Word: oscared
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Despite controversy in recent weeks about the selection process, the Oscar-like awards ceremony proceeded smoothly with awards distributed and performances by some nominated groups...
LONDON: What do novelist Jeffrey Archer, Oscar-winning actress Glenda Jackson and Virgin entrepreneur Richard Branson have in common? Answer: They all have the opportunity to fulfill their dream to become the first Lord Mayor of London elected by a popular vote, after the British capital voted late Thursday in favor of having one. Another thing they have in common -- Londoners don?t want them...
Kermit the frog began life as muppet creatorJim Henson's aunt's coat. Grover did not start outas a blue monster and Oscar the Grouch wasoriginally orange. In fact, many "star" muppetsbegan as AMs (Any Muppet), new muppets created forbit parts that may later rise in popularity...
...there's a heroic generosity about the man that I find enormously appealing. He literally never passed a beggar in the street without giving him money." The softhearted populist is Oscar, not Elvis, and the quote is from English playwright David Hare, whose play about Wilde, The Judas Kiss, opens in New York City this week. Starring Liam Neeson, Hare's play examines the aftermath of the episode when words finally failed Wilde: the trials for "gross indecency" (1890s British legalese for homosexuality) that ended in his imprisonment and ruin but also assured his permanent status as a gay-rights...
...tried, of course. For a pitch-perfect record of the proceedings, rather than Hare's imaginative reconstruction of their aftershocks, audiences need only go off-Broadway to Moises Kaufman's Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde. Taken entirely from courtroom transcripts and excerpts of Wilde's and Douglas' writings, the play opened 14 months ago as a sleeper hit and has since become a small New York City institution--The Fantasticks for humanities majors...