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...date: Tuesday night. The place: Morton's restaurant in West Hollywood, site of the annual Vanity Fair Oscar party. The event: a Paramount Pictures bash honoring Oliver Stone, named Director of the Year at the 10th annual Hollywood Film Festival...
...Nearly everyone at the event knew that the real reason for the fete was not to honor Stone's award from his hometown film festival, but to help launch Paramount's bid to snag Oscar nominations for his recent 9/11 movie World Trade Center. And to launch Hollywood's annual effort to get around Academy rules that try to limit the increasingly aggressive studio campaigns for Oscars...
...specifically designed to promote a film or achievement for Academy Awards consideration are expressly forbidden." To get around that rule, studios sponsor parties disguised as events; academic-like "symposiums" with the cast and crew and "lectures" from stars and directors. Thus, Tuesday night's event was intended to honor Stone for the Hollywood Film Festival. Wink, wink...
...Oliver Stone says his next movie role will be the hunt for Osama bin Laden. The film is expected to be 300 hours long with no ending." JAY LENO...
...only scheduled exhibition Saturday afternoon at Bright Hockey Center, downing McGill, 2-0. Last week, Harvard did get on the ice against Dartmouth for an informal encounter. The Crimson used the time to see its players in real on-ice action, according to Harvard coach Katey Stone. The contest marked the return to home ice for the Crimson’s trio of Olympians, who missed all of last year to participate in the Winter Games, and all three figured in the scoring this weekend. Senior co-captain Julie Chu notched the game-winner at 3:57 of the second...