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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Oscar winner

Oscar winner stories: 5 news summaries

 Oscar Winner Hit With 
 82 Counts in 11 Rapes 

Composer's female assistant will also be charged

Jun 24, 09 12:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - The 71-year-old Oscar-winning composer of “You Light Up My Life,” busted yesterday for attacking women he lured to supposed auditions, is facing 82 counts of rape, sexual assault, and other charges, the New York Post reports. Joseph Brooks is now accused of raping 11 women, and investigators believe... More »

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entertainment • crime • rape • sexual assault • Oscar winner • Joseph Brooks • You Light Up My Life

 Actor Paul Scofield Dead at 86 

British star of stage and screen won Oscar for A Man for All Seasons

Mar 20, 08 7:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Paul Scofield, the British actor who won an Oscar for his portrayal of Thomas More in A Man For All Seasons, has died at the age of 86. His agent told Reuters that the actor, who eschewed Hollywood stardom for smaller film roles and a robust theater career, had been... More »

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theater • obituary • leukemia • Royal Shakespeare Company • actor • Paul Scofield • A Man for All Seasons • Oscar winner

Director Minghella
Dead at 54

Filmmaker won
Oscar in 1997 for
The English Patient

Mar 18, 08 11:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - Academy Award-winning director Anthony Minghella died today at 54, the Guardian reports. Minghella won the 1997 best director Oscar for The English Patient and was nominated as a screenwriter for The Talented Mr. Ripley in 2000. "This is a shattering blow from someone who was a major figure in... More »

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obituary • film director • movies • Anthony Minghella • Oscar winner • Oscars

Oscar Winner Is 9/11 Doubter

French Oscar winner sees a conspiracy to burn the building and pass it off as a terrorist attack. 

Mar 1, 08 9:33 PM CST
(Newser) - In year-old video just now resurfacing, best-actress Oscar winner Marion Cotillard says she doesn't believe the "official story" of  the 9/11 attacks—and she's not sure the moon landing was real, either, the Telegraph reports. In a TV interview, the French star of La Vie en Rose speculates that... More »

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World Trade Center • September 11 • moon landings • actor • Marion Cotillard • conspiracy theory • Edith Piaf • Oscar winner

Oscar Winner Wyman
Dead at 93

Falcon Crest star
was best known
as Reagan's first wife

Sep 10, 07 5:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - Academy Award-winning actress Jane Wyman, who was Ronald Reagan's first wife, died today at her home in Rancho Mirage. She was 93—or, according to some sources, 90. Wyman was named best actress for her portrayal of a deaf-mute rape victim in the 1948 film Johnny Belinda. She was... More »

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Hollywood • Academy Awards • obituary • Ronald Reagan • Jane Wyman • actor • Oscar winner

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