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84 years after Hattie McDaniel, the Oscars still put Black women in a box
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 4 months agoAcademy members still have a troubling tendency to reward Black women for playing supporting, even...
Native Americans and the movies: A long-forgotten history of Hollywood and my family
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 4 months agoA writer researching his great-great-uncles, all three born on a Chickasaw reservation, discovers they were major moviemakers in the early days of Hollywood.
How the Academy Awards became ‘the biggest international fashion show free-for-all’
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 4 months agoThe dress actress Lupita Nyong'o wore to the 86th Academy Awards in 2014 became a story in and of...
How non-English language cinema is reshaping the Oscars landscape
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 4 months agoNon-English language cinema – previously seen by niche audiences – is increasingly finding...
Cari Beauchamp, L.A. fixture and author who redefined women in Hollywood, dies at 74
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 7 months agoCari Beauchamp, a Hollywood historian and celebrated author who illuminated the ways women were instrumental in shaping the film industry, died Dec. 14. She was 74. Her son Jake Flynn confirmed ...
Every Hollywood awards show, major movie postponed by writers' and actors' strikes
USA TODAY via Yahoo Canada News· 10 months agoThe 14th Governors Awards has been rescheduled until next year amid the ongoing writers' and actors'...
Thomas W. Sarnoff Dies: Longtime TV Academy & NBC Executive Was 96
Deadline via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoThomas Sarnoff, the son of NBC’s founder who went from key NBC executive to leading roles at the...
Harry Belafonte, Calypso King Who Worked for African American Rights, Dies at 96
Variety via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoSinger, actor, producer and activist Harry Belafonte, who spawned a calypso craze in the U.S. with...
PHOTOS: Hollywood’s biggest movie stars who visited Fort Worth during 1940s-1950s
Fort Worth Star-Telegram via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoWho’s the biggest movie star to visit Fort Worth? Back in the day, Cowtown was a favorite stop for...
A moveable feast: How the Oscars venue-hopped through Los Angeles
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoA view of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on a vintage postcard from Patt Morrison's collection....