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Oscars 2025

The Oscars are never just about the movies

This year, off-screen tweets may end up swaying the Oscars race. But real-world events and people have been shaping the awards for decades.

Why do the Oscars get things wrong so often?

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Did you know 'Hook' was once a musical? Now you can hear the movie's long-lost songs

The movie Hook is now a family favorite, in spite of weak reviews when it came out in 1991. Originally intended as a musical, the film's demo songs are now available in a new recording. AJ Pics/Alamy hide caption

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Did you know 'Hook' was once a musical? Now you can hear the movie's long-lost songs

The movie Hook is now a family favorite, in spite of weak reviews when it came out in 1991. Originally intended as a musical, the film's demo songs are now available in a new recording.

Did you know 'Hook' was once a musical? Now you can hear the movie's long-lost songs

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Spielberg shared his own story in 'parts and parcels' — if you were paying attention

Gabriel LaBelle plays the young filmmaker Sammy — a lightly fictionalized version of Spielberg — in The Fabelmans. Merie Weismiller Wallace/Universal Pictures hide caption

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Spielberg shared his own story in 'parts and parcels' — if you were paying attention

Steven Spielberg says he's been hiding from his own story since he was 17. The Fabelmans is a lightly fictionalized version of his life, without raptors, sharks, or historical figures to hide behind.

Spielberg shared his own story in 'parts and parcels' — if you were paying attention

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Steven Spielberg was a fearful kid who found solace in storytelling

"I was a fearful kid, and my parents didn't quite know what to do with that," Steven Spielberg says. He's pictured above in New York City in March 2017. Mike Coppola/Getty Images hide caption

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Steven Spielberg was a fearful kid who found solace in storytelling

Fresh Air

Spielberg's latest project, The Fabelmans, is semi-autobiographical — focused on his childhood and teen years and his parents' divorce. He jokingly refers to the film as "$40 million of therapy."

Steven Spielberg was a fearful kid who found solace in storytelling

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Real Life 'Goonies'? A Mysterious Shipwreck Found Off the Oregon Coast

Marine archaeologist James Delgado, left, and beachcomber Craig Andes, right, examine one of the larger shipwreck timbers removed from sea caves off the northern Oregon coast. Andes discovered the timbers. Katie Frankowicz/KMUN hide caption

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Real Life 'Goonies'? A Mysterious Shipwreck Found Off the Oregon Coast

For centuries, mysterious blocks of beeswax and Chinese porcelain have washed up on the Oregon coast, leading to legends of pirates, treasure, and a sunken Spanish galleon. It became known as the Beeswax Wreck, and it inspired centuries of treasure hunters—and maybe even Steven Spielberg, as he created The Goonies. Now, researchers have found nearly 330-year-old timbers from the ship in a hard-to-access cave. This is the story of how a team of volunteer archeologists are working to solve one of the most enduring mysteries of the Pacific Northwest, using old-school detective skills and one well-timed natural disaster.

Real Life 'Goonies'? A Mysterious Shipwreck Found Off the Oregon Coast

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Steven Spielberg's 'West Side Story' will make you believe in movies again

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Steven Spielberg's 'West Side Story' will make you believe in movies again

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This is the first musical Spielberg's ever made, but he proves a natural: Few other American filmmakers have a more instinctive sense of rhythm and visual flow, or more direct access to your emotions.

Steven Spielberg's 'West Side Story' will make you believe in movies again

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Total Failure: The World's Worst Video Game
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Total Failure: The World's Worst Video Game

In the late summer of 1982, one man worked around the clock to program the video game version of Steven Spielberg's E.T. in just five weeks. The result wasn't pretty.

Total Failure: The World's Worst Video Game

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Here Are The 2015 Medal Of Freedom Winners, In Their Own Voices
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The Two-Way

Here Are The 2015 Medal Of Freedom Winners, In Their Own Voices

Athletes, artists and activists crowd the list of winners of the nation's highest civilian honor. Before they get their medals Tuesday, get to know them — in sight and sound.

Barbra Streisand On 'Fresh Air' (2012)

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