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Banksy, Franco's singing among Oscar mysteries (AP)
Oscar winners' dilemma: To list or not to list? (AP)
Stars rock the Kodak at Oscar's music rehearsals (AP)
Singer Shakira accepts Harvard honor (omg!)
PIC: Kim Kardashian Covers Up in High-Waisted Pants (omg!)
Report: Charlie Sheen Shopping Tell-All Book (omg!)
Bachelor's Shawntel Was "Excited" to Show Brad Funeral Home (omg!)
Battle Of The Divas! Rihanna & Ciara Trade Twitter Barbs Before Calling A Truce (omg!)
Jesse Eisenberg Fesses Up: I Did Have A Facebook Account (In Someone Else's Name) (omg!)
Oscar Nominee Hailee Steinfeld Admits She Was Bullied In Elementary School (omg!)
John Lasseter wins lifetime achievement award (AP)
Singer Shakira accepts Harvard honor (AP)
Kathleen Parker leaving CNN show with Spitzer (AP)
Actor Kelsey Grammer gets hitched on Broadway (AP)
Kathleen Parker out of CNN's "Parker Spitzer" show (Reuters)
Banksy, Franco's singing among Oscar mysteries (AP)
Singer Shakira accepts Harvard honor (AP)
Oscar producers say show comes with youthful edge (Reuters)
PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, Feb. 19-25: 'Normal Heart''s Broadway Beat, 'Spider-Man' Update (Playbill)
Banksy, Franco's singing among Oscar mysteries (AP)

Banksy, Franco's singing among Oscar mysteries (AP)

Posted: 26 Feb 2011 07:12 AM PST

AP - To the movie industry, the Oscars are an awards ceremony. For the rest of us, they're a show.

Oscar winners' dilemma: To list or not to list? (AP)

Posted: 26 Feb 2011 09:06 AM PST

AP - You can forgive George VI, the central figure in "The King's Speech," for painfully picking through his syllables when he steps up to the microphone. Like all stammerers, the guy lived in terror of public speaking.

Stars rock the Kodak at Oscar's music rehearsals (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 10:47 PM PST

AP - The Kodak Theatre was rocking as Gwyneth Paltrow, Mandy Moore, Celine Dion and other musicians ran through the numbers they'll perform on Sunday's Academy Awards.

Singer Shakira accepts Harvard honor (omg!)

Posted: 26 Feb 2011 02:53 PM PST

omg! - AP - Grammy Award-winning singer and philanthropist Shakira has been honored by Harvard University.

PIC: Kim Kardashian Covers Up in High-Waisted Pants (omg!)

Posted: 26 Feb 2011 02:57 PM PST

omg! - She tries out a different look at a pre-Oscars bash in L.A.

Report: Charlie Sheen Shopping Tell-All Book (omg!)

Posted: 26 Feb 2011 02:40 PM PST

omg! -

That didn't take long.

Amidst Charlie Sheen's anti-Chuck Lorre tirade, the 45-year-old actor says he is writing a tell-all book about life on the Two and a Half Men set, according to TMZ.com.

Charlie Sheen: A timeline of bad behavior

The proposed book, for which the actor is considering the title...

Bachelor's Shawntel Was "Excited" to Show Brad Funeral Home (omg!)

Posted: 26 Feb 2011 02:05 PM PST

omg! - "I don't regret telling him I was in love with him at all," the funeral director tells Us

Battle Of The Divas! Rihanna & Ciara Trade Twitter Barbs Before Calling A Truce (omg!)

Posted: 26 Feb 2011 12:26 PM PST

omg! -

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Ciara had her fellow pop performer Rihanna seeing red following a comment she made on E!'s "Fashion Police" with Joan Rivers.

Jesse Eisenberg Fesses Up: I Did Have A Facebook Account (In Someone Else's Name) (omg!)

Posted: 26 Feb 2011 11:22 AM PST

omg! -

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Best Actor Oscar nominee Jesse Eisenberg has been asked again and again throughout awards season if he has a Facebook page, a question "The Social Network" star always replied "no" to.

Oscar Nominee Hailee Steinfeld Admits She Was Bullied In Elementary School (omg!)

Posted: 26 Feb 2011 11:13 AM PST

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LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Hailee Steinfeld is on top of the world this weekend, nominated for her first Oscar - for Best Supporting Actress, for her role in "True Grit" - but things weren't always easy for the teen.

John Lasseter wins lifetime achievement award (AP)

Posted: 26 Feb 2011 03:05 AM PST

AP - John Lasseter's pair of Oscars have a new friend: a lifetime achievement trophy. The Pixar and Disney animation chief received the award Friday night for his dedication to the 40-minutes-or-less medium from Shorts International, an entertainment organization which promotes, distributes, broadcasts and produces short films.

Singer Shakira accepts Harvard honor (AP)

Posted: 26 Feb 2011 02:53 PM PST

AP - Grammy Award-winning singer and philanthropist Shakira has been honored by Harvard University.

Kathleen Parker leaving CNN show with Spitzer (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 05:57 PM PST

AP - Conservative columnist Kathleen Parker said Friday that she's leaving CNN's prime-time "Parker/Spitzer" talk show, which will be renamed and continue with former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and others.

Actor Kelsey Grammer gets hitched on Broadway (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 04:54 PM PST

AP - Kelsey Grammer has tied the knot for the fourth time in a familiar place.

Kathleen Parker out of CNN's "Parker Spitzer" show (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Feb 2011 09:43 AM PST

Reuters - Journalist Kathleen Parker is leaving CNN talk show "Parker Spitzer," and the prime-time program will be revamped with former New York governor Eliot Spitzer remaining, alongside others, CNN said on Friday.

Banksy, Franco's singing among Oscar mysteries (AP)

Posted: 26 Feb 2011 03:14 PM PST

AP - To the movie industry, the Oscars are an awards ceremony. For the rest of us, they're a show. So while we couldn't recall last year's best picture on a bet (Cameron's blue-aliens movie? No, wait, it was "Hurt Locker" from his ex!), we savor the memory of Billy Crystal's great opening bits and Jack Palance's one-armed push-ups and brave Christopher Reeve onstage, alone, in a wheelchair.

Singer Shakira accepts Harvard honor (AP)

Posted: 26 Feb 2011 02:53 PM PST

AP - Grammy Award-winning singer and philanthropist Shakira has been honored by Harvard University.

Oscar producers say show comes with youthful edge (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 05:17 PM PST

Reuters - When the curtain comes up on the 83rd Academy Awards on Sunday, the show's producers hope to reconnect movie fans with Hollywood history as well as use technology and imagery to engage younger fans of the future.

PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, Feb. 19-25: 'Normal Heart''s Broadway Beat, 'Spider-Man' Update (Playbill)

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 02:29 PM PST

Playbill -

For the contemporary theatre buff, there's a double excitement in the announcement that The Normal Heart will play Broadway in April.

Banksy, Franco's singing among Oscar mysteries (AP)

Posted: 26 Feb 2011 03:14 PM PST