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...store, and some rare suspense. In the moments before Michael Douglas announced the winner for Best Picture, some people who thought "Gladiator" a lock had second and third thoughts. The Roman rasslin' epic had already copped four Oscars (for Actor, Costume, Sound and Visual Effects), but so had "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" (for Foreign Film, Art Direction, Cinematography and Score) and "Traffic" (for Director, Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay and Editing). When Douglas finally said, "And the Oscar goes to... 'Gladiator,'" even those of us rooting for "Crouching Tiger" were grateful that our dark horse had run neck-and-neck with...
...extent that "Crouching Tiger" (distributed by tiny Sony Pictures Classics) and "Traffic" (USA Films) made things interesting before "Gladiator" (young but powerful DreamWorks) took home the top prize, the Oscars represented a victory for the little guy - sometimes a victory for the little little guy over the big little guy. Sony Pictures Classics has long toiled in the shadow of savvy Miramax Films, the ingenuity of whose Oscar campaigns is notorious. But last night SPC copped five awards (four for "Crouching Tiger" and Harden's statuette), while Miramax went Oscarless for the first time in 13 years...
...between cunning idiocies about the title "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" (he said it "sounds like something Siegfried and Roy do on vacation"), Martin addressed a generic suspicion about Hollywood. "Eight hundred million people," he said, "are thinking the same thought: that we're all gay." If so, it's because the publicity on the stars' gowns has turned much of the Oscar Night audience into Mr. Blackwells: What are these beautiful people wearing and how awful do they look? And, this year: How can they go to so much trouble finding chic clothes but forget to apply a little mousse...
...concealing an egg - will be remembered long after "Chocolat" and "Dancer in the Dark" are forgotten. Oh, sorry, they already are. But we were happy to see a handsome Asian contingent, including presenters Michelle Yeoh (come on, Hollywood, find a juicy role for this accomplished ravisher) and her "Crouching Tiger" co-star, the suavely unintelligible Chow Yun-fat. And to hear Peter Pau, Cinematography winner, zip through 37 names, most of them Chinese, in a 50- second acceptance speech...
...Many of the dream motifs contained in "Mr. D" will seem familiar: being frozen, losing one's voice, being naked, drowning, falling and being chased. These are augmented with details that are relevant only to Mr. D's life but are still captivating in themselves: a mountaintop tiger who flies kites, a dead Mighty Mouse, and a landscape of butane bottles. Scenes merge and flow into each other as seamlessly as real dreams. Mr. D falls through space, which becomes the ocean, until he emerges into a hotel lobby, which becomes a train car. Strangely, at the critical conclusion...