3.01.2004

And the Oscar goes to...about 12:10am this morning, it's sleepytime at the cubicle for me and many others today. This year's awards show was a little...tepid compared to years past, but it was gratifying to see "Lord of the Rings" rack up the prizes. There's an avalanche of press coverage and fashion analysis out there today, but allow me to pluck out this AP article asking celebs on the red carpet, "Should politics come up at the Oscars?" Some surprisingly lucid responses to that one. And in other small news, this reporter sat with Keisha Castle-Hughes' family back home in New Zealand watching the show, very sweet. And on an ecologically sound note, several celebs arrived at the show last night in hybrid cars, not limos, as part of the "Red Carpet, Green Cars" campaign of Global Green USA. Here's Sting using his star power for good, not evil. Finally, the NYTimes gets to the bottom of the bizarre "Best Foreigh Language Film" category -- and how "City of God" has been to the Oscars now twice, without a win.

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