1. THE ACADEMY AWARDS Look smart at the office: Here’s a recap of the 2014 Academy Awards in 38 words: Beautiful people were beautifully dressed. Jennifer Lawrence fell – again. Ellen DeGeneres took a selfie that ricocheted around the Twitterverse. That crack-smoking mayor from Toronto even showed up. Also, some people in the entertainment industry won some awards. 2. CRISIS GRIPS UKRAINE […]
Two stories of America — one about its sometimes perverse capacity for reinvention, the other about the most tragic period in the country’s history — were among the leaders Thursday for the nominations for the 86th Academy Awards. “American Hustle,” a story about con artists based loosely on the late 1970s Abscam scandal, tied […]
