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...Oscar had a few surprises in store, and some rare suspense. In the moments before Michael Douglas announced the winner for Best Picture, some people who thought "Gladiator" a lock had second and third thoughts. The Roman rasslin' epic had already copped four Oscars (for Actor, Costume, Sound and Visual Effects), but so had "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" (for Foreign Film, Art Direction, Cinematography and Score) and "Traffic" (for Director, Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay and Editing). When Douglas finally said, "And the Oscar goes to... 'Gladiator,'" even those of us rooting for "Crouching Tiger" were grateful that our dark horse...
...exclusive the bash, the hipper it is. Pretty much anyone, including gate crashers, can get into the official Governors' Ball. Saying that you are going there is like boasting to folks attending a rock concert that you have all-access passes to the parking lot. Unless you're a winner, milling around the Governors' Ball is a rather sad admission that you didn't get invited to any of the really tony parties. In fact, jaded insiders who encounter one another at this bash usually roll their eyes as if to say "I HAVE to do this..." and then immediately...
...surreal, star-befuddling, one-time-only performance. Instead, he gave a safe, caretaker performance that was hardly a performance at all. True, his funniest jokes were laced with a measure of contempt for the industry (on the awards' use of the phrase, "The Oscar goes to..." rather than "The winner is...": "God forbid anybody should think of this as a competition. It might make the trade ads seem crass"). But Martin is thoroughly L.A. at heart, and he kept the crowd safely on his side with liberal name-dropping and use of the pronoun "we." He probably didn't guarantee...
...team in every game they have played this year, allowing more than three goals in a game only twice this season--four against Providence on Jan. 13 and four in the first meeting with Duluth. In the latter game, the Crimson gave up three goals--including the game-winner in the final minute--to blow a 3-1 third-period lead...
With Botterill and Shewchuk, the Crimson has two more Kazmaier finalists than any other school in the NCAA field. In the award's short three-year history, no team with a Kazmaier winner has ever failed to reach the national championship game...