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The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore won best animated short last night at the Oscars. (You can see the winning film in the video above.) It was created at Moonbot Studios in Shreveport, La., by William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg. According to the AP, the studio held its own Oscar party last night, and that same article describes the film as follows:The 14-minute long film follows

Reminding President Barack Obama that we all know he can sing now, given his crooning of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" earlier this year, blues man Buddy Guy coaxed the president into singing a few bars of "Sweet Home Chicago" with an all-star band at the White House Tuesday night. Mick Jagger handed the president the mic while B.B. King and other blues greats provided accompaniment. You can

I was so glad to find out that someone had posted Bruno Mars's performance of "Runaway" from the 2012 Grammy Awards Show. I have watched this video at least a dozen times by now.

Via YouTube, "Whitney Houston's mentor Clive Davis pays tribute to the singer just hours after her death at his pre-Grammy party. Report by Mark Morris." You may also appreciate BlogHer's tribute to the star, and more tributes and news at CNN.

Jimmy Fallon usually makes me smile and laugh, and this video clip of him in a potato sack race with First Lady Michelle Obama worked the magic on me again. Of course, the First Lady makes me smile as well.You can read more about the race at the L.A. Times. And if you missed her push-up contest with Ellen DeGeneres, here it is as well. Ellen suggests that she let the FLOTUS win. Mrs. Obama's

President Barack Obama more than likely ticked off people on both the right and the left with his recent argument that raising taxes on the rich lines up with Jesus' teaching that "to whom much is given much shall be required." On the right there will be those angry because they believe (and are wrong) that Obama is not a Christian and so he has no right to quote Jesus Christ. On the left there

The first video in this post shows a scene from a 1974 Soul Train episode in which Soul Train creator Don Cornelius interviews the Godfather of Soul James Brown, and the clip includes a young Al Sharpton presenting Brown with an award. I thought this clip would be appropriate upon hearing that Don Cornelius has passed away at age of 75. Soul Train did so much more for the black community than

As I said in an earlier post, I sometimes get stuck on Nessun Dorma and play it over and over. So, singer-songwriter John Torres shared his performance of the aria with me. Superb! He's singing in the home of Sela Ward, btw, pictured left.