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...more fanciful Oscar theories addresses this question: Which film represents the home team? The majority of Academy members live in or near Los Angeles, and actors make up the largest voting contingent. A long-standing grievance of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) is "runaway productions": movies shot abroad, especially in Canada, that ship jobs out of the U.S. Thus there may be some protectionist resentment against Brokeback, which is set in Wyoming and Texas but was shot mostly in Alberta. This would tilt the Best Picture vote to Crash, a low-budget, L.A.-made movie that...
...second delay-now!" Kanye West said before he and Jamie Foxx took the stage in full drum major gear. West was sadly uncontroversial, but his brilliant K.W. State vs. J.F.U. marching band performance of Gold Digger was easily the most energetic of the show. And when it began to sag just a little, the Gold Digger dancers came out followed by the members of Broke Phi Broke to do some step dancing. America?s largest exposure to black fratenity culture since A Different World...
...exports cheaper in global markets, but there's an important caveat. Recently, Asia has been drawing support from the long-awaited recovery of the Japanese economy, the world's second-largest. If Japan's newfound vigor is real, there is no overriding reason why the yen should continue to sag. Just as the day will come when the dollar will fall again, a concomitant rebound in the yen is equally likely. That could prove quite vexing to Japanese exporters...
Keeping old shows fresh is a perennial challenge for network programmers. But their efforts have taken on more urgency this fall as a number of long-running hits have begun to sag in the ratings. Dynasty and Dallas, which finished one-two in last year's Nielsens, have slipped to the middle of the top-ten pack. Falcon Crest, another top-ten finisher last season, is now being beaten regularly by Miami Vice. The A-Team, last season's No. 6-ranked show, has dropped to 19th place, and Magnum, P.I., blitzed by competition from the new ratings champion...
...sign up shows about the flyover red states. But HBO remains the bluest of the blue networks--as blue as the Pacific, a Santa Monica bus, a Dodgers cap--confident that its subscribers are unendingly interested in the angst unique to those poor souls unfortunate enough to have a SAG card. Nor is it alone. In March Showtime will debut Fat Actress, starring Kirstie Alley in a fictionalized version of her travails as a 200-lb. woman trying to land work in show biz. Never has TV been so true to the rule Write what you know...