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  • Eddie Murphy Loses Oscar, Bolts From Show (Sore Loser Alert)

    02/27/2007 5:21:20 AM PST · by PJ-Comix · 67 replies · 3,202+ views
    Fox News ^ | February 27, 2007 | Roger Friedman
    Eddie Murphy did not like losing the Academy Award for best supporting actor to Alan Arkin last night. He split the show — exit stage left! — as soon Arkin’s name was announced. Murphy didn’t stay to see Jennifer Hudson win best supporting actress in "Dreamgirls" or his fellow castmates Hudson, Beyonce, Keith Robinson and Anoki Noni Rose perform the show’s nominated songs in a stellar staging by "Dreamgirls" director/writer Bill Condon, who wasn't an Oscar nominee. That may have been the problem with "Dreamgirls" all along, as I’ve suggested before: Much as the movie depends on a song called...
  • Disney launches first 'exclusively gay moment' in Beauty and the Beast

    02/28/2017 8:26:55 PM PST · by brucedickinson · 52 replies
    Telegraph, UK ^ | 3-1-2017 | Hannah Furness
    It built its reputation on princesses finding their prince, living happily ever after in storylines which set the benchmark for romance for generations of children. Now, Disney is to move firmly into a new era as it introduces its first “exclusively gay moment”, disclosing the new version of Beauty and the Beast will star a manservant exploring his sexuality. Director Bill Condon said: “LeFou is somebody who on one day wants to be Gaston and on another day wants to kiss Gaston. “And Josh [Gad, who plays LeFou] makes something really subtle and delicious out of it. “And that’s what...