THE SPIRIT OF THE 76TH AWARDS.Backstage, best actress winner Charlize Theron got sidetracked by a question about her lesbian kiss with ``Monster'' co-tar Christina Ricci. Asked about a potential double standard in the depiction of same-sex kisses between male couples and female couples in films, Theron started to answered the question and then pulled up short. ``I don't think (Christina and I) even had a lot of tongue ... I can't even believe I'm talking I'm Talking was a 1980s Australian funk-pop rock band, noted for launching vocalist Kate Ceberano. History After the break-up of the Melbourne-based experimental funk band Essendon Airport in 1983, members Robert Goodge (guitar), Ian Cox (saxophone) and Barbara Hogarth about this while holding an Oscar.'' ``Right now, it feels like I could do it all over again. But no. No, no, no, no. It was the hardest thing I'd done in my life.'' - Peter Jackson, on the end of ``The Lord of the Rings'' trilogy. The bare facts In the 1981 satire ``S.O.B.'' director Blake Edwards received a certain notoriety for having his wife, Julie Andrews Dame Julie Elizabeth Andrews, DBE (born Julia Elizabeth Wells[1] on 1 October 1935[2]) is an award-winning English actress, singer, author and cultural icon. , bare her breasts on screen. Asked backstage about Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake's Super Bowl halftime show A halftime show is a performance given between the first and second halves or the 2nd and 3rd quarters of a sporting event. Halftime shows are not given for sports with an irregular or indeterminate number of divisions (such as baseball or boxing), or for sports that don't stop. stunt and whether times had changed, Edwards remarked, ``What hypocrisy! ... My wife did it in a film, for God's sake - and that's when it wasn't thought of movie stars doing things like that. Nobody complained. I didn't get any complaints. Maybe they did, but I didn't hear about it.'' - Evan Henerson Zellweger shares warmth with both Tom and Nic While Oscar watchers fretted over what might happen if notorious exes Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman should cross paths, Renee Zellweger found opportunity to mention both of them in her best supporting actress supporting actress n → attrice f non protagonista speech. She acknowledged the pleasure of working daily with Kidman on ``Cold Mountain,'' and thanked Cruise, with whom she co-starred in ``Jerry Maguire This article has multiple issues: * It does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by citing reliable sources. * It reads like a personal reflection or essay. ,'' for ``showing me (that) kindness and success are not mutually exclusive Adj. 1. mutually exclusive - unable to be both true at the same time contradictory incompatible - not compatible; "incompatible personalities"; "incompatible colors" .'' The camera caught Kidman's reaction, which was a beaming smile. Zellweger embodied both high Hollywood glamour and her Texas roots backstage, sweeping into the interview room with her white gown's train flowing behind her and giggling a bit as the yardage yard·age 1 n. 1. An amount or length measured in yards. 2. Cloth sold by the yard. Noun 1. got caught on the steps to the stage. - Valerie Kuklenski There was a question of whether Hollywood recluse Sean Penn would even attend the Oscars. But the best actor winner said that to not show up might have made a statement that he didn't want to make. ``There are things going on in the world right now. I would have felt very embarrassed to be perceived as taking some kind of a stand in a negative way here.'' Breathless! Adrien Brody Adrien Brody (born April 14, 1973) is an American actor. He received widespread recognition when he was cast as the lead in Roman Polanski's The Pianist (2002). The role won him an Academy Award for Best Actor, the youngest actor ever to win the award. , last year's best actor winner, joked that he was ``under a restraining order restraining order: see injunction. ,'' after he dipped presenter Halle Berry Halle Maria Berry (IPA: /ˈhæliː ˈbɛriː/) (born August 14, 1966[1]) is an American actress. and gave her a deep kiss following his best actor victory last year. Nevertheless, before announcing the winner of the best actress Oscar (which went to Charlize Theron), Brody took a shot of breath spray Breath spray is a product sprayed into the mouth for the purpose of eliminating or covering up bad breath or halitosis. It is occasionally advertised as being for smokers or those who dip tobacco, and occasionally to cover up the smell of cigar smoking. . Here's wondering how worried 13-year-old Keisha Castle-Hughes might have been at the prospect of victory. ``It was quite easy this year because the designers have designed many things on Cate Blanchett, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Kate Hudson. The designers are aware that actresses actually do get pregnant, and so I had an easy time.'' - Marcia Gay Harden Marcia Gay Harden (born August 14, 1959) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. Biography Early life Harden, one of five children, was born in La Jolla, California, daughter of Beverly (née Bushfield), a housewife, and Thaddeus Harold Harden, a Texas , on finding her perfect Oscar dress, a purple Badgley-Mischka design. ``We might have had a better chance in a year or so, to be honest ... I think 'The Lord of the Rings' was a remarkable body of work, so I guess we're unlikely to come up against them, but I wish them luck anyway.'' - Russell Boyd, achievement in cinematography cinematography: see motion picture photography. cinematography Art and technology of motion-picture photography. It involves the composition of a scene, lighting of the set and actors, choice of cameras, camera angle, and integration of special for ``Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World,'' on whether the film might have had a better run at the Oscars next year. Also, what he thought about the night's victories for ``The Lord of the Rings.'' ``We hired everybody in New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. who could do this work. But we needed a lot of help.'' - Randall William Cook, visual effects winner for ``Lord of the Rings,'' asked about the large number of visual effects team members who weren't Kiwi. No shortage of backstage zeal ``The Return of the King's'' ever-increasing number of Oscars meant a lot of questions from the Kiwi delegation in the press room. An academy staff member routinely asked if there were questions for a winner before the winner came back to the interview area. ``Yes, you from New Zealand,'' she said to a familiar raised hand on the fourth or fifth award for ``The Lord of the Rings.'' ``I know you're back there.'' ``We felt the best way to create these sounds was to go out and record them ... we felt like we could contribute more to the film by experiencing a bit of what these men experienced. It educated our work and made our work that much more real.'' - Richard King, achievement in sound editing for ``Master and Commander'' on making the sounds sound real. CAPTION(S): 9 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Charlize Theron (2) Sean Penn (3) Randall William Cook (4) Rusell Boyd Evan Yee/Staff Photographer (5 -- color) Renee Zellweger (6 -- color) Peter Jackson (7 -- color) Blake Edwards Hans Gutknecht/Staff Photographer (8) Marcia Gay Harden John McCoy/Staff Photographer (9) Richard King John Lazar/Staff Photographer |
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