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Colin Firth Oscar Acceptance Speech [WATCH HERE]
By JJ Helland - AOL News"I have a feeling my career's just peaked." So said Colin Firth, as only an Englishman could, upon winning the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 2011 Oscars. The 50-year-old nabbed the top honor Sunday night for his portrayal of the stammering King George VI in "The King's Speech." The famous royal may have had problems speaking, but Firth had no such difficulties as he gave a touching and humorous speech up at the podium. "I'm afraid I have to warn you that I'm experiencing stirrings somewhere in the upper abdominals which are threatening to form themselves into dance moves," the ...
Opinion: How About a Little Respect for Hollywood Screenwriters?
By not in system - AOL NewsThe Oscars are coming! While the usual pundits are busy sharpening their predictions and betting on the biggies -- best actor, best director, best picture -- I would like to say a word for the oft-forgotten writing nominations. Scripts are the seeds of thought that movies grow from. Not many films get made without them (not ones you'd like to rest your eyeballs on, anyway). Writers are like ancient monks, spending their lives hunkered down in lonely cells illuminating movies with their imaginations. They seldom get the attention they deserve, and yet they take enormous risks with their time ...
Oscar Nominations for 2011: Who Got Snubbed?
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsThe 2011 Academy Award nominees were announced this morning, which can only mean one thing: Oscar nomination snubs! Who was left off this year's Oscar nomination short lists? Surge Desk has a quick rundown of this year's snubs. "The Town" for Best Picture The Boston-based crime film starring and directed by Ben Affleck was on several early prediction lists for best picture and scored a $23.8 million opening weekend, only to fall short of the 10-slot nominee list for the Oscars' top honor. Mark Wahlberg for Best Actor The morning wasn't a total disappointment for Mark Wahlberg the producer ...
From Desiree Fontaine to Winona Ryder: Why Do Successful People Shoplift?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyWord that Desiree Fontaine, a TV reporter with Connecticut's WTNH, was arrested over the weekend and charged with attempting to steal a $100 bottle of perfume from a department store got the Surge Desk team wondering: What is it that makes successful, financially secure people resort to the five-finger discount? As illustrated by the case of Oscar-nominated actress Winona Ryder -- who attempted to walk out of a Beverly Hills department store with more than $5,000 worth of designer clothes -- fame and fortune are by no means a deterrent to shoplifting. But nor are many of the demographic ...
Skeletons Swinging Swords: A Fitting Tribute to Ray Harryhausen
By David Moye - AOL News(May 24) -- A Hollywood special effects wizard is the subject of a very special exhibit. Ray Harryhausen, who helped pioneer and refine stop-motion animation for films like "Mighty Joe Young," "Jason and the Argonauts" and the original "Clash of the Titans," is the subject of "The Fantastical Worlds of Ray Harryhausen," an exhibition on display at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) gallery in Beverly Hills, Calif. Harryhausen is considered a major influence on filmmakers like George Lucas and Peter Jackson, and exhibit curator Ellen Harrington says his work not only ...
Profiles in Femme Courage
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyThe Woman Up crew has been discussing Meryl Streep bravely flaunting her age in her new film "It's Complicated." ...
Oscar's Focus on Oil and War
By Justin Paulette - Politics DailyThe Academy Awards ceremony was held last night, and the winners are. . . Film: 'NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN'...Director: COEN BROS....Actor: DAY-LEWIS...Actress: COTILLARD...Supporting-Actor: BARDEM...Supporting-Actress: SWINTON... Of interest to the politically-minded, however, was the slate for best documentary. Three of the five selected films portrayed unflattering depictions of the war on terror, revealing a clear undercurrent of political murmuring within the ever-socially-conscious Hollywood elite. (The remaining two films were a hope-filled story of the orphans of Ugandan genocide and ...
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