BUSH (INDIRECTLY) DOES SOMETHING GOOD!

SAN DIEGO -- Academy Awards show producer Gil Cates says the red carpet arrivals portion of the pre-show will be "truncated" this year.

Some Oscars watchers had speculated that the show might be canceled in light of an almost certain war with Iraq. That will not be the case, but Cates said things will be a little different for this year's ceremony.

"Keeping in mind the world situation, the Academy has elected to prepare a more sober pre-show and a scaled-back arrivals sequence," Cates said during a Tuesday afternoon news conference.

He said celebrities will not go through, as he puts it, the "business-as-usual" interviewing and photograph-taking familiar to television audiences from ceremonies in the past.

Cates said the celebrities will get out of their limousines and go directly through what's known as the "arrivals arch." (full story)

The Iraq war has had its first (and probably last) positive consequence: no Oscar pre-show monstrosity!

I wonder who might be declaring war on Dubya now... could it be...



Hehehe.

Maybe, thanks to Bush, I can go an entire calendar year without hearing the phrase "who are you wearing?".