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Extra, Extra: A Reporter Went Undercover At A USC Frat Party
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- Motion Picture Academy members will be casting their ballots for this year's Academy Award nominations this week, and there's a chance those filmmakers and actors nominated will be as white as ever despite last year's backlash against the lack of diversity, reports the L.A. Times. "You definitely want the people who decide these things to reflect society,"said the director of Creed Ryan Coogler. "There's empowerment in representation. It means so much when you see somebody who's like you up there on that stage."
- Writer Natasha Vargas-Cooper attended a USC frat party undercover, and wrote about the experience over at Broadly.
- Surprise, surprise: Star Wars: The Force Awakens topped the box office again this weekend, and is now the second-highest grossing film of all time with $740.3 million in its19 days of release. The title that holds the top honor is Avatar, which was not a good movie.
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- Despite the absence of star Blake Griffin, the Los Angeles Clippers are hot: they've won six games in a row, their longest streak of the season. Look out, Warriors.
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