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A 'below-the-line' Oscar winner
Gene Allen's home on the Balboa Peninsula offers so much to delight the eye that it's easy to hide a small object inside it. Even an Academy Award. The longtime Newport Beach resident, who lives in a condo overlooking the Rhine Channel, doesn't make...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Henry Fonda, Bette Davis, George C. Scott, Chris Rock
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When jokes go too far
Oscar hosts are supposed to be irreverent and edgy, otherwise they are instantly accused of boring us silly. So Seth MacFarlane must have been surprised by the rolling backlash from his performance at last week's Academy Awards. In a gathering storm...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, George Carlin, Billy Crystal, Media Industry, Civil Rights
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Mail Call - Feb. 26
“This being Presidents Day and all, I got a little tidbit for everybody. My wife, my wife’s great-great-great aunt was Mary Todd Lincoln. So she’s got the Lincoln blood through her. Fascinating, isn’t it? She’s related to the...Tags: Coughing, State of the Union Address, Elections, Social Issues, Barack Obama
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Oscar guy MacFarlane aims to perk up stodgy awards
LOS ANGELES (AP) — You think the Academy Awards are boring? Try the nominations. They only last a few minutes, but it's generally a sleepy academy suit and a sleepy starlet droning a list of names at 5:30 in the morning. Except last time. Some...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Frank Sinatra, Ted (movie), Billy Crystal, Alec Baldwin
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Jon Stewart amazed by 'jaded' Russian reaction to meteor
Imagine you're driving to work one day when a blazing meteor streaks across the horizon and explodes into a fireball. You'd be pretty shocked, and might even blurt out an expletive or two, right? That's what most of us, including Jon Stewart, would...Tags: CBS Corp., The Daily Show (tv program)
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'Zero Dark Thirty' writer: Torture 'clearly part' of finding Bin Laden
In some of his most expansive comments since his movie touched off a Washington firestorm, the screenwriter of "Zero Dark Thirty" defended his film as depicting torture accurately and said that a pending Senate investigation brought him "a chill." "We&...Tags: Stephen Colbert, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Kathryn Bigelow, Movies, Zero Dark Thirty (movie)
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Jon Stewart grills Susan Rice on Benghazi attack
On “The Daily Show” on Thursday, host Jon Stewart grilled United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice about the Obama administration’s response to the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last year. He began by asking about the...Tags: Susan Rice, Benghazi, United Nations, The Daily Show (tv program)
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Grammys 2013: MusiCares fetes Springsteen with all-star roster
This post has been updated. See below for details. Surprisingly, the cries of “Bruce! Bruce! Bruce! Bruce!” that echoed through the Los Angeles Convention Center on Friday night at the annual MusiCares Person of the Year gala came much...
Tags: Music Industry, Elton John, Sting, Neil Young, Music
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Wednesday's TV Talk Shows: Bar Refaeli; Joel McHale; Melissa McCarthy
Click here to download TV listings for the week of Feb. 3 - 9, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- CBS This Morning (N) 7 a.m. KCBS Today Winter Olympics; Jenna Elfman; Scott Hamilton; Yvette Nicole Brown; Kelly Osbourne....
Tags: Bar Refaeli, Josh Groban, Whoopi Goldberg, Reba McEntire, Eric Stonestreet
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Abiding Passions
Dude Fest Feb. 9, 10:15 p.m., Spotlight Theatres Front Street, 39 Front St., Hartford, (860) 422-7713, spotlighttheatres.com As a glorious paradox: There are plenty of reasons for the enduring success of Joel and Ethan Coen's The Big Lebowski,...
Tags: Literature, Movies, Judaism, Taoism, Fiction
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Al Gore's sale to Big Oil not a blow to climate crusade
Former Vice President Al Gore is used to taking pot shots from the right, and he's getting peppered with them lately following his decision to sell his unpopular Current TV network to Al Jazeera, the Middle Eastern news channel still vilified by many...
Tags: Saudi Arabia, Alternative Energy, Ecosystems, Al Jazeera (tv network), Current TV (tv network)
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Bringing the funny
Change of SubjectIn counting down the top 50 funniest people, Rolling Stone lists these as the top ten: 10. Kristin Wiig 9. Bill Hader 8. Lena Dunham 7. Chris Rock 6. Amy Poehler 5. Trey Parker & Matt Stone 4. Jon Stewart......
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