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...Academy tries to balance old and young in its guest list of presenters. This year it discarded its recent truckling tradition of having TV-show teens hand out awards; the youngest folks on stage were either new stars (Julia Stiles, 19), nominees (Kate Hudson, 21), recent winners (Angelina Jolie, 25) or 15-year movie veterans (Winona Ryder, still luminous at a grizzled 29). Goldie Hawn, a perky 55, could have taken poise lessons from her daughter Kate; while botching a TelePrompter speech she devolved into her "Laugh-In" ditz of aeons past. But Julie Andrews radiated queenly glam...
...benighted "2001" set-design theme, full of monoliths and luminous spheres: the stage looked like the cover of a Yes album. To stay on schedule the producers even promised a high-definition television to the giver of the shortest acceptance speech (and who wasn't hoping to see Julia Roberts hoist her guaranteed Best-Julia-Roberts statuette for "Erin Brockovich" and say simply, "I'll take the TV too, please," and prance...
...Erin Jockovich, Julia Roberts is an unemployed, single mother who stumbles upon Pacific Gas & Electric's conspiracy to poison the residents of a nearby town. A desperate collegiate football team decides that she is so good at kicking beaurocratic booty that she deserves a shot at kicking field goals as well...
Feckless Jerry (Brad Pitt) is sent south of the border to retrieve an antique pistol for his Mob bosses. His girl, spunky Samantha (Julia Roberts), thinks this desertion is just another of his many failures at intimacy and leaves him for a new life in Las Vegas. On her way, a soulful hit man (The Sopranos' James Gandolfini) takes her hostage in an attempt to focus Jerry's attention on his job. Half comedy, half action piece, the movie runs sputteringly on the not inconsiderable charm of its stars. But basically it is languid, indeterminate and uninvolving...
...contestants who, not allowed to go to a gym at night, tried to lose pounds by running up and down their hotel hallway. And I also discovered a uniformity in idol worship: when asked to list those they most admire, almost all named Oprah, God, Katie Couric and Julia Roberts, in that order...