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And the Oscar Will Go To ...

 And the Oscar 
 Will Go To ... 
Nate Silver Predicts
Feb 22, 2013 12:49 PM CST

And the Oscar Will Go To ...

Nate Silver brings cold, hard statistics to movies' biggest night

(Newser) - Nate Silver has quantified baseball, politics, and the Super Bowl (that last one not so successfully )—and now he turns his big geeky brain to the Academy Awards, trying to sort out the signal and the noise for the year's biggest movies in the New York Times . Just...

Inside the $45K Oscar Gift Bags

Expensive trips, fancy treatments ... and Windex

(Newser) - Whether they win or not, every Oscar nominee will walk away happy after the awards ceremony Sunday night, because the Academy is handing them all goodie bags with $45,000 worth of loot inside. According to Australia's News Network , the gift bags include a $12,000 trip to one...

Sisters' Oscar Feud Continues, 71 Years Later

Sisters Olivia de Havilland, Joan Fontaine still don't speak

(Newser) - Olivia de Havilland and her sister, Joan Fontaine, have been feuding away since they were kids—but things got really bad at the 1942 Academy Awards, and they've never improved. De Havilland is, of course, well known for her role as Melanie Hamilton Wilkes in Gone With the Wind....

Kim: Kanye 'Won't Let Me' Sign Autographs

Oh, and she's leaving 'Keeping Up With the Kardashians'

(Newser) - Radar picks up this little tidbit from an interview Kim Kardashian recently gave Du Jour magazine:
  • "When you live your life so publicly, like on a reality show, people assume that they know every side of you already, but they always want more. ... My boyfriend has taught me
...

Shia LaBeouf Quits Broadway Play...
Shia LaBeouf Quits Broadway Play...
Feb 21, 2013 10:44 AM CST

Shia LaBeouf Quits Broadway Play...

And a feud with Alec Baldwin might be to blame

(Newser) - Shia LaBeouf was set to make his Broadway debut in Orphans, but the actor has walked away from the production less than a month before previews were set to begin. The initial news release cited only "creative differences" for LaBeouf's departure, the Los Angeles Times reported. But LaBeouf...

Ashley Judd Moves Closer to Senate Run

Starts meeting with donors, strategists, politicians

(Newser) - Ashley Judd has been meeting with Democratic donors, strategists, and politicians, as well as the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, as she moves closer to a Senate run in Kentucky, The Hill reports. At one meeting, a source says Judd promised a decision by May 6—the day the Kentucky Derby...

Conan Hosting White House Correspondents' Dinner

O'Brien will be featured act on April 27

(Newser) - The White House Correspondents' Association has chosen Conan O'Brien as the featured act for its annual dinner on April 27. Jimmy Kimmel hosted last year's dinner and got decent reviews for treading the tricky line of getting yuks without going too far. This is the event in which...

McCready's Body Found Amid Filth

Singer lost hope after losing her kids

(Newser) - Another sad detail from Mindy McCready's final days: The police who found her body were greeted by a tragic scene. Her house smelled of rotting food and dog feces, which were "everywhere," reports People ; they also found prescription pills in multiple locations. But they did not find...

Whitney Houston Was in Denial: Clive Davis
 Whitney Houston 
 Was in Denial: 
 Clive Davis 
tell-all tidbits
Feb 20, 2013 10:31 AM CST

Whitney Houston Was in Denial: Clive Davis

New memoir also reveals he's bisexual

(Newser) - Clive Davis has a new memoir, out yesterday, that apparently reads more like a tell-all. In The Soundtrack of My Life, Davis recalls that Whitney Houston was "in complete denial" about her substance abuse problems. He includes letters he sent her, including one from 2001 in which he wrote,...

Mindy McCready Tearful, Upset in Final Phone Call

And her final song is released

(Newser) - Turns out Mindy McCready had already recorded that song she was working on for dead boyfriend David Wilson, and now a friend of the couple has released it for the first time. After Wilson, who produced the song, committed suicide, McCready hoped the music video could be a tribute to...

McDonald's to Close for Morrissey's LA Concert

In a first, Staples Center will go vegetarian

(Newser) - Morrissey managed to convince the Staples Center to go meat-free, an achievement even Paul McCartney couldn't accomplish. At Morrissey's sold-out March 1 concert, the LA venue will only offer vegetarian food, for the first time ever. That means all the McDonald's outlets there will be closed, Billboard ...

Fergie, Josh Duhamel Expecting 1st Baby

Take that, cheating scandal

(Newser) - Not only did that whole affair scandal strengthen Fergie's marriage to Josh Duhamel—it apparently strengthened it so much that now they're having a baby. The couple, married since 2009, announced the pregnancy on Twitter and Facebook, Rolling Stone reports. "Josh & Me & BABY makes three!...

McCready Was Working on Song for Dead Beau

Details of singer's last days coming out

(Newser) - The details of Mindy McCready's last days before her shocking suicide are trickling out, and they're not pretty. In the month following the death of boyfriend David Wilson , McCready's father told the court she didn't get out of bed for three weeks and started mixing alcohol...

Alec Baldwin Hurled Slur at Our Photographer: Post

Actor says it's just a 'new low' for the tabloid

(Newser) - Is Alec Baldwin going down the Mel Gibson road? A New York Post reporter says that when she approached Baldwin yesterday morning while he was walking his dogs, he grabbed her by the arm and told her, "I want you to choke to death." He then allegedly called...

20 Celebs Whose Love Lives Are Blissfully Private

These rare few keep things out of the press

(Newser) - You can hardly go a nanosecond without hearing all about the latest escapades of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West or Taylor Swift and whoever she's dating/dissing this week. But some celebrities manage to keep blissfully silent about their love lives. Huffington Post rounds up 20:
  • Jake Gyllenhaal: Speaking of
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25 Youngest Oscar Nominees and Winners

Not all child stars are like Lindsay Lohan...

(Newser) - Sometimes child stars grow up to be Lindsay Lohan. Other times, they get nominated for an Oscar at age 14 and grow up to be Jodie Foster. Huffington Post rounds up the latter in its slideshow of the 25 youngest Academy Award nominees and winners, all of them aged 20...

SNL Swipes at 'Nightmare Cruise'

It's just really hard to find positive news this week

(Newser) - The week's gloomy news cycle proved comedic gold for Saturday Night Live, which opened last night with a sketch lampooning Carnival Cruise Lines' stranded ship/PR nightmare, reports the Hollywood Reporter . As cruise employees Jason Sudeikis and Cecily Strong try in vain to boost passenger morale, they run down headlines...

18 Stars Who've Conceived Via Surrogate

Elizabeth Banks says the relationship 'will last a lifetime'

(Newser) - Not every celebrity has a baby bump before having a baby. The Huffington Post rounds up 18 stars who became parents via surrogate mothers:
  • Elizabeth Banks: The Hunger Games actress has had two sons via a gestational surrogate. She said the experience "taught us a great deal about generosity
...

The 10 Oldest New Dads in Hollywood

Steve Martin joins their ranks

(Newser) - Startled when Steve Martin became a first-time father at 67 ? Well, check out these nine other Hollywood dads who are also a bit older than you might expect, rounded up by Celebuzz :
  • Gary Busey: Had his second son at age 65.
  • Warren Beatty: He and wife Annette Bening had
...

Beyonce Documentary Is More Like 'Infomercial'

HBO piece doesn't deliver on its promise, say critics

(Newser) - Beyonce promises to provide an authentic look at her real self in the HBO documentary Beyonce: Life Is But a Dream that debuts tomorrow night. Critics say she doesn't even come close, and they've got a common complaint:
  • "It’s an infomercial, not just about Beyonce’s
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