Word: oscarization
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...When Martin Scorsese won the Oscar for “The Departed...
...International oddities: the Iranian-French cartoon bio-pic Persepolis was nominated for Foreign Film but not Animated Feature. And of the five finalists in the foreign-language category, three have already been ruled ineligible for the Motion Picture Academy?s foreign film Oscar: The Diving Bell (because its director is American), The Kite Runner (Swiss-American director) and Ang Lee's sexy Lust, Caution (not made in Taiwan...
...first liquor auction since Prohibition at Christie's in Manhattan, a 1926 single-malt Macallan scotch went for $54,000; that's more than $2,000 per oz. (30 mL). Elsewhere, a lock of John Lennon's hair brought $48,000, but Marie Antoinette's pearls and Orson Welles' Oscar are still available, both having failed to reach their minimum bids...
...might think the highest-rated Oscar telecasts are in years when there's a close contest in the major categories, as with Crash and Brokeback Mountain two years. Nuh-uh. It's the runaway years, when billion-dollar blockbusters like Titanic and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King get what are essentially People's Choice awards, and its makers wear a path in the rug from their seats to the stage. Moviegoers who are TV viewers don't want horse races; they want coronations - validations that somebody in Hollywood is ready to honor the movies they...
...such victim of abuse, Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet was sentenced to 25 years in prison by Fidel Castro’s dictatorship for vocalizing his opposition to the government and, even worse, for defending human rights. In 1998, Dr. Biscet uncovered the government practice of chemically inducing abortions through the use of a drug called Rivanol. In a book titled “Rivanol: A method to destroy life,” Biscet described government-mandated abortions being used as a method of contraception. This drug caused viable fetuses to be born alive, only then to either bleed to death...