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Sunday, February 23, 2014 at 12:24PM Policy Mic Olivia Wilde humorously condemns Hollywood's sexism with a gender reversal anecdote
Chicago Tribune really strong piece on the camerawork and cutting (or lack of it) in the three films dominating the Oscar race: 12 Years a Slave, Gravity, and American Hustle
Gawker a sad day for Sound of Music fans. The last remaining member of the original Von Trapp family singers has died.
NY Times great interview with RuPaul on his unlikely career now in its second huge act
Salon looks at Oscar Original Songs that time forgot. But this is really just scratching the surface. There's a couple of them each year!
Backlots a letter about Joan Fontaine from her friend and secretary
In Contention 12 Years a Slave wins 4 prizes and The Butler wins Best Actor at the NAACP Image Awards
Reader Comments (4)
Was Ejiofor ineligible or something? Because, yikes.
"That'll Do" from Babe: Pig in the City is one of my favourite movie songs. Just lovely.
The people who voted for Whitaker here will be the loudest critics of the Academy when they deny Ejiofor at the Oscars.
This has been an interesting week for me with Olivia Wilde. I just saw her in Drinking Buddies and thought she was awesome in what I dreaded would be a flat dream girl role (the movie itself does a lot to debunk this as well). Her interview here is also super and smart. What is perhaps even more interesting is that when I did a search of Wilde just now, it wasn't this article, or references to it, that popped up, but rather analyses of her baby bump fashion choices. How perfect.