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...Hollywood, take some lessons," implores Russian coach Evgeny Platov, who despite a combustive partnership with Oksana (Pasha) Grishuk--"I went cuckoo"--faked love on ice to win gold medals with Grishuk in '94 and '98. Italian ice dancers Barbara Fusar-Poli and Maurizio Margaglio might have to pull an Oscar in Torino; they have consulted two psychologists to help them get along. But, insists Margaglio, "when I am on the ice, Barbara is my woman...
...decades, Bob Hope was the face of Oscar night. He set the brash style, tweaking Hollywood's outsize egos, including his own. Hope was host or co-host of the event a record 17 times. (Crystal is second, with eight...
Short is something the Oscar show hasn't run since 1959, when co-host Jerry Lewis found himself with 20 minutes to fill. He brought all the winners onstage, led them in song and vamped manically until NBC finally...
With a movie résumé whose highlights are Mixed Nuts and Death to Smoochy, Jon Stewart won't be confused with Jimmy. But big-screen chops aren't essential to the job; Johnny Carson was a five-time winner as Oscar host. Besides, the new guy has miles of charm, glib ad-lib-ability and the planet's smartest comedy writers. If Stewart can't make this year's Oscar show the wittiest in memory ... well, the Academy could turn next year to another cool dude over at Comedy Central. Paging Stephen Colbert...
...according to a recently published UCLA study. The day laborers, who exist on the bottom of the undocumented-worker food chain, say they feel slightly shut out by those immigrants who already have a foothold in the Hamptons. "Their attitude is, we were here first," says a worker named Oscar. "But we deserve the same chance they...