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Box-Office Blues Make for an Oscar Washout

 
An Academy Awards show dominated by films no one's seen, actors no one's heard of, the most irritating songs since "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall" and, ironically, some of the worst writing since "Cavemen" clocked the trophy show's smallest audience on record -- about 32 million viewers. (link)

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