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Oscar art directors reveal tricks of the trade - Yahoo! News

LOS ANGELES – The films up for this year's best art direction Oscar range from epics such as "Inception" to intimate tales like "The King's Speech," but they share at least one thing in common: Each used movie magic to tell their stories.

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Oscars: A Night Fit for a 'King'

John Lasseter wins lifetime achievement award - Yahoo! News

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – John Lasseter's pair of Oscars have a new friend: a lifetime achievement trophy. The Pixar and Disney animation chief received the award Friday night for his dedication to the 40-minutes-or-less medium from Shorts International, an entertainment organization which promotes, distributes, broadcasts and produces short films.

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Franco and Hathaway: ready to host

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Stock index futures drop on Libya tensions - Yahoo! News

LONDON (Reuters) -At 5.08 a.m. futures for the S&P 500, Dow Jones and Nasdaq futures were down 0.9 to 1.6 percent as political tensions in Libya intensified. * In Libya, fighting was now spreading to the capital Tripoli after erupting in the country's oil-producing east last week.

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Music exec slams Grammys in full-page NY Times ad - Yahoo! News

NEW YORK (Billboard) – A veteran music executive has lambasted the Grammy Awards as "a series of hypocrisies and contradictions," in a full-page New York Times advertisement that ran a week after last Sunday's annual ceremony.

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In Md., felt boots blamed for invasive 'rock snot' - Yahoo! News

MONKTON, Md. – As an algae with a gross nickname invades pristine trout streams across the U.S., Maryland is about to become the first state to enforce a ban on a type of footgear the organism uses to hitchhike from stream to stream: felt-soled fishing boots.

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Irish deposit sales cause ECB borrowing spike: source - Yahoo! News

DUBLIN (Reuters) – Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide Building Society were behind the spike in emergency borrowing from the European Central Bank as they seek a speedy sale of their deposit books, a source told Reuters on Saturday.

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Bahrain locked down after 5 protesters killed - Yahoo! News

MANAMA, Bahrain – Bahrain's leaders banned public gatherings and sent tanks into the streets Thursday, intensifying a crackdown that killed five anti-government protesters, wounded more than 200 and turned a hospital into a cauldron of anguish and rage against the monarchy.

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