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Oscars Boss Preps a Plan B, If Show Is Picketed
Gil Cates by Steve Granitz/WireImage.com
Academy Awards producer Gil Cates this week hinted at a contingency plan for his own kudoscast, lest Hollywood's truly grandest night be turned into the sad non-spectacle that the WGA-picketed Globes became.
Though Cates is being circumspect about how he would navigate a picketed Oscars ceremony, Variety says the alternative telecast likely would rely on A-listers penning their own presentation banter, and would be peppered with pretaped segments.
Readying a Plan B is prudent, seeing as the WGA has shown no sign of blessing the Feb. 24 event. "[Our] board of directors has already voted to deny a waiver to the Academy if they ask for one," WGA West president Patric Verrone has said, explaining that the Guild's priority instead is "to get the conglomerates back to the table." — Matt Mitovich
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Jan 18, 2008 8:41 AM
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This is the 80th Academy Awards it is a landmark. It would be a shame if it were affected by the writer's strike. It is the award show of award shows. It is like my Super Bowl. I watch the preshows and the postshows. I have a pool. I know some of you have heard all of this before on other posts. I will be very disappointed also for first time nominees that may never have the opportunity again. Oh well, guess I'll have to keep my fingers crossed.
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Jan 18, 2008 12:00 PM
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I agree Sweetpea. This is a HUGE year for the Academy Awards. I also feel that the awards are for the accomplishments made in 2007, which is before the strike. I feel that is anything, the OSCARS will be postponed instead of downgraded.
Good news - the DGA made and agreement, hopefully the WGA will follow suit.
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Jan 18, 2008 12:22 PM
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I'm hoping that they cancel the ceremony!! I'm so sick of award show after award show honoring these people. They contribute nothing to society as a whole and don't deserve to be recogninzed for pretending to be a hooker, a drug dealer, a lawyer, etc. etc. in a movie! SO WHAT!!
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Jan 18, 2008 12:36 PM
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Wow! What hostility! There are quite a few people in the entertainment industry that contribute a lot to society, not that it is even the issue. If you do not like award shows watch something else. That is the beauty of television. Hopefully, there is something for everyone.
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Jan 18, 2008 12:56 PM
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"Pretending" to be a drug dealer? Just shows how little you know. Plenty of people are method actors as far as drugs are concerned. Angelina is rescuing kids from abject poverty around the world, one adoption at a time.
Seriously though, kind of pathetic that you ignore all the money they raise or give to charity. Yeah that's not a contribution. Millions given out of pocket for Katrina before our own government got off its butt. Aaron Sorkin's show Studio 60 promoted Tipitina's Foundation to bring back the music culture of New Orleans and restore instruments to the community (a vital aspect of the area and a source of jobs not to mention healing in the aftermath of the tragedy). As far as the actual awards shows you have Clothes Off Our Backs using the awards show gowns, suits, etc to raise money for autism among other causes. Research and/or contribute to society yourself Mrs. T and get off that high horse. The view of your arse from down here isn't all that flattering for the rest of us.
I'll believe there's a Plan B for the Oscars after I believe in the Plan B for Iraq. I do have a suggestion, celebrity impersonators in drag ![]<img border=](http://community.tvguide.com/images/emoticons/devil.gif) "> C'mon we've all been hoping to see Cher and Barbara Streisand hand out awards this year. Along with Diana Ross they could sing the original song nominees. You know one perk of that is you could even have Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe, and Anna Nicole show up. Liza Minelli as herself because hey SAG and WGA will probably figure she's just another drag queen.
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Jan 18, 2008 1:22 PM
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The Oscars is my favorite awards show. I'd hate to miss it.
AMPTP & WGA, will you please start talking again? End this madness.
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Jan 18, 2008 2:02 PM
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I wonder if any thought's been given to simply postponing the awards until the strike is settled. Even if it's a year from now, there might not be enough movies to have an 81st awards anyway, so the 80th would be welcome.
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Jan 18, 2008 2:52 PM
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I agree with MrsT1040. All Hollywood is, is a bunch of self serving left wing agenda pushing hypocrites. They think that just because they are celebrities, they are the end-all be-all and have the answers to everything from global warming (what a joke) to the war on terror (According to Sean Penn Iraq is full of rainbows and unicorns). They use the Oscars to push their agendas. I hope the writers picket this thing into the ground, and don't let anyone pass.
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Jan 18, 2008 2:58 PM
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I have to wonder why a couple of you bother coming to an entertainment website when you have such little regard for entertainers. I don't think the rest of us are claiming actors are anything more than they are, so why all the hostility? It's the weekend, for goodness sake! Lighten up!
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Jan 18, 2008 3:06 PM
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Sean Penn said that Iraq is full of rainbows and unicorns. Um, I think you mean the exact opposite! And why pick on one of the few celebs who actually educates themselves and travels to troubled places for a first-hand account before spouting his opinion, regardless of whether you agree with it or not.
Jinkies.
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Jan 18, 2008 4:20 PM
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Don't neglect the moonbeams and sunshine.
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Jan 18, 2008 5:58 PM
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It is too bac but if the Guild wants to get anywhere they have to hold their ground.
Hope for everyone's sake the strike is over soon.
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Jan 18, 2008 6:02 PM
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Self-serving left-wing agenda pushing hypocrites... eh, wxman1?
Have you bothered to watch any of the presidential news on TV and seen Chuck Norris' mug behind McCain every picture? Have you bothered to look at who's governor of California these last years? Self-serving, I'll grant you... left-wing, you've got to be kidding.
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Jan 18, 2008 8:33 PM
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If Hollywood wants to spend time patting itself on the back for their work and broadcast the ceremony on TV, that's their prerogative, and nothing says you have to watch it, or even approve of it.
And yeah, celebrities come in all flavors, from radical left wingers to radical right wingers, and everything in between.
Incidentally, gollysunshine, Chuck Norris supports Huckabee, not McCain.
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Jan 19, 2008 4:08 AM
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