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With one day between us and the much-anticipated 84th Annual Academy Awards on Sunday evening, media outlets are pulling out all the stops to cover the biggest awards show of the year.
Mark Wahlberg Spoils the Oscars Results (Unless He's Making Them Up)
Mark Wahlberg says a friend at the firm charged with tallying Oscar votes has told him all the Academy Award winners in advance of this weekend's ceremony, and he's out to spoil it for the rest of us by revealing them to the Huffington Post UK.
No Surprise: The Majority Oscar Voters Are Old White Men
Call it an old boys club. Confirming something that's been commented and joked about for years, The Los Angeles Times found that of the 5,765 Oscar voters 94 percent are male, 77 percent are white and 86 percent are 50 and older.
Michael Jackson's Doctor Is Found Guilty
Dr. Conrad Murray was found guilty in Michael Jackson's involuntary manslaughter case today.
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