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Keeping Up with the Kardashians star Kim Kardashian West was glued to the TV on Thursday night, live-tweeting her reality show followed by ABC's Disney Family Singalong.The 39-year-old SKIMS CEO - who boasts 262.1M social media followers - was particularly enamored of a certain R&B diva, gushing: 'Beyoncé sounds so beautiful!'Beyoncé Knowles-Carter was the surprise performer and she sang a whispery, moving rendition of the Pinocchio lullaby, When You Wish Upon a Star, written by Leigh Harline and Ned Washington in 1940.

Steven Gaydos Executive VP of Content The Oscars’ animated feature category turns voting age this year, which means none of the genre’s masterpieces dating back to the 1930s ever competed for the coveted prize. And that means one of this year’s competitors for the prize, “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” represents something of a fresh chance for a story that worked so well for Walt Disney back in 1940 that it still garnered two Oscars — for song and score — and the kind of praise filmmakers of all genres and stripes can only dream of. Variety’s review of Walt Disney’s masterpiece was typical of the ecstatic mood that greeted the film’s release back in early 1940: “Technically an improvement on ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,’ and in many ways quite as captivating in imaginative fantasy, Walt Disney’s ‘Pinocchio’ (Pin-oak-io) is the finest piece of feature length animation yet created.