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...date: Tuesday night. The place: Morton's restaurant in West Hollywood, site of the annual Vanity Fair Oscar party. The event: a Paramount Pictures bash honoring Oliver Stone, named Director of the Year at the 10th annual Hollywood Film Festival...
...Nearly everyone at the event knew that the real reason for the fete was not to honor Stone's award from his hometown film festival, but to help launch Paramount's bid to snag Oscar nominations for his recent 9/11 movie World Trade Center. And to launch Hollywood's annual effort to get around Academy rules that try to limit the increasingly aggressive studio campaigns for Oscars...
...Jeez, doesn't this have 'Oscar, please, Oscar' written all over it?" snickered one partygoer at the Stone event. All the elements were there: an armada of Paramount publicists, reporters from the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Hollywood Reporter and Variety, as well as members of other award-giving groups such as the Hollywood Foreign Press (who give out the Golden Globes) and the British Academy of Film & Television Arts (the BAFTAs...
...Paramount chairman Brad Grey introduced Stone, who took to a small stage and good-naturedly thanked his producers, screenwriter, actors and others involved with the film. So far, the $63 million-budgeted World Trade Center has made $70 million in the U.S. and about the same amount overseas - hardly a blockbuster. But it garnered enough critical praise to make it a potential Oscar contender...
...Democrats were to regain control of Congress, Republicans can now emphasize their differences with Democrats on an issue Christian conservatives are particularly passionate about. Most congressional Democrats voted against a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage earlier this year. ?It?s going to remind people this issue is paramount,? says the Rev. Louis Sheldon, who runs a conservative group called the Traditional Values Coalition...