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...Cord Jefferson, buoyed by the Oscar nominations, has said he hopes the film will help lead to a greater variety of black stories in Hollywood....
...The ex-Pink Floyd leader is rock’s most prominent, and controversial, pro-Palestine activist....
...in the wake of George Floyd’s murder....
...The 95th Academy Awards — the Oscars — are held in Hollywood on March 12....
...In 1990, they joined Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters to play at the site of the Berlin Wall....
...The former Minneapolis police officer was convicted of three charges in the murder of George Floyd, an incident that set off global protests over racial injustice....
...White friends called me up [after Floyd’s murder] to ask if I was OK....
...Similarly, the night four years ago that Moonlight won Best Picture feels a long time ago in the week former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd....
...I donned improbable costumes and bad accents for Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest at the Irish ambassador’s residence, noir classic The Maltese Falcon at the historic museum at Dumbarton House...
...He is one of only 16 people ever to have scooped an Oscar, an Emmy, a Tony and a Grammy....
...The funeral of George Floyd took place on June 9. The protests continued....
...The other day she was helping a man called Oscar Brown, who owns the lot at the entrance to Idlewild, as he lay down mulch and planted flowers....
...Oscars kicks off The 93rd Academy Awards get under way on Sunday evening. Here is everything you need to know. And a read on the end of China’s love affair with Hollywood....
...When I was directing, I could smell in the air Floyd’s neck incident, and the craziness in the streets. It was a matter of time, and that’s what prompted me to do the film.”...
...Bastian convened a meeting with American Airlines chief executive Doug Parker and former United Airlines chief executive Oscar Munoz....
...If some in the UK felt smug in comparison during the American summer of George Floyd, Mangrove deals with a still-unfinished Britain....
...The letter was written in the midst of a cultural and political reckoning with systematic racism in the United States in the wake of the George Floyd death in Minneapolis....
...Cullors describes in this powerful interview how quarantine and the brutal on-camera killing of George Floyd by a police officer combined to spark widespread anti-racist demonstrations across the US....
...Global Black Lives Matter protests triggered by the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police made it doubly incongruous in a diverse, modern British city....
...Then George Floyd was killed by the police in Minneapolis....
...Cryptocurrencies: Paris Hilton, Floyd Mayweather and Jamie Foxx What links hotel heiress Paris Hilton, former boxing champion Floyd Mayweather and Oscar winner Jamie Foxx?...
...In the Dublin gym where Conor McGregor trains, a mural depicts the Irish mixed martial arts fighter slamming a gloved fist against the chin of Floyd Mayweather, the undefeated boxing champion....
...The assailant, who instead shot Floyd Sr in the calf and so spoilt his boxing career, was the boy’s uncle....
...Around the time that Brown found the tune, pianist Oscar Peterson also recorded it, for the 1962 album Night Train....
...They say that the secret to the groundbreaking music of Pink Floyd is not what they added but what they took out....
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