Topic: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Trimming the Times

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A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.

By Connor Simpson

Aug 2, 2012

The Battle Over Two Jimmys and Next Year's Oscars Hosting Gig

This would be one of the least surprising choices the Academy could make. Apparently charismatic funny man Jimmy Fallon is in talks to host next year's Oscars ceremony, but there's major network and Academy drama that could stop it from happening.

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By Richard Lawson

Mar 27, 2012

Academy Members Upset at Having to Pay for 'Hunger Games' Tickets

Perhaps the most brutal, most shocking thing about The Hunger Games is not the squalid conditions of District 12, not the callous monsters of the Capitol, not the pile of dead children lying in a field.

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