Filmmaker just shut down the Oscars wrap-it-up music like a boss

Two can play at this game, Academy. Polish-British filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film Sunday night and decided he doesn't give a damn about the Academy's intrusive wrap-it-off music. Despite acknowledging that the music was cuing him off, he kept talking, even bringing up his late wife and parents as the music ended.

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Richard Nixon: Our Greatest President-Poet

Four poems from Richard Nixon’s out-of-print poetry collection.

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Oscars 2015: full list of winners

The 87th Academy Awards have now ended in Los Angeles. Here’s a list of the evening’s recipients in full

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Netflix Lays Out A Vision For The Future In Which They Don't Have All The Content, Just The Best Content

In a document posted to their corporate website, Netflix sought to describe their long-term plans. The piece reads like a fascinating mixture of investor relations propaganda and fantasy or media theory. While it touches on all kinds of different aspects of their business and the changing environment it exists in, perhaps the most intriguing part has to do with how they are describing their ideal content catalog.

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Hollywood’s Tired War Porn

In the age of the all-volunteer military and an endless stream of war zone losses and ties, it can be hard to keep Homeland enthusiasm up for perpetual war. After all, you don’t get a 9/11 every year to refresh those images of the barbarians at the airport departure gates. In the meantime, Americans are clearly finding it difficult to remain emotionally roiled up about our confusing wars in Syria and Iraq, the sputtering one in Afghanistan...

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Sesame Street: Terry Crews is an Artist

Terry Crews is a multitalented artist; he paints, he sculpts, he plays the violin, he dances.... Do you know what an artist is? An artist is someone who creates art. Is that your finger painting posted on the family fridge? That means that you are an artist too.

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The Best Plants for 30 Tough Sites

Here are the best plants for 30 tough garden sites, including dry shade, slopes, lakeshores, all locations that call for tough, durable plants. Also included are hard-to-find plants with special traits and useful characteristics: self-seeding, fragrant, long-blooming, minimal litter. And who better to recommend these plants than the University of Minnesota Extension Service Master Gardeners?

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