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...Alan Arkin scored a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his soulful performance as a deaf-mute silversmith in the drama The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. Almost forty years and dozens of film roles later, there is renewed Oscar speculation surrounding Arkin, this time for his role as a foul-mouthed, drug-snorting grandpa in the indie Little Miss Sunshine, out this week on DVD. The acerbic actor chatted with TIME's Carolina A. Miranda about why he doesn't give a hoot about the Oscars, his passion for New Mexico and how we humans are wrecking the planet...
MOVIE PENGUINS March of the Penguins won an Oscar, and Mumble, the star of the huge hit Happy Feet, won our hearts...
After winning 26 Grammy awards and garnering seven Oscar nominations, music impresario Quincy D. Jones was given a different kind of honor by the School of Public Health this week. Jones, who has also had a long career in humanitarian work, was selected as “Mentor of the Year” for January’s sixth annual National Mentoring Month campaign. “I am humbled and honored to have this title bestowed upon me,” Jones told The Crimson in an e-mail through his publicist, Arnold Robinson. “Throughout...
Matt Damon pulls in a stellar, possibly Oscar-bound turn as Edward Wilson, recruited by the United States government to be a behind-the-scenes power-player in World War II and in the post reconstruction of Germany...
...Blood Diamond,” the violent liberal ego-stroker by Edward M. Zwick ’74, and movie observers pointed to a trend of serious violence in movies. David Carr, the New York Times’ so-called “Carpetbagger” (Oscar observer), wrote a column about how many movies tagged with the speculative title of “Oscar-worthy” are filled with blood...