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...already. The winner selection process, intrinsically tainted by Academy politics, is anything but quantitative—statistically, even the most impulsive civilian guesser is likely to make at least one correct prediction. This lends a satisfying, authoritative feel to one’s preferences regarding, for instance, Meryl Streep—who should be given an Oscar every year, by default, just to thank her for being Meryl Streep—versus Sandra Bullock—who, incredibly, is somehow still allowed to make films after appearing in “All About Steve.” The cult popularity...

Author: By Molly O. Fitzpatrick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Widescreen to Flatscreen: Televising the Oscars | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

...genealogy fascinates everyone who is not in my family. PBS's new show Faces of America, hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr., traces the lineage of Dr. Oz and Meryl Streep, while NBC's upcoming Who Do You Think You Are?, executive-produced by Friends actress Lisa Kudrow, seeks out the dead relatives of Sarah Jessica Parker and Spike Lee. In an episode of the NBC show, Kudrow goes to Belarus to find the grave of her great-grandmother who was killed in the Holocaust and meets a family member who survived. It's fascinating, but probably only because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reluctantly, Joel Stein Discovers His Roots | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

...waltz and tango and rumba, put quarter-inch blades on the dancers, and get them moving at a much quicker clip. That's what is giving the sport its growing Dancing with the Stars-like power. Take it from a winner. "We've been saying it all year," says Meryl Davis, who with Charlie White won the Olympic silver medal in ice dancing for the U.S. "Ice dance is right up there with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up Next: Ice Dancing with the Stars? | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

Television personality Stephen Colbert is distantly related to Elizabeth Alexander, the African-American poet who read at President Barack Obama’s inauguration, Oscar-award winning actress Meryl Streep, and Queen Noor, the queen consort of Jordan...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Skip Gates Traces Ancestry of the Famous | 2/8/2010 | See Source »

...Woman of the Year, Hathaway joins the ranks of Meryl Streep, Katharine Hepburn, Julia Roberts, and last year’s winner Renee Zellweger...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Anne Hathaway Gets Royal Treatment | 1/29/2010 | See Source »

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