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'Crash' Pulls Off Upset, Wins Best-Picture
(AP)
 AP - "Crash" pulled off one of the biggest upsets in Academy Awards history, winning best picture Sunday over the front-runner "Brokeback Mountain."
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'Crash' Joins Short List of Oscar Upsets
(AP)
 AP - The previous 77 Academy Awards ceremonies have had their share of unexpected twists, though the best-picture win by underdog "Crash" over "Brokeback Mountain" ranks as one of the biggest in Oscar history.
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Ang Lee Earns Best-Director Oscar
(AP)
 AP - Ang Lee won the Academy Award as best director Sunday for the cowboy romance "Brokeback Mountain," becoming the first Asian to win Hollywood's top honor for filmmakers.
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Witherspoon Walks Her Way to Oscar
(AP)
 AP - Reese Witherspoon walked all the way to the Oscar podium Sunday night, winning the best-actress award for her rich, radiant portrayal of June Carter in "Walk the Line."
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Review: Stewart Disappoints As Oscars Host
(AP)
 AP - You would have been more amused Sunday night if you'd revved up your TiVo and played back an evening's worth of "Daily Show with Jon Stewart" reruns while you tracked Oscar winners on the Web.
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"Brokeback" too controversial after all: writer
(Reuters)
Reuters - Maybe a gay cowboy picture was too
controversial after all, or at least that is what the legendary
Western writer who adapted "Brokeback Mountain" for the screen
thinks.
Rap song wins Oscar after historic performance
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Bitches became witches in the
sanitized lyrics of the Oscar-winning rap tune "It's Hard Out
Here for a Pimp" when the song was performed at the Academy
Awards on Sunday.
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'Crash' Pulls Off Upset, Wins Best-Picture
(AP)
AP - "Crash" pulled off one of the biggest upsets in Academy Awards history, winning best picture Sunday over the front-runner "Brokeback Mountain."
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Rap song wins Oscar after historic performance
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Bitches became witches in the
sanitized lyrics of the Oscar-winning rap tune "It's Hard Out
Here for a Pimp" when the song was performed at the Academy
Awards on Sunday.
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Travolta cast as mother in musical "Hairspray"
(Reuters)
 Reuters - He was the teenage prince of disco
in "Saturday Night Fever," the dreamy leader of a high school
gang in "Grease" and a mob hit man in "Pulp Fiction." Now John
Travolta will be playing a mom.
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"Brokeback" too controversial after all: writer
(Reuters)
Reuters - Maybe a gay cowboy picture was too
controversial after all, or at least that is what the legendary
Western writer who adapted "Brokeback Mountain" for the screen
thinks.
Hollywood awards local film best picture
(Reuters)
Reuters - The Oscars gave its top prize on
Sunday to a movie set in its own backyard, Los Angeles, a city
with a sunny exterior that in "Crash" is pierced to yield
darkness and mistrust based on race.
"Crash" stuns Oscars, wins best film
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Gritty race relations drama "Crash"
pulled a stunning upset at the Oscars on Sunday, winning the
best film award over highly favored gay romance "Brokeback
Mountain" in a night heavy with political messages.
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How Top Oscar Winners Did at Box Office
(AP)
 AP - Domestic box-office totals for the most-honored films at the 78th annual Academy Awards:
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Blog: Oscars Turn Unpredictable
(AP)
AP - Oscars turn upredictable with the film 'Crash' pulling off one of the biggest upsets in Academy Awards history, winning best picture over the favored 'Brokeback Mountain.'
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'Crash' Pulls Off Upset, Wins Best-Picture
(AP)
AP - "Crash" pulled off one of the biggest upsets in Academy Awards history, winning best picture Sunday over the front-runner "Brokeback Mountain."
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Taiwanese Exult As Ang Lee Wins Oscar
(AP)
 AP - Residents of this leaf-shaped island of 23 million people exulted Monday — Sunday night in Hollywood — as native son Ang Lee won the Oscar in the best-director category for his gay romance "Brokeback Mountain."
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Robert Altman Honored by Oscars
(AP)
 AP - Robert Altman, the iconoclastic director who has long chafed at the conventions of Hollywood, finally got his first Oscar at Sunday's Academy Awards.
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Oscar Speeches Feature George Clooney
(AP)
AP - A year of hard-edged movies didn't produce political or controversial Oscar speeches on Sunday night. Instead, George Clooney ruled the podium — even during speeches he didn't give.
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Stars Are Human Backstage at Oscar
(AP)
 AP - Backstage at the Oscars the glamour and glitz is stripped away and the human side of some of Hollywood's biggest stars is revealed.
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Rap song wins Oscar after historic performance
(Reuters)
Reuters - Bitches became witches in the
sanitized lyrics of the Oscar-winning rap tune "It's Hard Out
Here for a Pimp" when the song was performed at the Academy
Awards on Sunday.
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Three 6 Mafia Steals Oscar Song Award
(AP)
 AP - Forget the suspense over best movie or actor or actress — the real question on Oscar night was whether Three 6 Mafia could actually perform a cuss-free, non-graphic version of "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp."
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Franz Ferdinand, Death Cab on double date
(Reuters)
 Reuters - A tour package with rock acts
Franz Ferdinand and Death Cab for Cutie was, simply, meant to
be.
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Latino acts, fans move into US mainstream
(Reuters)
Reuters - Marcos Hernandez barely speaks Spanish.
He grew up listening to Barry Manilow, the Temptations, Michael
Jackson and U2. And on his debut album, "About Me," he sings
soulful R&B -- in English.
Buzz band takes legal action over religious tag
(Reuters)
Reuters - Rock act Mute Math is so
frustrated at being branded a Christian band by Warner Music
Group's Christian outlet Word Records, it has taken matters
into its own hands, self-releasing its debut album February 1.
Adkins' booty romp bumps album sales
(Reuters)
Reuters - Trace Adkins' booty-shakin',
tongue-in-cheek country jam "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk" has become
the darling of Music City -- and beyond.
Label's questionable email raises eyebrows
(Reuters)
Reuters - Rock band Hawthorne Heights and
rising R&B star Ne-Yo are expected to vie for the top of next
week's Billboard 200.
UK government helping bands conquer America
(Reuters)
Reuters - Buoyed by the recent American success
of such acts as Coldplay, James Blunt and Franz Ferdinand, the
British music industry is once again focusing its energy on the
U.S. market. And the music community here has found an
important ally: the government.
Apple's MP3 lead faces legal, technical challenges
(Reuters)
 Reuters - For Apple Computer, life at the top
of the digital music heap is not all it is cracked up to be.
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Pearl Jam takes out aggression on new album
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Pearl Jam wears its emotions on its
sleeve on its self-titled eighth album, which will be released
May 2.
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