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All Eyes On Naked Mass Native John Cena As He Recreates Famous Streaking Moment In Oscars All Eyes On Naked Mass Native John Cena As He Recreates Famous Streaking Moment In Oscars
All Eyes On Naked Mass Native John Cena As He Recreates Famous Streaking Moment In Oscars In 1974 at the 46th Academy Awards, a man named Robert Opel ran across the stage naked. It happened just as David Niven was introducing Elizabeth Taylor. Robert Opel streaks at the 46th Academy Awards. Rodrigogomespaixao Wikipedia Opel was a photographer and art gallery owner who was raised in Pittsburgh, PA. Fifty years later, Robert Opel's memory lives on, with help from Oscar's host Jimmy Kimmel and John Cena. “Can you imagine if a nude man ran across the stage today?” Kimmel said at the event Sunday night, March 10. “I said, can you imagine if a nude man ran across the …
Film Shot In Boston Gets 5 Oscar Nominations, Including Best Picture Film Shot In Boston Gets 5 Oscar Nominations, Including Best Picture
Film Shot In Boston Gets 5 Oscar Nominations, Including Best Picture A dramedy about a Boston writer and filmed in parts of eastern Mass has picked up five Oscar nominations, the Academy Awards announced Tuesday, Jan. 23. “American Fiction,” based on the 2001 novel “Erasure” Percival Everett, follows a Black writer and professor, Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, played by Jeffrey Wright, as he returns to his hometown of Boston. “A novelist who's fed up with the establishment profiting from ‘Black’ entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain,” the film’s tagline reads. Related:&nb…
Massachusetts Natives Rake In Groundbreaking Oscars Wins Massachusetts Natives Rake In Groundbreaking Oscars Wins
Massachusetts Natives Rake In Groundbreaking Oscars Wins The 95th Oscars ceremony had a slew of historic firsts, and Massachusetts was well-represented as the birthplace of two of those winners to have momentous claims to Oscars fame.   "Everything Everywhere All at Once," the off-the-wall feel-good film from studio A24, took home seven coveted golden statuettes and added several of its Oscar nominees to the short list of only 43 Asian Oscar winners.  Daniel Kwan, one of the film's directors and producers, made history on multiple fronts as the second Asian person in Oscars history to receive awards for best picture, director, and screenplay, ac…