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WATCH: Black Oscars Speeches Through The Years

Posted 02.23.2013 | Black Voices
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From film scoring to production, direction and acting, African Americans have touched many facets of the film genre. As we approach this year’s 8...

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Jessica Chastain On Saying The Best Line Of 2012

The Huffington Post | Mike Ryan | Posted 12.13.2012 | Entertainment
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In 2011, Jessica Chastain was everywhere. This is just barely hyperbole, as Chastain appeared in seven -- seven! -- movies in 2011. When she was done,...

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First Nighter: Jessica Chastain as 'The Heiress' -- or Not

David Finkle | Posted 11.01.2012 | Arts
Read More: Augustus and Ruth Goetz, Jessica Chastain, Kieran Campion, Judith Ivey, Dee Nelson, Virginia Kull, David Strathairn, Molly Camp, Caitlin O'Connell, Moisés Kaufman, Dan Stevens, Downton Abbey, The Tree of Life, Henry James, Jessica Chastain the Heiress, Washington Square, The Help, Take Shelter, The Heiress, Coriolanus, Walter Kerr Theatre, Arts News
David Finkle

It's as simple as this: If you've got a play called The Heiress, it's absolutely obligatory that whoever assumes the eponymous role is utterly persuasive. Unfortunately, that's not the case at the Walter Kerr.

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'Noble Endeavor' For Nannies Struck Down

AP | HANNAH DREIER | Posted 10.01.2012 | Los Angeles
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday announced that he had vetoed legislation that would have provided overtime pay, meal breaks and other...

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Zach Carter

'Dirty' Secrets: Romney Leaves Household Help Pay Out Of Tax Returns

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 09.25.2012 | Politics
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WASHINGTON -- GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney released his 379-page tax return for 2011 on Friday. Enclosed were the names of his foreign investm...

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Mitt Romney's Horror Movie: 'The Help.' And They're... Everywhere. So Who's Next: David Koch? Karl Rove?

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 11.21.2012 | Politics
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Jesse Kornbluth

It's the most delicious irony. In that instantly famous video, Mitt Romney disdained America's government-dependent "victims" with their tiny incomes...

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Favorite Women-Empowering Movies of Recent Memory

Juliette Fretté | Posted 10.03.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Prometheus, Snow White and the Huntsman, Sherlock Holmes, Alice in Wonderland, Bridesmaids, Gender, Pride and Prejudice, Women's Empowerment, Gender Equality, The Help, Winter's Bone, Women, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Hana, Brave, Snow White, The Hunger Games, Entertainment News
Juliette Fretté

Let us not forget that art and entertainment do affect the masses and the masses affect the arts. In many ways, what is popular and successful is a barometer of where we are and where we're headed.

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Nora Ephron's Former Nannies Reflect On Her Life Lessons

Salon | Posted 07.13.2012 | Women
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A lot has been written about Nora Ephron over the past week. She was a kind and generous person. All of this and more is true. The truly beautiful thi...

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Emma Stone: 'Maybe I'm Just An Old Man!'

Vulture | Posted 06.18.2012 | Women
Read More: The Amazing Spider Man, Andrew Garfield, Crazy Stupid Love, The Help, Film, Female Actor, Easy A, Emma Stone, Women News

Emma Stone is supposed to be sick, but when she rolls up to Cookshop at Tenth Avenue and 20th Street on a recent muggy afternoon, she looks fine. Her ...

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Katy Perry Was Almost In 'The Help'

The Huffington Post | Christopher Rosen | Posted 04.06.2012 | Entertainment
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The one that got away? In a new interview with Teen Vogue pop superstar Katy Perry revealed that she was almost cast in "The Help." "There was a ti...

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The Oscars, Once Again, Leave Blacks the Color Purple

Brian Ross | Posted 05.01.2012 | Black Voices
Read More: Television, The Color Purple, Oprah Winfrey, The Help, Ampas, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Racism, The Oscars, Viola Davis, Oscars, Film, Hollywood, Race, Movies, African Americans, Bv-Pop-Culture-Entertainment, Black Voices News
Brian Ross

The Oscars are known for many odd customs and bits of superstition, but American Blacks best know the Color Purple Curse. Viola Davis was upset by the veteran Meryl Streep at the Oscars, even though Davis had won the Screen Actors Guild award days earlier.

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Cinderella Redux at the Oscars

Susan Celia Greenfield | Posted 05.01.2012 | Women
Read More: Dee Rees, A Separation, The Help, Reproductive Rights, Cinderella, Daughters, Jane Austen, George Clooney, The Oscars, The Descendants, Pariah, Mothers, Women, Women News
Susan Celia Greenfield

The bad mother-daughter bond is an old familiar story. And I mean old. Throughout narrative history, mother characters have been evil or dead or both.

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WATCH: Stop The Standing Ovations

Posted 02.28.2012 | Comedy
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When "Conan" writer Deon Cole watched Octavia Spencer win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress on Sunday, he was happy for her. But there was...

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This Year's Oscar Movies Inspire Travels

Doris Gallan | Posted 04.28.2012 | Fifty
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Doris Gallan

In years when we can't afford to travel, we can still journey for a couple of hours for the price of a movie ticket. We can go to Paris, England, New York, Los Angeles, Sweden -- anywhere we please and enjoy a story, the scenery, and the music. All this without the cost, hassle and jet lag of a trip.

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Maggie Furlong

Inside Kelly Ripa's First Oscars Special

HuffingtonPost.com | Maggie Furlong | Posted 02.27.2012 | TV
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Kelly Ripa had a very Hollywood weekend -- fresh off a week of shooting "Live! With Kelly" on location in Hawaii, she and her crew stopped off in L.A....

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'The Help' Brings Domestic Workers Wage Campaign To Spotlight

Posted 02.27.2012 | Impact
Read More: Oscars 2012, Video, Octavia Spencer, The Help, Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, National Domestic Workers Alliance, Oscars, Domestic Workers, Ai-Jen Poo, Domestic Workers Rights, Impact News

For the millions of domestic workers who leave their families behind for jobs that don't even pay minimum wage, Octavia Spencer's Oscar win was a boon...

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Actress Jessica Chastain Has The Help to Get Her Award Noms

Brad Balfour | Posted 04.28.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Kathryn Stockett, The Best Supporting Actress Oscar Category, Broadway, Jessica Chastain, White Families, Minny Jackson, The Help, Octavia Spencer, Celia Foote, Take Shelter, African-American Maids, Law & Order, Sugar Ditch, Tennessee, Coriolanus, Michael Shannon, Tate Taylor, The Debt, Tree of Life, Entertainment News
Brad Balfour

When actress Jessica Chastain attended the Sundance Film Festival more than a year ago, making the rounds for the film Take Shelter, she spoke on a pa...

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Real-Life 'Help' Celebrate The Oscars

Posted 04.28.2012 | Entertainment
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On Sunday, Octavia Spencer won an Oscar for her portrayal of a maid in "The Help," a result that certainly pleased a group of people that had gathered...

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Will The Help's Oscar Revive Interest in The Long Walk Home?

Peter Dreier | Posted 04.28.2012 | Home
Read More: Civil Rights Movement, Academy Awards, Medgar Evers, Sissy Spacek, Kathryn Stockett, Montgomery, Alabama, Jessica Chastain, Sncc, The Long Walk Home, Richard Pearce, Whoopi Goldberg, Ving Rhames, Emma Stone, The Help, Octavia Spencer, Jackson, John Kennedy, Oscars, Viola Davis, Mississippi, Naacp, Tate Taylor, Home News
Peter Dreier

In contrast to The Help, The Long Walk Home shows African-American maids as active participants in the civil rights struggle -- and remains a much more uplifting and hard-hitting movie about the plight and pluck of black domestic servants confronting racism.

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Octavia Spencer's Win Inspires Lots Of Twitter Love

The Huffington Post | Lori Fradkin | Posted 02.27.2012 | Women
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When a teary Octavia Spencer stepped up to the microphone to accept the award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, it was hard not to get swept up i...

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WATCH: Melissa Harris-Perry Tears Into 'The Help'

Posted 04.27.2012 | Media
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MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry spent a lengthy chunk of her Saturday show on one of the things that has troubled her most in the past year: the success ...

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PHOTOS: Viola Davis' Winning Style

Huffington Post | Julee Wilson | Posted 02.26.2012 | Black Voices
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We’ve got Viola fever! Although the talented actress is no newbie, Viola Davis has literally taken Hollywood by storm this year with her breakou...

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Ron Dicker

Botox Costs How Much For Oscar Night?

HuffingtonPost.com | Ron Dicker | Posted 02.26.2012 | Business
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Sunday's Academy Awards are all about celebrating art, the highfalutin will tell you. It's about the mastery of a medium that has enthralled us for ge...

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How Much Does an Oscar Win Really Matter to Your Netflix Queue?

John Lopez | Posted 04.25.2012 | Los Angeles
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John Lopez

For every nominee who bursts into tears onstage, offstage there's four more gritting their teeth into dust and repeating "It's an honor just to be nominated" while hatching plots to leak sex tapes of the winner to TMZ.

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2012 Oscar Drinking Game

Posted 02.24.2012 | Women
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As anyone who has ever made it through the less riveting parts of the Oscar broadcast knows, alcohol can be helpful. But if you prefer to imbibe with ...

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