Word: oscared
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...rise of American popular culture: not only jazz and its innumerable variants but also what happened onstage, across the airwaves and on the movie screen. America took the European operetta, fused it with burlesque and jazz and created--through the genius of Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II and others--a broad, unique musical form. The '20s saw the rise of the Hollywood studio system, which had grown from its humble origins among (mostly immigrant Jewish) nickelodeon proprietors into the most powerful industry for the invention and spread of dreams in human history, at least until...
...true that the Office of Career Services (OCS) is flooded with future investment bankers, lawyers and academics--not Oscar-winning hopefuls. Gail Gilmore, associate director of OCS, notes that only about 150 patrons visited the office last year expressly for guidance about careers in the arts...
Even for Burt Reynolds--once and forever movie star, icon and damn fine actor--there are things in life besides an Oscar...
...sets out to tell the stories of the victims of the bombing and to explain why it happened when and where it did and the effect it had on the civil rights movement. The film was briefly in theatrical release last year, and has just been nominated for an Oscar. Shifting smoothly from the most poignant details of the girls' lives--Scout badges, a first pair of grownup shoes--to the actions of historical figures like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and George Wallace, Lee succeeds in giving a subtle, intelligent and moving account of an event that starkly...
KATE WINSLET The young, winsome star of Titanic leads a wave of British nominees for the Best Actress Oscar...