Word: carpetting
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...Academy Awards managed to pass into history without any significant tasteless, or truly memorable, moments. BJORK did lay an egg on the red carpet, and we gazed upon an uncharacteristically lucid BOB DYLAN, his majestic cragginess beamed via satellite from Australia. But most of the surreal celebrity high jinks were reserved for the Vanity Fair postparty at Mortons, where a single terrorist bomb could have instantly made Drew Carey the most powerful man in show business. At the bash, TOM CRUISE clung to his publicist, and Calista Flockhart, Lucy Liu and Lara Flynn Boyle formed the world's skinniest posse...
...Outside on the red carpet there was the usual array of TV crews and journalists, all eager for a bite out of the celebrities as they strolled down the aisle.I spotted one TV interviewer who was using a most unusual ploy to capture the eye of passing celebrities, who usually want to go straight inside a party...
...more consequential than Bobby Knight's eternal ability to find himself another job coaching, um, hockey? And thankfully, it now has its own bloated pre-game show: not ABC's paltry, sycophantic half-hour with "Entertainment Tonight"'s addled Julie Moran, but the E! Entertainment Network red-carpet coverage, which I joined sometime around 1:30 p.m. Sunday afternoon but had apparently been in progress since about mid-January. Ultimate TV and TiVo, the fancy electronic video-recorder gadgets, advertise an inordinate amount on the E! pre-show, sending the implicit and quite accurate message that if you are spending...
...environmentalists, of course, it's Bush's energy Rasputins who are the extremists - the sputtering economy and the California crisis are just the excuses. After the CO2 turnabout, Rep. George Miller, a California Democrat on the House Resources Committee, called Bush on the carpet...
SMOKE SCREEN, TACK DISPENSER, OIL SLICKS Various pipes in the rear of the truck ward off attackers by spewing oil slicks, clouds of obfuscating smoke and a carpet of tacks designed to hit the ground pointing...