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...shouldn't be dead, Heath Ledger, and one who might've been, Owen Wilson. (He showed up to read an intro.) Surrounded by these dour subjects, Stewart did his best to keep the tone light. He alluded to the town's relief over the end of the writers' strike by saying, "Welcome to the make-up sex." He confided to the viewing audience what the crowd at the Kodak Theatre does during commercial breaks: "Mostly we sit here making catty remarks about how you look at home." After making the mandatory joke about front-row perennial Jack Nicholson, he added...
...Writer’s Guild of America settled their strike with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers two weeks ago, millions around the country rejoiced at the prospect of new episodes of their favorite shows finally returning to television. But no one heaved a larger sigh of relief than Sid Ganis, the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Had the strike continued, Ganis would have been charged with the awkward task of orchestrating an Academy Awards ceremony devoid of writers and of actors. Anyone who watched Jon Stewart struggle without his writers...
...Where Sarkozy's blunt speech and take-charge manner had earlier won him cheers, polls suggest that those qualities now strike many French voters as intemperate, belligerent and undignified. This weekend's incident was not the first. During a visit last November to a Breton fishing port, one fisherman's taunts and insults got so under the president's skin that he dared his heckler to come face him. During his first major press conference as president in January, Sarkozy took such deep exception to questions from journalists he considered unfriendly that some of his replies struck observers as petulant...
...budget movies like Juno and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly well represented in the Oscar nominations, the Spirit Awards didn't need to fulfill its usual role of lauding under-acknowledged indies. Instead it became a place to let your hair down after three months of writers' strike-imposed solemnity...
...second half we started to finally get our confidence in our offense back in the sense that we were moving the ball around hard, had our up tempo game and really focused in,” La Fiura said.Motschwiller’s second strike evened the score at 4-4 with 9:24 remaining in the third quarter, but the Saints posted their own goal just three minutes later. Sapia helped out with his second assist, passing to freshman midfielder Francis Ellis to close the gap at 5-5.“We weren’t able...