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• TheWrap's Oscar picks: "The Artist" will win, but should it? February 21, 2012
  LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "The Artist" will win six Oscars, "Hugo" will take home four, and "The Help" will land two of the four acting awards. And the film I picked to win it all back in early September, "The Descendants," will have to settle for a single win for its screenplay. With Oscar ballots due back at Pricew […]
• Oscar front-runner "The Artist" expanding theaters February 20, 2012
  LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - With less than a week until the Oscars, The Weinstein Company is planning to expand the box-office reach of Best Picture front-runner "The Artist." Erik Lomis, The Weinstein Company's head of distribution, told TheWrap that he intends to add at least 200 locations -- and maybe as many as 400 -- on Friday. "We […]
• Thieves loot Greek museum at Olympic birthplace February 18, 2012
  ATHENS (Reuters) - Armed thieves looted a museum on Friday in Greece's Olympia, birthplace of the Olympic Games, stealing bronze and pottery artefacts weeks after the country's National Gallery was also burgled. Culture Minister Pavlos Geroulanos offered to resign, but his departure from the cabinet was not expected to destabilize the government, w […]
• Museum robbed at Greece's Ancient Olympia February 17, 2012
  Two masked gunmen stormed into a small museum at the birthplace of the ancient Olympics in southern Greece on Friday, smashing display cases with hammers and making off with dozens of antiquities up to 3,200 years old, authorities said. […]
• Thieves loot Greek museum at Olympic birthplace February 17, 2012
  ATHENS (Reuters) - Armed thieves looted a museum on Friday in Greece's Olympia, birthplace of the Olympic Games, stealing bronze and pottery artefacts weeks after the country's National Gallery was also burgled. Culture Minister Pavlos Geroulanos offered to resign, but his departure from the cabinet was not expected to destabilize the government, w […]
• Greek authorities say major armed robbery carried out at Ancient Olympia Museum February 17, 2012
  Greek authorities say major armed robbery carried out at Ancient Olympia Museum. […]
• Loved 'The Artist'? See LA's old silent film spots February 16, 2012
  From around 1910 to the late 1920s, the silent film industry dominated Los Angeles. The movies were filmed everywhere, from Hollywood to bustling downtown to what was then a nearly barren valley area, on the other side of the Hollywood Hills. Without permits, unions or worries about sound, filmmakers could just grab a camera and shoot scenes on the spot, tra […]