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The Oscars do away with Gift Baskets |
| December 20th, 2006 under Oscars. [ Comments: none ]
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Academy Awards Bosses Ditch Gift Baskets. Hollywood celebrities will leave the 2007 Oscars without the lavish gift baskets they have been presented with in previous years. The decision comes after The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences and the US Inland Revenue Service (IRS) agreed to send tax forms to all those who received the free gifts, worth around $100,000 (£51,000), at the 2006 ceremony. IRS Commissioner MARK EVERSON says, "Whether you’re popping the popcorn, sitting in the audience or starring on the big screen, you need to pay your taxes. "There’s no red carpet loophole for the stars." Actor EDWARD NORTON recently expressed how appalled he is by the freebies celebrities pick up at top awards shows.
Female First
I wonder if they are going to protest this? Will this be the new trend? I know there are celebs who will only go to an event if they will get a Gift Basket. How sad is that?
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Want to own this year’s Oscar poster? |
| December 19th, 2006 under Oscars. [ Comments: none ]
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The power of words comes to cinematic life in the official poster of the 79th Annual Academy Awards®. From “Rosebud” to “I’m the king of the world!” and beyond, some of the most memorable lines in movie history now share the stage with Oscar® in this year’s official poster of the Academy Awards®. This 27×40 poster is printed on premium recycled paper in black and gold metallic ink. The US$25 price per poster includes tax and shipping within the U.S. for up to five posters. That is actually a really cool poster! Just out of curiouslty, what is your favorite line from an Oscar movie?
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And the post-Oscar slot goes to… |
| December 18th, 2006 under Jimmy Kimmel, Oscars. [ Comments: none ]
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ABC is continuing to back its late-night horse, giving Jimmy Kimmel a cameo in a new comedy and a post-Academy Awards special for the second straight year. The network continues to pound away on building the brand of Kimmel, who will make an appearance in the upcoming rookie sitcom In Case Of Emergency and also hosts Set For Life, which ABC is set to debut sometime in 2007. Jimmy Kimmel Live: After the Academy Awards will air Sunday night, February 25, after the Oscars and local news. Kimmel will also have rookie Oscars host Ellen DeGeneres on the Tuesday prior to the Academy Awards. Kimmel’s post-Oscar telecast this year drew 4 million viewers, the third-highest number ever for the show. Kimmel’s show continues to gain traction for ABC, despite its unfriendly Nightline lead-in
Broadcasting & Cable
Seriously? Seriously? Can’t ABC do better than him?
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The Dreamgirls for your consideration ads! |
| November 29th, 2006 under Dreamgirls, Oscars. [ Comments: none ]
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This is Dreamgirls year! I really think that Eddie Murphy and Jennifer Hudosn have a good chance of taking the Oscar home with them this year! But you never know?
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Thank You For Smoking and not considering Katie Holmes? |
| November 13th, 2006 under Oscars, Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes/Suri. [ Comments: none ]
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Fox’s recent Jason Reitman directed film, "Thank You For Smoking" recently dispersed academy screeners "for your consideration," to Academy voters. The jacket of the screener is conspicuously missing a key player, Miss Katie Holmes. Defamer.com reports that it was "an omission made even more glaring by the inclusion of pretty much everyone else who spoke a line in the film." There was earlier controversy over Holmes one sex scene that mysteriously disappeared when screened at Sundance film festival, and Defamer speculates Fox "executives there are probably as put off by the idea of Holmes’ Cruise era, contractually mandated, one-cursory-mating-session-per-billion-years sexuality as we all are, and don’t want her baggage tainting the other deserving candidates from their film." Thank You For Smoking depicts Tobacco industry lobbyist Nick Naylor (played by Aaron Eckhart) with a seemingly impossible task: promoting cigarette smoking in a time when the health hazards of the activity have become highly controversial. When a beautiful news reporter Heather Holloway (played by Katie Holmes) betrays Nick’s sexually-achieved trust, his world comes close to collapsing.
Monsters and Critics
I don’t think anyone, who is not a Scientologist, wants to be connected to her…and can you blame them???
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