Los Angeles (AFP) â A 97-year-old Mel Brooks accepted a lifetime achievement Oscar in Hollywood on Tuesday, more than half a century after he won his only Academy Award with âThe Producers.â At a black-tie gala, Brooks â who memorably sent up Adolf Hitler in seminal satire âThe Producers,â as well as exposing racial bigotry
Comedy Legend Mel Brooks, âBlazing Saddlesâ Director, Receives Lifetime Achievement Oscar
‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Wins Best Picture Oscar
LOS ANGELES (AP) â The metaphysical multiverse comedy âEverything Everywhere All at Onceâ wrapped its hot dog fingers around Hollywoodâs top prize Sunday, winning best picture at the 95th Academy Awards, along with awards for Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis. Though worlds away from Oscar bait, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinertâs
Olympian Oscar Pistorius Loses Bid to Get Out of Prison Early After Murdering Girlfriend
Oscar Pistorius was denied parole on Friday, forcing him to continue serving his murder sentence for the 2013 killing of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.The Paralympic gold medalist, 36, had hoped to be released from prison early. But at a closed-door hearing, a South African parole board found that Pistorius still poses a threat to public
‘Blade Runner’ Oscar Pistorius may see early release after upcoming parole meeting: report
Disgraced Paralympian Oscar Pistorius is once again up for parole and could see an early release “within weeks” after serving half of his 13-year sentence. “We were notified by the department of correctional services about the parole hearing,” Tania Koen, an attorney representing Reeva Steenkampâs parents, told Sowetan Live. “We also note Pistorius, like any […]
Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan Get Lost in the â60s of âSidney Brusteinâ
The sign in Sidney Brusteinâs window, in Lorraine Hansberryâs play of the same name, is one which supports a liberal New York politician, Wally OâHara, who ultimately turns out to be no good. And what the sign stands forâideals defiled and made redundantâare at the heart of Lorraine Hansberryâs second Broadway play, which premiered in
FLASHBACK: Obama Pardoned Terrorist FALN Leader Oscar Lopez Rivera.
As President Trump considers or moves forward with pardons for Dinesh DâSouza, Martha Stewart, and former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, itâs worth taking a step back to review one of the most controversial presidential pardons in recent history — Barack Obamaâs January 2017 commutation of the 55-year sentence of Puerto Rican terrorist Oscar Lopez Rivera, […]
One Actor Thanked America in Oscar Speech â And Heâs British.
ï»ż At Sunday eveningâs Academy Awards, London-born actor Gary Oldman received his first-ever Oscar for playing the British Bulldog, Winston Churchill, in the film Darkest Hour. Oldman immediately thanked the United States for paving the way for his success while the only sound from the gaggle of Hollywood elitists was, to paraphrase John Lennon’s […]
Kobe Bryant Winning An Oscar Proves Hollywood Is Full Of Hypocrites.
Former NBA star Kobe Bryant won an Oscar Sunday night for his short film âDear Basketball,â and it proved that Hollywood is full of hypocrites. Nearly 15 years ago, the Los Angeles Lakers legend was accused of graphically raping a hotel employee at the Lodge & Spa at Cordillera, which is in Colorado. He was soon […]
Oscars: Jimmy Kimmel Says Penis-Free Oscar Statue Is Hollywoodâs Ideal Man.
Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel went all in on the #MeToo movement in his opening monologue, saying that if Hollywood can stop harassing women, they âwill only have to deal with harassment all the time in every other place they go.â Kimmel also pointed to a massive Oscar statuette on the stage and said he was […]
Oscar Night: Hollywood Hypocrisy Takes Center Stage Celebrities to Push Gun Control â Surrounded by Wall of 500 Armed OfficersâŠ
The Los Angeles Police Department will deploy 500 officers to wrap the Dolby Theatre in multiple barriers of armed security for the 90th Academy Awards on Sunday night, an event at which several of Hollywoodâs most celebrated stars will actively push for more gun control in America. âWe have these concentric rings of security that start in […]
OUT AT OSCAR: Motion Picture Academy Votes To Expel Harvey Weinstein
Oscar voters still oddly silent on Roman Polanksi, though. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which votes on and holds the yearly Hollywood self-celebration, the Oscars, voted Saturday to expel embattled film producer Harvey Weinstein after nearly 40 women have come forward to complain the mogul sexually harassed â and even sexually assaulted […]
Eleventh Hour Atrocity: Obama Releases FALN Terrorist Oscar Lopez-Rivera
(AP photo) There is so much outrage over President Obamaâs commutation of the 35-year espionage sentence imposed on treasonous American soldier Bradley Manning (aka âChelseaâ), that his commutation last night of unrepentant terrorist Oscar Lopez-Rivera is just beginning to attract attention. Lopez-Rivera is a FALN leader who was serving a combined 70 years in prison […]