Topic “Entertainment”

By Alyssa Rosenberg (Slate)

WASHINGTON — In an Academy Awards ceremony that vacillated between offensive and crushingly dull, Ben Affleck’s Best Picture speech was not only a relief because it signaled that the evening was finally coming to an end, but also because it was one of the best of the night.

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By Dana Stevens (Slate)

NEW YORK — I promise to spare you a long-form exegesis of Seth MacFarlane’s opening number “We Saw Your Boobs,” which name-checked various actresses in attendance and enumerated the movies in which they had bared their breasts as the camera cut to the women in question squirming and shielding...

By Dan Zak (The Washington Post)

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — The gowns swish up to the gate. Checkpoint Charlize, let’s call it.

“Not on the list, sorry,” says a pert Vanity Fair staffer, checking her papers as black town cars creep along barricaded Sunset Boulevard in the police state that is Hollywood on Oscar night....

By The Washington Post (The Washington Post)

The Washington Post has compiled a list of entertainment opportunities now available.

TOP PICK

“Push the Sky Away,” Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Nick Cave’s music has always been sinister, and his most recent output with longtime outfit the Bad Seeds and its snarling side project, Grinderman...

(The Associated Press)

MIAMI -- Stephenie Meyer's "The Host" doesn't have much in common with her "Twilight" series, except maybe the potential for a franchise.

Meyer is working on a sequel to the 2008 novel she began writing as an escape from the editing...