‘Oppenheimer’ wins best picture at Oscars
“Oppenheimer,” the star-studded biopic thriller that has been blazing its way through award season, won the Oscar for best picture Sunday at the 96th Academy Awards. The film, which had…
“Oppenheimer,” the star-studded biopic thriller that has been blazing its way through award season, won the Oscar for best picture Sunday at the 96th Academy Awards. The film, which had…
The big night for ‘Oppenheimer’ offered hope for traditional cinema. “Oppenheimer” overwhelmed the competition at the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday, winning seven Oscars, including the one for best picture,…
UPDATED with Best Picture win: Oppenheimer capped off a big night Sunday by winning three of the night’s last four Oscar categories, including being named Best Picture. The period blockbuster won seven…
The last living star player of the Brooklyn Dodgers' famed "Boys of Summer" teams is the right-handed hurler, Carl Erskine, born December 13, 1926, in Anderson, Indiana. He threw a…
Her own mother’s jealousy cost Bettie Page a scholarship to Vanderbilt University. Instead she earned a 1944 Bachelor of Arts degree in education from Peabody College in Tennessee. It was…
Students screamed, jumped from their seats and some started crying after the news was announced that a record $1 billion donation would establish free tuition for all students at the Albert…
Based on a slam bang adventure novel (that the Hays Office originally vetoed as fetid and objectionable source material for motion pictures based on the interracial love affair and the…
In 100 Rifles (1969) with Jim Brown and Burt Reynolds, Raquel Welch scored cinematic history in a mainstream Hollywood film with scenes portraying interracial intimacy for the first time.
Because of a $25 million gift, the venue, Verizon Hall, will be renamed to honor Anderson, a pioneering Black opera singer. Marian Anderson, the renowned contralto and civil rights figure…
To honor the famous singer and civil rights activist, Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts will be renamed Marian Anderson Hall Singer and civil rights activist…