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ABC Offering Behind the Scenes PPV for Academy Awards

Talk about being a nutcase if you give them money for such a thing. You have to be one hardcore celebrity stalker to pay for something like this I would think. Isn’t there enough of this in the millions of crazy media people out there hounding these people already? This doesn’t quench your thirst? This would just stop my need for sleeping pills.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and broadcast network ABC are unhooking the velvet rope on the Oscar.com website to provide live video streams of usually hidden aspects of Oscar night on Feb. 27, including celebrities mingling at a lobby bar, hair and makeup artists applying a final gloss to presenters before they take the stage and awards winners gliding into the post-ceremony celebration, the Governors Ball. more

‘Departed’ cops top spots

I guess i can agree with this. The movie was great though I felt like I wanted more when i was finished watching it. Doesn’t mean it didn’t deserve the Best Picture Award. I suppose I was left to fill in the blanks at the end of the movie more than anything wanting to see what else happened. The calling card of a “good” movie I suppose.

Riding the coattails of its influential and long-overdue director, Martin Scorsese, the film won a leading four Oscars, including the best picture and best director trophies in the unusually wide-open 79th annual Academy Awards. full story…