It is the conundrum of our time — or at least this Memorial Day: Should you watch the entire fourth season immediately in Netflix's big batch, or savor the return? We asked TV superfans, writers, critics, and Annyong himself about their Arrested Development Day plans. Model your viewing habits accordingly.
The Economist has a chart examining the frequency of gushing onstage clichés in Oscar history, and the words of Daniel Day-Lewis and Jennifer Lawrence weren't as bad as usual.
Back in August, the Wire's Rebecca Greenfield predicted an oncoming Greek yogurt backlash. While this hasn't quite happened yet, the knowledge that our world is now inhabited by something being deemed "brogurt" implies perhaps the end of days for this thick, creamy snack.
The criticism is still raining down on the Oscar host — "sexist" and "racist" and "worst ever" are not uncommon from all over today. But was he funny? Some professional funny people seem to think so.
If you think you're tired after staying up late to watch the endless Academy Awards, just imagine how these people are feeling.
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There was the monologue, which didn't go over so well in some parts, and then there was the rest of the Oscars, which didn't either. The first-time host was, as expected, kind of a jerk. Here's a sampler.
She won hearts when she tripped on the way up to the stage to collect the award for Best Actress. Then she won some more in the press room. She had been drinking.
The Best Picture denouement turned into a surprise appearance by the First Lady, via satellite from the Governors' Ball in Washington, D.C. — where earlier she had sat next to Chris Christie — to introduce and announce the winner, Argo.
Kristen Stewart was using crutches on the red carpet at the Oscars, and appeared to be limping when she came out on stage to present. And backstage, Hathaway told her to "break a leg."
Musicals were the them of Oscar night, and the movie musical tribute about halfway through the seemingly endless show featured Jennifer Hudson, Anne Hathaway, and only part of Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Skyfall and Zero Dark Thirty tied for Sound Editing. While it is rare, it is not unprecedented: Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand tied for Best Actress in 1969, and were other ties!
The host spent the first 19 minutes of the Academy Awards on Sunday making sure everyone would, in fact, hate him.
From hungry Jennifer Lawrence to Anne Hathaway's semi-nip slip, here are the most irreverent moments from the Oscars, pre-actual Oscars.
He's tried to win over his haters with a self-effacing schtick, but should you believe him? Or is he double-crossing everyone, only to pull another 180 and go all Ricky Gervais on us? Let's examine, with some psychoanalysis.
Why does everyone hate Anne Hathaway? She's just so very... Anne Hathaway. Here's the trail of awards-season drama that she hath wrought, as a preview of sorts for hate-watching the Oscars:
Silver has finally delivered his Oscar picks, refining his method of forecasting the awards so they're more in line with his election picks — or at least better than his so-so history of calling the Academy Awards.
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Nate Silver isn't doing the Oscars this year, and he's not that good at picking the winners anyway. But we spoke with the Harvard nerd trying to replace him, then double-checked with Silver's favorite indicators and Hollywood insiders, for the closest thing to a scientific Oscar ballot there is in 2013.
The Academy has done away with its "kind of sexist" tradition of having hot women present the statuettes in favor of young filmmakers from Zimbabwe to the Marine Corps. Here are the kids you'll be seeing a lot of come Sunday night.
Unlike the Oscars' sporting event counterpart, the Super Bowl, you probably aren't that interested in the commercials, but should you be?
A new IMDb-meets-Kevin Bacon graphic for Oscar night reveals the links between various actors, producers, and directors up for awards this year.
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The most ridiculed Oscars number of all time, unveiled.
The perpetual baby stars in a nominated animated short, and Facebook fans are helping to choose among real-life Oscar gown counterparts — from last year's Angelina to Jennifer Lawrence's memorable red number from the year before that.
With the Academy Awards just a few days away, the behind-the-scenes plans for Oscar night are starting to go public, and they look... long, with a side of questionable vocals.
Ah, the Oscars: glitz, glamour, and condoms.
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Oscar buzz, at least for Best Picture, at least for people who really care, comes in ebbs and flows of speculation. Here's a look back at the Hollywood conventional wisdom, from The Master's weird rise to Zero Dark Thirty's torturous fall and Argo's late surge.
The NPR senior strategist plays "online news anchor" by weaving together tweets and social-media footage, all while engaging his followers to take an active role in helping him cover the news. Here are some of his must-follows.
Here's where the brands belonging to the two biggest beer companies on the planet, Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller, really come from. (What with the pending litigation and all, this is more like beer Risk than beer Monopoly.)
Twitter is ablaze with word of Toy Story 4 coming to the big screen, but the "news" seemed a little computer-generated to begin with — and here's why.
All the original lead actors are rumored to be returning — not just Harrison Ford, but his twins! Here's what we already know, by way of plot lines that have already been nurtured in the expanded universe of Star Wars.
The Brits are in a tizzy over comments made by the award-winning author about the "doll" princess, but shouldn't everyone just calm down a little and look at what's actually being said here?
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It's been a rough year for Oscar voting, but it all comes to close at 5 p.m. PST on Tuesday, the Academy's official deadline for ballots, whether electronic or paper.
In an interview with the New York Times' Dave Itzkoff following last night's (spoiler: tragic) season three finale of Downton Abbey, series creator Julian Fellowes explained that his commitment to create a period piece for NBC may mean he has to step away from the Abbey.
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Her new HBO documentary asks us to sympathize with her. But should we?
The Guardian offers some context to the cosmic event with map of meteorites throughout history — at least the recorded ones — and it shows that America gets a lot more of these sightings than Russia.
Old Han Solo and friends doesn't exactly sound like the J.J. Abrams franchise reboot fans had been waiting for. It's not as bad as Shia LaBeouf as Young Han Solo in a separate planned spinoff, but still — if this news is real, things could get weird.
Everyone kind of expects Seth MacFarlane to be a huge jerk when he hosts the Oscars, but in new interviews released today, the Hollywood insider/outsider admits that his plan is to take it straight to the stars in the audience.
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Mind you, the stuff is already growing on the schmancy chateau they own in Correns, France, but this thing is going to be big
Valentine's Day this year is tinged with sadness: the date also marks the two month anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre, but these virtual Valentines can be shared on social media.
At the Grammys he made our screens go sepia tone, and now in his new David Fincher-directed video Justin Timberlake continues to try to prove that he's a classy neo-Rat Pack type star.
The letters reveal a back-and-forth as illuminating for Lady Bird's indecision as the future president's relentlessness.
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What with all of the political drama in this year's Best Picture crop — and Michelle Obama hosting the kid from Beasts of the Southern Wild at the White House — we couldn't help but wonder which films our top politicians would like to see win.
A new profile reveals that Dunham sees herself as a different breed than the stereotype of her generation. Here are some highlights from the interview, before it drops online.
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