Duly Noted - Silicon Makes Things Slippery for Academy Presenters

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Possibly The Very Last Word On This Year's Oscars
Published 2/25/2008 by Wing Chun at The Telefile
... 1. Miley Cyrus didn't trip on her heels! And Colin Farrell wasn't drunk (or if he was, it wasn't why he slipped on the way to the podium), and John Travolta wasn't pulled downward by the weight of his own irrelevance. All of them slipped on some kind of silicon spray used by stagehands. I'm just going to pretend they use Pam, because that's funnier. ...

Lingering Questions About the Oscars
Published 2/26/2008 by jbercovici at Portfolio.com: Mixed Media
1)Was the lack of blockbusters among the "best picture" nominees responsible for the miserably low ratings? My colleague Zubin Jelveh crunches the numbers on that popular theory and concludes it can't be the sole explanation. 2)Where were all the fancy new commercials? After all, haven't we been hearing ad nauseam about how the Oscars are "the Super Bowl for women"? Stuart Elliot blames the strike for the weak crop of ads; unsure whether the show would go on, agencies declined to commission pricey new spots. Though not brand new, this newish MasterCard commercial was the biggest hit at my Oscar party: ...