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Director Malik Bendjelloul Wins Oscar For 'Searching For Sugarman,' About Musician Rodriguez
02/25/2013
Searching for Sugarman, directed by Swedish/British director Malik Bendjelloul (pictured), took home the Oscar Best Documentary on Sunday night. The film follows the efforts of Stephen "Sugar" Segerman and Craig Bartholowmew to find out if the American musician Rodriguez was, in fact, still alive, having disappeared after his two 1970s albums came out, only to garner an unexpected cult following in South Africa.
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'Searching For Sugarman' Wins Best Documentary
02/25/2013
Searching for Sugarman, directed by Swedish/British director Malik Bendjelloul (pictured), took home the Oscar Best Documentary on Sunday night. Read the full story in our Oscars section .... Get Uinterview's FREE iPhone App For Daily News Updates here.
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Christoph Waltz Takes Home Best Supporting Actor Oscar For 'Django Unchained'
02/25/2013
Christoph Waltz, 56, proved for the second time that he's Oscar material when he nabbed the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Dr. King Schultz, a bounty hunter, in Django Unchained, directed by Quentin Tarantino and also starring Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington and Samuel L.
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Gene Hackman Admits To Slapping Homeless Man
10/31/2012
Gene Hackman, 82, is a traditional kind of guy, so you best not go insulting his wife, Betsy Arakawa, 51, as one homeless man in in Santa Fe, N.M., found out the hard way when Hackman reportedly slapped him after he approached the couple and used a not-so-nice word in reference to Arakawa, his wife since 1991.
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VIDEO: Transgender 'Cloud Atlas' And 'Matrix' Director Lana Wachowski Receives HRC Honor
10/25/2012
Lana Wachowski, 47, the transgender filmmaker who directed, along with her brother, Andy Wachoski, the Matrix trilogy, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss and Hugo Weaving, as well as the upcoming Cloud Atlas, starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant and Susan Sarandon — a project also undertaken with her brother and Run, Lola, Run's Tom Tykwer — opened up at the Human Rights Campaign's fundraising gala in San Francisco over the weekend, when she accepted the HRC's Visibility Award.
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PHOTO: Sean Penn Goes Goth For 'This Must be The Place'
10/17/2012
You've never seen Sean Penn, 52, like this before. Sure, he's been on death row in Dead Man Walking, he transformed into politician and activist Harvey Milk in the eponymous Milk, and he played a single father with a developmental disability in I Am Sam, but now the two-time Oscar-winning actor is channeling a kind of aging Marilyn Manson-type in the new comedy-drama, This Must Be the Place, helmed by Italian director Paolo Sorrentino and also starring Frances McDormand, Judd Hirsch and Harry Dean Stanton.
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Susan Sarandon Opens Up About 'Disgusting' Sexual Assault
10/16/2012
Iconic actress Susan Sarandon, 66, has enjoyed a film career that has spanned five decades and starred in some of the most recognizable films of all time, including Thelma and Louise and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, but it wasn't always easy for Sarandon, who faced assault as a young actress working in New York.
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Mila Kunis Named Sexiest Woman Alive By Esquire
10/09/2012
Former star of That 70s Show and current main squeeze to Demi Moore-castoff, Ashton Kutcher, 34, Mila Kunis, 29, takes top honors from Esquire magazine's annual "sexy" list, which named Kunis the sexiest woman alive in its November issue.
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'Cloverfield' Director Matt Reeves To Take On 'Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes'
10/03/2012
Matt Reeves, 46, will direct Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, the upcoming sequel to the 2011 hit, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, according to Deadline. Reeves, who directed 2008's Cloverfield, stepped in after Rise director Rupert Wyatt backed out over reported conflicts with Fox's projected May 2014 release date.
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'Moon River,' 'Butterfly' Crooner Andy Williams Dies At 84
09/27/2012
Andy Williams, the iconic singer who immortalized "Moon River" for countless generations, died on Tuesday night at the age of 84 in his Branson, Mo. home after a year-long battle with bladder cancer.
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Tobey Maguire Replaced In Ang Lee's 'Life Of Pi'
09/06/2012
Tobey Maguire, 37, isn't having the best of years. First Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, in which Maguire plays narrator and best friend to Leonardo DiCaprio's Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway, was pushed from its pre-Christmas release date — a time period that virtually ensures Oscar recognition — to some as-yet undetermined date in the summer of 2013, and now his brief role in Ang Lee's adaptation of Life of Pi has been recast with Prometheus' Rafe Spall.
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Who Is Nazanin Boniadi, Tom Cruise's Alleged Set Up?
09/05/2012
Katie Holmes, 33, may not be the wife of Tom Cruise, 50, anymore, and, according to new reports, she almost wasn't at all! Holmes married Cruise after he was allegedly set up with Iranian-born How I Met Your Mother actress Nazanin Boniadi, 32, by the Church of Scientology, which reportedly vetted potential wives for Cruise, according to a new Vanity Fair story.
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Natalie Portman Naked In New Dior Ad
08/22/2012
Natalie Portman, 31, certainly has her post-baby bod back, and she's baring it all for Dior's new line of nude lipcolors, which includes eight new shades, including a color that Portman herself picked for herself, Grege #169, the proceeds from which will benefit the Free the Children Association Charity, which strives to empower the world's youth and in which Portman has been active for several years.
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Halle Berry Rushed To Hospital After Head Injury
07/18/2012
Halle Berry, 45, was rushed to the hospital Tuesday night in Los Angeles after suffering an injury while filming an action / fight scene on the set of her latest film, The Hive, also starring Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine, Zombieland), Tara Platt (Revenge, Castle) and Jennifer Hudson's fiance David Otunga.
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Actress Celeste Holm Dies At 95
07/16/2012
Celeste Holm, a character actress who won an Academy Award for her 1948 role in Gentleman's Agreeement, which also starred Gregory Peck and Dorothy McGuire and won both Best Picture and Best Director Oscars for Elia Kazan in its year, died at the age of 95 after suffering a heart attack and being treated for dehydration last week.
