South African Paralympic Oscar Pistorius appears to be back at the track for the first time since he was charged with murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day this year. Oscar Pistorius, 26, is pictured with his hands on his hips wearing his blades as he walks across a running track as his agent said his return to training was imminent. The double amputee Olympian is keen to…
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Oscar Pistorius, who is charged with murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, will be allowed to travel after winning the appeal against the terms of his bail. His lawyers argued that the South African Olympic and Paralympics champion should be allowed to return to his home and to travel. Oscar Pistorius, 26, also sought an end to supervision by a probation officer and compulsory drug and alcohol te…
Oscar De La Hoya admits cheating on his wife and drug abuse. Oscar De La Hoya became the subject of the photo scandal in 2007, when stripper Milana Dravnel, who claimed he had cheated on his wife with her, posted the embarrassing images on the internet. In a stunning revelation, Oscar De La Hoya, known as the “Golden Boy”, has admitted that the infamous photos of him dressed in a dr…
Oscar De La Hoya: “Yes, it was me in fishnet stockings pictures.” In an interview with Univision, Oscar De La Hoya, the former welterweight champion spoke about his marriage, drug and alcohol problems. Oscar De La Hoya, 38, said: “My drug of choice was cocaine and alcohol. Cocaine was recent. The last two years. And I depended more in the alcohol than the cocaine.” Oscar De La Hoya admits infi…
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A lawsuit has claimed that the retired boxer Oscar De La Hoya threw a depraved, cross-dressing, drug-driven orgy at New York’s Ritz Carlton Hotel. New York model Angelica Marie Cecora, 25, says Oscar De La Hoya cavorted around in women’s underwear and went crazy with cocaine and sex toys, intimidating her and her friend when they tried to leave. This is the second time Oscar De La Hoya has been a…
Marie Cecora and her lawyer to pay a $500 fine each, as well as refunding the defendant’s legal fees. Angelica Marie Cecora claimed that after dinner with the married ex-boxer Oscar De La Hoya, 38, on March 15 last year, the pair retired to his room in the Ritz-Carlton hotel overlooking Central Park. After consensual sex, Oscar De La Hoya put on Angelica Marie Cecora’s underwear and ordered…
Oscar Pistorius, who is accused of killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, may be “on the verge of suicide”, according to a close family friend. Oscar Pistorius, 26, was a “broken man” after rising legal costs forced him to sell his belongings, Mike Azzie said. Meanwhile, lawyers for the Paralympic champion have filed an appeal to ease his bail restrictions. Oscar Pistoriu…
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South African athlete Oscar Pistorius will not compete again this year as he awaits trial for murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius, 26, is on bail after being charged with the murder of 29-year-old Reeva Steenkamp but can compete before his court case is heard. His agent, Peet van Zyl, said the six-time Paralympic champion was not mentally ready to r…
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Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, who designed some of the 20th Century’s most famous modernist buildings, has died just before his 105th birthday. Oscar Niemeyer rose to international fame as the architect of the main government buildings in the futuristic Brazilian capital, Brasilia, inaugurated in 1960. He also worked with Swiss-born modernist architect Le Corbusier on the UN building…
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…orld Athletics Championships will be held in Moscow from August 10 to August 18. Oscar Pistorius might consider competing at this year’s World Athletics Championships in Moscow Oscar Pistorius, 26, nicknamed the Blade Runner because of his prosthetic legs, is accused of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, who was shot and killed at his home in Pretoria on February 14. The athlete deni…
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ous bounty hunter. Yet the smarter money is on co-star Leonardo DiCaprio, whose atypical portrayal of a sadistic slave-owner could finally give the three-time Oscar nominee a reason to leave his seat. 3. Life of Pi Were there an Oscar for best performance by a computer-generated 3D tiger, Ang Lee’s adaption of Yann Martel’s Booker prize-winner would be the runaway winner. As it is, Lif…
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Oscar icon, Billy Crystal is replacing Eddie Murphy as 2012 Academy Awards host. Billy Crystal, 63, just announced via Twitter that he will be taking the helm at Oscar’s ceremony, just 24 hours after after Eddie Murphy dropped out of hosting duties. “Am doing the Oscars so the young woman in the pharmacy will stop asking my name when I pick up my prescriptions,” Billy Crystal tw…
Hugo, the 3D epic adventure film directed by Martin Scorsese, leads the charge at 2012 Academy Awards with 11 nominations, including best film and director. The second in line come The Artist, the French comedy which is up for 10 awards, including best film, director, actor and supporting actress. Meryl Streep receives her 17th Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher, while George…
Lawyers for Oscar Pistorius, who is charged with murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, are due to challenge his bail conditions at a court hearing. They will argue that the South African Olympic and Paralympics star should be allowed to return to his home, and to travel. Oscar Pistorius, 26, also wants an end to supervision by a probation officer and compulsory drug and alcohol testing. The athle…
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animation Wreck-It Ralph and Denzel Washington drama Flight rounded out the top five. US box office top five: 1. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 $141.3 million 2. Skyfall $41.5 million 3. Lincoln $21 million 4. Wreck-It Ralph $18.3 million 5. Flight $8.6 million…
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South African athlete Oscar Pistorius made history at London Games 2012 by becoming the first amputee sprinter to compete at the Olympics. Oscar, Pistorius, a four-time Paralympic champion, 25, whose legs were amputated below the knee as a baby, finished second in his 400 m heat in a time of 45.44 seconds to reach Sunday’s semi-final. “I didn’t know if I should cry or be happy….
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…t in Paris but was not there to collect the award. The first two awards of the night went to Hugo for cinematography and art direction. Robert Richardson was cinematographer on Martin Scorsese’s 3D film and Francesca Lo Schiavo was art director. And later, the film about an orphan who lives in a train station picked up a further three Oscars, all in technical categories. Best sound editing w…
The silent black and white French film The Artist is the clear favorite to take the coveted best picture prize as the final countdown to the 2012 Oscars has begun. The Artist has won most of the major pre-Oscar honors during awards season. The film has 10 nominations in total, while Martin Scorsese’s 3D family film Hugo leads the race with 11, including best film and director. The 84th Acad…
The deadline for voting for 2013 Oscar nominations has been extended after some people experienced problems with a new online voting system. Some of the academy’s 6,000 members had reported trouble logging into the voting website, while others said they found it confusing. Organizers said the deadline would be extended by 24 hours to January 4. It is the first time voting has been allowed o…
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A-list Oscar nominees get thousands of dollars in gifts from companies hoping to associate their products with their celebrity, while D-listers get bags of swag valued in the hundreds of dollars. “It’s something they anticipate from year to year,” said Lisa Gal of Hollywood Baskets, who puts together a high-end gift bag that goes to 30 Oscar nominees and presenters who stay at t…
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Novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, whose scripts for Howards End and A Room With A View earned her two Oscars, has died at home in New York at the age of 85. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala made more than 20 films with producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory over 40 years. The writer also won the Booker Prize for her 1975 novel Heat and Dust, meaning she was the only person to have won an Oscar and th…
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…Basile, and other relatives and close friends by her side, said Amy Phillips, a great-niece of Celeste Holm’s who answered the phone at Holm’s apartment on Sunday. Celeste Holm died around 3.30 a.m. at her longtime apartment on Central Park West, Amy Phillips said. “I think she wanted to be here, in her home, among her things, with people who loved her,” she said. Oscar-winning actres…
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The nominations for 2013 Academy Awards will be revealed two weeks earlier than this year’s were. The next year nominees will be unveiled on 10 January – five days earlier than normal and three days ahead of the Golden Globes. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) said it would “provide members and the public a longer period of time to see the nominated films&#…
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…ill took a savage beating, persuaded him to scale back his ultra-aggressive style in favor of a more cerebral, defensive approach. The change in style was a big reason that Hector Camacho, at the time 38-0, lost a close split decision to Greg Haugen at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas in 1991. Hector Camacho won the rematch to set up his signature fight against Chavez, this time at the Thomas &a…
ng late at night, when it was “pitch black outside”. Justin Martin returned on New Year’s Eve, this time in the middle of the day and armed with a hunting knife and an accomplice – a man identified as 29-year-old Dustin Stewart. Sarah McKinley told KOCO News that the men started knocking aggressively on her door, Justin Martin in front and Dustin Stewart in the back. The young mother described to…
