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...There is so much schmoozing going on that scant attention is paid to the awards themselves. But there are cheers when Soderbergh wins Best Direction. Russell Crowe's win draws mixed reactions. Some women gush with happiness. Most of the men glower. One wag at the table defends Crowe's honor as an actor, saying that Crowe's acting skills have been underrated. This produces a murmur of assent from the ladies, until the speaker adds that by this he means that Crowe had obviously fooled Meg Ryan... The defenders of The Man Who Would Be Oscar drown this remark...
...Awards, though this event is starting to lose some steam. Its problem is the overwhelming success of its key protagonists. Like musicians who dub themselves "alternative," it's hard to be truly independent these days. Those pesky big corporations keep distributing the most promising films. Eleven years ago Steven Soderbergh was a young hopeful touting his breakthrough "sex, lies and videotape." Now he has two films in competition for Best Picture. It's not that he's sold out. Far from it. It's that the studios have become savvier...
Director Steven Soderbergh gives us a brilliant series of intertwining vignettes about the performance-enhancing drug trade in the Sydney Olympics. Benicio Del Toro is a conflicted, street-smart International Olympic Committee official who tries and fails to deal with the problem. Catherine Zeta-Jones is an Olympic gymnast who loses her gold medal after testing positive for banned substances found in common vitamin supplements. Michael Douglas is IOC Chair Juan Antonio Samaranch, who is too busy accepting bribes from various cities that want the games to fix anything...
...Winners DRYOCOCELUS AUSTRALIS The real survivor in the outback. Stick insect thought extinct shows up alive and well off Aussie coast NEAR-SHOEMAKER U.S. spacecraft is first man-made object to land on an asteroid? other than Bruce Willis STEVEN SODERBERGH Sorry Spielberg. Filmmaker faces off against himself for the Best Director Oscar...
...STEVEN SODERBERGH Director gets Oscar nominations for Traffic and Brockovich. Drugs and busts big with Academy...