Everything Oscar
The Academy Awards are the grand daddy of the Hollywood award shows. The recognition of the Oscars is far and wise. For the fourth year in a row, Chris Neumer sat down to watch the Academy Award telecast and kept notes. This year, Neumer's musings include new Oscar categories, why Reese Witherspoon is Ron Burgandy and whether Bill Maher was, in fact, wearing pleather. We bring you Stumped's Oscar commentary.
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Shia LaBeouf
Shia LaBeouf is Hollywood's fastest rising male star. His film, Disturbia was a big hit and he headlines the release of one of the summer's biggest films, The Transformers.
interview
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Jeff Daniels
Jeff Daniels is one of the film world's most versatile actors. He set the lower end of toilet humor in Dumb and Dumber but has also turned heads for The Squid and the Whale and Imaginary Heroes. Chris Neumer traveled to the frozen tundra of Michigan to talk to this Hollywood outsider.
interview • photos
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Tippi Hedren
Actress Tippi Hedren's story is fascinating, unique and complex even by Hollywood's standards. Paradoxically, Hedren is known best for four different things: 1) starring in The Birds, 2) being Melanie Griffith's mom, 3) working to save the big cats with her organization, Shambala, and 4) standing up to director Alfred Hitchcock. Chris Neumer investigates.
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Random Quote...
"North Hollywood is great for war stories. [A filmmaker's] first apartment is usually in North Hollywood. It's great to be able to say, 'Look, I suffered. I lived there.'"
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After the Academy Awards on the February 22, it became obvious that Slumdog Millionaire was Hollywood's pick for the film of 2008. Stumped?'s own list was somewhat different. Get inside Chris Neumer's Top Ten of 2008. As usual, not one movie in Neumer's top ten was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
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