And the Winner Is... Lycos Celebrates the 72nd Academy Awards With Oscars Offerings Throughout the Lycos Network.Entertainment Editors WALTHAM, Mass.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--March 9, 2000 "Movie Crystal Ball Oscars Contest" From Lycos Gamesville, Winning Predictions From The Lycos 50(tm)and the Hottest Movie News, Reviews, Trailers and More From Lycos Entertainment Lycos, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :LCOS (Liquid Crystal on Silicon) A technology used to make microdisplays for rear-projection TVs and head-mounted displays (HMDs). Each LCoS chip hosts a grayscale LCD shutter sandwiched between a cover glass and a mirror. ), one of the most visited Web destinations in the world, today announced that movie fans can follow the excitement leading up to this year's Academy Awards (tm) on the Lycos Network. Up-to-the-minute Oscars(R) information including online "Oscar picks" contests, news and photos of nominated artists from Lycos Entertainment and The Lycos 50(tm) projected winners based on user searches, are now available throughout the Lycos Network. -- "Movie Crystal Ball" Oscars(tm) Contest on Lycos Gamesville Lycos Gamesville, home to the Internet's best massively multiplayer real-time games for cash and merchandise prizes, announces the introduction of the Year 2000 Edition of Movie Crystal Ball, its popular Academy Awards prediction game. Located at http://www.gamesville.com, movie fans can cast their ballots to predict the winners in each of the major Oscars categories. Entries received by March 25, 2000 at 11:59 p.m. EST will qualify for a grand "Year of Entertainment" prize package including: a Sony five-disc DVD/CD changer Changer The name given to a clearing member that is willing to assume the opposite position of a futures contract within a larger alternative exchange, of which it also is a clearing member. ; a Panasonic 32-inch Superflat TV, 52 DVD's of the winner's choice, 52 quarts of Snapple, 52 family-sized bags of candy, 52 bags of microwave popcorn and a full-size microwave to pop the corn. -- The Lycos 50 Predictions The Lycos 50, http://50.lycos.com, a list of the most popular people, places and things People, Places and Things is an unpublished collection of short stories by US author Stephen King, written in 1960 together with his friend Chris Chesley and published using their own press. users are searching for on the Web, predicts this year's winners (based on user queries for the most-searched for Oscar-nominated stars) are: Kevin Spacy spac·y or spac·ey adj. spac·i·er, spac·i·est Slang 1. Stupefied or disoriented from or as if from drug use. 2. Eccentric; offbeat. Adj. 1. , Best Actor; Annette Bening Annette Carol Bening (born May 29, 1958) is a Golden Globe-, BAFTA- and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning American actress. Biography Early life Bening was born in Topeka, Kansas, the daughter of Shirley and Grant Bening, an insurance salesman. , Best Actress; Angelina Jolie, Best Supporting Actress supporting actress n → attrice f non protagonista ; Tom Cruise, Best Supporting Actor supporting actor n → attore m non protagonista ; and American Beauty American Beauty n. A type of rose bearing large, long-stemmed purplish-red flowers. , Best Picture. Stay tuned to see how these "Web" winners compare with the actual Oscar winners during the live March 26 broadcast of this year's Academy Awards. -- Lycos Entertainment For the latest, up-to-the-minute news, background information and photos of this year's Oscar nominees, users can go to http://www.lycos.com/entertainment/oscars/, for direct links to movie reviews and trailers, celebrity guides, message boards and clubs. Lycos Entertainment will also provide post-Oscar news feeds from E! Online and Reuters, including post-party celebrations, winners' reactions and the ever-popular fashion reviews. Users can turn to Lycos Entertainment as their research resource for the "Movie Crystal Ball Oscars Contest" on Lycos Gamesville. -- Lycos Music's Download Guide and Oscar Pages from Tripod At Lycos Music, the most comprehensive online music destination, music fans can find out if their favorite Oscar-nominated scores or soundtracks are available online. Users can go to Lycos Music at http://music.lycos.com, and key in the artist or song in the search box. Users can also check out Pasta Hero's Oscar Page (http://members.tripod.com/pastahero/Oscarmain.htm) on Tripod for information galore on the 2000 Oscar race or Joey's Film Geek Web Site (http://members.tripod.com/~jjdark/) for commentary, reviews, links and more. -- About Lycos, Inc. Founded in 1995, Lycos, Inc. is a leading Web media company and owner of the Lycos Network, one of the most visited hubs on the Internet reaching nearly one out of every two U.S. Web users. The Lycos Network is a unified set of Web sites, attracting a diverse audience by offering a variety of services, including leading Web search and navigation resources; Web community and communications services including free homepage building, free Web-based e-mail See Internet e-mail service and HTML e-mail. , clubs, chat, instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or ; a personalized My Lycos start page; a comprehensive shopping center featuring more than 2,400 merchants; and an assortment of compelling content such as games, music, news, fun and educational information and activities for kids as well as information about investing, technology, entertainment, sports, small business, travel and more. The Lycos Network is composed of Lycos.com, Tripod, WhoWhere, Angelfire, MailCity, HotBot, HotWired, Wired News, Webmonkey, Suck.com, Sonique, Quote, Gamesville and Lycos Zone. Headquartered near Boston in Waltham, Mass., Lycos, Inc. is a global Internet leader with a major presence throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia and Latin America. Note to Editors: Lycos(R) is a registered trademark of Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University, at Pittsburgh, Pa.; est. 1967 through the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (founded 1900, opened 1905) and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (founded 1913). . All other product or service marks mentioned herein are those of Lycos or their respective owners. All rights reserved. ACADEMY AWARDS(R) and all related elements are property of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. |
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