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“La La Land,” the show-business musical starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, is a strong favorite for the Oscars.   Credit Dale Robinette/Lionsgate LOS ANGELES — Oscar voters showered the neo-musical “La La Land” with 14 nominations on Tuesday, a tie with “Titanic” and “All About Eve” for the most in Academy Award history. But the academy also moved past two #OscarsSoWhite years by honoring six black actors — a record — and including diverse films like “Moonlight,” “Fences” and “Hidden Figures” in the best picture race. Nine movies will compete for Hollywood’s top prize, including several box-office hits. Joining “La La Land” and “Moonlight” (eight nominations total), “Fences” (four), and “Hidden Figures” (three) in the best picture race were “Arrival,” a science-fiction thriller; the cops-and-robbers drama “Hell or High Water”; the subtitled tear-jerker “Lion”; “Manchester by the Sea,” about a mournful New England handyman; and “Hacksaw Ridge,” Mel Gibson’s true story o...

Disabled people have slammed the lawyers representing Oscar Pistorius for parading him on his stumps in court in a bid to keep him out of jail. The world watched in amazement on Wednesday as the paralympian took off his prosthetic legs and tottered across a packed courtroom at the North Gauteng High Court. Oscar Pistorius' prosthetics lay on the floor as he walks on his stumps during argument in mitigation of sentence by his defence attorney Barry Roux in the High Court in Pretoria. AP Photo/Siphiwe Sibeko, Pool via AP.  Credit:  AP Pistorius, red-faced and sobbing, walked in a grey T-shirt and black tights, at one point being assisted by an elderly woman. #OscarPistorius: Walk on stumps under fire This was on the instructions of his lawyer, Barry Roux, as he tried to show the court how vulnerable the convicted murderer was without his false limbs. “I’m told he’s very embarrassed to do that, but he knows it’s important,” said Roux. “I don’t want to overpl...