Los Angeles (dpa) – A list of winners at the 89th Academy Awards: Best Picture: “Moonlight” Best Directing: Damien Chazelle – “La La Land” Best Actress: Emma Stone – “La La Land” Best Actor: Casey Affleck – “Manchester by the Sea” Best Supporting Actress: Viola Davis – “Fences” Best Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali – “Moonlight” […]
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Theatre, Film & BroadcastAfter the worst mix-up in Oscar history, “Moonlight” won the Academy Award for best picture at the 89th Academy Awards in Los Angeles — minutes after presenter Warren Beatty mistakenly announced the award for heavily favored “La La Land.” “Even in my dreams this cannot be true, so the hell with dreams” said “Moonlight” director
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Theatre, Film & BroadcastJimmy Kimmel opened Sunday’s Academy Awards show by acknowledging the political divide and promptly called President Trump a racist. The host’s opening monologue acknowledged the importance of having a serious conversation with someone who disagrees with you, saying that “if we all do that, we can make America great again.” And then he went there.
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABill Paxton has died. The actor, who starred in CBS’ new “Training Day” reboot, was 61. His loved ones revealed that he died during a surgery. “It is with heavy hearts we share the news that Bill Paxton has passed away due to complications from surgery,” a statement from the family (via People) reads. “A
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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & BroadcastWASHINGTON, February 24, 2017 – First cast as an almost sub-human villain before he later morphed into an oddly lovable character later in his career, bigger-than-life wrestling legend George “The Animal” Steele passed away in Florida on February 16, 2017 at the age of 79. Steele had been under hospice care since the spring of
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Obituaries & memorials, Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & BroadcastHundreds of people including Hollywood stars have held a rally in Beverly Hills ahead of the Oscars on Sunday to denounce President Trump’s immigration policies. It was organised by the United Talent Agency, one of Hollywood’s biggest agencies, replacing its annual Oscar party with what it said was a show of support for freedom of
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International, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAAlan Colmes, the longtime radio host best known as Fox News’s liberal voice on the network’s popular “Hannity & Colmes” show and later as a Fox commentator, has died at the age of 66 after a brief illness, Fox News reported Thursday morning. “When Alan and I started ‘Hannity & Colmes,’ there wasn’t a day
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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−It’s always risky to prognosticate the winners of the Academy Awards. While the nominees usually exemplify excellent filmmaking, which ones will garner the gold statuettes often reflect contemporary politics, personality issues, and studio lobbying. My predictions are based more on monitoring entertainment and trade publications than on my own tastes. BEST
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Lawrence Baron, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA“There’s no bum like a ‘pretty good artist’ and I think you’re ‘pretty good.’” –Johnny Green’s father By Eric George Tauber LA JOLLA, California –The 2017 San Diego Jewish Film Festival has come and gone. With eighty different screenings at five venues –with filmmakers traveling from as far as Hungary and Israel- and selling more
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Eric George Tauber, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USALeah Alder, the mother of world famous filmmaker Steven Spielberg, passed away Tuesday in Los Angeles at the age of 97, Adler, born in Cincinnati to Jennie and Philip Posner, was raised in an observant Jewish household. She married Arnold Spielberg in 1945 and had four children: Steven, Anne, Sue, and Nancy. As an Orthodox
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA“Twin Peaks” and “Seinfeld” actor Warren Frost has passed away at the age of 91. He died on Friday morning at his Vermont home after a lengthy battle with an illness, according to his son Mark Frost. Frost was best known for his role as town physician Will “Doc” Hayward on “Twin Peaks” and Mr.
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABecause Everett Botwright has autism, the 6-year-old recently started refusing to eat anything if it wasn’t the meal that stole his heart: Star Wars themed Kraft macaroni and cheese dinners. Everett’s family became especially distressed when – after they had already bought all of the boxes that they could carry – their local Walmart discontinued
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Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & BroadcastNetanyahu says Arab states also threatened by Iranian nuclear ambitions but they ‘whisper things in the dark’ By Times of Israel staff Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Fox News’s Sean Hannity, February 16, 2017 (Screen capture: Fox News) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that he is speaking up on behalf of the whole
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By Beth Sarafraz The Jewish Press NEW YORK — “Ever since I was a little girl, people always asked me: ‘Do you know your parents are heroes?’ When I was growing up, everybody knew who my parents were. But in the last fifteen years their story has been forgotten.” So begins Operation Wedding, a new
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