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...first-ever Razzies ceremony - a truly improvised affair - took place in 1980. Wilson had recently completed film school at UCLA and accepted a job with a movie trailer company, where he worked on various films' media campaigns. The company had sponsored a film festival that year, and Wilson found himself forced to watch around 250 movies slated for competition. "When you see that many movies, the odds do not favor the stuff that the Oscars or Globes are talking about," he says, looking back on the hundreds of hours he spent wading through mediocrity. "The odds favor the opposite...
...Wilson says there's always been talk of organizing a Razzies telecast but due to the difficulty of getting usage rights to clips from the various films the awards are intended to skewer, he doesn't think a primetime Razzie Awards show will ever be possible. "There are some people in Hollywood who get the joke, but most just seem to hate it, and wish we would go away - which of course makes all this that much funnier," he says, noting that the Razzies are more a collective condemnation of a lazy industry than a poke at a handful...
...various artists you've worked with at Motown, who was your favorite singer? Derrick Ingram, DETROIT...
...task force looked at both dangers associated with the Internet—such as sexual solicitation and bullying—as well as various technologies used to prevent these problems, such as age and identity verification...
...stabilize the banks. But the goal is to press an ambitious series of actions - policies that might have seemed impossible before the financial crash - across the board as quickly as possible. The quest for a national health-insurance system will debut with a major conference, bringing all the various players - including corporate America and the insurance companies to the table in late winter or early spring. The hope is that a bill to provide universal access, as promised during the campaign, will nudge its way through Congress by next fall. Also coming in the first half of the year will...