Word: star
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...enchantress Penélope Cruz won Best Supporting Actress for her fiery painter in Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona, making her the first Spanish actress to win an acting Oscar. And in the ceremony's most emotionally honest moment, the mother, father and sister of the late Australian star Heath Ledger accepted his Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in The Dark Knight. "We have been truly overwhelmed by the honor and respect being bestowed upon him with this award," his mother said. (See pictures of Ledger...
...show, hosted by Australia star Hugh Jackman - the first non-American (and non-comedian) to emcee the event in 22 years, and the first-ever Aussie - the one glamour award won by an American was Best Actor; it went to Sean Penn, who played gay-rights activist Harvey Milk in the biopic Milk. This was the one half-surprise in an evening of few big upsets. The oddsmakers had Penn tabbed as a slight underdog to Golden Globe winner Mickey Rourke, whose performance in The Wrestler had all the earmarks of a sentimental Hollywood comeback. (See pictures of Rourke...
...chances for it rested upon Rourke - his acceptance speech the night before at the Independent Spirit Awards was five minutes of wondrously ribald thank-yous and genial insults - and Jerry Lewis, the legendary, infamous clown, now 82, who would receive an honorary award. Would the long-ago star-director of imaginative, raucous comedies prance out and shout "Mel-vin!"? Would he, bearing in mind how he's been scorned by mainstream U.S. critics but revered in the pages of Cahiers du Cinema, give his acceptance speech entirely in French? Would he lecture the Academy because it cited...
...field with engines firing, and recorded an early 11:56 goal in the first quarter.Harvard would have to wait for revenge against the Devil’s lone score—but when it responded it did so with a vengeance. The Crimson, led by its new freshman star, recorded three unanswered tallies in the second quarter.Cohen began the Crimson’s scoring spree at 11:09, finding the net with an assist from senior co-captain Max Motschwiller. The freshman attackman wasted no time before notching another Harvard goal, scoring again at 10:41 from senior Nick Sapia.Junior...
...third year star and co-captain notched his 1000th career assist this past week, showing vast improvement in only his second year as the squad’s on-court leader. In nearly every possession, Weintraub orchestrates the Crimson attack with precision and finesse, exhibiting a steady sense of leadership that is not lost on his teammates...