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Elinor Burkett Explains Her Oscars 'Kanye'
 Elinor Burkett 
 Explains Her 
 Oscars 'Kanye' 
didn't want to let him 'blather on'

Elinor Burkett Explains Her Oscars 'Kanye'

'Maybe I'm just, like, a middle-aged crazy person...'

(Newser) - Elinor Burkett, aka the Oscars’ “Lady Kanye,” told Joy Behar her side of the story last night. Burkett was irked knowing Roger Ross Williams would talk more about himself than the subject of their documentary, she says. “Either I could let him blather on, or I could...

Inside Oscars' 'Kanye' Moment
 Inside Oscars' 'Kanye' Moment 

Inside Oscars' 'Kanye' Moment

Elinor Burkett elbows her way in, interrupts Roger Ross Williams

(Newser) - Arguably the biggest watercooler moment at last night’s Oscars: Elinor Burkett “pulling a Kanye” on Roger Ross Williams as he accepted their best documentary short for Music by Prudence. Kerry Lauerman got both sides of the story for Salon : Burkett and Williams have been fighting over the direction...

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