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Prolific French composer Michel Legrand, who won three Oscars and five Grammys during a career spanning more than half a century, died Saturday aged 86, his spokesman said. Legrand lived in a musical whirlwind, with the same appetite for popular music to jazz, from conducting ...
The organization that bestows the Academy Awards says it is suspending plans to award a new Oscar for popular films at the 2019 ceremony amid widespread backlash to the idea. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences says it will further study plans for ...
Japanese makeup artist Kazuhiro Tsuji and two colleagues on Sunday won this year's Academy Award for best makeup and hairstyling. Tsuji, the first Japanese to receive the award, shared the prize with Britons David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick. The trio was recognized for their work transforming ...
Now 80, Jane Fonda says she didn't think she'd make it to 30
Actress Jane Fonda, who celebrated her 80th birthday last week, says that growing up she never expected to reach 30. "I never pictured 30," Fonda told People magazine in an interview published on Wednesday. "I assumed I wouldn't live very long and that I would die ...
Patty Duke, Oscar-winning star who started acting as a child, dead at 69
Patty Duke, who as a teen won an Oscar for playing Helen Keller in "The Miracle Worker" and maintained a long and successful career throughout her life while battling personal demons, has died at the age of 69. Duke's agent, Mitchell Stubbs, says the actress ...
