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Oscars: Will Smith smacks Chris Rock; ‘CODA’ wins best picture

A 94th Academy Awards that steadily maintained a buoyant spirit was rocked by an unbelievable exchange after Will Smith took offense to a joke made by Chris Rock about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.

 
20 years later, some still think ‘Blair Witch Project’ real

The movie features actors Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams and Joshua Leonard playing student filmmakers who venture into the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, in search of the fabled Blair Witch, which supposedly haunted the small town for centuries.

 
‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre,’ ‘Poltergeist’ director Hooper dead at 74

Tobe Hooper, the horror director best known for helming “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” and “Poltergeist,” died Saturday in Sherman Oaks, Calif., according to the Los Angeles County Coroner. He was 74. The circumstances of his death were not known.

 
Acclaimed British actor John Hurt dies at 77

John Hurt, the wiry English actor who played a drug addict in “Midnight Express,” Kane in “Alien,” the title character in “The Elephant Man,” and Winston Smith in “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” has died, according to multiple media reports. He was 77.

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