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Mar 1 2011, Marco Villa

Oscar should stop seeking to appeal to a “young demographic” because in doing so they only dumb-down the show and fail miserably in seeking to be “hip” but also “Oscar classic” and instead coming off being staged and an offense to genuine...

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Sarwar Borah, New Delhi
It was a lead pair with looks to kill, whether it’s Angelina Jolie or Johnny Depp, the combined glam quotient of the two creates enough bling to overshadow rest of...
made popular Jan 11 2011
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
I wrote a post about sister Lohan, I will tell you why I call her sister below, and her battles with drug and alcohol addiction. It is not all her fault. First, she...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
That poor Lindsey Lohan. She was sentenced to 90 days in jail, but, yeah, this is Hollywood so it was suspended to 12 days. One would expect Lohan to then finally...
made popular Oct 20 2010
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Neha Finney, Terre Haute
Hollywood has covered almost every topic on earth,literally. From personal issues to national and international disasters. Thats why I think one and a half year is a...
made popular Oct 4 2010
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Al Gore was a robotic bore during his Vice-presidential tenure. Unlike his dumbass predecessor - Dan Quayle - who provided comic relief, Gore was known for being...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Nobody epitomizes young Hollywood excesses more than Lindsey Lohan. Paris Hilton is a paragon of modesty next to Lohan. By her own admission, Lohan’s...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
A few weeks back, America lost a Hollywood legend but few noticed. Myself included. That was until I read this obituary in The Economist on Lena Horne. Who is Lena...
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Tatooine is not just Luke Skywalker’s fictional home in Star Wars, but an actual town on the periphery of the Sahara desert in Tunisia. Star Wars‘ direction George...
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The entertainer Lena Horne, a show-stopping beauty who battled racism in a frustrating effort to become Hollywood’s first black leading lady, has died at the age of...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Tatooine is not just Luke Skywalker’s fictional home in Star Wars, but an actual town on the periphery of the Sahara desert in Tunisia. Star Wars’...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Hollywood studios used to take chances with films. And in the process often created some classics. Star Wars was never a guarantee for a success and 20th Century Fox...
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Incognito, Atlanta
In a world where celebrities like Tiger Woods and Jesse James (Sandra Bullock’s philandering husband) hop in and out of bed with women as frequently as they...
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Rajni, Shimla
The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed that the Lost Boys star died at 3.30am on Wednesday. He was found unresponsive at an apartment in Oakwood, near Burbank,...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
For the past several years, Oscar ratings have been locked in a world of hurt, a ‘Hurt Locker’ you may say, averaging roughly +30million viewers. The biggest...
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The Vanessa Redgrave Oscar winning speech in the 1970s is my favorite Oscar acceptance speech because it coined the term ‘Zionist hoodlums’. Of course, she...
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Times Square - previously named Longacre Square until the New York Times changed its headquarters to 42nd street and the paper’s owner persuaded the city mayor to...
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How could you have a scary movie without the immortal mirror scene? It is simply a must. The scene where the unsuspecting victim is going through his, usually her,...
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First, if you can, please donate to Haiti. The people of Haiti need your support. Watching George Clonney’s ‘Hope for Haiti’ fundraising benefit...
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Columbia - one of Hollywood’s six major studios - has announced that the planed and highly anticipated fourth installment of the successful Spider-Man franchise...
made popular Jan 13 2010
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James Cameron may finally have made the film to gross more revenue than “Titanic” - the all-time Box Office champion and his own previously film. In its...
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That’s his story and he’s sticking to it (no pun intended). Warren Beatty biographer Peter Biskind has estimated that the Hollywood legend has slept with...
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Hollywood likes to make a big deal about how pirating - illegal selling of DVDs and showcasing of films - is costing the industry billions. The argument is...
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Have you ever had a conversation with someone over, say, a film or book and the person kept on referring to the movie as “great” and why it was so good?;...
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K.R.RAVI, potomac
ARE YOU ARGUMENTATIVE? The Indian Prime minister addressed top government officials a month ago and told them that the system was ridden with corruption. I did not...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Indian movie star Shah Rukh Khan is adored by millions, but New Jersey custom officials would not notice him for anybody but another normal traveler. And one who needs...
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Egyptians - many of them anyway - are outraged by the naming of a dog “Anwar Sadat” - after the late president - in the Hollywood film “I Love You,...
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Apparently a recession does not mean a slowdown in consumer spending in all industries. While Americans may be going less to restaurants and shops, they are seeing...
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Meriam Bouarrouj, Springfield
June has been a busy month for Sophia Bush as she just launched a series of ads for the Ops clothing campaign for the fall, released two films, and began working on her...
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Michael Kerjman, The Earth
Wayne Allwine, who served as the voice of Mickey Mouse for 32 years, died yesterday of complications from diabetes, according to the Walt Disney Company. He was 62.
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Washington, May 15 (ANI): Hollywood actor Shia LaBeouf has revealed that he once went on a dinner date with Rihanna, but things never went any further.La Beouf revealed...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
California may not be America’s largest state by way of geography [that honors goes to Alaska by a wide margin], but for all purposes it is. Alaska is too removed...
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View Point, Shimla
Media allegations have accused the film of being ‘poverty porn’ and also that glamorising slum life appeared deliberately placed to play on the liberal guilt of...
made popular Feb 26 2009
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Vijendra Trighatia, chandigarh
Everything about this movie whether its the conceptualization by Abhay Deol, the music by Amit Trivedi and the loving strokes of superb direction by Anurag Kashyap is...
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Marcus Brooks, des moines
The week of February 8-15 was a struggle for a number of celebrities. Michael Phelps earned the “Plaxico Burress Award” for common sense for being...
made popular Feb 16 2009
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Stevo, Dothan
So the first thing you probably noticed was that I spelled glamour with a “u” more than once already. I like British spellings of many words, get over...
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Vijendra Trighatia, chandigarh
One has to be a die hard cynic or with a severe case of reverse snobbery not to fall in love with a work of genius such as this. I have two words for you. Simply...
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Karim Khan, Peshawar
It might seem strange at first glance that Bollywood and Hollywood have become such cozy friends. The world’s two greatest film industries have always been...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button dominated the Oscar nominations today as the film received 13 nominations; including Best Picture and Best Actor for Brad Pitt. I...
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FILE — A Dec. 19, 2003, file photo shows the RealNetworks headquarters in Seattle. On Friday, April 24, 2009, in federal court in San Francisco, lawyers representing Hollywood will argue that RealNetworks Inc.’s DVD “ripper” is an illegal...