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This March 5, Jon Stewart will step from behind The Daily Show desk onto the stage of the Kodak Theatre, becoming the first talk-show host to emcee the Oscars since David Letterman's career-braking stint in 1995. (He bombed with the "Oprah ... Uma" joke in his monologue and never quite recovered that night.) Stewart will also be credited or blamed for the size of the TV audience. Billy Crystal is the current ratings champ: his 2004 stint was the most-watched Oscar show since 2000, the last time he emceed...
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...
...home in time for a dinner. Facing proliferating questions about whether he had gone too far with the surveillance and whether he has lost control of operations in Iraq, Bush seemed eager to explain himself. At length. In a clip sure to delight the likes of Jon Stewart, Bush said that his job description of President would be "a decision maker-I make a lot of decisions...
THEY CAN TALK! Old supermodels used to just retire and catch up on eating. But now they have another career option besides having Rod Stewart's children...
Brokeback Mountain, a western about two cowboys, Ennis (Heath Ledger) and Jack (Jake Gyllenhaal), and the convulsive, frustrating, 20-year love affair they endure, has quickly become the favorite topic of every late-night TV host. Jay Leno imagined Clint Eastwood and John Wayne as gay caballeros. Jon Stewart displayed a doctored Brokeback poster with Senators Ted Stevens and Robert Byrd. Letterman's website invited fans to submit their own "Top 10 Rejected Titles for Brokeback Mountain." (Among the winners: Oklahomo, Little Bathhouse on the Prairie and The Good, the Bad and the Fabulous!) Jack's plaintive cry to Ennis...