VATICAN CITY (AP) ? Members of the Vatican‘s bioethics advisory panel have called for its board to resign after scientists who don’t support core church teaching on issues like birth control and infertility were featured at its annual conference. The members said the Pontifical Academy of Life’s Feb. 24 conference on diagnosing and treating infertility [...]
?Moneyball? was nominated for several Academy Awards, and over at the website Buzzsugar, they give some advice on how to throw a ?Moneyball?-themed Oscar party. The upshot: Serve beer and peanuts! Wear baseball jerseys! Decorate the room with gloves, caps and memorabilia! I wonder what these captains obvious suggested when ?Revolutionary Road? was nominated. That [...]
LOS ANGELES, Feb 1 (TheWrap.com) ? Oscar ballots were mailed to 5,783 Academy Members on Wednesday morning, in an odd but endearing ritual that may never again take place at the Academy. With online voting scheduled to begin in time for the 85th Academy Awards next year, the ceremonial ballot-mailing may well be replaced by [...]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) ? Film director Brett Ratner is out of a high-profile job as Oscar producer, submitting his resignation to Academy Award organizers on Tuesday in the face of an industry firestorm over his use of a gay slur. During a question-and-answer session at a screening of his new comedy “Tower Heist” last week, [...]