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...that on Sunday night, the haves had not. Clooney did not win an Academy Award, and neither did the film he was nominated for, the early front runner (and utterly Oscar-worthy) Up in the Air, which even failed to cop its expected prize for Best Adapted Screenplay. Avatar won only three of the nine categories for which it was eligible - the door prizes of Cinematography, Art Direction and Special Effects - and its begetter, James Cameron, supped on the special gall of losing Best Picture and Best Director to The Hurt Locker and his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow, respectively...
...military: by the end of the movie, viewers are meant to be cheering for the deaths of the U.S. soldiers trying to occupy Pandora. It didn't help. The Oscar voters saw Avatar (if they did watch it) as just another genre film. No sci-fi movie has ever won Best Picture...
...gives out TV's Emmy awards. The rationale for the "award goes to ..." format is twofold: it plugs the award continuously, and it doesn't make losers feel any worse than they already do. "There's just a little bit of negative spin on saying, 'Oh yeah, this guy won this. The rest of you guys, by implication, did not win - hence are losers.' " says Leverence...
...straight face? The President's newfound willingness to extend an olive branch to Republicans hasn't come about because he's a moderate; it has come about because he's a pragmatist. Obama knows if he hasn't been able to ram his policies through Congress, he sure won't be able to now. Mark S. Dolecki, BAYTOWN, TEXAS...
...Olympic Giant How was it possible to write a story called "11 Olympians to Watch" without mentioning a single Norwegian [Feb. 15]? Norway has won a total of 98 gold medals and more medals overall than any other country since the first Winter Games were held in 1924. Inge Vabo, KOLSAS, NORWAY...