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Based On Past History, Spencer Is Overwhelming Favorite

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The Oscars drop the curtain on award season for the film industry and you can get a good read on who is going to win the Academy over by the events that lead up to the biggest night in the business, which will be held this year at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood on February 26th.

Best Supporting Actress is one of the honors that will be up for grabs next Sunday and there is a strong list of nominees featuring Berenice Bejo in The Artist, Melissa McCarthy in Bridesmaids, Janet McTeer in Albert Nobbs and Jessica Chastain in The Help, but they’re all chasing Chastain’s castmate, Octavia Spencer.

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Spencer has been cast in a wide spectrum of films from Being John Malkovich to Big Momma’s Housebut it was her star turn as Minny Jackson in The Help that garnered the attention of the Academy as well as a host of others. Spencer has had a busy awards season, scooping up the honors at the BAFTAs, the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild awards, as well as being a part of ensemble-cast awards from the Hollywood Film Festival, Broadcast Films Critics Association and the Satellite Awards.

It would be a huge upset if Spencer were to walk away empty-handed at the Oscars after her outstanding wins at the rest of the major events, although Bejo has emerged as a possible dark horse and The Artist could be the darling of the show. Some entertainment experts are touting Chastain as a possible winner as well and if either of these women took home the Oscar, it wouldn’t be a massive upset as both played their roles incredibly well.

But the earlier award shows are usually a good harbinger of what the Academy is thinking, and Octavia Spencer is missing only an Oscar to cap an amazing season for her.

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Asshole son trying to evict 98-year-old mom from her house

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Mary Kantorowski, 98, is locked in a legal battle with her eldest son, Peter, 71, who wants to sell the house she’s lived in since 1953. “Mary has been living here happily paying all the expenses,” her court-appointed lawyer tells the Connecticut Post, “and now her son, Peter, comes along and is telling her, ‘Get the hell out,’ so he can sell it.”

In 1996, Mary gave a trust administered by Peter control of the house on the condition that she could live in it until she died. But after some legal maneuvering, Peter moved the house to another trust he controls in 2005, making him the owner. And in December Peter gave his mom an eviction notice, and soon after put the house—valued at $333,410—up for sale.

A probate court intervened, ruling that Peter had abused his mother’s power of attorney. Peter insists he’s only evicting Mary because he thinks she’d be better off in a nursing home “with people her own age.” But his younger brother is siding with his mom—and says Peter once told him their mother had lived too long.

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Lil Wayne got engaged… to pregnant girlfriend?

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’s Valentine’s Day was full of events.

The “Lollipop” singer reportedly proposed to his girlfriend, cocktail waitress Dhea, and he appears to have shared her answer via Twitter.

“She said yes!” the star cryptically tweeted on Wednesday.

Reps for the star are not commenting on the matter, but Media TakeOut  reports that Dhea is also expecting Wayne’s sixth child.

The 28-year-old emcee welcomed two sons in 2009; baby Neal with singer Nivea and Lennox with actress Lauren London. Another lover gave birth to Dwayne Carter III in 2008.

Last year, Wayne was reportedly proven to be the father of a child born after a one-night stand during the height of the “Go DJ” era.
He also has a daughter, Reginae, with his high school sweetheart, BET reality star Toya.

The couple ended their two year marriage in 2006.

Wayne is releasing a memoir in November based around journal entries he wrote while serving time at New York’s Rikers Island prison, he served eight months on gun possession charges in 2010.

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Man buys $123 safe on e-Bay, finds $26,000 inside

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When James Labrecque listed an old safe—to which he did not have the combination—on , the seller warned, “What you see is what you get, no returns, and no money back.”

A Tennessee man purchased it for $122.93, had a welder cut it open—and found $26,000 inside. The buyer shared the news with Labrecque via a positive review on the auction site, and Labrecque quickly attempted to convince the buyer to give him some of the cash, to no avail. In fact, WMC-TV reports, the buyer quoted Labrecque’s own eBay disclaimer right back to him when turning him down.

“I made a mistake, you know, that’s what it boils down to. And it cost me dearly,” says Labrecque, who adds that he shook the safe and didn’t think there was anything inside. “I feel like the stupidest idiot in the world. … I gave away a safe with $26,000 in it.” He also insists that if he were in the buyer’s place, he would have offered to split the cash 50/50 with the seller. “That’s a chunk of change, you know. That’s life-altering money.”

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Obama raised a cool $29.1 million last month

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President Obama is off to a good start in the fundraising department: He has raised a healthy $29.1 million for his campaign last month, bringing his total haul for this election to $250 million.

Some 98% of last month’s donations were of $250 or less, the campaign said. Nonpartisan analysts said donations of $200 or less made up 48% of Obama’s 2011 contributions, compared to 9% for Mitt Romney.

The president’s latest fundraising effort, a trip through California and Washington, was expected to bring in more than $8 million. Meanwhile, his approval numbers have been climbing amid glimmers of hope for the economy.

GOP rivals have been bogged down in their own contest, limiting their attacks on Obama, the AP notes. But it adds that he repeatedly tells supporters that the election is “not going to be easy because, first of all, I’m older and I’m grayer”—and it’s been “a tough three years” for Americans.

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Woman sues Petco after they cut dog’s ear, try to glue it back on

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Two Hawaii animal owners are suing a local location, claiming that groomers at the pet shop mutilated their dogs and, in one case, tried to cover up the hack job using glue, HawaiiNewsNow reports.

Last July, Gladys Kapuwai took her Pomeranian-Maltese mix to the Kaneohe Petco for routine grooming, but when the grandmother retrieved “Dodo,” she noticed that the puppy was missing a piece of her ear.

“[She] was dried, bloody, was dry blood, everything,” Kapuwai told the website. “I noticed that at home, so when I took her to the vet, the doctor had told me it looked like they tried to glue it back.”

In another case, Estelle Green, the wife of attorney Michael Green, who is prosecuting both cases, picked up her dog to find that the pup’s nails were cut too short and bleeding, according to the Star Advertiser.

“The dog was filthy and the tip of the dog’s tail was cut off,” Michael Green added.

“My dog, they offered another free grooming,” Green also told HawaiiNewsNow. “I guess they wanted to take off other body parts.”

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Man has heart attack at Heart Attack Grill

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The Heart Attack Grill is living up to it’s name: While munching into a monstrous, 8,000-calorie “triple bypass burger” at the famous restaurant’s Las Vegas shop Saturday night, a man had a heart attack.

The diner, in his 40′s, began sweating and shaking at his table before restaurant owner “Doctor” Jon Basso called 911, reports FOX 5 Vegas.

“I actually felt horrible for the gentleman because the tourists were taking photos of him as if it were some type of stunt,” says Basso. “Even with our own morbid sense of humor, we would never pull a stunt like that.” Basso says his no-holds-barred junk eatery has seen incidents before, but never a full-blown heart attack, even though patrons who are over 350 pounds eat for free.

The diner is reportedly recuperating.

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Teen students shocked after their Facebook pics show up in porn site

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Seventeen students from the Bay Path Technical Vocational Regional High School in Charlton, Ma., are shocked after finding out that their photos and personal information had been used on a porn website, the New England Cable News reports.

Although police documentation states that all the girls were fully clothed, the network reports the find is still “very unnerving” for the students.

According to the report, Dean of Students Mary Jane Rickson called in each of the girls to tell them what happened.

“This was probably one of the most uncomfortable conversations I’ve ever had to have,” Rickson told NECN. “Especially with telling some of the girls who didn’t know that they were on the actual website. They were very upset.”

WBZ-TV’s Christina Hager spoke to one of the victims, McKenna Daniels, who expressed her shock when she found out from a friend that her photo had been posted.

“The fact that someone could do that, I don’t understand why someone would do that to me,” the student told Hager.

Police told WCBV-TV that this case isn’t the only one in the region. Students, he said, should be wary of what they put online and practice security safeguards like changing passwords often and not accepting friend requests from people they don’t know.

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Bristol Palin in begging through Craiglist for people to come to her book signings

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A famous last name does not guarantee you fans, that’s the tough lesson has learned as she pleas for people to show up to her book signings.

Last week, in an ad posted on Craigslist, organizers offered free autographed copies of Palin’s recent book to the first 100 people who promised to attend a weekend signing in Washington, DC, the Post reports—noting that Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far got trashed by reviewers and failed to become popular after it was released last year.

The Post adds that even DC’s right-leaning Examiner called the Craigslist ad “an attempt to entice fans to attend the event.”

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Kobe and Vanessa Bryant might be getting back together?

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The ink is not dry in their divorce yet, but and Vanessa Bryant may be considering getting back together.

The former “Basketball Wife” dropped into the Laker’s Valentine’s Day game against the Atlanta Hawks and she and Kobe were caught playing a game of tonsil hockey in the tunnel on the way into the locker room.

TMZ tattles say Vanessa and Kobe are indeed discussing the possibility of getting back together.

Vanessa petitioned a court to end her prenup-less 10 year marriage to Kobe in December. She’ll reportedly receive all three of their Newport Beach estates as part of the settlement. Mrs. Bryant’s also slated to take close to half of Kobe’s $175 million fortune.

The divorce becomes final in June… Probably Kobe just realized is cheaper to keep her around.

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