Slumdog Millionaire" -- a love story that combines artistic ambition with broad commercial appeal -- won a leading eight Oscars on Sunday night, including the best picture trophy.
While the film's triumphs at the 81st annual Academy Awards marked an amazing outcome for a movie filled with subtitles, scenes of torture and a Bollywood dance sequence, the wins also cemented the reputation of distributor Fox Searchlight, which has become Hollywood's top advocate of the kind of daring works that movie studios have all but abandoned.
Director...
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Angelina Jolie has been warned against getting pregnant again, according to reports.
The Tomb Raider star - who gave birth to partner Brad Pitt's twins Knox and Vivienne in July; their daughter, Shiloh, in May 2006; and is also parents to adopted kids Maddox, Pax and Zahara - has been "advised to wait a long time before getting pregnant again – or not to get pregnant at all," OK! magazine reports in its latest issue.
A source tells the publication, "Her previous pregnancies ended with emergency caesarian secions.
"She's been told...
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Looks like Britney is back with a vengeance! Our MSN insider got their hands on some behind-the-scenes footage which shows her rehearsing with dancers to a seriously fresh new track.
As the Writers Guild of America strike drags on, Conan O’Brien is bringing some holiday cheer to his late-night talk show staff, pledging to cover the salaries of his non-writing production workers—nearly 80 people in all.
NBC, which airs the comedian’s talk show Late Night with Conan O’Brien, agreed to cover the salaries through the end of November, and O’Brien, 44, will personally pick up the tab for the foreseeable future, according to Variety.
O’Brien is said to be grateful for the loyalty many of those staffers have...
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One of Britney Spears' security guys was so concerned that she might hurt her two sons, he once tried to keep her from swimming with the kids -- at her own home.
So says former Spears bodyguard Tony "Fat Tony" Barretto, who makes the new allegation in another interview with the British tabs. He tells the Daily Mail that he "thought she was going to hurt the kids" and that at one point, says Barretto, she started to wig out, just like she did during her head-shaving spree.
That's when, according to Fat Tony, another member of the security...
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It seems Lindsay Lohan's third rehab stint isn't affecting her enough to think beyond her sexy persona.
The 21-year-old, who posed in stockings and suspenders for Jill Stuart's lingerie range declared that she felt she was sexy, in Maxim's 10th anniversary September issue.
"I like to think of myself as sexy," New York Daily News quoted Lohan, as saying.
"My breasts have been a really big hit," she said.
The troubled starlet also insisted that so much 'fame' doesn't let her trust many people.
"There are so many people I can't...
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Ryan Phillippe hasn’t exactly offered a warm welcome to ex Reese Witherspoon’s off-again, on-again guy, Jake Gyllenhaal, 26.
“Ryan is pissed about Jake,” a Phillippe insider tells Us Weekly, adding that Phillippe, 32, told Witherspoon, 31, “he didn’t want ‘that guy’ around their kids [son Deacon, 3, and daughter Ava, 7] and then made some crude Brokeback Mountain remark.”
However, a Gyllenspoon source tells Us that "Reese doesn't have Jake spend the night when the kids are around." And though the actor may be angry that...
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