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Why We Care About the Academy Awards
By James Grady - Politics DailyThe Academy Awards shone bright lights in my family's night sky well before 2007, when I stood in a Santa Monica street hugging my black-gowned and borrowed-diamonds daughter Rachel and not crying, I did not cry, I did not! as she climbed into the black limo that whisked her and her co-director/producer Heidi to the Oscars where they would lose Best Documentary to Al Gore. And why yes: it is way cool just to be nominated. The Academy Awards had me long before that night. Way back in America's black & white Cold War daze, my father managed movie theaters on our home turf of Montana prairie ...
Movie Depicting Hoover Gay Affair Rankles Some in FBI
By Allan Lengel - AOL NewsThe bulldog-like mug of J. Edgar Hoover has long been synonymous with the FBI, a world-renowned law enforcement agency forever hyper-sensitive about its public image. Still, Hoover's legend has taken its lumps over the years. Now comes the latest: an upcoming movie directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Hoover, in which the iconic G-man reportedly has a romantic affair with FBI Associate Director Clyde Tolson, his constant companion and alter ego. AP An upcoming movie directed by Clint Eastwood depicts FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's romantic affair with the ...
Elton John, David Furnish Welcome Baby Boy: 5 Other Old Celebrity Dads
By Dave Thier - AOL NewsYou can now add "father" to Sir Elton John's jam-packed resume. He and his partner, David Furnish, became the parents of a 7-pound, 15-ounce baby boy named Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish, born to an anonymous surrogate. Furnish is older than most new dads at 48, but at 62, John is entering fatherhood at an age when others are approaching grandfatherhood. By the time their son hits 18, John will be 80 years old. But in the world of celebrity, of course, age is just a number. Here are some other male celebrities still pumping out progeny well into their later years. Clint Eastwood The ...
Opinion: Want Safer Football? Ditch the Helmet
By Leonard Evans - AOL News
(Oct. 23) -- As the number of head injuries in football increases, we hear more and more about the need for better helmets. This may be barking up the wrong tree. Unprotected rugby players play a full-contact sport with tackling similar to that in football. Yet they don't experience frequent injuries. And the reason is important, not just for football players, but everyone else concerned about safety. Rugby, from which football evolved, is really big in much of the English-speaking world, although many Americans learned about it from Clint Eastwood's 2009 movie "Invictus," which re-enacted ...
On Sean Connery's 80th Birthday, the Question Remains: To Act or Not to Act?
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Aug. 25) -- Sean Connery turned 80 today and re-asserted his retirement, saying that his acting days are officially over. This may not bother the younger crowd, who perhaps know Connery better from an annoying Internet meme -- a website that repeats ad nauseam Connery's line "You're the man now, dog" from "Finding Forrester" (2000) -- than his James Bond days. But Connery's still one of cinema's greatest living legends, and could easily land commanding roles. He just says he no longer wants to. "I don't think I'll ever act again. I have so many wonderful memories, but those days are over," ...
The Oscars: Watch for Mickey Rourke and Heath Ledger to Body Slam the Competition
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyTuesday belongs to President Obama's joint address to Congress, but today belongs to the Academy Awards. As such, I hope you will indulge me in this (mostly) non-political post...History and common sense would lead one to conclude the comeback narrative of Mickey Rourke -- and the tragic story of Heath Ledger -- will be enough to guarantee them the leading and supporting actor awards, respectively.This is not to say they did not turn in solid performances, but it is to say that having a compelling personal narrative certainly helps...Of course, Slumdog Millionaire, a movie I have not seen, is ...
Clint Eastwood and Kathy Griffin Should Get Together
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyHere's a quick two-fer. A tale of two gonadical nicknames, if you will.First, here's Kathy Griffin on CNN, introducing what I'll call "The un-Clark" to the festivities.I know it's an old joke, but there's a reason why it gets a laugh every time. I also like the added wrinkle of using the plural form.Then, there's Clint Eastwood in the latest Esquire:We live in more of a pussy generation now, where everybody's become used to saying, "Well, how do we handle it psychologically?" In those days, you just punched the bully back and duked it out. Even if the guy was older and could push you around, ...
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