ACADEMY NEWS

New Oscar voters excited to receive ballots

Academy mailed 5,810 official ballots on Friday; there are 105 new voters

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – The holidays may be winding down, but for Oscar fans, the season of celebration has just begun.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences mailed 5,810 official Oscar nominations ballots to voting members Friday, and perhaps no one was more excited — or more daunted — to cast votes than its 105 newest members.    (Click on ‘Continue Reading’ for more)

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HISTORY

Iconic image brought shame to family

By Thelma Gutierrez and Wayne Drash

CNN

MODESTO, California (Dec. 3) — The photograph became an icon of the Great Depression: a migrant mother with her children burying their faces in her shoulder. Katherine McIntosh was 4 years old when the photo was snapped. She said it brought shame — and determination — to her family.

“I wanted to make sure I never lived like that again,” says McIntosh, who turns 77 on Saturday. “We all worked hard and we all had good jobs and we all stayed with it. When we got a home, we stayed with it.”

McIntosh is the girl to the left of her mother when you look at the photograph. The picture is best known as “Migrant Mother,” a black-and-white photo taken in February or March 1936 by Dorothea Lange of Florence Owens Thompson, then 32, and her children.    (Click on ‘Continue Reading’ for more)

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