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Alec Baldwin & Steve Martin Take On Oscar Hosting Duties
Posted on 05. Nov, 2009 by CSS.
Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin are teaming up to host the 82nd Academy Awards.
The duo will follow 2009 host Hugh Jackman, who announced last week that he would not return to helm next year’s ceremony. While Academy Award-nominated actor Alec is a first-time Oscar host, Steve hosted the 73rd and 75th Academy Awards.
The two men have a friendly hosting rivalry on the sketch comedy hit Saturday Night Live. Steve has hosted SNL 15 times, while Alec has hosted the sketch comedy just 14 times.
“I am happy to co-host the Oscars with my enemy Alec Baldwin,” Steve said in a statement Tuesday.
“I don’t play the banjo but I’m thrilled to be hosting the Oscars – it’s the opportunity of a lifetime,” Alec added, referencing the comedian legend, who does play the banjo and is currently touring with the bluegrass band Steep Canyon Rangers.
The 2010 Academy Awards will air live from Kodak Theater at Hollywood & Highland Center in Los Angeles on March 7.
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Hugh Jackman Declines Hosting Duties For The 82nd Academy Awards
Posted on 02. Nov, 2009 by CSS.
Hugh Jackman has turned down the chance to host the 2010 Academy Awards.
The Wolverine star, who did a wonderful job hosting last year’s ceremony, declined the chance to renew Oscar presenting duties, according to Variety.
Earlier reports had suggested that the 41-year-old has instead chosen to prepare for his next film Real Steel once his Broadway run in A Steady Rain wraps up.
The 82nd Academy Awards will take place on March 7, 2010.
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2009 Diversity Awards Honoring Fox Series ‘Glee’
Posted on 29. Oct, 2009 by CSS.
The cast of Glee will be honored at this year’s Multicultural Motion Picture Association’s 17th annual Diversity Awards.
The stars of FOX’s breakout musical comedy; including Lea Michele, Matthew Morrison. and Jane Lynch; will be presented with the Favorite New Television Cast Ensemble award at the event next month. The 2009 Multicultural Motion Picture Association’s 17th annual Diversity Awards is scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 22 at The Beverly Hills Hotel.
Congrats Glee.
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U2 Berlin Wall Performance November 5
Posted on 28. Oct, 2009 by CSS.
U2 will perform a free concert to help the city celebrate 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, MTV announced on Tuesday evening.
The Irish rockers will perform in front of the Brandenburg Gate on Nov. 5 during the network’s Europe Music Awards, hosted by Katy Perry. The band’s performance will be beamed via satellite to the awards ceremony at Berlin’s nearby O2 World Arena.
The Berlin Wall fell Nov. 9, 1989, ending almost 30 years of separation between east and west. In a statement Tuesday, U2 manager Paul McGuinness said it would be exciting to be in Berlin, “20 years almost to the day since the wall came down.”
U2’s 1991 album Achtung Baby was partly inspired by the band’s stay in the city.
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Ricky Gervais Will Host 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards
Posted on 26. Oct, 2009 by CSS.
Ricky Gervais has made a career out of making folks laugh — from his breakthrough British hit The Office (which spawned the American version) as well as his record-breaking podcast, The Ricky Gervais Show — now he’ll have a chance to do it in front of some of the most accomplished entertainers in Hollywood. The British comedian will host the 67th Annual Golden Globes in January, PEOPLE has confirmed.
Ricky will be the first star to host the Golden Globes telecast since 1995.
“We are delighted to have Ricky Gervais as the host on our show,” said Philip Berk, President of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Ricky couldn’t be more excited: “Not only is this the biggest Hollywood celebration of the industry, which includes both film and TV, but also an environment where I feel I can get free reign as a host. I have resisted many other offers like this, but there are just some things you don’t turn down.”
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Bellingham, Washington Gives Jon Stewart Key To City
Posted on 15. Oct, 2009 by CSS.
The mayor of Bellingham, Washington says Jon Stewart, the spitfire host of Comedy Central’s Daily Show, is getting a key to the city. Unfortunately, he won’t be traveling to Washington city to accept it.
Mayor Dan Pike tells The Bellingham Herald that representatives of Jon’s talent agency told him that Stewart appreciated the offer to come get the key but was too busy to accept. Mayor Pike is “disappointed” by Stewart’s decision because the point of the offer was to spark community discussion. He made the offer after the mayor of nearby Mount Vernon decided to give controversial Fox News commentator Glenn Beck a key to that city — promoting outrage from his opponents.
The mayor says he still plans to send Jon a key to the city.
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Adam Lambert 2009 Performance American Music Awards
Posted on 13. Oct, 2009 by CSS.
American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert called Ryan Seacrest’s KIIS-FM radio show Tuesday to announce that he’ll be performing his eagerly-awaited new single at the 2009 American Music Awards next month.The Black Eyed Peas are also scheduled to perform at the awards show on Nov. 22.
The single has yet to be released, but will be “something entirely different” and “glammy,” Adam explained.
“It’s all very exciting…we’re bringing back a glam-rock kind of feel to pop music so I hope everybody likes it.”
Adam’s still untitled album will be released November 24.
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2009 American Music Awards Nominees
Posted on 13. Oct, 2009 by CSS.
Paula Abdul, Adam Lambert, and Snoop Dogg announced the nominees for the 2009 American Music Awards, one of the music industry’s most coveted ceremonies, in a press conference from the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles on Tuesday morning.
ARTIST OF THE YEAR:
Kings of Leon
Taylor Swift
Lady Gaga
Eminem
Michael JacksonPOP/ROCK – Favorite Male Artist:
Eminem
Michael Jackson
T.I.
POP/ROCK – Favorite Female Artist:
Beyonce
Lady Gaga
Taylor SwiftPOP/ROCK – Favorite Band, Duo or Group:
The Black Eyed Peas
Kings of Leon
Nickelback
For the full list of nominees, visit the Official AMA website.
The American Music Awards air Sunday, November 22 on ABC.
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Michael Jackson American Music Awards Five Nominations
Posted on 13. Oct, 2009 by CSS.
Michael Jackson was nominated for the Artist of the Year Award at the 2009 American Music Awards, as Paula Abdul, Adam Lambert, and Snoop Dogg announced the nominees for this year’s ceremony in a live press conference from Los Angeles early Tuesday.
The King of Pop also picked up four additional noms for his 2003 Greatest Hits Collection. In all, the music icon, who passed away in June, is up for Artist of the Year, Pop Rock Male, Pop Rock Album, R&B/Soul Male and R&B/Soul Album. Michael is eligible because the AMAs go by sales and air play, not based on the year the material may have been released.
The American Music Awards air Sunday, Nov. 22 on ABC.
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President Obama Awarded Nobel Peace Prize 2009
Posted on 09. Oct, 2009 by CSS.
President Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, also citing the president’s outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear proliferation.
The committee said it attached particular emphasis on the President’s vision of a world without nuclear weapons.
The stunning choice made Obama only the third sitting U.S. president to win the Nobel Peace Prize, shocking many Nobel watchers- who believed it was too early to award the president. Barack Obama took office only weeks before the committee’s Feb. 1 deadline for nominations. Theodore Roosevelt won the award in 1906 and Woodrow Wilson won in 1919. Former President Jimmy Carter won the award in 2002, while former Vice President Al Gore shared the 2007 prize with the U.N. panel on climate change.
“Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future,” the committee said this morning. “His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world’s population.”
“Obama has as president created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play,” the committee said.
So if nominations had to be in by Feb 1- That means Obama was nominated just 9 days after taking office… Doesn’t that strike anyone as a little odd?
