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The story behind the longest Oscars acceptance speech in history
The Independent via Yahoo Canada News· 6 months agoIn 1943, English actor Greer Garson won the Academy Award for Best Actress and spoke for an...
The top 16 Jane Austen adaptations, from Pride and Prejudice to Persuasion
The Independent via Yahoo Canada News· 1 month agoSome of the best costume dramas on the big and small screen were adapted from an Austen classic,...
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....
Marsha Hunt, prolific Hollywood actor who was blacklisted, dies at 104
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoBy the time she was in her early 30s, Marsha Hunt — tall, elegant and well-spoken — had acted in 52...
How to watch (almost) every Best Picture winner from 1940 through 1949
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoAs the decade began, Europe was at war and the U.S. was supporting the allies. The first World War...
Marsha Hunt, '40s star and blacklist victim, dies at 104
Associated Press via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoMarsha Hunt, one of the last surviving actors from Hollywood’s so-called Golden Age of the 1930s and...
Who gets mentioned most in Oscars acceptance speeches? We counted
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 5 months agoClint Eastwood had just won an Oscar for directing “Unforgiven” and, with golden statuette in hand,...
Neiman’s Distinguished Service Award, Over the Years
WWD via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe 100 recipients of the award have primarily been U.S. and European designers, though individuals from the beauty and film industries and other sectors...
‘Thank you’: 12 of the shortest Oscars speeches ever
The Independent via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoIn a missive sent around to 2022’s Oscar nominees, stars were told to “read the room” when delivering speeches at the Academy Awards this month....
‘The Love Boat’: How a TV show transformed the cruise industry
CNN via Yahoo News· 5 months agoBack in 1970, an estimated 500,000 people went on a cruise holiday. That figure had jumped to five...