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...chosen professions? "Yeah, but you can't tell them what you feel. A waitress gotta keep her mouth shut." But wouldn't she risk being voted out if she expressed her true feelings on the show? "That's their problem," she said, looking rather too much like Joan Jett for comfort...
...Joan Riverzation of the Oscars assures that Juliette Binoche's flapper togs and Bjork's swan outfit - beneath which, according to one ABC reporter, she was concealing an egg - will be remembered long after "Chocolat" and "Dancer in the Dark" are forgotten. Oh, sorry, they already are. But we were happy to see a handsome Asian contingent, including presenters Michelle Yeoh (come on, Hollywood, find a juicy role for this accomplished ravisher) and her "Crouching Tiger" co-star, the suavely unintelligible Chow Yun-fat. And to hear Peter Pau, Cinematography winner, zip through 37 names, most of them Chinese...
...there's been a war going on--between neighborhood preservationists and developers, between low-income artists and the dotcommers who've invaded their turf, between small businesses that can no longer afford skyrocketing rents and the chains, real estate offices and pricey boutiques that can. Says Mime Troupe playwright Joan Holden: "It's been a David-and-Goliath knock-down, drag-out fight--the people against city hall." In the November election, the battleground was competing ballot propositions. Prop L, advanced by artists and activists, would have protected artists' spaces from dotcom takeovers, while Mayor Willie Brown's Prop...
...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 a weekend afternoon watching, not just Joan and Melissa Rivers, not just Steve Kmetko and Jules Asner leading up to Joan and Melissa Rivers, not just Todd Newton and Cindy Hom leading up to Steve Kmetko and Jules Asner, but Michael Castner and Linda Grasso - the fourth string of E! anchors - leading up to Todd Newton...
Turner was at the forum to receive the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from the Joan Shorenstein Center at the Kennedy School of Government...