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DIED. Ray Evans, 92, Oscar-winning songwriter whose collaboration with partner Jay Livingston gave rise to Silver Bells, Mona Lisa and Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be); in Los Angeles...
...deaf-mute teenager in Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel, was so convincing that co-star Cate Blanchett at first assumed the 26-year-old Japanese actress really couldn't speak. It's the kind of talent that has propelled Kikuchi from obscurity to an Oscar nomination-the first for a Japanese actress in 49 years. Kikuchi talks to Time's Michiko Toyama about Babel, isolation and her newfound fame...
...Oscar nomination changed your life? My work begins and ends on the film set, so everything else I just enjoy. I meet a lot of people and enjoy myself...
When I heard that Ellen DeGeneres was going to host the Oscars, I thought, They're sure playing it safe. In 2005 and 2006 the Academy went edgy--well, Oscar edgy--with hosts Chris Rock and Jon Stewart. This year they got likable Ellen, Finding Nemo Ellen, good-natured, dancing Ellen...
...specifically, for lesbians. One reason DeGeneres will be onstage Feb. 25 is that lesbians are women, and women increasingly define the pop-culture mainstream. Men, especially young men, have been seceding from mass media to cable, video games and the Internet. The last two Oscars hired Rock and Stewart, with their young-male followings, but the audience still declined. It's women who make TV hits today--Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, even CSI--and women who will keep Oscar alive...