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Academy voters don't particularly like to reward comedies, but they are nuts about movies spotlighting characters battling their not-so-beautiful minds. How will that dichotomy affect David O. Russell's exuberant "Silver Linings Playbook," which deals...

David O. Russell rewrote "Silver Linings Playbook" more than 20 times, honing the material so it would feel completely real and natural, a vibe he values most in his filmmaking. In this excerpt from the Envelope Screening Series, Russell and lead...

Tom Hooper's feverishly anticipated adaptation of "Les Misérables" screened for the media, academy and guild members this afternoon at the Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in a finished version that Hooper says he turned in at 2 a.m. Thanksgiving Day....

Mine eyes have seen the glory. And by this point, most academy members have too. Time to check in on "Lincoln" with the Oscar 8-Ball, that magical portal into the minds and hearts and, in the rare, applicable instance, the souls of academy members and how...

It's late afternoon on a sweltering day in Hollywood, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt and writer-director Rian Johnson have just finished recording ......

CORONA DEL MAR — Tumua Anae is often seen as reserved, a calming influence on the United States women's water polo Olympic team. Still, do not think for a second that she isn't extremely thrilled to be representing her country in her first...

The summer Olympics haven't started yet, but the valley already has a gold-winner. The Eastern Pennsylvania Emergency Medical Services Council Monday awarded Cetronia Ambulance Corps with its Gold Standard of Excellence, the first EMS agency in the region...

Guitarist/composer Michael Musillami's trio, his alliance with his longtime friends and collaborators, bassist Joe Fonda and drummer George Schuller, is a superb, finely tuned unit, empathetic, swinging and dramatically expressive of emotions sweeping...

How do you forecast what nutty notions might be floating around in the heads of the 83 full- and part-time entertainment journalists who comprise the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., a group that, for last year’s Golden Globes, labeled “The...

The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. doesn’t tend to like its humor R-rated or verbally dense, but it’s hard to believe they’ll ignore the "Bridesmaids" wave when it comes to the best motion picture comedy or musical Golden Globes category....

The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. has a history of rewarding new TV shows ahead of the Emmys. Will that continue this year? We predict the TV categories for Sunday's Golden Globes show....