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...shadow of savvy Miramax Films, the ingenuity of whose Oscar campaigns is notorious. But last night SPC copped five awards (four for "Crouching Tiger" and Harden's statuette), while Miramax went Oscarless for the first time in 13 years. So no big Miramax party on Oscar night. No Harvey Weinstein gags. Miramax had to be content with laughing all the way to the bank: its giddily sleazy low-budget horror farce "Scary Movie" earned nearly $160 million. Weinstein may not mind being Samuel Goldwyn on Oscar night, so long as he can be Sam Arkoff at the domestic box office...
...provided in the form of skits spoofing the year's top films. Actors such as Kevin Spacey, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Jude Law regularly show up and don cheesy wigs and Wal-Mart dresses to perform mini-sketches. There are usually a slew of inside references to the Weinstein brothers, who created and run Miramax. Last year I observed Michael Eisner (chairman of Miramax parent company Disney) watching the proceedings with all the intensity of an attendee at the Oberammergau passion play...
Chocolat is the story of a smug, sleepy town invaded by a charismatic outsider who feeds the villagers sweets and makes them do crazy things. To speak metaphorically, the town is Los Angeles; the outsider is Miramax boss Harvey Weinstein; and what could be nuttier than voting Chocolat a nomination for the year's best film? The movie is at best a trifle, and at most a tribute to Weinstein, a man who knows that Hollywood is the art of the sell. He can feed the Academy voters anything and have them say Mmm-mmm, good...
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...Weinstein and other prosecutors will have plenty of test cases for their theories. An increasing number of western states, once among those with the strictest anti-drug laws, are at the forefront of a state-centered trend toward treatment for addicts - and away from simply handing out jail time. Other states, including New York, are beginning to consider treatment as a viable alternative to prison, not only because treatment programs can be far less expensive than incarceration (for example, the estimated $19,000 it takes to feed and house an Arizona inmate for one year versus $2,000 to dispense...