Producers of the 86th Academy Awards announced Friday that Pink will appear on the Oscar show. The Grammy-winning singer joins a lineup already set to includ…
Pharrell is going to the Oscars. The rapper is set to perform Happy at the 2014 Academy Awards. The pop track is nominated for Best Original Song and is featured in Despicable Me 2. Ke$ha…
He can do more than just star in hilarious commercials. The Denver Broncos quarterback, whose career was nearly derailed by multiple neck surgeries two years ago, has been named the 2013 Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year. The honor comes days after Pope Francis was named Time’s Person of the Year. In his cover story on Manning, who is poised to break Tom Brady’s single-season touchdown pass mark this year, Lee Jenkins writes that Manning “remains the reigning champion of the everyday.” Jenkins also cites Manning’s evolution from someone with unparalleled physical gifts to someone who now succeeds more with his mind and his determination. “The laser rocket arm — Manning’s description in that famous Sprint commercial – is more like a cap gun now,” reads the article. “Yet he is currently piloting the best team in the AFC and the most bountiful offense in the NFL while threatening single-season passing records for yards and touchdowns. Still, that’s not why Manning is Sportsman of the Year for 2013.” So, why did Manning earn this distinction, on that has gone in the past to such star athletes as Derek Jeter and LeBron James? It’s the way in which he has written his “sequel,” Jenkins said, gushing over how Manning has been “prepared to face consequences,” been “prepared for adversity” and been “prepared for change.” Did SI make the proper selection? Should Peyton Manning be the 2013 Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year? Yes, absolutely! No, what about David Ortiz! No, what about LeBron James! No, what about… someone else! View Poll »
Academy Award winner Joan Fontaine, a legendary Hollywood leading lady from what many consider the Golden Age of film, has died at age 96. Fontaine died in her sleep Sunday morning at her home in Carmel, Calif., which overlooked the Pacific Ocean, after having been in failing health. Noel Beutel, a longtime friend of the late actress, told Reuters, “She was an amazing woman, she had such a big heart and she will be missed.” Among Fontaine’s most memorable films in a career spanning four decades and some four dozen films was the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Suspicion. Co-starring Cary Grant, that movie earned Joan Fontaine the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1942, beating out her sister in the competition. That was a recurring theme. In addition to acting, her career was marked by a storied and bitter rivalry with her older sister, Olivia de Havilland. Nominated that year for Hold Back the Dawn, de Havilland went on to win Academy Awards for 1946’s To Each His Own and 1969’s The Heiress . Now aged 97, de Havilland resides in Paris. Her wins established the sisters as the only two siblings ever to both win Academy Awards for acting. Fontaine also earned Oscar nominations for her star turns in Hitchcock’s 1940 American debut, Rebecca , and for 1943’s The Constant Nymph . Fontaine appeared mousy and innocent in her early movies but later carefully selected her roles and went on to play worldly, sophisticated women/ She wrote in her 1978 autobiography, “No Bed of Roses,” that her sickly condition as a child actually helped develop her acting skills over the years. In her sickbed fantasies – pillow dreams, she called them – Joan Fontaine created “endless scenes of romance, passion, jealousy, rejection, death. De Havilland, for her part, reportedly saw her younger sister as a sneaky attention-getter, melodramatically playing sick and trying to outdo her. According to various media reports, the sisters were said to have stopped speaking altogether in 1975 after their mother passed away from cancer. Fontaine said that de Havilland had not invited her to the memorial service but her sister claimed Fontaine had said she was too busy to attend. “I married first, won the Oscar before Olivia did, and if I die first, she’ll undoubtedly be livid because I beat her to it,” Fontaine was quoted as saying.
I follow the editor of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue on Twitter and she has been posting behind the scenes pics from various models’ photoshoots. She doesn’t reveal the faces, which is fine by me because I think these shots are way hotter than what we end up getting in print. So keeps them coming. Anyway, can you guys guess the models?
Here’s Kim Kardashian’s hotter lookalike Georgia Salpa at something called the UK Lingerie Awards– wait a minute. What do you mean there’s an entire awards show dedicated to honoring British chicks in lingerie? And how is this the first I’m hearing about it? Forget inviting me, I should’ve been a member of the academy or at least a voter or something! After all, I’ve dedicated most of my adult life to judging how good British hotties look in lingerie. I just didn’t realize somebody handed out awards for it. » view all 14 photos Photos: WENN.com
The four Academy Award winning legends starring in the upcoming film, Last Vegas , surely have a lot to say about their careers and working with each other. Screen Junkies could have talked to them about all sorts of things during a recent interview … but instead chose to have them each recite popular song lyrics: Morgan Freeman: “The Fox” by Ylvis Robert DeNiro: “Wrecking Ball” by Miley Cyrus Michael Douglas: ” Chinese Food ” by Alison Gold Kevin Kline: “Best Song Ever” by One Direction There’s even a Morgan Freeman/The Fox mashup at 3:10. Enjoy: Morgan Freeman Reads “The Fox” by Ylvis
Jodie Foster and rumored girlfriend Alexandra Hedison grabbed breakfast together in Beverly Hills Sunday, confirming rumors that they are in fact dating. The outing makes the first public appearance since reports surfaced last week that the Academy Award-winning actress, 50, was “totally in love” with Hedison. Jodie Foster Dating Alexandra Hedison It’s not clear when they began dating, but Alexandra, a photographer and former actress ( The L Word ) has previously been linked to Ellen DeGeneres. The new couple comes less than a year after Foster thanked her ex and co-parent, Cydney Bernard, in an emotional speech at the 2013 Golden Globe Awards. The remarks were widely seen as an official coming out by Foster , who had never publicly addressed her sexuality in her nearly four decades of stardom.
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