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Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day performs at the iHeart Radio Music Festival on Friday, Sept, 21, 2012 at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas. And yet, in the months since Crystal was announced as this years Oscar host - his first such stint in eight years - the general reaction has been somewhere between a shrug and a wince (which, coincidentally, are two of Crystals go-to comedic tics). Oscar winner Whoopi Goldberg has landed a guest spot on hit US TV comedy The Middle after cornering star Patricia Heaton to ask for a role. Past Oscar hosts have included African Americans Chris Rock and Whoopi Goldberg, and Ed Murphy was initially slated to host this years broadcast. One of our forum posters, KingOfTheWorld, kicks off this annual debate with the following observation: With Tom Sherak failing to lock down Jimmy Fallon and Lorne Michaels for this years telecast, it has me wondering: who should host and produce the Oscars this year. If its only Friday, there are still beaucoup opportunities to lounge, scrounge and party down. OSCARS BIG WEEKEND) February 25, 2011 As Oscar Week barreled toward the 83rd Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday, two themes emerged as Hollywoods elite wandered from party to gifting suite to pampering lounges. With Jane Fonda serving as host, Pyle executive produced the ground-breaking and award-winning show People Count. Two-time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey was asked by CelebsGoneGood about the passage of Proposition 8 at the Happy Hearts Gala. One day after Ed Murphy stepped aside as host, the Academy named a replacement who has hosted eight previous Oscar shows, moving quickly to fill a crucial role that was vacated this week.
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28 pm Updated Billy Crystal has agreed to take over the role of Oscar host from Ed Murphy. Whoopi has interviewed a host of famous faces for I Got Somethin To Tell You, but now needs to find the balance of the money to finish the project. Check out the rest of the celebrities posing on the red carpet at the premiere - after the click: Read the rest. Billy Crystal is a standout at the Oscars. I left TIFF this year with a clearer picture of the ongoing Oscar race (but also acknowledge that there are still so many films left to debut some of which well see at the New York Film Festival later this month). Taking its name from a benighted neighbourhood of the ancient coastal city of Jaffa, Ajami represented Israel with a nomination in the foreign language category at the Academy Awards earlier this year. At the end of her final probation hearing, a smiling Lohan hugged her longtime attorney, Shawn Holley. Tony will be one of my special guests at the book launch on Tuesday, April 10, 5:30 pm at Powerbooks in Greenbelt 4, Makati. Ronnie del Carmen, Ricky Nierva and Gini Cruz Santos- three of the many talented Pixnoys (Filipinos working at the animation powerhouse, Pixar). The show was landmark in that it featured a female African American host for the first time, Whoopi Goldberg, and represented a direct contrast in edgy style from Billy Crystal who had hosted the show the previous four years. In an old video of The View co-host, which surfaced in the Internet Thursday, she admitted she was stoned while accepting the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in Ghost.
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Lets set the scene: Y2K causes panic, the Euro is established, Nunavut becomes a territory, Shakespeare in Love wins Best Picture at the Oscars in March (hosted by Whoopi Goldberg), we enter The Matrix, meet a young Obi-Wan Kenobi, find out what its like to be John Malkovich and learn the first rule of Fight Club. It starts with a bloody battle, like Saving Private Ryan, and has an cataclysmic ending with Leonardo DiCaprio at the center of things, so that makes it like Titanic. PopEater writer, Jo Piazza writes, this year represents the Whitest group of Oscar contenders in major acting categories in 10 years, since the 73 Oscars. Goldberg Slams Times Film Critics Over Sloppy Oscar Article. Oscar winner Whoopi Goldberg has finally relented to pressure from fans to join the social. Four-time Oscars host WHOOPI GOLDBERG was not impressed with JAMES FRANCO and ANNE HATHAWAYs. On 12 August, the day of the Olympic Closing Ceremony, you will host an event in London that will bring together world leaders in science, business and development with key heads of state to discuss this silent crisis. Executives at the Hollywood studio were gathered at the Burbank offices from the middle of the night, struggling with whether to alter roll-out plans for the second-biggest release in movie history. The veteran Oscar host has enjoyed many memorable moments while hosting the glittering Academy Awards over the years. Seth Rogen says he would only host the Oscars if they hired better writers and believes this years co-host, his friend James Franco, was wrongly criticised. See the host of At The End of My Leash, Puppy SOS, and National Best Selling Author in action as he busts myths about dogs and educates us on dog behaviour.
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Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day performs at the iHeart Radio Music Festival on Friday, Sept, 21, 2012 at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas. The Oscar-winning scribe says he wants to look at the early relationship between the characters currently played by Hugh Bonneville and Elizabeth McGovern. Whoopi Goldberg, Jackie Collins and Ivana Trump Sign up For UK Cooking Show Choccywoccydoodah. But did not receive an Oscar nomination for directing (Academy Award host Whoopi Goldberg joked I guess it just directed itself). He graduated from St Augustines College in Sydney, after leaving St Pauls College at the end of Year 10. However it did receive an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. The show was landmark in that it featured a female African American host for the first time, Whoopi Goldberg, and represented a direct contrast in edgy style from Billy Crystal who had hosted the show the previous four years. The 81st Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 2008, was held on Sunday, February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, with actor Hugh Jackman hosting the ceremony. The movies theme song, The Rainbow Connection, earned an Oscar nomination for composers Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher. Supposedly, the revolving door of new leadership at the top has improved the situation - but some time ago I gave up dealing with the agency - after being unable to find even a single honest or competent person to deal with - so I cant personally speak for the present situation. While this talented twosome has presented at the Oscars together (2010) and separately, neither has emceed the awardsfest. I was appalled by the Academys egregious oversight, omitting Goldberg from their Oscars retrospective.
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39PM EST Off to a good start with the hosts, James Franco and Anne Hathaway, inserted into scenes from several of the Oscar nominees, on an Incept. Tribute to Whoopi Goldberg and African-American Actors. James Franco and Anne Hathaway didnt exactly win rave reviews as last years hosts, so this unexpected opportunity for the comedian could end up being exactly what the Oscars needs. Oscar co-hosts Anne Hathaway and James Franco kicked things off in high syle at the Oscar ceremony on Sunday with a movie montage that used Inception as a framework to edit the duo into scenes from some of the best picture nominees, including The Social Network and True Grit. Sneak Peek at the World Trade Center Memorial (PHOTOS). She beat out about 21 others in her home country in order to represent Angola in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Heres a look at the workers as they put the finishing touches on the tree-lined plaza. Past Oscar hosts have included African Americans Chris Rock and Whoopi Goldberg, and Ed Murphy was initially slated to host this years broadcast. In recent years, producers seemed to abandon that mantra by hiring actors like Hugh Jackman, Alec Baldwin, and Anne Hathaway to host instead of comedians like Chris Rock, Ellen DeGeneres, and Whoopi Goldberg who had been hosting modern ceremonies. Whoopi Goldberg is one of the producers on the film. John C Reilly is gonna be in it, we think, as The Family Man and John Leguizamo as The Lover and Whoopi as The Career Person. Lucy Sexton and I worked on the script and were starting to get the money together.
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Theres been a tempest in a teapot about Whoopi Goldberg being omitted from the collection of hosts over the years in a montage celebrating the Oscars 80th year. This release takes a look at the life of the famous late comedian who, through his career as a radio star and as original host of The Tonight Show, amused the world with his legendary comedic abilities. quot;What straight black man sits there and watches the Oscars. Comedian Chris Rock impishly asked, a few days before hosting the show. But more important than what they will wear or who they will thank at the Sept 18 ceremony were far more pressing questions such as, Is Jane Lynch going to tease me. The Envelope had a chance to run this and other thoughts past some of the Emmy contenders. Times study of Oscar voters finds that their demographics are much less diverse than the moviegoing public. Laura Pausini in Milan - Non ho mai smesso: flash mob at the Duomo. Sister Act in Italian - Whoopi Goldberg and the Milanese debut. Mostra del Cinema of Venice - The arrival of monica Bellucci at the Lido. A Dangerous Method - The arrival of Cronenberg and the cast at the Lido.
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