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On the Waterfront: Eva Marie Saint & Why The 1954 Best Picture Oscar Winner...
[PLEASE ADD HUFFPOST BLOGGER JASON APUZZO AS A CO-AUTHOR OF THIS POST.] This year marks the 60th Anniversary of On the Waterfront, the winner of the Best Picture Oscar for 1954. In honor of this...
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Why the Red Carpet Really Does Matter!
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View ArticleDating Game Not Mating Game
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One Year After 'Enlightened' Was Unjustly Canceled, Why Netflix Should Revive...
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Krewe Of Muses: Mardi Gras Parades Explained! (PHOTOS)
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Dear Apache, Jump on this. Love, Jon MisterWives are a New York-based band and are probably the next band you should be getting behind. That's what she said. Anyway, the New York City band (Mandy Lee,...
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Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast 50th Anniversary Special: The Masque of the...
Nope, no big openings this weekend, and everybody is too busy talking Oscars right now. So while waiting for the awards ceremony to begin, the Cinefantastique Online team of the Steve Biodrowski,...
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Like many of you, I spent the evening with Ellen on this Sunday night (Oscar telecast). But while you were watching her deliver pizza to Meryl Streep and retweeting her selfies (did you know that this...
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Parent or Manager? The Challenges of Helping My Son Succeed
For most small town American parents, the balancing of a job and parenting children is enough. Add any sort of activities they require carpooling and tightly gripping a camera phone, recording the...
View ArticleMike Bloomfield: The First Guitar Hero
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Early ratings figures for the 2014 Oscar telecast averaged a 27.9 Nielsen household rating/41 share, with slightly over 40 million viewers. This is up seven percent from 2013. While some might consider...
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On the "A" w/Souleo: Labelle to Celebrate 40th Anniversary of "Lady...
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View Article12 Years A Slave Got You Thinking? Now Boycott Chocolate Harvested By Child...
Last night Steve McQueen emotionally accepted an Academy Award for his film 12 Years a Slave, saying, "I dedicate this award to all the people who have endured slavery. And the 21 million people who...
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An Open Letter to Lupita Nyong'o
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Every year it's the same. I get completely carried away with the Academy Awards. For years I've felt as if my life was a movie and then I spent forever dreaming I was starring in one. As none of it...
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