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• Actress Krysten Ritter: Alice and Olivia is 'fabulous and colorful.'

  Ahna O'Reily is keeping her fingers crossed that her co-stars from "The Help" win big at the Oscars the way they did at the SAG awards."I believe in our movie so much," she said. "I am so excited for Viola and Octavia, and I am so confident in both of th   Read more »

• Oscar lands in Los Angeles after Chicago flight

  (AP) -- Passengers on United Airlines Flight 531 from Chicago to Los Angeles didn't just get to travel with a world-famous celebrity, they had their picture taken with him.The affable celebrity was Oscar -- as in the Academy Awards statuette -- who rode   Read more »

• Scorsese's 'Hugo' leads Oscars with 11 nominations

  Martin Scorsese 's Paris adventure "Hugo" leads the Academy Awards with 11 nominations, among them best picture and the latest director slot for the Oscar-winning filmmaker.Also nominated for best picture Tuesday: the silent film "The Artist"; the family   Read more »

• Comedy vies with drama this awards season

  The Golden Globes have equally good comedy and drama masks this year.Alongside heavyweight dramas, the category for best musical or comedy at the Globes usually is more of a lark, with nominees rarely emerging with best-picture prospects for Hollywood 's   Read more »

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• Miss Piggy makes her Oscar plea

  that the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) should hand out awards to animals. "For some reason, the Academy has refused to recognise pigs as actors! I can't believe it. I'm one other species, I guess," she said. While she is holding 4:33 AM from Swindon Advertiser Read more »

• New Today: Writing in Pictures by Joseph McBride

  With the Golden Globes just behind us and the Oscars just ahead, a lot of attention is focused on the movies right now. And when that happens, those of us who love books inevitably think of the words that make those films. In some cases, we take all of tha 4:22 AM from January Magazine Read more »

• No Oscar cameo for Artist's Uggie

  year in circus drama Water for Elephants Uggie, the Jack Russell star of The Artist, will not make an appearance at the Academy Awards next week, the film's distributor has announced. A spokesperson for The Weinstein Company said the 10-year-old terrier had 4:07 AM from BBC News Read more »

• Viola Davis won't skydive with George Clooney

  Viola Davis and George Clooney could both be taking home Oscars. She's nominated for best actress for "The Help." Davis and Clooney have been friends for years. She says Clooney wants to celebrate their Oscar nominations by going skydiving. But Davis tells 3:44 AM from WTHR Read more »

• Thin year for Oscar music inspires thoughts of past contenders

  in the Oscars as a kid was because of the James Bond theme production numbers of the WIN-button era. Some years the academy gets the best-song award right, even if the song's not precisely daisy fresh. In the old days, a so-called "trunk" song might end up 3:31 AM from Belleville News-Democrat Read more »