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Ben Affleck and Matt Damon Team Up to Fight Hunger

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon teamed up to write Good Will Hunting many years ago, earning an Academy Awards and national acclaim in the process. But the close friends have partnered on an even more important cause this week: feeding the hungry. In the following public service announcement, Affleck and Damon reveal the startling statistic that 50 million Americans are teetering toward starvation. How can you help? Watch these videos, visit the website listed and donate whatever you can… Ben Affleck PSA Matt Damon PSA

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Ryan Gosling Tees Off on ‘Misogynistic’ MPAA Over Blue Valentine Rating

We can argue forever about the stuntiness of Harvey Weinstein’s ratings battles against the MPAA, but no one can take way the man’s determination to fight in the most public and prestigious way possible. After all, what better way to overturn Blue Valentine ‘s NC-17 and The King’s Speech ‘s R than to dispatch the guy best known for taking Al Gore’s case to the Supreme Court in 2000? Or, better yet, siccing your actor on the ratings board?

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Halle Berry’s Tits in a Proper Shirt of the Day

Whether Halle Berry is the whitest black girl, or the blackest white girl, making her cum in as some Paki colored camel fucking slut who broke out of her hijab or not, she’s got great full tits. Maybe it’s one of those genetic mash-ups that’s left her the winner cuz there is no way these tits were not involved in her successes, but more importantly, there’s no way her mixed race but white upbringing wasn’t involved in her success either, cuz Hollywood studios need a black lead, but they just don’t feel like getting Star Jones or a real black chick up on the shit, and figure a black raised white will understand authority better making Halle Berry play up her blackness and paying her off in Academy Awards…but black like this is designed for white dudes to jerk off too…while real black is just heaven. I don’t know what I’m talking about, I’ve never been with a black girl because they scare me. But I think about it at least every second day even though I know their tits aren’t quite like Halle Berry’s perfection. I read National Geographic, I’ve even jerked off to that tribal shit, I know what’s up…

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Saturday Night Live’s 10 Greatest One-Season Wonders

With news this morning that single-season Saturday Night Live cast member Jenny Slate may be out of a job in the fall , Movieline is taking the time to relish those who made a lasting impact with a one-year gig on Lorne Michaels’ mothership. Here are ten SNL performers — some successful and some forgotten — who had only one season to shine.

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Saturday Night Live’s 10 Greatest One-Season Wonders

David Letterman Still Gets Asked to Host the Oscars

David Letterman’s 1995 stint as host of the Academy Awards may go down in infamy, but during a very winning visit to The View this morning, Letterman revealed that he turned down the chance for a re-do. “You know, they were nice enough to ask me to [host] it again,” he told Barbara Walters. “And I just said, ‘Come on, are you drinking?'” Letterman was adamant that he would never return to the scene of the crime: “I did it once, I had my shot, I screwed it up, and almost put an end to the Academy Awards…I sucked. What are you gonna do?”

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Oscars Expand Visual Effects Category

So much for the bake-off! The Oscars used to release a list of seven semi-finalists for the Visual Effects category, eventually trimming the contenders down to a measly three nominees (which squeezed out films like Terminator Salvation, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen , and 2012 last year), but now that virtually every summer film has become an FX smorgasbord, the Academy has relented and expanded the nominee field to five. Keep your fingers crossed, Hydraulicon ! [ Coming Soon ]

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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar Winner Ryan Bingham’s New Song, ‘That’s How Strong My Love Is’

We’re fans of Crazy Heart’s Ryan Bingham over here at Movieline, whether we’re featuring him in The Verge , investigating his Golden Globe whereabouts , or exposing his Oscar picture photobomb . And so, we’re happy to exclusively present the Oscar-winning singer’s new song, “That’s How Strong My Love Is,” along with a link to download it for free.

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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar Winner Ryan Bingham’s New Song, ‘That’s How Strong My Love Is’

New Meryl Streep & Jeff Bridges Movie To Somehow Get Even More Oscar Firepower

Great Hope Springs already had some heavy ammunition in its camp with Meryl Streep and Jeff Bridges signed on to play a couple who agree to spend an intense weekend-long counseling session to decide the fate of their 30-year marriage. But now The Wrap is reporting that Mike Nichols, director of such classics as The Graduate and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? has expressed interest in directing the drama, thus bumping its Oscar expectations from Red Hot to the Force of 10,000 Exploding Suns. Still uncast is the role of the therapist who helps Streep and Bridges through their thorny issues. Philip Seymour Hoffman had previously expressed interest, but after the jump, check out my humble suggestion who should jump aboard this Academy Award-baiting freight train.

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New Meryl Streep & Jeff Bridges Movie To Somehow Get Even More Oscar Firepower

Don LaFontaine Immortalized (Again)

In a world where late, legendary voice-over artist Don LaFontaine lent his singular baritone to more than 5,000 trailers and TV spots, there’s only one way to truly commemorate the man: An educational institution. The SAG Foundation on Friday will open such a facility in Los Angeles, dedicating the Don LaFontaine Voice-Over Lab for the next generation to learn and hone their own crafts. Who knows? Maybe someday even they can star in a GEICO commercial of their own. [ THR ]

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What Are the Pros and Cons of Moving the Oscars to January?

By now you’ve no doubt read the news that newly chosen Oscar producers Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer might be asked to start working on the telecast a little earlier than initially expected. Movieline sister site Deadline reports that the Academy Board of Governors is meeting to decide whether the 83rd Academy Awards should air sometime in January instead of the previously staked out date of Feb. 27, 2011. And while a few weeks might not seem like an earth-shaking decision, you’d be surprised at how many people are not cool with this. As Awards Daily scribe Ryan Adams wrote, “I only wonder what the hell has the Board of Governors squirming so restlessly that they suddenly want to overhaul and bastardize 83 years of tradition?” Um, bad ratings? But is that reason enough to make this change? Ahead, Movieline offers some pros and cons to the whole sordid affair.

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What Are the Pros and Cons of Moving the Oscars to January?