M Is FOR MASHUP - January 31st, 2014
Best Of Mashups 2013 Roundup!
By DJ Useo
One of my favorite things about the new year rolling around is the many best of the previous year collections that appear. Allow me now to present you some of the best! I admit these all suit my tastes, but I've played them all a lot already, and I'm confident you'll find them highly pleasing. ( And they don't cost a cent! )
01-"BEST OF BOOTIE 2013" as compiled by A PLUS D is available in three different versions, a-Unmixed version-full individual tracks, b-Continuous Mix Version, and c-Continuous Mix Version, Divided into 22 tracks. Now a that's class act! But wait, it doesn't end there! You also get, for FREE, a 10-track bonus disc. Imagine being at a fantastic live club mashup concert with the best blends available. That's this collection! The selection of tracks and producers is totally satisfying.
( bootiemashup.com/bestofbootie2013/ )
02-"BEST OF BOOTIE RIO 2013" is just what you think! An affiliated offshoot of the BOOTIE franchise, but located in marvelous RIO! The collection is 21 "melhores mashups do ano produzidos por brasileiros". As per the USA version, it contains superb mixes from many of the top bootleggers south of the border. There's also a 2nd disc with wonderful producers gringos who reprocess Brazilian music. If you need a break from the full-on Brazilian style of disc one, you may find yourself easily enjoying the gringo disc 2. Me, I was into both! They come in mixed, unmixed, and mixed single tracks, too. The tracks will have you seeking out more by the contributors. These guys rule!
( bootierio.wordpress.com/2013/12/12/best-of-bootie-rio-2013/ )
03-DJ Morgoth over at MASH UP YOUR BOOTZ
( mashupyourbootz.blogspot.com ) brings his personal selections known as "Mash-Up Your Bootz Party Best of 2013". This collection is fantastic. These 35 tracks are all mashups guaranteed to compel you to dance. The selection of producers represented is so refined, and satisfying. The quality never dips. Once more, the release also is available as a long mix version. A really fantastic long mix version, too. Prepare for delight.
( mashupyourbootz.blogspot.com/2013/12/mash-up-your-bootz-party-best-of-2013.html )
04-DRA'man "Best of 2013" comes to you as single tracks to stream, or download. Believe me, they are all finest kind mixes that you'll enjoy for many years. ( "Hey, Marty, check out this mashup! It's from 2013!" ) DRA'man can mix from any source with always consistant results. Have a gander at the pairings he's mixed with this 30-track assortment! It rarely gets better than this.
( soundcloud.com/draman/sets/draman-best-of-2013 )
05-"Michmash - Best of 2013" is a 30-track selection that never dips in quality. There's plenty of genre clash that sounds like it started that way. Have a look at the artists mashed, and you'll soon be playing them loud and proud! I always try to keep up with Michmash, yet there were some here I missed, and I wouldn't want to. Been playing this album lots. You will, too. You can
stream, download individual tracks or click "Tout télécharger" for the full zip file.
( www.archive-host.com/playlist/list.php?id=zf4v2l0ky1ve&v=ht2&s=1 )
I prob'ly missed more best ofs, but lem'me assure you, the stuff mentioned above deserves all the praise I heaped on it.
Have fun now!
Mix Of The Week
Chocomang's "Selection 2013" is one incredible long track that provides a superb overview of many of his best tracks from last year. It's unbeatable when it comes to appeal, yet there's plenty of variety, even within each track. Take a view of the 16 cuts included, and
grab or stream the entire track here
( hearthis.at/chocomang/chocomang-selection-2013/ )
Look for the single tracks here
( chocomang.org/ )
Mashup Tip
Mix live with 2 turntables and a microphone. It's great practice, and tons of fun.
Useo's Latest Thing
'Feel Me Millionaire' ( ABC vs Blancmange ) . Enjoy this R 'n' B Pop song over technopop. Very old music from the early 1980s. lol.
Stream or
d/l from these links
( www.hulkshare.com/6euq5hpoi45c )
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2014/01/abc-vs-blancmange.html )
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
Everytime a mashup producer makes a track with Ted Nugent, they will change their mind after, and throw it away.
Recommended Reading
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Andrew Tobias: Everyone's A Speechwriter
Who among us has not imagined a speech the President should give? And do you know what? Some of them are pretty good! Not entirely realistic in every respect, perhaps - just a tad confrontational, perhaps - but certainly fun to contemplate. Here are three:.…
A.C. Grimes: 5 Organizations That Gamed the System and Screwed the Public (Cracked)
#5. Goldman Sachs Takes America for a Ride on the Aluminum "Merry-Go-Round"
Phil Hoard: How we made the video game Doom (Guardian)
The creators of the legendary 90s first-person shooter reveal how they were inspired by Tom Cruise - and a Swiss surrealist.
Lily Hay Newman: "The Simpsons Knows How to Hit Google Glass Where It Hurts" (Slate)
It seems like a signal that the writers on The Simpsons are hopeful about society's abilty to productively integrate devices like Google Glass. If someone as stupid as Homer can ultimately come down on the side of privacy, maybe anyone would.
Aisha Harris: Why Is Peter Pan Usually Played by a Woman? (Slate)
Initially, the interests of a producer, the logistics of casting, and even English law may have played a part.
Man uses first-class ticket to get free meals for almost a year (The Star)
A MAN bought a first-class ticket and used it to have free meals and drinks at the airport's VIP lounge almost every day for nearly a year, Kwong Wah Yit Poh reported. The itinerary for the ticket was found to have been changed more than 300 times within a year, and the owner of the ticket used it to enjoy the facilities at the airport's VIP lounge in Xi'an in Shaanxi, China.
Beware Of Giant Pigeons When You Leave The Car Wash (YouTube)
"French prankster Remi Gaillard recently released video footage of his latest prank- a crappy stunt that involves dressing like a giant pigeon and ruining some guy's day outside a car wash. It's part of a feature length movie full of pranks loosely translated as "Remi Gaillard Does WTF" which comes out on March 5th in France, and tentatively on June 3rd in the U.S." - Neatorama)
Vincze Miklós: Screencaps from Classic Movies That Make Great Desktop Wallpapers (io9)
You don't need the green hills of Windows on your desktop, and frankly we're sick of that one wallpaper you downloaded like three months ago. Gaze at one of these images on your desktop, and contemplate the weirdness and wonder of tomorrow.
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12 New Inductees
Musicians Hall of Fame
The Musicians Hall of Fame inducted 12 new members across the genres, including bluesman Buddy Guy, British rock guitarist Peter Frampton and country singer Barbara Mandrell.
Also inducted during Tuesday's ceremony in Nashville were Randy Bachman from The Guess Who and Bachman Turner Overdrive, country musician Jimmy Capps, bass guitarist Will Lee, rhythm guitarist Corki Casey O'Dell and country guitarist Velma Smith. Posthumous inductions went to Stevie Ray Vaughan, along with his band Double Trouble, and pedal steel guitarist Ben Keith.
The Musicians Hall of Fame also gave their first Iconic Riff Award posthumously to Roy Orbison for his guitar work on "Pretty Woman," and their first Industry Icon Award to Mike Curb, the founder of Curb Records. Performers for the awards show included Neil Young, Duane Eddy, Brenda Lee, The Oak Ridge Boys and Chris Isaak. This was the first induction since the Musicians Hall of Fame moved to its new permanent museum location inside Nashville's Municipal Auditorium.
"A lot of the people like myself and other fellow inductees are in here, without a name on the marquee, that actually made the sounds that you hear when you hear some of your favorite things that you find yourself humming from day to day," said Lee, who is best known for performing in the CBS Orchestra on the "Late Show With David Letterman."
Musicians Hall of Fame
Drop-Kicked To Monday
Emmy Awards
This year's Emmy Awards ceremony will air on a weeknight instead of its traditional Sunday slot.
NBC and the TV academy say the ceremony honouring prime-time TV's best is set for Monday, Aug. 25. A host has not yet been announced.
The network said Tuesday that a potential conflict with NBC's "Sunday Night Football" led to the switch. The Emmy ceremony rotates annually among the major networks and is required to air the week after the creative arts Emmy ceremony.
The creative arts awards, which honour technical and other achievements, were already set for Aug. 16.
Emmy Awards
Kenyan Writer
Binyavanga Wainaina
With hair dyed red and blue and shaved into a mohican, leading Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina is no stranger to making a powerful statement.
But his public announcement earlier this month that he is gay is perhaps his strongest yet, sparking huge debate and posing an open challenge to draconian anti-homosexual legislation on the continent.
"So as far as the emotional side was concerned, I did that a long time ago, this is more a political act," Wainaina told AFP in an interview at his home on the leafy outskirts of Nairobi.
The timing of his announcement, in a short story published online and entitled "I am a Homosexual, Mum", was prompted in part by the passing of a controversial anti-gay law in Nigeria, a country he admires and considers his second home, the influential literary figure said.
Wainaina, who won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2002 and is a founder of the Nairobi-based literary network Kwani, attributes homophobic attitudes in Africa to the influence of the Pentecostal churches, imported from the south of the United States.
Binyavanga Wainaina
NBC Pulling The Plug
'Sean Saves the World'
NBC has decided not to go forward with Sean Hayes rookie comedy "Sean Saves the World," which has stopped production and effectively been cancelled.
The show, which stars Hayes as a divorced gay father of a 14-year-old girl, has struggled in the ratings from the outset. In its most recent airing, last Thursday, "Sean Saves the World" pulled a 0.7 rating/2 share in adults 18-49 and 2.58 million viewers overall, according to Nielsen.
This the second first-year NBC Thursday half-hour to be cancelled this season, following "Welcome to the Family," which aired just three times on the night in the fall.
The third new comedy NBC bowed on Thursday in the fall, "The Michael J. Fox Show," has similarly struggled but may stick around a while longer because it had received a 22-episode order. It's unclear if it, or the un-aired episodes of "Sean Saves the World," will air in Thursday's 9 o'clock-hour post-Olympics.
'Sean Saves the World'
Hacking Trial Continues
Rupert
A tabloid reporter who has pleaded guilty to phone hacking said Tuesday that he played the News of the World's editor a hacked voicemail left for actor Daniel Craig by actress Sienna Miller, with whom he was having an affair.
Dan Evans is a prosecution witness at the trial of his former boss, Andy Coulson, and six others, on charges related to wrongdoing at the now-shuttered Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid.
Evans told the trial that in 2005 he eavesdropped on Craig's voicemails and heard a message from a woman saying: "Hi, it's me. Cannot speak. I'm at the Groucho (Club) with Jude. I love you."
The call came from Miller's number. The newspaper later ran a story alleging an affair between the actress - then involved with Jude Law - and future 007 Craig.
Evans said Coulson heard the recording, then told him how to cover his tracks by making a copy, putting it in a bag and taking it to the newspaper's reception so it would look like it had been dropped off anonymously.
Rupert
Nun With Gumption
Sister Megan Rice
An 83-year-old Catholic nun convicted in a protest and break-in at the primary U.S. storehouse for bomb-grade uranium will find out Tuesday whether she spends what could be the rest of her life in prison.
Sister Megan Rice is one of three Catholic peace activists convicted of sabotage last year after they broke into the nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge, Tenn. Sentencing for all three is scheduled for 9 a.m. Tuesday at U.S. District Court in Knoxville.
The government has recommended sentences of about six to nine years each for Rice, Michael Walli and Greg Boertje-Obed. It also is seeking restitution of nearly $53,000 for damage incurred when the three cut through fences and painted slogans on the outside wall of the uranium processing plant. The protesters also splattered blood and hammered on the wall.
The activists are asking for leniency. They say their actions at the Y-12 National Security Complex were symbolic and meant to draw attention to America's stockpile of nuclear weapons, which they call immoral and illegal.
However, U.S. District Judge Amul Thapar has refused previous requests for leniency from the defendants, including his decision that they would remain jailed until sentencing. In a ruling last October denying requests for acquittal and a new trial, Thapar wrote, "The defendants are entitled to their views regarding the morality of nuclear weapons. But the defendants' sincerely held moral beliefs are not a get-out-of-jail-free card that they can deploy to escape criminal liability."
Sister Megan Rice
Don't Mess With 'The Rock Star Of Meteorologists'
Jim Cantore
The Weather Channel's Jim Cantore is prominent in the weather news business. He's even referred to as "the rock star of meteorologists" in some circles.
So, it makes sense that a rebellious teen might seek some momentary notoriety by interrupting Cantore during an on-air weather report.
But in this case, Cantore took the teen's momentum right away from him, displaying some lightning-quick reflexes and deploying a knee-to-the-groin maneuver.
You'd think the teen would have known better than to mess with the man who did pushups on air right in the middle of Hurricane Isaac's 80 mph winds.
Jim Cantore
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New Domain Names
Ever thought it would be cool to have something other than ".com" at the end of your website URL? If you find .ca and .net just a tad blasé too, you're in luck: On Feb. 4, the largest number of generic top-level domain names (gTLDs, or the suffix to any URL) will come into existence, opening up a whole new world of possible kooky domain names.
About 1,000 new gTLDs will start to go live Feb. 4, Quartz reports, and anyone can buy a domain name with the gTLD of his or her choosing. In 2012, companies applied for gTLDs they wished to own, and those that were approved will be going live next month. Companies like Google and Amazon applied for lots of them, 101 and 76 respectively, but not as much as a firm set up specifically to buy domain names, called Donuts, who applied for 307 altogether. In total, 1,930 applications were received by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), and 751 of the names are contested, meaning more than one company applied for ownership. All of the non-trademarked gTLDs will go up for auction.
So what kind of names will you be able to buy? Now, you can have your website URL end in .pizza, .yoga, .wtf or .sucks, just to name a few. You can read the full list of gTLDs that have been applied for here. This new flood of gTLDs also includes the first in non-Latin alphabets. For the first time, you can buy gTLDs that use Arabic, Russian or Chinese characters.
If you do opt to buy a domain with a new gTLD, it may not come cheap, depending on what you're looking for. Quartz reports that pre-registration for domains on GoDaddy are already open, and show that while .guru is a relative bargain at $39.99 per year, .luxury will start at $799.99 per year.
New Domain Names
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Steve Stockman
U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman, whose whereabouts were unknown much of the last month, resurfaced Monday, saying he was on a 10-day official visit to Egypt, Israel and Russia and bristling at the notion he was ever missing.
The suburban Houston Republican and fierce conservative is challenging U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Flaccid), the powerful minority whip, in Texas' GOP primary on March 4. But he has made almost no campaign appearances in his home state and has stopped showing up for his day job - missing 17 straight votes in the House since Jan. 9, including one on the $1.1 trillion omnibus federal spending package he promised on Twitter to vote against.
In a statement released from Houston, Stockman provided excuses for at least some of those absences, saying he was part of an international delegation as a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Confirming Stockman's presence was the delegation's leader, U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Taliban). Ken Grubbs, a spokesman for the California Republican, said Monday that "Stockman was on the trip and participated actively throughout."
With his campaign and congressional staff repeatedly refusing to answer questions, Stockman's whereabouts became the source of increasing media scrutiny last week. The Associated Press and other news outlets reported that Stockman had been on an official, two-day visit to Egypt through Jan. 19 - but that where he was before or since wasn't clear.
Steve Stockman
Scratch It In The Mirror
Got An Itch?
Got an itch that just won't go away?
Fascinating new research reveals that the most effective way to get rid of an itch is to watch yourself scratch it in the mirror.
German researchers from the University of Lübeck have discovered that looking in the mirror while you scratch what you think is your itchy spot tricks your brain into believing the itch is gone -- even when you scratch the wrong place.
The study, published in the journal PLOS One, examined 26 male volunteers whose right forearm was injected with an itch-inducing chemical called histamine.
Got An Itch?
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Jan. 20-26. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. Grammy Awards, CBS, 28.51 million.
2. "60 Minutes," CBS, 14.31 million.
3. "NCIS," CBS, 14.2 million.
4. "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 13.29 million.
5. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 12.94 million.
6. "American Idol" (Thursday), Fox, 12.39 million.
7. NFL Pro Bowl, NBC, 11.38 million.
8. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 10.42 million.
9. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 10.35 million.
10. "The Big Bang Theory" (Thursday, 9 p.m.), CBS, 9.881 million.
11. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 9.88 million.
12. "Modern Family," ABC, 9.59 million.
13. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 9.47 million.
14. "2 Broke Girls," CBS, 9.03 million.
15. "Castle," ABC, 8.96 million.
16. "Mike & Molly, CBS, 8.92 million.
17. "The Millers," CBS, 8.86 million.
18. "The Black List," NBC, 8.83 million.
19. "How I Met Your Mother," CBS, 8.827 million.
20. "20/20" (Friday), ABC, 8.29 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Pete Seeger
Buoyed by his characteristically soaring spirit, the surging crowd around him and a pair of canes, Pete Seeger walked through the streets of Manhattan leading an Occupy Movement protest in 2011.
Though he would later admit the attention embarrassed him, the moment brought back so many feelings and memories as he instructed yet another generation of young people how to effect change through song and determination - as he had done over the last seven decades as a history-sifting singer and ever-so-gentle rabble-rouser.
The banjo-picking troubadour who sang for migrant workers, college students and star-struck presidents in a career that introduced generations of Americans to their folk music heritage died Monday at the age of 94. Seeger's grandson, Kitama Cahill-Jackson, said his grandfather died peacefully in his sleep around 9:30 p.m. at New York Presbyterian Hospital, where he had been for six days. Family members were with him.
With his lanky frame, use-worn banjo and full white beard, Seeger was an iconic figure in folk music who outlived his peers. He performed with the great minstrel Woody Guthrie in his younger days and wrote or co-wrote "If I Had a Hammer," ''Turn, Turn, Turn," ''Where Have All the Flowers Gone" and "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine." He lent his voice against Hitler and nuclear power. A cheerful warrior, he typically delivered his broadsides with an affable air and his fingers poised over the strings of his banjo.
In 2011, the canes kept Seeger from carrying his beloved instrument while he walked nearly 2 miles with hundreds of protesters swirling around him holding signs and guitars. With a simple gesture - extending his friendship - Seeger gave the protesters and even their opponents a moment of brotherhood the short-lived movement sorely needed.
When a policeman approached, Tao Rodriguez-Seeger said at the time he feared his grandfather would be hassled.
"He reached out and shook my hand and said, 'Thank you, thank you, this is beautiful,'" Rodriguez-Seeger said. "That really did it for me. The cops recognized what we were about. They wanted to help our march. They actually wanted to protect our march because they saw something beautiful. It's very hard to be anti-something beautiful."
That was a message Seeger spread his entire life.
With The Weavers, a quartet organized in 1948, Seeger helped set the stage for a national folk revival. The group - Seeger, Lee Hays, Ronnie Gilbert and Fred Hellerman - churned out hit recordings of "Goodnight Irene," ''Tzena, Tzena" and "On Top of Old Smokey."
Seeger also was credited with popularizing "We Shall Overcome," which he printed in his publication "People's Song" in 1948. He later said his only contribution to the anthem of the civil rights movement was changing the second word from "will" to "shall," which he said "opens up the mouth better."
His musical career was always braided tightly with his political activism, in which he advocated for causes ranging from civil rights to the cleanup of his beloved Hudson River. Seeger said he left the Communist Party around 1950 and later renounced it. But the association dogged him for years.
He was kept off commercial television for more than a decade after tangling with the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1955. Repeatedly pressed by the committee to reveal whether he had sung for Communists, Seeger responded sharply: "I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent this implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, or I might be a vegetarian, make me any less of an American."
He was charged with contempt of Congress, but the sentence was overturned on appeal.
Seeger called the 1950s, years when he was denied broadcast exposure, the high point of his career. He was on the road touring college campuses, spreading the music he, Guthrie, Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter and others had created or preserved.
"The most important job I did was go from college to college to college to college, one after the other, usually small ones," he told The Associated Press in 2006. " ... And I showed the kids there's a lot of great music in this country they never played on the radio."
His scheduled return to commercial network television on the highly rated Smothers Brothers variety show in 1967 was hailed as a nail in the coffin of the blacklist. But CBS cut out his Vietnam protest song, "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy," and Seeger accused the network of censorship.
He finally got to sing it five months later in a stirring return appearance, although one station, in Detroit, cut the song's last stanza: "Now every time I read the papers/That old feelin' comes on/We're waist deep in the Big Muddy/And the big fool says to push on."
He appeared in the movies "To Hear My Banjo Play" in 1946 and "Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon" in 1970. A reunion concert of the original Weavers in 1980 was filmed as a documentary titled "Wasn't That a Time."
Seeger was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 as an early influence. Ten years later, Bruce Springsteen honored him with "We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions," a rollicking reinterpretation of songs sung by Seeger. While pleased with the album, Seeger said he wished it was "more serious." A 2009 concert at Madison Square Garden to mark Seeger's 90th birthday featured Springsteen, Dave Matthews, Eddie Vedder and Emmylou Harris among the performers.
Seeger was born in New York City on May 3, 1919, into an artistic family whose roots traced to religious dissenters of colonial America. His mother, Constance, played violin and taught; his father, Charles, a musicologist, was a consultant to the Resettlement Administration, which gave artists work during the Depression. His uncle Alan Seeger, the poet, wrote "I Have a Rendezvous With Death."
Pete Seeger said he fell in love with folk music when he was 16, at a music festival in North Carolina in 1935. His half-brother, Mike Seeger, and half-sister, Peggy Seeger, also became noted performers.
He learned the five-string banjo, an instrument he rescued from obscurity and played the rest of his life in a long-necked version of his own design. On the skin of Seeger's banjo was the phrase, "This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender" - a nod to his old pal Guthrie, who emblazoned his guitar with "This machine kills fascists."
In 1940, with Guthrie and others, he was part of the Almanac Singers and performed benefits for disaster relief and other causes.
He and Guthrie also toured migrant camps and union halls. He sang on overseas radio broadcasts for the Office of War Information early in World War II. In the Army, he spent 3˝ years in Special Services, entertaining soldiers in the South Pacific, and made corporal.
He married Toshi Seeger on July 20, 1943. The couple built their cabin in Beacon after World War II and stayed on the high spot of land by the Hudson River for the rest of their lives together. The couple raised three children. Toshi Seeger died in July at age 91.
The Hudson River was a particular concern of Seeger's. He took the sloop Clearwater, built by volunteers in 1969, up and down the Hudson, singing to raise money to clean the water and fight polluters.
He also offered his voice in opposition to racism and the death penalty. He got himself jailed for five days for blocking traffic in Albany in 1988 in support of Tawana Brawley, a black teenager whose claim of having been raped by white men was later discredited. He continued to take part in peace protests during the war in Iraq, and he continued to lend his name to causes.
Pete Seeger
In Memory
Tom Sherak
Former Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Tom Sherak has died after a 12-year battle with prostate cancer. He was 68.
Sherak received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame just hours before his death but he was too ill to attend.
Sherak, who served as the head of the academy from 2009-2012, spent 17 years at 20th Century Fox, where he became the domestic film group chairman. He also was an executive at Revolution Studios and Paramount Pictures.
Last fall, Sherak was appointed Los Angeles film czar to help bring runaway production back to the city. He was also responsible for completing a deal for the academy's new film museum with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The museum is tentatively set to open in 2017.
A champion of change, Sherak expanded the number of best picture Oscar nominees from five to 10 and was instrumental in bringing in younger academy members and making the group more diverse.
Tom Sherak
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