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...most of the night, Oscar went with the favorites. George Clooney (Syriana) and Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener) won in the supporting actor categories; Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote) and Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line) took Best Actor and Actress; Brokeback Mountain was cited for adapted screenplay, Crash for original screenplay; and Brokeback?s Ang Lee for Best Director. The smart money even had the right over-under number on how many Jewish references host Jon Stewart would make in the award show?s first 30 minutes...
...CRASH TESTED A pair of Australian amateurs produce Crash Test Kitchen crashtestkitchen.com) one of the first cooking video podcasts. Unlike TV shows in which top chefs use snazzy gear to make gourmet cooking look easy, these shorts have bumbling on the menu. Their homey videos offer a realistic and entertaining view of home cooking...
...RAMZAN KADYROV, 29, son of assassinated former Chechen president Akhmad, as the troubled Russian republic's Prime Minister; in the capital Grozny. Allied to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kadyrov became Chechnya's de facto premier after Sergei Abramov?who quit as P.M. last week?was injured in a car crash last year. Human rights groups accuse militia commanded by Kadyrov of widespread abuses, especially "disappearances" of thousands of suspected rebels, charges the new premier denies...
...third theory might be called the Home Team Factor. The great majority of Academy voters live in or near Los Angeles, and it?s hard to imagine a more L.A. movie than Crash. Everybody?s in a car: driving one, having sex in one, being lewdly frisked against one. Cars in L.A. are emotional isolation chambers that convince their drivers it?s them against a hostile world. The drivers might as well be U.S. soldiers in a tank in Iraq. (In this sense, Crash is, implicitly, the most political film in contention.) And when they?re not driving, they...
...Screen Actors Guild is "runaway productions": movies shot abroad, especially in Canada, that ship jobs out of the U.S. Thus there may be some protectionist resentment against Brokeback, which is set in Wyoming and Texas but was shot mostly in Alberta. This would tilt the Best Picture vote to Crash, a low-budget, L.A.-made movie that?s so teeming with speaking parts it seems to have employed half the SAG members in Southern California...