and i have a massive heart attack right in my driveway. the doctor put me on a bayer aspirin regimen. [ male announcer ] be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. go talk to your doctor. you re not indestructible anymore. first lady michelle obama was a surprise guest at the oscars announcing the best picture nominees. but everyone is still talking about that other appearance on late night with jimmy fallon. she and jimmy showed off some mom dancing.
people keep saying to me, what do you think the conclave will do. what will the college of cardinals do? i say not only do i not know, of course, but they don t know. we re in some new territory here with the papacy. they have had more time to think about what they want and without an overlay of mourning for the last guy, if you will, to help direct their thoughts. on the scandals, i sure hope that cardinal mahoney of los angeles, roger mahoney, who has been involved in this very recently documented horrible, horrible long-term scandal while he was cardinal in los angeles, i think it would be wonderful to see a cardinal to show humility and modesty and self-sacrifice and not go and bring the overlay of that scandal with him. let us switch gears and talk about what a lot of people will be focusing on tonight, the oscars. best picture nominees.
up with blatant lies except for the people of the moon. the opposition accuses president morsi of monopolizing power, silencing moderate and liberal voice. a push to free the man who helped the united states track down osama bin laden now. and to get hollywood to take a stand at its biggest night. this is the man in question. the pakinstani doctor who ran a fake vaccination program for the c.i.a. to collect dna at the terrorist s compound. he s serving 33 years in the pakinstani prison for conspiracy against the state. back in september, he told fox news that pakistan s intelligence agency tortured him, blindfolding him for eight months and handcuffing his hands behind his back for a year. now a california businessman said he s horrified the doctor is still in a prison and with the movie zero dark thirty up for oscars, he s asking the cast and crew of all the best picture nominees to draw attention to that doctor s situation.
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were serious i had hurt. oscar nominations out today. as usual plenty of surprises and some big time snubs. many of the biggest enemy knees seemed to have something in common. trace gallagher with details live from hollywood. hello, trace. hi, shep. you know kind of a deja vu of the academy awards 20 actors and actresses nominated this year nine have won oscars before. all tolled those 9 have been nominated 47 times. speaking of numbers, there are 5656 voting members of the academy. and their nominees are: i dreamed a dream of time gone by best picture nominees read like a history tour from les mis to civil war west to lincoln s civil war. argo takes us through the iranian hostage crisis and zero dark 30 through the