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Caught in the Act

Jennifer Garner 'Looks Adoringly' at Husband Ben Affleck After Oscar Win

Originally posted 02/26/2013 07:00AM

Following the Academy Awards on Sunday, Graydon Carter's Vanity Fair after-party at the Sunset Tower Hotel was the place to be.

Arriving shortly after 11 p.m., Jennifer Aniston and fiancé Justin Theroux relaxed at the Tower Bar where a jazz combo performed.

Aniston chatted with Molly Sims but Theroux was never far. The couple was inseparable, smiling and laughing as the night went on. Aniston looked like she was having a ball and so happy in her red Valentino gown.

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Filed Under: Academy Awards, Oscars 2013, Chicago, Ben Affleck, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Helena Bonham Carter, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Garner, Jim Toth, Justin Theroux, Michael Douglas, Molly Sims, Quentin Tarantino, Reese Witherspoon, Tim Burton

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Oscar Preview: Les Mis, Chicago Casts to Sing & Dance

Originally posted 02/20/2013 07:00PM

Strike up the band, for Sunday night's Oscars promise to be very musical.

In the most detailed preview yet of what is to be expected – and what isn't – the 85th annual Academy Awards producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron tell Deadline.com that their special tribute to the resurgence of movie musicals in the past decade will star Les Misérables nominees Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway with costars Russell Crowe, Eddie Redmayne, Aaron Tevit, Samantha Barks, and Helena Bonham Carter; Dreamgirls Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson; and Chicago winner Catherine Zeta-Jones.

"What we don't want to do is play it safe," says Zadan about the show in general, admitting – repeatedly – that the job of producing it is "enormous."

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Filed Under: Oscars 2013, Chicago, Les Miserables, Anne Hathaway, Barbra Streisand, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Daniel Craig, Justin Timberlake, Shirley Bassey

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Martin Richards, Chicago Producer and Oscar Winner, Dies

Originally posted 11/27/2012 08:55AM

Martin Richards, a Broadway and Hollywood showman whose own life was often as flamboyant and warmhearted as his many productions, died of cancer Monday at his Upper East Side New York home. He was 80.

Winning the Best Picture Oscar for his movie musical Chicago at the 2003 Academy Awards – he had also produced the original Broadway version in 1975 – Richards had to hold back the tears as he recalled those he had worked with on the show, including the late legendary director-choreographer Bob Fosse and Richards's late producing partner and wife, Mary Lea Johnson, of the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical company family.