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No prizes to Oscars hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway
Media go to town on 'children' called in to compere proceedings
It was a great night for The King's Speech, Christian Bale, Melissa Leo and Natalie Portman, among others. But according to bloggers, the Twitterati and other film commentators, the 83rd annual Academy Awards went down as a very bad night indeed for hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway.
While the pair will not quite go down in history as the Mick Fleetwood and Samantha Fox of Oscars hosts, their debut shared stint was roundly condemned by most as detached and underpowered. The lion's share of the barbs were reserved for Franco, who was variously described as smug, distant, bored.
"In what could go down as one of the worst Oscar telecasts in history, a bad and risky idea – letting two actors host – proved out in spectacularly unwatchable fashion on the biggest of all nights for the film world," wrote the Hollywood Reporter's Tim Goodman.»
- Ben Child
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Jane Russell, Star of 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,' Dead at 89
Filed under: Movie News, Cinematical
Jane Russell, one of Hollywood's most famous sex symbols of the 1940s and '50s, died Monday of respiratory failure at her home in Santa Maria, the AP has confirmed. She was 89.
Russell, who quickly rose to fame in the '40s thanks to her role in the Howard Hughes movie 'The Outlaw,' was perhaps best known for playing showgirl Dorothy Shaw, best friend to Marilyn Monroe, in the 1953 movie-musical 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.'
Though her career died down after the '50s, the brunette beauty acted opposite some of Hollywood's most famous men in her heydey -- among them Frank Sinatra, in 'Double Dynamite,' Clark Gable, in 'The Tall Men,' and Bob Hope, in 'The Paleface' and 'Son of Paleface.'
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- Moviefone Staff
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