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 | Culture Global culture, including music, art, film, music, the producers and the consumers, this is our entertainment section. | |
| | | | | Tom Jones knighted by The Ovi Team Tom Jones can apparently count among his many fans one Elizabeth Windsor of London, England-known professionally as Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland... | | | Mario Vargas Llosa by The Ovi Team March 28th 1928; Peruvian novelist and unsuccessful presidential candidate Mario Vargas Llosa is born. Llosa, who built his fame as a writer on works ranging from novels to plays to critical essays... | | | Marlon Brando declines Oscar by The Ovi Team March 27th, on this day in 1973, the actor Marlon Brando declines the Academy Award for Best Actor for his career-reviving performance in The Godfather. The Native American actress Sacheen Littlefeather... | |
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| | The bittersweet reunion of the Motown family by The Ovi Team March 25th 1983; technically, the 25th anniversary of Motown Records should have been celebrated nine months later, in January 1984, but that was only one of several details glossed over in staging the landmark... | | | Elizabeth Taylor by The Ovi Team March 23rd; on this day in 2011, actress Elizabeth Taylor, who appeared in more than 50 films, won two Academy Awards and was synonymous with Hollywood glamour, dies of complications from congestive heart failure... | | | Moondog Coronation Ball by The Ovi Team Breathless promotion on the local radio station. Tickets selling out in a single day. Thousands of teenagers, hours before show time, lining up outside the biggest venue in town. | | | International Day of the Francophone by The Ovi Team March 20th; half a billion Francophones around the world will celebrate International Day of Francophonie on 20 March. This event began in 1998 as a way for the then 49 members of La Francophonie to celebrate... | | | American Beauty by The Ovi Team March 20th, on this day in 2000, Billy Crystal hosts the 72nd annual Academy Awards ceremony at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles with the film American Beauty toping the Oscars. | | | This Side of Paradise by The Ovi Team March 20th 1920; "This Side of Paradise" is published, immediately launching 23-year-old F. Scott Fitzgerald to fame and fortune. | | | John Updike by The Ovi Team March 18th; on this day in 1932, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike is born in the small town of Shillington, Pennsylvania. The only child of a math teacher father and aspiring writer mother... | | | | next | |
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