About two weeks before the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, a team of producers lock themselves in a room with a giant floor plan of L.A.'s Shrine Expo Hall posted on the wall in order to figure out the seating assignments for this year's 221 nominees and their guests.
Since the awards show's inception almost two decades ago, "We've wanted to make sure the actors were seated together, because it's their union," says SAG Awards producer Kathy Connell, who stresses the importance of...
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"Ben Affleck got robbed."
That's what newly minted Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper said on Thursday's Today show after the Argo director was shockingly left off the Best Director lineup. Cooper isn't the only one who feels that way, nor is Affleck the only major shocker of Thursday's Oscar nominations. Here are our top surprises and snubs:
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Nicole Kidman says that, despite reports to the contrary, she never spoke to Katie Holmes about her recent split from Tom Cruise.
"I never spoke to her. I wish all of them well, but I was not involved in any of that," Kidman told WHO, People's Australian sister publication. Kidman, who graces the cover of WHO's 20th anniversary issue, she says that while she has no regrets about her marriage to Cruise.
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Before Katie Holmes, there was... Nazanin Boniadi?
A new report in Vanity Fair claims the Church of Scientology "auditioned" actresses to be Tom Cruise's wife in 2004, after his divorce from Nicole Kidman and subsequent split from Penelope Cruz, both of whom "ran afoul" of the church.
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Is the American Idol name game maybe, possibly, almost done? (Please say yes, please say yes).
After weeks of furious speculation about who would sit next to Mariah Carey, which has included everyone from Nick Jonas to Kanye West to Alanis Morissette, Nicki Minaj and Keith Urban are nearing deals to join Idol, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Alanis Morissette: "I have been in conversations" for American Idol
Minaj, 29, will reportedly take home...
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