Sideshow: Clooney, Oyelowo enter Oscar debate

Two-time Oscar winner George Clooney has joined the debate about the two-year absence of African American actors among Oscar nominees.

"If you think back 10 years ago, the academy was doing a better job," he tells Variety. "I think around 2004, certainly there were black nominees - like Don Cheadle, Morgan Freeman. And all of a sudden, you feel like we're moving in the wrong direction."

David Oyelowo, who played Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, was frozen out last year.

"For 20 opportunities to celebrate actors of color, actresses of color, to be missed last year is one thing," he said Monday night at the King Legacy Awards.

"For that to happen again this year is unforgivable."

Former Inquirer and Daily News writer Buzz Bissinger has signed up to help Caitlyn Jenner write a memoir about her transformative transformation into a transgender. Bissinger penned the Vanity Fair cover story in which Caitlyn introduced herself to the world.

Jamie Foxx, 48, who played the villain in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, was a good guy Monday night when he rescued the driver of a vehicle that had crashed and caught fire in front of Foxx's Hidden Hills, Calif., home. The driver, 32-year-old Brett Kyle, was hospitalized with serious injuries. He was later booked for DUI.

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