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...ever before. Worse yet, there's probably a theme park right down the road with the same dark thoughts about its survival but with 10 times your advertising budget. Even your local multiplex is feeling a little sorry for itself, but it has millions of dollars worth of fresh Hollywood product cycling in every few weeks. "Theme parks and movies are leaving museums scrambling to keep up," says Lin Ezell, director of the National Museum of the Marine Corps. "Passive exhibits just aren't going to attract young people today...
...ready for Chuck Taylors on the red carpet. ELLEN DEGENERES, the comedian and talk-show host known for her casual style, has just been announced as M.C. of Hollywood's most glamorous night, the Oscars. "Ellen completely fits the bill," says the show's producer, Laura Ziskin. By that we assume she means that, like former hosts Billy Crystal and Jon Stewart, DeGeneres is funny and warm and not that, like Crystal and Stewart, she's hardly ever in good movies...
...notoriously litigious member of a notoriously litigious institution. The press owns only so many 10-foot poles, and it's loath to deploy them in such situations. Journalists obeyed the keep-off-the-grass signs he laid down, as long as he drew ratings and sold magazines. And Hollywood humored him, as long as his movies minted money...
...lucky week for Katie Couric to open shop. It was an edifying week for the rest of us. But don't get used to this Washington-Hollywood glasnost. Openness, after all, can be as strategic as secrecy. Measured. Calculated. Dedicated toward the day when you're strong enough again to roll down the shades, put up the walls and pack the baby pictures safely away...
Showcasing 261 features, putting 300,000 fannies in the seats--all in a whirlwind 10 days--the Toronto International Film Festival, which runs through Sept. 16, boasts numbers even Hollywood can appreciate. Here's another: in each of the six major categories at this year's Academy Awards, at least three of the five nominees had played at TIFF, including the big winners, Crash and Brokeback Mountain. That's why the current bash looks like an Oscar photo op. Brad and Reese, Tom Hanks and Will Ferrell, Sean Penn and Russell Crowe are clogging the red carpet, hoping that September...