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  Pharrell Williams Adds Some Swing to the Academy Awards

  February 29, 2012 – As a teary-eyed Octavia Spencer exited the Hollywood and Highland Center stage, in her hand, the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as Minny, the feisty black maid from The Help, a sweeping, percussion-heavy, electro soul jam played the 84th Academy Awards to commercial. The camera flew over the crowd and landed on the house band, briefly treating viewers to Sheila E. …
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  The Oscars' Five Most Confusing Moments

  February 27, 2012 – The 84th Annual Academy Awards welcomed back Billy Crystal in what, in retrospect, was clearly an enormous white flag of surrender. You want relevance? You want box office giants? You want entertainment? Forget about it. This year, the Academy was going to party like it's 1928 and you kids with your iPads and your Michael Fassbenders can go to hell. …
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  Oscar Nom Jesse Eisenberg on His Fave Band: Ween!

  February 7, 2011 – If you call Jesse Eisenberg a Weenie, he'll have no choice but to agree with you. The 27-year-old actor, who recently nabbed an Oscar nod for his rapid-fire portrayal of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, told SPIN in 2009: "My favorite band is Ween. …
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