http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/mar/03/oscars-broadcast-stopped-russia-jared-leto-ukraine
Russia’s biggest television station last night cancelled its live broadcast of the Oscars ceremony due to the current international crisis in Ukraine.
State-run Channel One said it would broadcast a recorded version of the show in the early hours of Tuesday morning instead.
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Dallas Buyers Club’s Jared Leto made reference to the crisis in his acceptance speech for the best supporting actor prize on Sunday night. “To all the dreamers out there around the world watching this tonight in places like the Ukraine and Venezuela, I want to say we are here and as you struggle to … to make your dreams happen, to live the impossible,” he said. “We’re thinking of you tonight.”
Thank you. It doesn’t take much these days to get on someone’s s-list, somewhere.