DIGITAL L.A. : GET YOUR E-TICKET TO THE PRE- AND POST-OSCAR HOOPLA.

Byline: David Bloom 

So that inside connection didn't come through with a pass to the exclusive post-Oscar party Sunday night? Looking for the inside skinny on likely winners for your own Oscar pool? Or maybe you've got a jones to play a bit with the whole notion of celebrityhood.

No matter which, the Internet has some solutions to fit your starstruck needs.

Start, of course, at the official Web site for the Academy Awards, at www.oscar.com, where you'll find a raft of daily reports on fashion, lots of great history and trivia, and information about all the nominees, past and present.

Oscar.com will also run photos of Oscar preparations, including the rehearsals this weekend, and live, streaming video of red-carpet arrivals. If you miss any of the winners, the site will keep a continuously updated list of the winners, photos of them accepting their awards and video and transcripts of their acceptance speeches and backstage interviews.

Several other major entertainment sites are also offering a variety of events the day and night of the show.

For instance, the Hollywood Stock Exchange and Excite are combining to put on their own post-Oscar party at the House of Blues in West Hollywood, featuring techno gods the Crystal Method (from Glendale and Hollywood), the Absolut DJs' Emergency Broadcast Network and a ``special musical guest,'' reportedly hip-hop folkie (and Grammy winner from Los Feliz) Beck.

Don't count on getting tickets to the party (though we'll report about the do next week), but you can still watch the proceedings live online at the entertainment channel of www.excite.com or at www.hsx.com/awards.

They'll also have an Oscar-watching party online beginning at 5:30, and have been hosting an online charity auction of Hollywood memorabilia and one-of-a-kind items made for the event. The auction will benefit the Entertainment Industry Foundation.

The stock exchange, by the way, is a place where you can buy ``shares'' of various stars, banking on their fame as a way to accumulate a pseudo-currency that can be cashed in for prizes and other goodies. Bank on a few longshots before the telecast and see if you can score a quick run-up in value.

Entertainment Asylum, the big entertainment site owned by America Online at www.asylum.com has an entire afternoon and evening's worth of festivities, according to CEO Monica Dodi.

At noon, psychic Kenny Kingston of ``sweet spirit'' fame will give his predictions of the winners. Then multiple monogamist Zsa Zsa Gabor will weigh in with her dah-ling take on all the arrivals during an in-studio chat.

Entertainment Asylum will be filming red-carpet arrivals, then stocking the footage on the site for viewing whenever, Dodi said.

And during the broadcast, Web users can send questions to the Asylum's reporter in the backstage area, who will pose the best of the queries to the winners when they face the press.

After the show is over, the site's people will be hitting several of the big parties being held mostly in West Hollywood and Beverly Hills (though somehow I doubt they'll get into the HSX/Excite shindig). A satellite truck will be parked at one of the parties to ship back video that will be put online.

E! Online is also expecting to put up a full day's worth of programming and more at www.eonline.com/Hot/Awards.

To start with, the online version of the E! cable television channel will feature a couple of fun games.

One is ``Stop Tom Hanks!'' from getting his third best actor Oscar. Lob old tomatoes, rotten eggs and brown bananas at the much-beloved star to keep him from getting into the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for the ceremony. Hit other nominees like Gwyneth Paltrow or Billy Bob Thornton and you'll be tossed off the red carpet. Game over, man.

The other is ``Oscar Bingo.'' The game creates a series of bingo game boards by randomly placing a series of speech cliches. Print them out and hand them to your partygoers. When they hear the cliche, they cover up the square.

The site also includes a scorecard-like list of nominees that can be printed out for Oscar pools, and insider picks for likely winners. You can also listen in on the vox populi with an online poll, lots of links, lists of winners and discussion areas.

During the ceremony, E! Online gossip columnist Ted Casablanca will be in an online chat area discussing the ceremony as it unfolds. Afterward, he'll camp out at the red carpet area for the West Hollywood party hosted by Elton John and In Style magazine.

And for the truly catty, there'll be a place to post your comments on people's fashion choices. The comments will be incorporated by Joan Rivers in her post-ceremony fashion review to be broadcast the following Saturday on E!.