications but will be able to perform on Wednesday.
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Film critic Roger Ebert tried out his new voice on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" as he made his Oscar predictions.
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The bass player with Jane's Addiction has quit the band and will reportedly be replaced by former Guns N' Roses rocker Duff McKagan.
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The popular shows will no longer be streamed on the site starting March 10. Viacom-owned Comedy Central still will offer full episodes on each show's respective Web site.
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Mo’Nique, Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock and Christoph Waltz have long been favored in their respective acting categories. Can anyone upset them at the Academy Awards?
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The dad of eight is reportedly angry that while his ex-wife is in Los Angeles taping the show, she won't give him extra custody of their children.
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I don’t think there’s been group of semifinalists who have been more petrified to be out there than the guys this season. Forget wanting to be stars, they seem happy when their performance ends.
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Iranian security forces have detained film director Jafar Panahi, winner of many international awards, an opposition website said on Tuesday.
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With his tousled, seemingly unwashed locks, and rumpled, just-rolled-out-of-bed undershirt and jeans, Robert Pattinson seems laid-back and carefree.
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Film critic Roger Ebert, who lost his ability to speak after surgery for cancer, tried out a new voice on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" on Tuesday as he made his Oscar predictions.
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NewsFactor - Coming soon to an iPhone near you -- a selection of new movies? Netflix, the pioneer of home DVD delivery that recently stated streaming movies online and onto game consoles, appears to be testing the waters for an iPhone app.
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An internationally acclaimed Iranian filmmaker who backed the country's opposition has been detained, the Tehran prosecutor said Tuesday.
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The doyenne of celebrity interviewers, Barbara Walters, says she is quitting her Oscars television special because these days film stars are everywhere and celebrities have become famous for "doing nothing."
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Eight leading men are joining the Oscar show lineup.
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Movies are evolving ever more into 3-D, a shake-up of the medium that has been compared to the advent of sound or color in motion pictures.
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AFP - A co-producer of Oscars best picture favorite "The Hurt Locker" has been banned from attending the awards ceremony after sending emails disparaging a rival film, it was announced.
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Film critic Roger Ebert, rendered mute by several cancer surgeries, delivered his Oscar picks on Oprah Winfrey's television chat show on Tuesday using his newly synthesized voice fashioned from old audio clips.
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World War Two produced Oscar winner "The Bridge over the River Kwai". The Vietnam war was immortalized on screen by Academy Award winners "The Deer Hunter" and "Platoon".
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Irony underlies the title of "Brooklyn's Finest," a drama about cops who are anything but fine at their jobs. And director Antoine Fuqua pounds that irony home with a sledgehammer.
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The halted publication of a book about the atomic bombing of Japan in 1945 has not prevented James Cameron from supporting its author or considering a film project based on the work about the days following the blasts and those who survived.
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Oscar's campaign season officially ends on Tuesday evening, when ballots are due at Academy headquarters.
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Want to be an actor, but you are beyond your 20s. Perhaps a career as a screenwriter, but you heard about age discrimination. Try directing, filmmakers are having all the luck these days -- at any age.
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Sarah Polley's heart just isn't in it.
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A producer of the war story "The Hurt Locker" will not be allowed to attend Sunday's Academy Awards because of e-mails he sent urging academy members to vote for his movie, Oscar overseers said Tuesday.
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"The Hurt Locker" producer Nicolas Chartier on Tuesday was denied attendance at the upcoming Oscar ceremony for sending an e-mail to Academy Award voters urging them to name his movie as best film.
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The animated feature that made everybody go "huh?" when Oscar nominations were announced last month, "The Secret of Kells" is certain to elicit its fair share of wows after it arrives in U.S. theaters on Friday.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt is taking over the role that James McAvoy was to have played in an untitled cancer comedy due to begin shooting next Monday.
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