The trend of so-called "hate-watching" is hardly a new TV phenomenon. We've been doing it with the Oscar show for years: picking apart the fashions, groaning at the witless banter, griping as we drift through the seemingly endless midsection where no awards of major consequence are presented, and nearly always regarding the unlucky host as a piñata ripe for the bashing.
This year's tuneful but torturously overextended production (ending just past the three-and-a-half-hour mark) was much the same. With one major exception: The musical numbers were no joke, especially when mighty divas as legendary as Barbra Streisand and Shirley Bassey and as electrifyingly current as Adele and Jennifer Hudson took the stage. No Rob Lowe-Snow White fiascos this time.
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Argo topped Sunday's Oscars on a history-making night.
Ben Affleck's political thriller took three awards, including Best Picture, becoming the fourth film to win the top prize without a Best Director nomination, following Wings, Grand Hotel and Driving Miss Daisy. The film also won Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Editing. This is Affleck's second ...
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Mumford & Sons, The Black Keys, Frank Ocean, fun. and Kelly Clarkson were among the winners at Sunday's Grammy Awards, which spread the wealth throughout the night.
Mumford & Sons, one of six artists heading into the night with six nominations, took the ...
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Everything seems to be working out wonderfully for Adele: She has a newborn son, recently won a Golden Globe, and is scheduled to perform at the Oscars next month. But one person who isn't sharing in her successes is her father, Mark Evans, to whom she hasn't spoken since 2011.
Now, after the birth of her son, Evans is trying to repair their relationship.
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"You can smell the pills from here." Live, from the Beverly Hilton Ballroom, it's ... Sunday with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, together again and keeping things as lively as possible as hosts of the 70th Golden Globes. Encore, please. (For a list of winners, go here.)
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