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...executives not at the Oscar table want to to view the proceedings on a wide-screen TV at a party. Unlike regular folks, for whom some pizza or Chinese takeout round the TV is suffice, many celebrities gravitate to one of the viewing parties set up by charities. The blend of a big occasion and stars happy for exposure is a perfect fit - Hollywood's version of perpetual motion...
...these movies drop one big hint: in a totalitarian society, where anyone may be a government snitch, it's best to keep one's feelings and agenda hidden. To speak up, to shout or plead, is to be noticed; to be noticed is to risk being denounced. Best to blend into the scenery, to seem a gray person in a gray nation. Or to be a twisted bureaucrat (in He Jianjun's Postman or Ning Ying's On the Beat, both 1995). Only then will you flourish...
...special blend of fawning and cattiness, what would we watch? Because the other way in which the Oscars have become the Super Bowl for the rest of us is that the tantalizing walk-up is really the show itself, otherwise, you're stuck watching a four-hour, snail-paced foregone conclusion, the only suspenseful element of which is the contents of the chip-dip bowl on your coffee table...
...from the norm makes a person easily noticeable, and extreme height is the most easily identifiable of all. From my lofty perch, I stick out in a crowd; my taste for brightly colored clothing only adds to the phenomenon. Visibility can be a distinctly negative trait when trying to blend in with a group during the middle school years or when movie-hopping (I get caught). But visibility has its positive side; professors in large classes always recognize me (though this means my absence is also noticed). Once introduced, people never forget me, which is nice...
...With its highly touted pitching staff and unique blend of new talent and experience, Harvard possesses a good chance of winning the league title this season. For more, please see team preview, page...