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A few postscripts to Sunday's Academy Awards:
• This year's kudoscast drew 39.9 million total viewers, a million-head gain from 2006's anemic audience. With Ellen DeGeneres at the helm, the show also noted a 15 percent boost in women 18-34.
• The Departed's Oscar winners, director Martin Scorsese and scribe William Monahan, may reteam for The Long Play, a rock 'n' roll epic that follows two friends through 40 years in the music business. (Variety)
• Helen Mirren may be invited to tea with the real Queen Elizabeth II — whom, a Buckingham Palace says, was "pleased" by her portrayer's best-actress win. (AP)
• The goodie bag for presenters at this year's "green" Oscars consisted solely of "a gift of 100,000 lbs. of greenhouse-gas reductions from carbon-offset retailer TerraPass." Don't worry, I'm feeling clueless, too. But that's why I gave you the link.
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Feb 27, 2007 9:51 AM
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The goodie bag for presenters at this year's "green" Oscars consisted solely of "a gift of 100,000 lbs. of greenhouse gas reductions from carbon offset retailer TerraPass.
That's all they got??? That stinks.
Is this also how they paid Ellen?
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Feb 27, 2007 10:46 AM
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I am very much a believer in 'green' but this wasn't fitting for the Oscars gift bag. I feels tacky to me especially since the same items are available to everyone.
What a let down. They should get something special. Not expensive, just better than this.
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Feb 27, 2007 12:56 PM
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They still have to pay taxes on what they did get don't they? Although, I would have passed and said don't call me until you give a decent gift bag.
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Feb 27, 2007 1:03 PM
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