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...proceedings. In 2001 Steve Martin accomplished all with aplomb, and thus has been tapped to be host of the 75th-anniversary broadcast in March. Martin's appointment should cheer those who have had enough of Billy Crystal's opening medleys and of sitting through the applause for each of Whoopi Goldberg's costume changes. Martin, whose next film, Bringing Down the House, is due next spring, said in a statement that he was excited to be the host again "because fear and nausea always make me lose weight...
Would-be Hollywood Squares contestants and those who simply like to play along at home will have to rethink their gaming strategy. WHOOPI GOLDBERG, who has occupied the oft-chosen center square since the program relaunched in 1998, is vacating that most enviable piece of show-business real estate at the end of the season. Her departure comes over a salary dispute with syndicator King World Productions, since the two parties were unable to agree on terms for the next two years. According to the Washington Post, Goldberg, who also served as an executive producer, earned $10 million a year...
...Dunne for his St. Martin's Press imprint. It's the work of photographer Stephen Mosher, who spent six years collecting the hundreds of celebrity pictures from which those in the book will be chosen, including Alec Baldwin, Dame Maggie Smith, Glenn Close, Dominick Dunne, Tim Allen, Whoopi Goldberg, Julie Harris, Kathleen Turner, Angela Bassett, Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick and many others. A substantial portion of Mosher's royalties will go to AIDS charities. Dunne aims to publish for Christmas next year...
...There was Woody Allen, introducing a more tasteful post-Sept.-11 tribute to movies shot in New York and looking awfully youthful (maybe because he didn't have his tongue down the throat of an actress fifty years younger than him). There was the thankfully short amount of time Whoopi Goldberg actually spent onstage. There were those only-at-Oscar weirdnesses, like the brightly colored mime/harlequins prancing backstage, near Donald Sutherland and Glenn Close doing play-by-play from that wood-paneled Oscars sports-anchor desk...
Avery also plans to start organizing the next Amy Smith Berylson ’75 Lecture. Past speakers have included Whoopi Goldberg and Martha Stewart...