‘Blind Side’ Turns Blind Eye to Key Actor

March 8th, 2010 — 11:28 am
QAaronEvery Academy Award success story carries with it a tale of someone who’s been forgotten. So let’s say I was a little astonished to find actor Quinton Aaron waiting for a car outside the Kodak Theatre after the Oscar show was over. Who is Quinton Aaron? Well, while Sandra Bullock was accepting kudos for her Oscar for [...]

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Mo’Nique: Is She a One-Time Winner?

March 7th, 2010 — 02:38 pm
moniqueMonique Imes calls herself Mo’Nique, which sort of translates to the clumsy “more unique.” Tonight she will be the first winner of the Academy Award to have an apostrophe in her name. That’s more unique than almost anything else. She may also be the first winner to bring her husband up on the stage. At the Independent [...]

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Oscarcast: No Nicole, Maybe Barbra

March 7th, 2010 — 02:37 pm
More awards coverage Tonight’s Academy Awards show kicks off with who else, Neil Patrick Harris, in a musical number. Then Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin appear, and we’re off to the races. Who we won’t see: Nicole Kidman. The Oscar-winner is in Australia with husband Keith Urban and daughter Sunday Rose. Last night was Nicole’s mom’s 70th birthday, and [...]

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Leo, Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz Hit the Big Pre-Oscar Bash

March 7th, 2010 — 04:21 am
It’s Oscar eve which means parties all night in Hollywood. While some stars hit The Night Before with $25,000 tickets underwritten by the studios or their talent agencies, most everyone rode the elevators to the Penthouse floor of Luckman Plaza for The Weinstein Company gala at Soho House. The party was underwritten by Mont Blanc and [...]

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Senior Stars Will Stage Protest Tonight At Katzenberg Party

March 6th, 2010 — 01:17 pm
Senior stars and others associated with the Motion Picture & Television Fund home are going to be out in force tonight across the street from the Beverly Hills Hotel. Starting at 6pm, a group including Jamie Farr from “MASH” fame, Renee Taylor and Joe Bologna, Ken Howard, and George Chakiris hopes to bring around 300 placard [...]

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Joaquin Phoenix Says He’ll Come Back to Movies

March 6th, 2010 — 03:59 am
Joaquin Phoenix is back. On Thursday night at Soho House I ran into the gifted actor who’s been nominated for Oscars twice–in “Gladiator” and “Walk the Line.” Joaquin never looked better–clear eyed and clean shaven, a 180 degree turnaround from his digression into rapping and riffing last year on talk shows. He told me with certainty that he will [...]

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Exclusive: ‘Lost’ Returnees, ‘Brothers & Sisters’ Renewed

March 5th, 2010 — 03:10 pm
Exclusive: My favorite show, “Lost,” won’t come to an end without bringing back a few favorite characters. I am told exclusively that the actors who play Desmond, Penny, Charles Widmore, and the French doctor, Rousseau, are all on their way back to the island. That means we’ll see Henry Ian Cusick, Sonya Walger, Alan Dale and Mira Furlan, [...]

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Conan O’Brien Live Tour Confirmed

March 5th, 2010 — 02:49 pm
conanConan O’Brien is hitting the road. Sources tell me the great comic and talk show host will hit the road beginning in mid-April. The first stop will be on the West Coast, probably San Diego or Seattle. Details are being worked out now. The tour will not start in Phoenix, despite a TMZ report today. Indeed, my [...]

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Oscar Week Begins, But Where Are the Nominees?

March 4th, 2010 — 12:16 pm
ldanielsYou’d think with 10 best picture nominees, you’d see somebody from one of the films on the first night of real Oscar partying. But the lone nominee who made an appearance was “Precious” director Lee Daniels, at the Artists for Peace and Justice cocktail party thrown by Vanity Fair at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Daniels was the [...]

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Remembering the Real Bill Murray

March 3rd, 2010 — 11:46 am
Sad news this afternoon: Bill Murray — the real Bill Murray, not the actor — has passed away. Bill was one of the most beloved figures in New York showbiz history. Just shy of his 70th birthday, Bill ran Celebrity Bulletin and Celebrity Service since 1979. (He actually started answering the phones there in 1977.) With a [...]

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