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...Pedro Almod?var's "Talk to Her" (the first foreign language to take Best Original Screenplay since "A Man and a Woman in 1967). But this is a time of charnel conflict, so the newshawk in me (news dove, really) is obliged to look at the bigger picture of the 75th award ceremony of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. I have to ask: What if they gave a war and everyone looked ... faaaaaabulous...
...onstage to pick up his Oscar, and that if Julia Roberts loses any more weight and keeps wearing severe gowns, she will soon look like Sarah Jessica Parker's taller twin. I also award Steve Martin, the evening's host, a silver star (make that diamond; it's the 75th) for some "A" material in the opening monologue, and for deflecting both the solemnity of the occasion and the political passions simmering in the crowd. The ever-cool star was a lion tamer with the whip of irony...
...certain requirements for the host of the Academy Awards show: insulting celebrities in the audience, insulting oneself for a failed joke and repeatedly referencing the protracted length of the proceedings. In 2001 Steve Martin accomplished all with aplomb, and thus has been tapped to be host of the 75th-anniversary broadcast in March. Martin's appointment should cheer those who have had enough of Billy Crystal's opening medleys and of sitting through the applause for each of Whoopi Goldberg's costume changes. Martin, whose next film, Bringing Down the House, is due next spring, said in a statement that...
...Crusaders knotted the game at 1-1 in the 75th minute when junior Michael Crean finished off the rebound from a Ney blast...
...close as the Crimson would get, however, as two goals by Hansen in the 75th and 79th minutes wrapped up the victory for San Francisco in front of its home crowd...