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In the movie, Mr Fraser stars as the morbidly obese teacher.The 95th Academy Awards kickstarted on Monday at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. American actor Brendan Fraser, the 90s heartthrob who made a career comeback with his awards season run for ‘The Whale', won the Oscar for best actor. In the movie - directed by Darren Aronofsky and adapted by Samuel D Hunter from his own play - Mr Fraser stars as the morbidly obese teacher. He defeated a field of contenders including Elvis' Austin Butler and The Banshees of Inisherin's Colin Farrell.Taking to the stage, an emotional Mr Fraser said, “So this is what the multiverse looks like!” He paid tribute to the film's director, Darren Aronofsky and writer Samuel Hunter. “You laid your whale-sized hearts bare so we could see into your souls,” he said. Mr Fraser closed his speech by touching on his early years in the industry. “I started in this business 30 years ago,” he said. “Things didn't come easily to me but there was a facility I didn't appreciate at the time until it stopped,” he added.Now, celebrating his big win, internet users flooded Twitter with all kinds of reactions.“Brendan Fraser deserved it more

Updated on Mar 13, 2023 09:38 AM IST Jimmy Kimmel called RRR a 'Bollywood movie' at the Oscars. Here's how the internet has reacted. Watch Jimmy Kimmel called RRR a 'Bollywood movie' at the Oscars. Jimmy Kimmel, who hosted the 95th Academy Awards, has called RRR a 'Bollywood movie'. As Jimmy announced the first award category, he was seen driven away by the dancers who performed Naatu Naatu on stage. Jimmy said, "This year we are not gonna play you off stage instead we have a group of performers from the movie RRR who are going to dance you offstage." He later also called the SS Rajamouli directorial a 'Bollywood movie'. (Also Read | Oscars 2023 live updates) A video was shared on Twitter by a fan account. Reacting to Jimmy's comment, a person wrote, "Not even 15 minutes in and Jimmy Kimmel called RRR Bollywood ugh." Another Twitter user said, "Jimmy Kimmel saying RRR is a Bollywood film is my last straw cause how is someone so lousy god I cannot take this." "I don’t need to hear Jimmy Kimmel incorrectly call RRR a Bollywood movie," read a tweet. "Why are they stating as a Bollywood Film when #RRR

Steph Curry’s night from long range began with a wild miss as he drilled a ball boy with a heave from the tunnel in warmups, but he dialed in his shot and came through in the clutch for the Warriors as Golden State pulled out a 125-116 win over the Milwaukee Bucks at the Chase Center. The Bucks, who were without Giannis Antetokounmpo, overcame a 13-point deficit in the third quarter and held a late lead over the Warriors in the dying seconds of the game. Jrue Holiday hit a go-ahead 3-pointer with 32.1 seconds remaining, but Curry tied the game with a 3-pointer of his own with with 19.0 seconds remaining. Buy Warriors TicketsKlay Thompson and Curry dominated the overtime period, and Curry drilled another three to put the Warriors up seven with two minutes to play. The win snapped a three-game slide for the Warriors, which had put the team in danger of sliding down the Western Conference standings. Here’s what fans and analysts were saying about Saturday’s win: Steph Curry had 16 points with under two minutes left in regulation. Finished with 36 points. Scored 11 to in the final 1:51 to pull them into overtime and

For the first time in a decade, the Peoria area is home to a Class 3A Illinois High School Association boys basketball state champion.The Metamora Redbirds of the Mid-Illini Conference won the school's first title in the sport after a 46-42 victory over Chicago Simeon on Saturday night in Champaign.It was another dramatic finish for Metamora, which lost the title game last season when Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin won in double-overtime, 53-50.Redbirds Run: Every story from Metamora's run to the Class 3A basketball championshipNot this time. As the Redbirds celebrated a title, we took a spin around social media to see what everyone was saying about the victory.A look from aboveJournal Star reporter Adam Duvall took this video of the Redbirds storming the State Farm Center court after clinching its first title.Some love from the last champPeoria High was the area's last Class 3A champ, winning the title in 2012. The Lions also won consecutive titles in 2003 and '04 led by all-American guard Shaun Livingston, who went on to a long and successful career with three NBA titles with the Golden State Warriors.Livingston took to Twitter to offer congrats to Metamora, pointing out the "lifelong memories" they made.Spotting sportsmanshipTwitter user

SVB was shut down by regulators a day after its stock price plummeted by 60%.On Friday, US regulators announced the shutdown of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and seized all its assets. The move, which makes SVB the largest retail bank to fail since 2008, roiled global markets and stranded billions of dollars belonging to companies and investors. Amid this chaos, Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan suggested that Twitter should consider buying SVB and turning it into a digital bank. Interestingly, Twitter chief Elon Musk responded to his tweet, saying, "I'm open to the idea". I'm open to the idea— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 11, 2023Startup-focused lender SVB was shut down by regulators a day after its stock price plummeted by 60%. It all started after SVB on Thursday announced a stock offering and offloaded securities to raise much-needed cash as it struggled with falling deposits. In reaction, the firm's shares collapsed 60% in New York and trading was suspended before regulators announced they had closed the bank. The closure was issued by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, which also named the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as the receiver. Also Read | Withdrawals Of $42 Billion Attempted A Day Before US Bank's CollapseSVB's chief Greg

Bears D.J. Moore reacts to trade to Bears Bears Just days ahead of free agency, the Chicago Bears made a blockbuster trade. General manager Ryan Poles is sending the No. 1 overall pick to the Carolina Panthers for a bevvy of NFL draft picks and wide receiver D.J. Moore. Moore took to Twitter to offer his immediate reaction to the news. Short and to the point. Moore is still probably processing the move himself, and hopefully it wasn't one of those scenarios of a player finding out on Twitter. One of the missions this offseason was to give Justin Fields more weapons. It's part of the reason the Bears traded for Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Chase Claypool at the trade deadline. Fortunately injuries to both Fields and Claypool prevented the Bears from ever seeing the potential of that pairing. But now Moore joins Claypool and Darnell Mooney in the wide receiver group. Add in tight end Cole Kmet, who had a break out season in 2022, and Khalil Herbert and the offense is looking significantly better. There is the chance the Bears bring back David Montgomery or add another running back in free agency. But it all comes down to keeping Fields

FTC’s inquiry, including efforts to get Twitter’s exchanges with journalists, comes under fire at House subcommittee hearingWASHINGTON—New details about the Federal Trade Commission’s probe into Twitter Inc. point to the significant and potentially costly legal risks the company faces as Elon Musk tries to get the company on the road to long-term profitability.The FTC’s hundreds of written demands to the company in recent months, reported by The Wall Street Journal earlier this week, show it is investigating Mr. Musk’s personal role in high-profile decisions including massive layoffs, rapid changes to Twitter’s features and the sharing of internal company records with journalists.

Jim Jordan reloaded his 155mm Howitzer of Stupid on Thursday. The topic for the day was The Twitter Files, and the star witnesses du jour were journalists Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger, to whom the massive document dump was delivered by Someone Requesting Anonymity. Quite frankly, it was one of the saddest spectacles I ever have watched on C-SPAN, and that includes several state funerals.Here is a partial list of a few of the things I did not need to see:Rep. Thomas Massie, sitting in front of what appeared to be a seventh-grade science fair project that supported vaccine denialism.The eternally insufferable Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz bullyragging Taibbi on how much money he made, or Plaskett coyly trying to get him to give up his sources while denying that's what she was doing, thereby giving Jordan an opportunity to masquerade as John Peter Zenger. Jordan behaving like an ill-tempered substitute teacher with the mother of all hangovers. I appreciate that Jordan was born a colossal jerk and can't do anything about that, but nobody forced him to refine the character so thoroughly, either. Right from jump, Jordan made it clear this was his circus, and he wasn't going to take

Last Friday, March 3, Louisville suffered severe thunderstorms, flooding, and high winds, which caused widespread damage and outages. In Louisville alone, the severe weather left more than 70,000 homes and businesses without power. Outside of Louisville, LG&E/KU had more than 100,000 customers without power. In total, LG&E/KU was responsible for the restoration of power to nearly 200,000 customers. This created a problem that has persisted into this week. As of this writing, there are still more than 16,000 customers without power in the Louisville area. Local tweets about the storm ranged from the useful to the obvious and funny to the unintentionally funny. This slideshow spans that gamut. View these other slideshows: « View the previous slideshow again!

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