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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Hollywood: Where do reality and fantasy meet?

    Art columnist Carolina Miranda took TMZ’s "2-hour celebrity safari" ahead of Sunday’s Oscars. The tour took her past the In-N-Out, the Chateau Marmont and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, home to the first ever Academy Awards.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Mar 6, 2018 • 1 min read

    Art columnist Carolina Miranda took TMZ’s "2-hour celebrity safari" ahead of Sunday’s Oscars. The tour took her past the In-N-Out, the Chateau Marmont and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, home to the first ever Academy Awards. The next day, Carolina Miranda went to the Oscars. She reports on where fantasy Hollywood collide.

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    Real life 'Truman Show' in the mind of a former Olympian
    1. 0:00North Korea: Serious nuclear thaw?
    2. 10:08Suge Knight's attorneys have their own legal issues
    3. 19:43Hollywood: Where do reality and fantasy meet?You’re reading this
    4. 29:06Former Olympic sailor on living with Truman Syndrome
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