A mention of the late Brad Renfro wasn’t the only thing missing from the Oscars on Sunday night. (Read what the Academy has to say about Renfro’s Oscar Omission) Was Whoopi Goldberg snubbed too? Her cohosts on The View sure seem to think so. …[she] has emceed the Academy Awards telecast four times… the first woman…and the first African-American…even has an Oscar of her own. So, why was she nowhere to... 

The Oscars are on February 24th. Everyone who’s anyone will be there. Except Paris Hilton. Awesome! The Academy thinks Paris is a ridiculous excuse for an actress and they’re voicing that opinion by banning the “actress” from the Academy Awards Ceremony. Did you know that her movie “The Hottie and the Nottie”* made close to nothing its opening weekend? Ouch. When Paris heard the news, she broke down and... 

It seems incredible in these days of ghoulish dissection of who wears what to the Oscars, to think that in 1929, the year of the first Academy Awards ceremony, the actress award winner, Janet Gaynor, wore a tiny off-the rack dress with a Peter Pan collar that she probably picked up from a children’s store. In 1937, the Austrian ingenue Luise Rainer accepted her best actress award in a nightgown; and in 1958, Joanne Woodward accepted... 

In the Awards family, the Oscars are the stuffy aunt whose opinion the family respects and around whom the family is on their best behavior. Everyone wears their best (or so they think) and they are polite and smile and thank everyone under the sun and lose with grace. Last night was not really any different. Ellen DeGeneres hosted for her first time, and did a swell job. I especially liked her red velvet suit and her “Oscar Carrier”... 

The Academy Awards were last night. Pretty much par for the Oscars course—nothing too too thrilling. Except for Jennifer Hudson’s Best Supporting Actress win. That was awesome! I bet she’s on cloud nine today. More on the show and fashions later. In the meantime….. a·ro·ma·ther·a·py / əˌroʊməˈθɛrəpi / Origin: 1945–50 / noun 1.the use of fragrances to affect or alter a person’s... 

UPDATE: Winning speeches were selected on February 22, 2007. …so many worthy entries that picking just one winner seemed as churlish as Judi Dench’s role in Notes on a Scandal. So the staff at NPR.org picked five winners, along with a few runners-up, and recorded them reading their entries. … winners captured the spirit of the nominees’ characters, if not always their accents. The speeches were limited to 200 words,... 

- Leonardo DeCaprio, Best Actor for Blood Diamond “I’m honored to receive this nomination from the Academy – especially in a year full of such worthy nominees. ... I am also thrilled for Djimon [Hounsou], Mark [Wahlberg] and Marty [Scorsese] who are all so deserving of this recognition.” – Peter O’Toole, Best Actor for Venus “If you fail the first time, try try try try try try try again.” (Peter... 

The nominations are in. Here is a short list of the “big ones”. Noticeably absent from Best Picture is Dreamgirls, which many “in the know” thought would be nominated for sure. Looks like they’re not as “in” as they thought. Best Picture: -Babel -Letters From Iwo Jima -Little Miss Sunshine -The Departed -The Queen Best Actor: -Leonardo DeCaprio for Blood Diamond -Ryan Gosling for Half Nelson -Peter...