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...Hayao Miyazaki's "Spirited Away" (the first foreign-language film to win for Animated Feature) and Pedro Almod?var's "Talk to Her" (the first foreign language to take Best Original Screenplay since "A Man and a Woman in 1967). But this is a time of charnel conflict, so the newshawk in me (news dove, really) is obliged to look at the bigger picture of the 75th award ceremony of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. I have to ask: What if they gave a war and everyone looked ... faaaaaabulous...
...newspaper vending machine. But when one of the man's longtime customers wrote a protesting letter to the publisher, she got back a haughty reply accusing Manoogian of "thievery." Copies of the letter given to local newscasters turned TV and radio on to the case of the clipped newshawk, who says that the Globe's action cut his daily revenues from $15 to $2 and plunged him into debt to the tune of $2,400. Stung by the adverse publicity, the Globe last week resumed deliveries to Manoogian. Said the paper's circulation manager...
...muckraking reporter finally reaches paradise, he is greeted by the patron saint of ultimate rewards, who leads him to a chamber containing a typewriter and the files of the FBI, the records of the Internal Revenue Service, and the dossiers of all security-clearance investigations. The saint hands the newshawk the keys to the files and says...
Spain is one of the few places left in the world where celebrities can draw a breath in peace. But there is at least one newshawk among the chickens. Shadowing Holland's visiting Princess Irene, 24, a Madrid photographer followed her to a Roman Catholic church, where he watched her receiving Communion-and stumbled on the best-kept secret of the Dutch House of Orange. Sometime last year "after long and deep thinking," Irene, second in line to the throne, had converted to Catholicism. Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard, said a hastily prepared royal communique, "fully backed the freedom...
Bronx Cheer. Another Congressman, New York Democrat Charles A. Buckley (elected in 1934), turned up on the lengthening list of lawmakers who spend federal staff allowances with cheery abandon. Reported Scripps-Howard Newshawk Vance Trimble (TIME, March 16): The Bronx's Buckley pays $38,497 a year to eight political followers in New York City who work part time on Buckley business, mostly in their own homes. Buckley's Washington office is staffed by only two people, both paid not out of his staff allowance, but from funds of the House Public Works Committee, of which...