Oscar preview with A.V. Club's film editor, how we got to HER and an animation-inspired cocktail

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Oscar preview with A.V. Club's film editor, how we got to HER and an animation-inspired cocktail

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We nerd out about the Oscars - the nominees and the awards - with A.V. Club editor A.A. Dowd. Logan Jaffe offers a sound-rich essay about how we got to HER's Samantha and why Siri, and so much of our technology, sounds like a lady. Then our booze nerd Rebecca Poulson offers up a cocktail inspired her favorite Oscar nominee.

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Feb 26, 2014

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Oscar preview with A.V. Club's film editor, how we got to HER and an animation-inspired cocktail

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