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CinemaBlend Copy to clipboard With over 90 Academy Award Best Picture winners, you would think that it was difficult to narrow this list down to just 10, right? Well, no, actually. I’m going to let you in on a little secret. The movie that wins Best Picture is rarely ever a masterpiece. In fact, there are several years where the best picture of the year wasn’t even nominated. Like, how was Ex Machina not freaking nominated? Sorry, I’m still just a little upset over some of these...

By Kathi OShea April 23, 2021 7:57 am KGMI Deb Fritz, Towline Marine Assist, Friday Harbor KIRKLAND, Wash. — Owners of John Wayne’s former yacht are asking for help after the vessel hit unmarked rocks in the San Juans last Saturday. Rick Rutherford is an owner of the vessel and has started a GoFundMe page. On it, he points to the Norwester’s history of famous guests including Bette Davis and Orson Wells, and its duty as WWII patrol boat. Rutherford says prospects of saving the yacht are ...

View from the North 40: And now Im almost a surgeon   Last updated 4/23/2021 at 10:16am I got to pull stitches out of my husband’s face Wednesday and I was so excited about it I did a happy dance while he wasn’t looking. He never wants to let me play doctor on him. I get it — and by that I mean I get it, and I don’t get it all at the same time. John is, let’s say, sensitive. He lives with pain 24 hours a day, seven days a week. I get that. So a new pain, even — or maybe especi...

Actors Who Gave Oscar-Winning Performances Just Before They Died Actors Who Gave Oscar-Winning Performances Just Before They Died By Matthew Jackson/April 23, 2021 6:59 am EDT One of the joys of the Academy Awards is looking back on the sheer range of Oscar-winning talent in the course of the organizations nine-decade history. While theres still a long way to go in terms of diversity of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation, the acting categories alone represent a broad selection of...

Chloe Zhao, the Chinese director reinventing US cinema The Oscar-nominated director of "Nomadland" has cast the Western and the Road Movie in a new light. Shes now revisiting the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Director Chloé Zhao gained fame for her film Nomadland Chloé Zhao took the long road to Hollywood. The Chinese-born director, whose film Nomadland is the frontrunner for the 93rd Academy Awards this Sunday, had a very circuitous route to the top of the movie world. Like Fern, the van-liv...

Michael Phillips: The Oscar for Chicago Authenticity goes to ... well, not ‘Trial of Chicago 7’ or ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune © Glen Wilson/TNS LaKeith Stanfield and Daniel Kaluuya appear in "Judas and the Black Messiah." Can you make a persuasive, evocative Chicago movie without filming most, or any, of your movie in Chicago? © Glen Wilson/Warner Bros. Entertainment/TNS From left, Darrell Britt-Gibson as Bobby Rush, Daniel Kalu...

There is no guaranteeing that you walk into a press screening with a clear head anymore. If you check your phone before walking into a movie, youre liable to read that a career senator took advantage of his offices health care plan, had a cancerous growth removed, then hobbled onto the floor of the Senate to cast a vote saying no other American deserves that treatment. How are you meant to feel anything but disgust when you then sit down to watch a movie about a lifelong environmentalist meetin...

Bob Tamasy: Needed: A Hefty New Supply Of True Grit Thursday, April 22, 2021 - by Bob Tamasy Bob Tamasy Years ago, not long after a friend of mine had relocated to the South, he went to a local restaurant for breakfast. “Would you like some grits?” the server asked him. A bit puzzled, my friend responded, “I’ve never had grits, so I don’t know if I’d like them. Could I just have one grit?”   Suffice it to say, this wasn’t a fellow who had experienced a gritty lifestyle. ...

Glen Campbell is an American original, and his story is just as legendary as his top songs. Campbells inspirational rags to riches story — from his troubled addiction to personal redemption — was shared with the world. While he was on our radios every day and in our living rooms each week, he was making the soundtrack to our lives with many more than these 10 Iconic Glen Campbell Songs. The "Rhinestone Cowboy" made such an impact that he topped all the major charts, won audiences from all...

The Stockyards’ newest addition is an ornate Western wonder. By Kelsey Vanderschoot Published in Business & Economy April 22, 2021 9:08 am It was pouring rain when I wandered into the Hotel Drover inside Fort Worth’s historic Stockyards, an Autograph Collection hotel. The space is the latest addition to the $175 million redevelopment of Mule Alley, a partnership project by the City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Majestic Realty Co, and the Hickman Companies, to renovate the Stockyards’ ...