AcademyAwards

Though Beastie Boy Adam "MCA" Yauch joked with the LA Weekly that he's planning to spend the Oscars distributing "sandwiches outside the theater ... Maybe Harvey Weinstein will be hungry," his film company is very real. Oscilloscope Laboratories, Yauch's indie film distribution company, which is based in New York, has two films up for Academy Awards this year...

Rapper Nas may find himself in a new awards arena. The Queens-bred emcee's song 'Legendary,' penned for the documentary 'Tyson,' made it to the list of possible Oscar contenders. In January members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will listen to select songs and choose five to be nominated for the dubious honor...