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Two elusive legends turned heads at agency William Morris Endeavor’s Oscar party at the home of uber-agent Ari Emanuel. Morrissey, the former Smiths singer…
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state TV dismissed the Oscar-winning film “Argo” on Monday as an “advertisement for the CIA” and some Iranians called the award a political statement by America for its unflattering portrayal of the aftermath of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
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When fruit flies sense parasitic wasps in their environment, they lay their eggs in an alcohol-soaked environment, essentially forcing their larvae to consume booze as a drug to combat the deadly wasps. The finding adds to the evidence that using toxins in the environment to medicate offspring may be common across the animal kingdom.
via ScienceDaily: Latest Science News http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130222102958.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29
Paula Broadwell’s promotion revoked…
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PricewaterhouseCoopers’s Rick Rosas and Brad Oltmanns are two individuals who take the Oscars more seriously than probably anyone else: they count the ballots.
via Vanity Fair | VF.com http://www.vanityfair.com/online/oscars/2013/02/two-experts-count-oscar-ballots-pricewaterhousecoopers
High-profile morning anchor Soledad O’Brien is on her way out at CNN as new boss Jeff Zucker moves Erin Burnett into her morning slot…
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$30M “marketing blitz†aims to win over email users.
Real-estate mogul says Bill Clinton confirmed her 2016 run.
Let’s give it another go: Voting is a privilege, not a right
via Variety – Latest News http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118066204/?cmpid=RSS%257CNews%257CLatestNews
Harlem-born rapper and Fashion Week fixture A$AP Rocky describes his own sartorial style as “unorthodox.†“I’m not even matching, but [bleep] it,†he…
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