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. A man approaches a couple on a tightly-packed dance floor and asks to cut in; the lady agrees, but when she steps aside, the man joins ...
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Object of our affection : Tina Fey ,
actress/writer/ producer. - She was the first female head
writer of Saturday Night Live , which led to her co-anchoring the legendary "Weekend Update" desk and also led to ... - 30 Rock , her critically acclaimed comedy series (based loosely on her experiences at SNL ) that has won her an Emmy as producer and a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards ...
Jane Wyman was known for her husky speaking
voice, so it is ironic that her one and
only Academy Award win was for a performance where she didn't speak a word. In fact, when accepting the Oscar for her role as the deaf mute Belinda McDonald in Johnny Belinda , her speech was short and sweet: "I won this award by keeping my mouth shut and I think I'll do it again." Nominated for a total of ...
Whoopi Goldberg , herself a Tony Award winner
(as producer of "the worst Best Musical ever" Thoroughly
Modern Millie ), has been tapped to host this year's Tony Awards program on June 15. Nominations for this year, the award's 62nd, will be announced this Tuesday, May 13, by Tony winners (and former Spamalot ians) David Hyde Pierce and Sara Ramirez. And speaking of nominations, Broadway.com ...
On the next brand new Smallville : the
return of Justin Hartley 's Green Arrow and the
debut of Black Canary (played by Alaina Huffman). The comic geek in me remembers her as the blonde bombshell in fishnets with the killer pipes who has been Arrow's main squeeze for years now. Word has it that the Canary will clash with Lois Lane, who had a fling with the Arrow last season. Maybe blondes ...
Ralph Fiennes and Susan Sarandon are Bernard and
Doris , a new HBO movie, directed by Bob
Balaban, premiering tomorrow night. Doris is Doris Duke, the super rich super bitch tobacco billionaire/heiress, and Bernard is her ever-loyal, long-suffering alcoholic butler (who also just happens to be gay). Expect lots of witty repartee and snappy comebacks between the two in this fictionalized ...
The Great Debaters ' Denzel Washington nabbed his
15th (!) NAACP Image Award , proving once and
for all that there is such a thing as an embarrassment of riches. The Civil Rights drama swept the field, also winning the group's Best Picture award and two more acting trophies for co-stars Jurnee Smollett and Denzel Whitaker (yes, he was named after his director; maybe the Image Awards should ...
Movie Dearest continues the month long countdown to
the Oscars with two of our weekly signature features
-- Cinematic Crush and Women We Love -- spotlighting our favorites of this year's acting nominees: Crush object : Daniel Day-Lewis , actor. ...
Although it only received one Academy Award nomination
(for Film Editing), this wartime actioner has stood the
test of time to become the ultimate "escape from prison" movie. Who could forget, for example, Steve McQueen's daring motorcycle getaway? And for us connoisseurs of the "celluloid closet", there is the added bonus of the striking bond between the two prisoners played by Charles ...
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Spencer Tracy has the distinction of being the
first actor to win two Academy Awards in a
row, the first for his unlikely yet convincing performance as a Portuguese fisherman in Captains Courageous . The following year, he won again portraying another kindly protector of youth, as the real-life Father Flanagan in Boys Town . As a publicity stunt, MGM stated that Tracy would donate his ...
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Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)
Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men
High on the list of "when Oscar gets
it wrong" is the almost total snub of this
all-time classic musical comedy. Perhaps the Academy was over honoring Gene Kelly , whose (far inferior) An American in Paris swept the year before. Or maybe they were just overall confused in 1952; it was, after all, the year High Noon and The Quiet Man lost to ... The Greatest Show on Earth , generally regarded ...
Top of the morning to you, and a
happy Saint Patrick's Day to all! And no, I'm
not going to recommend The Quiet Man . Instead, we're going to the more fanciful Emerald Isle for Darby O'Gill and the Little People , an often overlooked Disney gem featuring magical leprechauns, vengeful banshees and clever visual effects, still effective in this age of hobbits and boy wizards. You will be ...
This year's Oscar-winning animated short Peter & the
Wolf will be presented tomorrow night as part of
PBS' Great Performances . In addition to the complete toon, which retells the familiar story of Sergei Prokofiev's classical piece through stop motion animation, the program will present a behind the scenes featurette on the making of it. In related news, Peter & the Wolf and all ...
The new adventures of Superman-before-he-was-Superman continue starting tomorrow
night with the return of Smallville on the CW
Network. Big changes are reportedly in the works, with both Michael Rosenbaum (Lex Luthor) and Kristin Kreuk (Lana Lang) reportedly leaving the show after this season. But don't worry, our favorite small town boy Tom Welling will be back for at least one more ...
"Animation isn't the illusion of life -- it
is life!" -- Chuck Jones As Brad Bird (this
year's Academy Award winner for Best Animated Feature) has been known to say, animation is not a genre, but a medium. And he's right. Nevertheless, it is the ...
Kerry Butler , one of our favorite Broadway
babes ( Hairspray , Xanadu ), is releasing her
very first solo album May 13. Titled Faith, Trust and Pixie Dust, the new disc will feature music from the Disney songbook, including some rare and/or never recorded toon tunes. In addition to the usual (has there ever been a Disney cover album without "When You Wish Upon a Star"?), Kerry will croon ...
Voting has begun over at AfterElton.com on this
year's "Hot 100" , so be sure to head
on over and vote for your favorite, well, hotties. Honestly, my choices haven't changed that much from last July , save for the addition of a certain speed racer (vroom, vroom indeed). Voting will continue through May 16, with the final results revealed June 2. And if you're still in the voting mood, ...
Desperate Housewives will conclude its revitalized fourth season
tomorrow night (which will include the addition of Queer
as Folk icon Gale Harold to the cast), so to keep all the Wisteria Lane action alive over the long hot summer, here is the Madame Alexander Desperate Housewives Doll Collection . Yes, you too can recreate all the juicy gossip and homemaker intrigue of the popular ...
















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